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Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) spent much of this week in California, holding closed-door, big-dollar fundraisers with his corporate cronies—but he got more than he bargained for. Union members were at each event, calling him out on his anti-worker record.
In addition to successful events held this week across Southern California, union members turned out strongly yesterday to confront McCain in Pebble Beach and San Francisco. Enthusiastic members of the Monterey Bay Central Labor Council and the San Francisco Labor Council held signs, chanted and let their fellow Californians know that McCain is wrong for working families—all part of the AFL-CIO’s national McCain Revealed campaign.
Tim Paulson, executive director of the San Francisco Labor Council, says McCain is out of touch with working families, and there’s no better evidence than McCain’s Tuesday speech on the housing crisis, in which he offered no proposals to address the disaster.
John McCain, as we know, would be a disaster for working men and women. Just last month alone, there were 57,000 foreclosures in the state, and he’s out on record as blaming homeowners for this subprime crisis.
The McCain rhetoric on housing reinforces a fundamental truth: He doesn’t have much interest in, or knowledge about, the domestic issues that matter to working families. That’s painfully clear from McCain’s statements about trade, health care and jobs, and it’s clear from his decades of anti-working family votes in Congress. He can’t and won’t be the leader we need to turn around America.
Here’s some straight talk: McCain just doesn’t get it. And, just as they have in Pennsylvania, Missouri and elsewhere, union members won’t let him escape that fact.
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It should be noted that of the 60 or so protesters in SF, about half were from Labor and half from anti-war groups like International ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) and World Can’t Wait (to drive out the Bush regime …).
Unions represented included the California Teachers Association, United Educators of SF, and Engineers and Scientists Local 20. The ESC led a chant, “Outsource McCain, not our jobs,” because McCain supported the contract for Airbus over Boeing,
It’s worth mentioning also that the anti-war folks, who were mostly young people, chanted “Are we Republicans? No! Are we Democrats? No!” because they understand that the Democratic party has continued to fund the illegal war and occupation of Iraq and neither Democratic candidate can promise a ‘rapid’ return of US troop (as the AFL-CIO called for three f%$#*g years ago!). These young independent and socialist activists represent the future. And they don’t want their future stolen by McCain or the Democrats, who both see an unending ‘war on terror’ and support obscene military spending that is bankrupting states and cities all over the US.