When Lori Chavez-DeRemer walked into a meeting with Oregon Teamsters earlier this year, she brought a long-time member of the union—her father—as backup.
In a bold endorsement pitch to union leaders, the Republican congresswoman spoke in reverential terms of her familial ties to the Teamsters and the labor movement, according to two people in the room.
It worked.
“Every time we met her, we felt that warmth and sincerity in her voice,” said Steve Konopa, a board trustee for the Portland-area Teamsters Joint Council 37. “You can’t coach that, you can’t teach that. You either have it or you don’t.” ...
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