The power of union endorsements

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.seacoastonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070903/NEWS/709030332/-1/PUBLICRECORDS

By Michael Mccord

Seacoast residents David Lang and John Schoch are both union members, and they are concerned about many of the same issues surrounding the Iraq war, health care, the effects of globalization, and the economic needs of working families.

Where they part paths is in their choice of the right candidate to address these issues, and on this Labor Day, their choices reflect the coming battle between different unions as they choose their primary candidates to support.

Lang knows what he's doing today and every day until the first votes are cast in the New Hampshire primary.

Lang, a Hampton resident and president of the Professional Fire Fighters of New Hampshire, is attending the AFL-CIO Labor Day breakfast in Manchester with Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Chris Dodd, the candidate his organization and the larger International Association of Fire Fighters endorsed last week.

"We see a true leader," said Lang of Dodd, whose campaign secured a major boost with the IAFF backing. "For the next four months, I'm going to be telling people why we are working (for Dodd). He has stood with us, and we know where he stands. And he's going to be the next president of the United States."

Schoch has no less passion for his favorite candidate and one of Dodd's primary rivals, Sen. John Edwards.

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