Sorry, fans, for the late post (why I feel the need to apologize says something…) but was out early for my speech to the Teamsters National Black Caucus meeting in Chicago (where, yes, it’s 90 plus…again). You can read the speech if you feel like (as they say, the prepared text is not the precise way it was delivered). But, more important, I can tell you that the several hundred people in the audience are very cranked up about the CAFTA 15.

Rep. Danny Davis (D-IL), who voted no on CAFTA, was here to give a few remarks before my turn. In introducing him to the audience, the chairman of the caucus, Chris Silvera, turned to him and said, “you have got to kick Meeks out of the Congressional Black Caucus,” referring to Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY), for his vote in favor of CAFTA. Davis smiled and said, neutrally, “I’ll tell him that.” But, more important, the audience went wild with support for Slivera’s remark.

And in my speech, the following brought many people to their feet: “And let me be as clear as I can be: any politician, Democrat or Republican, who voted for CAFTA, should not get a dollar of our money or a minute of our time come election day in 2006.
And, for the CAFTA 15—the Democrats who sold us out—we should find real fighters for workers to run against the CAFTA 15 and give them a one-way ticket back home.”

So, let’s get on with it,