for their recent legislative convention!!
Still think unions have no clout? Still think they are going to
support congressional democrats if they do NOT get EFCA??
Think again.
The catch is that Senator Arlen Specter did not speak at this event. In fact, he was disinvited.
Here is the full story, courtesy of an email exchange with Jim Savage, who is President of a Steelworkers local here in Philadelphia:
* "The Senator [Arlen Specter] was invited & confirmed as the keynote speaker."
* "There was quite an uproar when we found out. He was uninvited because of the rank-and-file reaction."
* "Also, it's worth noting that the Senator was none too happy about it."
* At that point, Sestak was then invited. Before he spoke, he was "introduced to the delegates as "our next Senator" to a rousing ovation."
* The general sentiment toward Specter was "fuck'm."
Again folks, this proves what I've been stating here for some time now: it's time for the so called democratic party to DELIVER the goods to the poor, middle class, and Labor.
"My support for President Obama is wavering". Ed Schultz 6/24/2009
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