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Brent Gillette, Labor 2008 director for Michigan, sends us a report on Sen. John McCain’s visit to Michigan.
When Sen. John McCain visited Rochester, Mich., this morning, he was met by a contingent of union members asking him for solutions to the crisis facing the economy.
Some 28 union members gathered in front of the hall where McCain was set to speak and distributed fliers on McCain’s anti-worker record on trade, health care and jobs.
Mark Gaffney, president of the Michigan State AFL-CIO, says McCain’s votes on trade and the economy are proof that he’s out of touch with working families.
John McCain will not likely have a government and an administration that does enough or cares enough about creating good-paying manufacturing jobs here in America.
McCain doesn’t seem to get it when it comes to the economy. He’s avoided meeting with union members about the housing crisis and health care. His health care plan would raise taxes on workers, but he’s voted to give tax breaks to companies that ship jobs overseas. And he recently re-affirmed his strong support for bad trade deals like the North American Free Trade Agreement, the Central American Free Trade Agreement and the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement—while standing in front of a shuttered factory.
McCain’s car zipped by the union picketers on the way to today’s event. Maybe he should have stopped to pick up a flier—he could learn a thing or two about the issues facing working families.
This Saturday, hundreds of union volunteers around the state will go door to door to educate their fellow union members about health care, the economy and the upcoming election.
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McCain doesn’t seem to get it? Are you kidding; oh he gets it. He’s ignoring labor because he’s a “bushlike” candidate and when elected he’ll continue to ignore working Americans. He and his mentors, Cheney/bush, are all about doing the the will, not of the masses, oh no, they will only respond to the wishes of the very, very, very rich. Any AFL-CIO member who votes Republican in the November election should be excommunicated from the Union.
If you knew a person who is listed on a 1991 US intelligence report and it says about him, “Has worked for the Medellin Cartel and is a close personal friend of Pablo Escobar Gaviria” (Colombia’s most famous drug person).
http://www.gwu.edu/%7Ensarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB131/dia910923.pdf
A person who is listed in a book by Escobar’s lover (Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar” by Virginia Vallejo, published by Random House Mondadori) states that this person was a good personal friend of Escobar. In her book she writes about this person, “as director of civil aeronautics (1980-1982), “granted dozens of licences for landing strips and hundreds for aircraft and helicopters on which the drug trafficking infrastructure was built”. “Pablo used to say: ‘if it were not for that blessed lad, we’d have to be swimming till Miami to reach the drugs to the gringos.”
A man who helped start the Convivirs a group that eventually morphed into a terrorist killing machine for the government and is a major drug player today.
http://www.coha.org/2007/05/15/colombia’s-president-uribe-and-the-para-scandal-those-mother-day’s-bouquets-imported-from-colombia-are-a-noxious-bloom/
A man who when his political campaign manager was found to be passing UNION member names to a paramilitary death squads, gave the guy a government job in Milan.
http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2006/04/17/colomb13196.htm
A man that has among his supporters over 30 congress members currently in jail, including his cousin, for working with the terrorist paramilitary. A man who appointed to the top police position in the country a person whose brother is serving time in a German jail for drug smuggling. A man who worked a deal where people who have confessed to hundreds of murders serve only 8 years in a country club jail and phone taps revealed they continued to conduct drug business from there.
What would you call that man? President Bush and John McCain call him a friend and ally of the USA and want to give his country preferential trading status. (Colombian FTA) As the author of the article suggests, it would be good for McCain to do a little more reading and maybe learn a few things.