Labor Leaders Against McCain

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http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/6959/1/338/

"Sen. McCain’s record shows he’s in lockstep with President Bush and the Administration’s corporate allies," said AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Arlene Holt Baker in a press statement today responding to John McCain's June 3rd speech in Louisiana.

In that speech McCain insisted on not being linked to George W. Bush and put himself forward as the candidate of change.

Holt Baker hit back. "McCain supports Bush tax giveaways for corporations, Big Oil and the wealthy while opposing an increase in the minimum wage and an extension of unemployment benefits," she said.

John McCain has no plan to fix the health care crisis, she added. In fact, what he has proposed would make it worse. "His health care plan," Holt Baker pointed out, "would saddle working families with an additional tax while doing nothing to address the deep flaws in the system or provide coverage to the 47 million Americans who have no insurance."