No Looking Back: Big Labor Will Continue Lambasting Blanche Lincoln

[babylonsister]

No Looking Back: Big Labor Will Continue Lambasting Lincoln
Christina Bellantoni | May 19, 2010, 2:16PM


Labor unions are doubling down in Arkansas as Sen. Blanche Lincoln and Lt. Gov. Bill Halter are set to duel for another three weeks in a Democratic primary runoff election. The AFL-CIO announced this morning they will keep up an aggressive push on Halter's behalf, and a top labor official lashed out over Lincoln's Tuesday night speech after polls closed.

After earning 45 percent of the vote (below the 50 percent needed to avoid a runoff) to Halter's 43 percent, Lincoln lamented "outside groups," ordering them to "go home." I asked labor officials about the remark this morning.

"There's nothing outside about people who are members of unions in Arkansas," AFL-CIO political director Karen Ackerman responded in the conference call with reporters. "I don't know what she's talking about. This was an effort initiated by union activists in Arkansas for Arkansas."

Ackerman also said AFL-CIO will do television ads, mailers and in-person outreach to union workers and other voters in what she described as "rigorous" and "very aggressive" fight to the finish. "We're in it to win it," she said. Other groups such as the SEIU and AFSCME are expected to follow suit. SEIU officials told me they have ads and a field game ready for rollout and there was no way they would back Lincoln in a general election if she wins June 8.

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[BunkerHill24]

1. I know why Balance is popular in Arkinsas.....

she's the first woman to wear a scarf!

[rhett o rick]

3. Around her neck. nm

[BunkerHill24]

4. lol...on Red...scarf that is

[BunkerHill24]

6. lol..you mean on RED scarf, right? ..indeed

[laughingliberal]

2. Yes!!!! eom

[Hannah Bell]

5. lol. "big labor". unions = < 7% of the workforce.

totally dwarfed by corporate power, but the ptb that be still spin it as "big labor" - the "powerful teachers unions" etc. ad nauseum.

[Radical Activist]

7. Good. We need a real Democrat in the seat.

Is Lincoln going to give back all the corporate PAC money from outside groups?