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Unions Say No to Tea Time in Alaska Senate Race
Alaskan voters couldn’t be facing two more different candidates for the U.S. Senate—Scott McAdams, endorsed by the 49th state’s working family unions, and Joe Miller, backed by the Tea Party and endorsed by Sarah Palin.
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka says McAdams is a union person.
He understands what union workers go through, he understands what workers go through, period. And I think that he’d be a great voice and a great asset to workers, in Washington, D.C.
Thanks to our friends at The Mudflats for providing this video.
Miller, on the other hand, reports TPM’s Christina Bellatoni:
wants to eliminate the Department of Education, believes the government shouldn’t pay for unemployment insurance and says of climate change on his campaign site that it “may not even exist.”
[Miller says he] would cut welfare; eliminate health care for the poor by scrapping Medicaid; and the Anchorage Daily News reported that he has called for sweeping cuts to Medicare and Social Security with a goal of phasing them out entirely in favor of total privatization.
The “country doesn’t need a Joe Miller. We have enough of those in Washington, D.C., right now,” says Trumka.
Mitch McConnell is like a Joe Miller, if you will, wanting to do away with Social Security, wanting to do away with public education, wanting to do away with all kinds of things.
Watch the video for more on McAdams and click here to visit his website.
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I am so excited with the leadership of Rich and his team. I represented IUOE 302 with jurisdiction in the state of Alaska. It is tough for unions and Democrates. Yet Alaskans are tough and strong and UNION. When they hit the street for candidates who represent their interests they can get the job done. Miller is a pox on the house of labor and spells trouble. I encourage them work hard for McAdams.
Allan B Darr
I think that labor needs to educate the public about the lies that sarah Palin and her tea Party people bring to the table. After the elction Labor needs to organize fast food workers, Waremart employees and stand up stronger in the public eye as the Late Afl-Cio president George Meany did during his years as its President on standing up to the public about what labor stands for.