Across California, Union Members Confront McCain

[Omaha Steve]

http://blog.aflcio.org/2008/03/28/across-california-union-members-confront-mccain/

by Seth Michaels, Mar 28, 2008

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) spent much of this week in California, holding closed-door, big-dollar fundraisers with his corporate cronies—but he got more than he bargained for. Union members were at each event, calling him out on his anti-worker record.


In addition to successful events held this week across Southern California, union members turned out strongly yesterday to confront McCain in Pebble Beach and San Francisco. Enthusiastic members of the Monterey Bay Central Labor Council and the San Francisco Labor Council held signs, chanted and let their fellow Californians know that McCain is wrong for working families—all part of the AFL-CIO’s national McCain Revealed campaign.

The briefing book: http://www.aflcio.org/issues/politics/mccain.cfm?source=mccainrevealed

Tim Paulson, executive director of the San Francisco Labor Council, says McCain is out of touch with working families, and there’s no better evidence than McCain’s Tuesday speech on the housing crisis, in which he offered no proposals to address the disaster.

John McCain, as we know, would be a disaster for working men and women. Just last month alone, there were 57,000 foreclosures in the state, and he’s out on record as blaming homeowners for this subprime crisis.

The McCain rhetoric on housing reinforces a fundamental truth: He doesn’t have much interest in, or knowledge about, the domestic issues that matter to working families. That’s painfully clear from McCain’s statements about trade, health care and jobs, and it’s clear from his decades of anti-working family votes in Congress. He can’t and won’t be the leader we need to turn around America.


Here’s some straight talk: McCain just doesn’t get it. And, just as they have in Pennsylvania, Missouri and elsewhere, union members won’t let him escape that fact.

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[Mountainman]

1. Yet millions of working class voters will vote for him.