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The tight Kentucky Senate contest has been dubbed the “second most important race in the country.” Bluegrass working people have mobilized in a big way to unseat Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a nemesis of working people in the upper house and one of the most virulent opponents of workers’ rights in the Congress.
Yesterday, AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Arlene Holt Baker spent the day in Louisville, Ky., energizing union members to make a strong push in the final four days before the election to get out the vote to elect Sen. Barack Obama president and to “Ditch Mitch” by sending Democratic Senate candidate Bruce Lunsford to Capitol Hill.
Lunsford has a good chance to defeat McConnell and led the filibuster that prevented the Employee Free Choice Act from passing the Senate this year. As minority leader, McConnell has actively opposed every piece of pro-worker legislation to come to the floor.
Holt Baker, who spent the day leafleting and campaigning with Lunsford and Gov. Steve Beshear (D), laid out McConnell’s record at a Louisville rally:
McConnell has been the number one adversary of all of the things that are most important to working families. He’s been the man behind job-killing trade deals like NAFTA and CAFTA and the Colombia Free Trade Agreement.
He voted against extending unemployment benefits. He voted to abolish the federal minimum wage. He led the filibuster against health care for children.
And he will keep right on doing it unless we stop him. That’s why he has to go!
She told the rally that this election could be a turning point for working people.
Because of your hard work, we’re on the verge of turning our country around and turning our economy around and we are ready to turn around our outdated labor laws to make sure every worker in America has the advantage we have—the freedom to have a union and bargain for a better life.
Holt Baker praised the hard work of union members in Kentucky, who are getting out the vote along with members of the AFL-CIO community affiliate Working America. But with the stakes so high, she says there is still much to do in a short time.
This is our time. This is our election. This election is about jobs and health care. This is the future for our families. This is about making the country we love, the country we know it can be. So let’s work harder than ever and fight harder than ever.
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