Union singer excites crowd at Clinton’s AFL-CIO town hall

[Omaha Steve]

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Union singer excites crowd at Clinton’s AFL-CIO town hall

Katharine McPhee may have been a finalist on American Idol, but her performance at a rally for Sen. Hillary Clinton earlier this week was subpar compared to the excitement generated by Lynn Marie Smith in Detroit Saturday morning,

With Clinton’s appearance at an AFL-CIO town hall meeting delayed by a late flight, this organizer for the American Federation of Teachers had the 700-member audience clapping along to her songs and even got a conga line going.

One of her best received songs was a rewrite of “I Will Survive,’’ she dubbed, “I Can’t Survive.’’ It refers to rascal CEOs and the declares, “We joined the union so we could make a living wage.’’

How aware was Clinton that she was in a union hall in a state reeling from the loss of manufacturing jobs?

She announced her opposition to the U.S.-Korea free trade agreement.

Tags: Hillary Clinton, unions