"We are the faces of Uber," said Zerfu Takele, a bespectacled Ethiopian American driver with graying hair who's lived in Seattle since 1990. The mood was hyped, and the crowd at the community center was nearly all immigrants or children of immigrants from East Africa, most of them dressed for the occasion in impeccable black business clothes.
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Current and former UberBlack drivers organized the event, and said they intend to form a union, or join the Teamsters taxi drivers association. There's no political gold on Bundy Ranch.Īt a packed forum at the Yesler Community Center on April 13, nearly 250 drivers for rideshare company Uber signed "Show of Interest" cards handed out by Teamsters Local 117. They had other battles on their hands - including suing the IRS for documents on the scrutiny of nonprofit groups - but when the group is outraged enough to get involved in a big-government fight, you usually know it.Įven the teabaggers recognize this issue as toxic and unwinnable. Top lawmakers were silent.Īnd a spokesman for the Tea Party Patriots said there was no one available to talk about the rancher issue on Tuesday. Officials at the top Republican campaign organizations, the National Republican Senatorial Committee and the National Republican Congressional Committee, didn’t respond to requests for comment. Top Republican operatives said they haven’t really followed the Bundy story that much. Politico's David Nather says that even though, certain talk show hosts, and Drudge are fired up about Bundy, actual Republicans who care about winning elections are running away from the issue as fast as they can: Now that gun nuts are coming down from their highs, Republicans are quickly realizing Cliven Bundy might not be the election-year figurehead they've been looking for.
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