Spotlight on AFL-CIO Campaign to Reveal Real John McCain

[Omaha Steve]

http://blog.aflcio.org/2008/06/21/spotlight-on-afl-cio%E2%80%99s-campaign-to-reveal-real-john-mccain/

by James Parks, Jun 21, 2008

Polls have shown that union members value the information they receive from their unions about candidates. Getting that information out is especially important in the 2008 elections. An article in today’s Chicago Tribune highlights the AFL-CIO’s voter education program to tell union members where John McCain really stands on issues that affect them such as trade and health care.

In the article, Tribune reporter Jill Zuckman writes:

The union federation is using micro-targeting to determine which members are more interested in learning about health care or trade or the economy to ensure they get the information that will best convince them that McCain does not represent their interests. Labor officials are dogging McCain at his campaign events, raising questions about his policies. On Friday, following McCain’s trade speech in Ottawa, Canada, the AFL-CIO organized a conference call for reporters with Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) to criticize McCain’s pro-trade stance.The labor federation also created a Web site, mccainrevealed.org, to show where McCain stands on issues.

Joe Rugola, president of the Ohio AFL-CIO and a vice president of AFSCME, tells Zuckman the message about McCain’s views is resonating with union members:

Generally speaking, the senator has never met a trade deal he didn’t love regardless of the impact on American workers and American families.

Check out for yourself where McCain stands on the issues important to working people here (http://www.aflcio.org/issues/politics/mccain.cfm) and read the entire Tribune article here: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-mccain21jun21,0,6855241,print.story