The AFL-CIO is getting in the game. And that's a good thing. This is a classic Democratic group engaging the angry mobs at their own level.
Since the Obama administration is not likely to move along fascist Bush like crowd control at town hall meetings, the unions will at least provide a counterbalance to the noisy wingers.
So the news reports will show that Democratic interests are being fought for in a way that the Media can understand. You shout at me. I shout at you. Somewhat juvenile, but ultimately our only option in this winger crazed environment.
Ah balance.
In a memo sent out on Thursday, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney outlined the blueprint for how the union conglomerate would step up recess activities on health care reform and other topics pertinent to the labor community. The document makes clear that Obama allies view the town hall forums as ground zero of the health care debate. It also uses the specter of the infamous 2000 recount "Brooks Brothers" protest to rally its members to the administration's side.
"The principal battleground in the campaign will be town hall meetings and other gatherings with members of Congress in their home districts," reads the memo. "We want your help to organize major union participation to counter the right-wing "Tea-Party Patriots" who will try to disrupt those meetings, as they've been trying to do to meetings for the last month. ...
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Unions are planning to make their presence felt in Fifty high priority districts over the break.
Let the games begin.