“This is the labor unions getting behind this guy, because they say ‘We gotta send Boykin a message, that we don’t like the fact that he closed those vacant and open positions,’ ” Boykin said in an interview. “And we don’t like the fact that he led the repeal effort on the sugar tax. Quite frankly, I think that the working-class families whose pocketbooks we protected, I think they’re going to stand with me and see right through this.”