W Post: In Arkansas, dissatisfied labor unions worked hard against Lincoln

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/18/AR2010051805020.html

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Willie Holmes moved to Arkansas last year to push Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D) on the union membership bill known as "card check." He lost, but he stayed to sway her vote on health care.


Sen. Blanche Lincoln and her husband fill out paperwork before voting in Little Rock. (Danny Johnston/associated Press)


That did not go his way, either, but Holmes is still here. On Tuesday, he sat with four colleagues in the Plumbers and Steamfitters Local 155 union hall and waited for the votes to roll in. He was hoping that, this time, Lincoln would fall.

Holmes is a field director for Working America, an AFL-CIO operation that played a big role in keeping Lt. Gov. Bill Halter (D) competitive with Lincoln, a well-known and well-financed incumbent.

"If people say they're voting for Blanche Lincoln," Holmes said, "we try to change their mind."

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