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Key Democrat Blanche Lincoln To Oppose Employee Free Choice Act
In what is, perhaps, the most devastating blow yet to the fate of the Employee Free Choice Act, Sen. Blanche Lincoln said on Monday that she will oppose the union-backed legislation. The Arkansas Democrat, whose home state includes WalMart, one of the major business groups fighting EFCA, ...
Joe the Plumber stumped on Employee Free Choice Act: ‘I don’t know everything about everything.’
Joe the Plumber stumped on Employee Free Choice Act: ‘I don’t know everything about everything.’
thinkprogress.org — Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, better known as “Joe the Plumber,” is currently in Pennsylvania shilling against the Employee... Free Choice Act on behalf of the anti-labor group Americans for Prosperity. As ThinkProgress reported, Wurzelbacher ... (more) Joe the Plumber stumped on Employee Free Choice Act: ‘I ...
Lincoln opposes card-check bill
Lincoln opposes card-check bill
thehill.com — Sen. Blanche Lincoln (Ark.) on Monday became the first Senate Democrat to oppose the card-check bill heavily... backed by unions. In a statement, Lincoln pledged to vote against legislation formally known as the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), which ... (more) Lincoln opposes card-check bill
Democratic Senator: Employee Free Choice Act Can’t Pass
theplumline.whorunsgov.com — The bad news keeps on coming for proponents of the Employee Free Choice Act.... (more) Democratic Senator: Employee Free Choice Act Can’t Pass
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Political Animal — ... in two weeks. * After betraying party principles on the estate tax, Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) will betray party principles again on the Employee Free Choice Act . Her opposition makes EFCA passage extremely unlikely in this Congress. * Remember, no matter how bad a conservative columnist is, he or she ...

Will Unions Back A Green Candidate Against Blanche Lincoln?
TPM Election Central — ... The cause of Employee Free Choice been dealt a number of difficult blows in the last several weeks, but perhaps the hardest came from Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) in early April when she came out against EFCA. At the time she said, "[I] cannot support that bill in its current form. Cannot support and will not support moving it forward in its current form." ...

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