Posted on 14 November 2009. Tags: Florida, Kendrick Meek, Labor, Mike Michaud, NAFTA, Senate, TRADE Act
When NAFTA was passed in 1993, I, and others, argued that the labor movement should mount primary challenges to every Democrat who voted for the legislation. After all, labor correctly saw NAFTA as the underpinning for a trade policy that would hasten the evolution of a global economy based on one thing: the search […]
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Posted on 06 November 2009. Tags: Democrats, Kendrick Meek, Senate, Trade, TRADE Act
This was from a few days ago in Congress Daily (it’s a subscription only publication): The fallout from a decision by Rep. Kendrick Meek, D-Fla., to take his name off of a union-backed trade bill continues to roil his 2010 Senate bid. Meek on Oct. 15 signed on as a co-sponsor to legislation sponsored […]
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