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Okay, all you ranters and ravers–you want to do something concrete? I now have the details on the business-sponsored fundraiser for the CAFTA 15—which was first reported here and then followed up the next day—which is taking place TOMORROW at 101 Constitution Ave in Washington D.C. from 6-8 p.m. Inside the building, the CAFTA 15 […]

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Welcome back, friends, from whatever you may have done over the Labor Day weekend. It’s going to be an interesting September, what with the Change To Win convention meeting on the 27th–there will be a new name for this group…and they are busily working on the Constitution and other specifics. But, this week, at least, […]

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So, things get a bit clearer about the payoff business is going to give to the CAFTA 15. I was just told this: sponsors of the fundraiser I reported on yesterday are John Engler, the head of the National Association of Manufacturers (but he’s doing so as a private individual, I’m told); Dave McCurdy head […]

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Over the last few days, a few people have sent me the message reprinted below and I meant to post it earlier…earth to AFL-CIO, can we try to stay on some sort of coherent message? As you’ll see below, recipients of one of these automated messages you get from being part of the AFL-CIO e-activist […]

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I just heard this rumor from a well-placed source in the Washington political operative world that should send your blood aboiling: the National Association of Manufacturing has agreed to hold a fundraiser for the CAFTA 15. There it is, the payoff for a vote that hurt workers here and abroad. Completely by coincidence, an hour […]

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Edolphus Towns probably hates the official Congressional Record. Cuz, there is the Congressman from New York’s 10th District, nine months before the vote on CAFTA, telling people why the so-called “free trade” agreement was a bad deal. As they say, let’s go to the source. He said that the “underlying principle is the aggressive protection […]

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Well, unfortunately, no–not yet. There was a bit of a rumor that the head of the Virginia AFL-CIO, Dan LeBlanc, might take him on. But, alas, no such luck. I asked Dan directly and he said, “I live outside the District in the Richmond area and plan on retiring next August, not many folks retire […]

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Okay, so fair enough, the CAFTA 15 and their Republican “brothers” are not yet feeling tremendous fallout from their votes. Or so says the piece below from Congressional Quarterly. Though it does make me wonder why they have to “shore up” their messages for 2006–me thinks that they protesteth too much…and if people like Robin […]

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Back in December 2003, when Melissa Bean would do anything to get labor support (or, anyone’s support for that matter), she filled out a questionnaire for the Illinois State AFL-CIO. Every candidate has to fill out one of these documents before being considered worthy of endorsement, particularly, in her case because she was a first-time […]

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Jim Moran, one of the CAFTA 15–not to mention in the pocket of the credit card industry and a sleazy guy to boot–was given the back of the hand today from a group of union delegates. This guy is the bottom of the pond and should have been taken out long ago, as I opined […]

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