Candidates woo labor

[Omaha Steve]

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Candidates woo labor

Candidates woo labor

Friday, May 18, 2007
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrats looking to boost their 2008 presidential hopes wooed thousands of union members on the National Mall on Thursday, promising to reverse what they called a long-standing anti-labor stance by President Bush.

"I'm ready to be the person who puts labor's flag right on the White House's lawn," said Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, one of several Democratic candidates who took the stage at the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers-sponsored rally.

Kucinich, along with Sens. Joe Biden of Delaware and Hillary Clinton of New York, talked up their union credentials to the blue-shirted activists who gathered a couple of blocks away from the Capitol.

"Are you ready for a president who is actively pro-labor and is going to appoint people who actually care about workers rights?" Clinton asked the crowd.

Former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina spoke at IAM's legislative conference on Wednesday. The group boasts more than 700,000 active and retired members in the transportation, aerospace, manufacturing, shipbuilding and electronic industries.


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