Posted on October 5th, 2008 by Howard
Teamsters across the country have been receiving mailers about the upcoming election, many of them featuring actual Teamster members explaining why they’re voting for Barack Obama this year. This past week, one of those fliers bore a face familiar to Local 384 members. The member featured in this one was none other than Local 384 [...]
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Posted on September 30th, 2008 by Howard
The Pennsylvania voter registration deadline for this year’s general election is October 6. That’s less than a week away.
If you or someone you know isn’t registered to vote in this year’s election, please make sure you do so before next Monday. Wherever you are, you can jumpstart the registration process by clicking here.
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Posted on September 20th, 2008 by Howard
SEIU President Andy Stern was recently on Meet the Bloggers, where he spoke about the Employee Free Choice Act:
(via CtW Connect)
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Posted on September 10th, 2008 by Howard
A “pattern of deceit” is being used by the McCain campaign — not only to lie about the Obama tax plan, but also to keep voters from noticing how McCain plans to raise taxes on millions of regular Americans.
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Posted on September 8th, 2008 by Howard
Joe Biden, speaking last Friday at Maple Point Middle School (about a quarter mile from the house where I grew up), sums up last week’s Republican pep rally in Minnesota:
It’s only three and a half minutes, but it pretty much tells the tale.
NEXT UP: On Wednesday I’ll be writing about McCain’s middle class tax increase [...]
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