Shelia Smoot continues to rack up labor endorsements in her bid to become the first African American Congresswoman from Alabama. Today the United Food Commercial Workers announced their support of Smoot.
Time and again, Sheila Smoot has shown her commitment to working men and women by supporting efforts to protect good jobs in Alabama," said Al Vincent, a UFCW Local 1657 leader. "Her resolve to stand by UFCW members during tough times has earned our support and we know that with Smoot, working families across the country will have an ardent advocate in Congress."
Smoot's other labor endorsements include American Federation of Teachers, Alabama Education Association, State of Alabama AFL-CIO, The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, The United Auto Workers and The United Steel Workers.
While Smoot gains labor endorsements, her opponent Terri Sewell is busy putting out false attack mailers
Shelia Smoot is the candidate of working people in this race. Her opponent is making accusations without fact checking.
Here's the ad put out by Sewell which is extremely inaccurate
Shelia Smoot fought to keep Jefferson County out of bankruptcy which in the long term saved jobs.
In fact, Shelia Smoot did not double dipand in fact this audit was confirmed as inaccurate on several issues.
Shelia Smoot has picked up all of the labor endorsements in the runoff period. This shows her commitment to the working people in the 7th Congressional District of Alabama. Her opponent has no experience advocating on behalf of the least of these. In fact she was a Wall Street securities attorney for many years. An attorney who profits and walks away from deals, looking for the next bond deal to structure and then masking it as an economic development project that created jobs. Shelia Smoot has had to take the heat as an elected official and we need someone with that strength in Congress. Someone who is a true progressive.
Shelia has been running a true grassroots campaign on a lot less money than her opponent who has skipped out on two opportunities to debate the issues in the past week.
Shelia Smoot on Act Blue - where 178 people have donated $13,556 or roughly $76 per donation. She is only 11 donors away from catching her much more well funded opponent.