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learfield.typepad.com - 8/28/2008
Radio Iowa: AFSCME leader: "That is bullshit!"
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AFSCME president Gerald McEntee spoke this morning to the Iowa Democrats gathered at the DNC in Denver. He used the occasion to mock Governor Chet Culver and to address bigotry (read more and listen to his speech here). Iowa political types know long-time AFSCME organizer Marcia Nichols. So does McEntee. With Culver & his wife, Mari, sitting not 15 feet away at a table near the front of the ...

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AFSCME Head: Not Voting For Obama Due to His Race is “Total Bull****”
The Page by Mark Halperin — ... Union boss Gerald McEntee makes his views crystal clear to union members who say they won’t back the Democrat because he’s black. ...

Thursday's Mini-Report
Political Animal — ... the whole Obama birth-certificate thing. * AFSCME president Gerald McEntee spoke to Iowa Democrats this morning: "Toward the end of his 18 minute speech, McEntee sort of addressed the elephant in the room, saying there were some union members who won't vote for Barack Obama because he's black: 'I say to all those people out there in our own union and every other union in the United States: 'If that's the reason you can't vote for Barack Obama, that is bullsh*t and you have to change your mind.'" * " ...

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