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Walking in Virginia With 10 Days Until Election |
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It’s Saturday, Oct. 27, and the second-to-last door-to-door walk in Virginia is in full force. Mother Nature showed at least parts of the state her pro-labor bias by giving us a break from the rain and even letting the sunshine through just as volunteers reached their neighborhood destinations to knock on union household doors.
Communications Workers of America (CWA) Secretary-Treasurer Barbara Easterling, Virginia AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Doris Crouse-Mays, AFL-CIO Political Director Karen Ackerman and Northern Virginia Central Labor Council President Dan Duncan welcomed the slightly damp, but stalwart volunteers ready to hit the streets.
Nearly 120 activists statewide made it out to volunteer this rainy morning from AFSCME, AFT, Amalgamated Transit Union, CWA, Newspaper Guild/CWA, Electrical Workers, Machinists, Iron Workers, Operating Engineers, Painters and Allied Trades, Office and Professional Employees, Seafarers, Sheetmetal Workers, Plumbers, UAW, Food and Commercial Workers, Mine Workers and United Steelworkers.
Crouse-Mays reminded us that today, we hit the official 10-Day Out Countdown to Election Day.
This year, we don’t have the sparkle of a statewide campaign, but these state legislature races are just as important. This is the last time we are going to be voting on the State Senate candidates who will determine redistricting.
She then laid out our choices: “We either work hard for the next 10 days, or we live with the consequences for the next 10 years.”
Easterling said we are
taking back America for working families and retaining the middle class. The middle class is hurting–losing health care and pensions. We need to take back Virginia this year to be in great shape for the upcoming U.S. Senate race and presidential election in 2008. This is our fight. It is up to us.
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