Saturday, February 1: A Tom Steyer Event (?) in West Des Moines
Early in the day I ventured to West Des Moines to the Tavern Pizza Parlor. At first I thought I was in the wrong place — no campaign signs, very few people outside of the restaurant. Entering I discovered that I was in fact at the correct location. In a very small back room (seating for only 30 non-press) a local union leader was addressing members of the public service employees union, the AFSCME. His main pitch: we all needed to unify behind the Democratic candidate and defeat Trump in November.
I thought I was attending a Tom Steyer town hall, but it turns out all the candidates were there, either in person, or through surrogates to make their pitches to this very important union. Although there were only 30 union members there, I am guessing that their support is supposed to translate to other members of their union. Whether this union is going to formally endorse a candidate before the caucuses is anyone’s guess.
