Union launches anti-McCain campaign

[OhioChick]

Source: Cleveland.com

April 29, 2008 16:06PM

A union representing health-care workers launched a campaign today to try to make voters sick of Republican presidential candidate John McCain.

As part of its campaign, the Service Employees International Union began airing commercials in Ohio and Washington, D.C., attacking McCain's health-care plan, which he is pushing all week as part of his "Call to Action" health-care tour, which includes a stop in Cleveland on Thursday.

The union's campaign, which includes a national bus tour dubbed "The Road to American Healthcare," was set in motion long before McCain began stumping around the issue this week. The union, which backs Democrat Barack Obama, is making health-care reform the centerpiece of its election-year campaign efforts. The union won't say how much it is spending on its ads.

Dave Regan, head of the Columbus-based SEIU Local 1199, said the union hopes to create a sense of urgency around the issue that he worries is getting lost in the drawn-out Democratic race between Obama and Hillary Clinton.



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[unkachuck]

1. this fine Union....

"...launched a campaign today to try to make voters sick of Republican presidential candidate John McCain."

"Dave Regan, head of the Columbus-based SEIU Local 1199, said the union hopes to create a sense of urgency around the issue..."

....the SEIU and it's members must understand the urgency of Universal Healthcare and how this major issue, along with other major issues, are being drowned-out by the corporate 'forces of distraction'....

....as my third grade teacher had to remind me continuously, "..focus, focus, focus.."....we can't let the Dems or the repugs off the hook on Universal Healthcare....we will have Universal Healthcare!