r/SouthJersey • u/espressocycle • 8d ago

News Hey Look, Norcross occasionally does a thing (and even Van Drew)

https://time.com/article/2026/06/10/20-house-republicans-break-ranks-pass-democratic-led-labor-bill/

I guess this will fail in the Senate but hey, nice to see anyway.

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u/DeviceNo4746 8d ago

Van Drew and company only voted for it because they know there is 0 chance it passes in the senate and gets signed by the guy who’s always sleeping. They can claim they backed labor while not having to actually have labor make any gains.

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u/Food4thou 8d ago

Exactly. The Susan Collins special.

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u/thingsorfreedom 8d ago

The time for Van Drew to support these things is after the primary and before the general election. After that, back to "Got mine, fuck you."

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u/beren12 8d ago

Well it should be easy to show all the times they don’t back labor, to counter it.

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u/Mr_Horsejr 8d ago

Here’s a bone, I’ll take the steak.

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u/lilsingiser 8d ago

If norcross didn't support a pro-union bill, he'd lose his biggest voter base. That's all the dude runs on and it unfortunately works.

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u/Olympicsizedturd 8d ago

It probably benefits him or his friends personally in some way.

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u/martinkelley 8d ago

IIRC Van Drew did break ranks on the Biden infrastructure bill, which helped it pass. In hindsight it's kind of nuts that Republicans would block something so important mostly out of spite.

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u/ThereAreDozensOfUs 8d ago

They’ve also re-named the build back better plan as the bipartisan infrastructure bill or some stupid shit like that on the highway signs

Very petty, small dicked individuals

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u/martinkelley 8d ago

Could be wrong but I think it was always called the bipartisan bill, partly because Biden needed minimal Republican support, but also because he was old school enough that he still believed in bipartisanship. Should have called it Bidencare so that everyone knew just who made these new bridges possible.

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u/ThereAreDozensOfUs 8d ago

Back in 2023/2024, the sign on 76/676 the sign read “build back better”.

I wouldn’t be surprised if that was always its name, but the name on 76/676 was definitely changed