theplumline.whorunsgov.com - 3/5/2009
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Okay, this is pretty interesting: On a conference call with reporters today, AFL-CIO legislative director Bill Samuel made it explicit: The forces fighting to get the Employee Free Choice Act passed are certain that they have the support of three key Senators.
online.wsj.com - 3/4/2009
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Obama told AFL-CIO union leaders that the controversial
Employee Free Choice Act will pass, signaling his support...
for legislation that eases union organizing.
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Obama Signals Backing for Union Law
theplumline.whorunsgov.com - 3/12/2009
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This is big: Senior officials with the powerful
AFL-CIO have privately assured GOP Senator Arlen Specter that...
they'll throw their full support behind him in the 2010 Senate race if he votes for the Employee Free Choice Act, a senior labor strategist ...
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Big Union Vows To Back Arlen Specter In 2010 If He ...
freechoice.seiu.org - 3/3/2009
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Weekly Standard Blog —
... AFL-CIO claims it has support on card check from red state Dems Blanche Lincoln, Mark Pryor, and Mary Landrieu. Pryor and Landrieu will neither confirm nor deny. ...
Three Dems wavering on Card Check in the Senate?
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... that Republicans could get three Democratic votes in the Senate to keep the most radical parts of Barack Obama’s agenda from succeeding. Greg Sargent at the Plum Line blog for the Washington Post says that the same three DeMint named may be shifting to support Card Check, one of the worst pieces of legislation on the Obama agenda. If so, the Republicans may not be able to block it: On a conference call with reporters today, AFL-CIO legislative director Bill Samuel made it explicit: The forces fighting to get the Employee Free Choice Act passed are certain that they have ...
Card Check’s “Hanging Chads” - With Video
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —
... AGAIN too. And then say a prayer they listen.
Here are the three in question and their contact numbers:
Mary Landrieu (D-LA): 202-224-5824
Blanche Lincoln (D-AR): 202-224-4843
Mark Pryor (D-AR): 202-224-2353
And of course here are the three little braindead republican pigs:
Susan Collins: 202-224-2523
Olympia Snowe: 202-224-5344
Arlen Specter: 202-224-4254
Be nice and civil, but be FIRM.
The Plum Line is also reporting on the three possible no votes on Card Check.
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