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MH1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-28-06 03:24 PM
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Pa. AFL-CIO gives backing to Sestak (PA-7 Dem opposing Weldon)
Edited on Fri Jul-28-06 03:27 PM by MH1
http://www.delcotimes.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=16978488&BRD=1675&PAG=461&dept_id=18171&rfi=6

The Pennsylvania AFL-CIO turned its back Thursday on U.S. Rep. Curt Weldon, endorsing a Democratic candidate in the 7th Congressional District for the first time in 18 years. Overriding the recommendation of the Delaware County AFL-CIO Central Labor Council, the state organization’s executive committee voted to endorse retired Navy Adm. Joseph Sestak. The Democrat had the support of the Montgomery and Chester County labor councils heading into Thursday’s vote.


"It was close," said state AFL-CIO President William George, "but he got the two-thirds of the 50 vice presidents that were there, so the vote went for Sestak." The organization has backed Weldon in the past, but remained neutral in 2004, citing a drop in his pro-labor voting record from a high of 48 percent to a low of 13 percent. His AFL-CIO rating was 27 percent last year. George said the state’s labor leaders no longer considered Weldon an advocate of working families, but an ally of the "ultra-conservative leadership in D.C."

"He’s not that far from becoming a (Rick) Santorum, to be honest about it," George said. "People are worried about quality of life issues, not gays," he added, referring to Weldon’s vote this month in favor of a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriages.


(snip)


Edited to add emphasis. Love the Santorum commment!
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MH1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-28-06 03:25 PM
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1. Donate to Joe Sestak here:
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tech3149 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-28-06 04:08 PM
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2. Done!
Glad to see the unions thinking harder about their endorsements.
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MH1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-28-06 04:54 PM
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3. Thank you!
Every little bit helps.

Let's take back the House!
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pizzed Donating Member (40 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-28-06 05:38 PM
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6. this is good news...
Edited on Fri Jul-28-06 05:45 PM by pizzed
I've been wondering how the unions have been manipulated to keep them so subdued? (have they been infiltrated, too??) NOW more than EVER we need them to be out in front, because the PNAC's plan to eliminate them - they are the 'last' protection we laborers have. With our big manufacturing plants moved to China & India (ie: China took over Huffy bicycles, and their workers are paid 33 CENTS an hour, + no overtime & no benefits ~ whereas, when it was a US plant, American workers were paid over $11 per hour Plus benefits)

I've been asking in all the forums: "WHY aren't we hearing from the UNIONS???" BushCo is deadset on killing off Unions, so his Corporation Support Base can get away with NO benefits, LOW pay, NO overtime, etc etc etc We all ought to be contacting Unions, encouraging them to fight it, and volunteering to help expose this. First they outsource our manufacturing, and our jobs, and when Middle Class Workers are forced to take low class jobs. When they bust the Unions we working people are left without ANY protection. Our 'middle class' has already been greatly reduced. The Bush/PNAC/Cheney definition of "equality" is that labor should have equal pay. Here, China, India, wherever x(
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Is everyone aware of this? I was given an entirely different impression about what "super highway" meant...


Bush Administration Quietly Plans NAFTA Super Highway

http://infowars.com/articles/nwo/nafta_superhighway_bush_admin_secret_plan.htm

Quietly but systematically, the Bush Administration is advancing the plan to build a huge NAFTA Super Highway, four football-fields-wide, through the heart of the U.S. along Interstate 35, from the Mexican border at Laredo, Tex., to the Canadian border north of Duluth, Minn.

Once complete, the new road will allow containers from the Far East to enter the United States through the Mexican port of Lazaro Cardenas, bypassing the Longshoreman’s Union in the process. The Mexican trucks, without the involvement of the Teamsters Union, will drive on what will be the nation’s most modern highway straight into the heart of America. The Mexican trucks will cross border in FAST lanes, checked only electronically by the new “SENTRI” system. The first customs stop will be a Mexican customs office in Kansas City, their new Smart Port complex, a facility being built for Mexico at a cost of $3 million to the U.S. taxpayers in Kansas City.

As incredible as this plan may seem to some readers, the first Trans-Texas Corridor segment of the NAFTA Super Highway is ready to begin construction next year. Various U.S. government agencies, dozens of state agencies, and scores of private NGOs (non-governmental organizations) have been working behind the scenes to create the NAFTA Super Highway, despite the lack of comment on the plan by President Bush. The American public is largely asleep to this key piece of the coming “North American Union” that government planners in the new trilateral region of United States, Canada and Mexico are about to drive into reality.

Just examine the following websites to get a feel for the magnitude of NAFTA Super Highway planning that has been going on without any new congressional legislation directly authorizing the construction of the planned international corridor through the center of the country.

NASCO, the North America SuperCorridor Coalition Inc., is a “non-profit organization dedicated to developing the world’s first international, integrated and secure, multi-modal transportation system along the International Mid-Continent Trade and Transportation Corridor to improve both the trade competitiveness and quality of life in North America.” Where does that sentence say anything about the USA? Still, NASCO has received $2.5 million in earmarks from the U.S. Department of Transportation to plan the NAFTA Super Highway as a 10-lane limited-access road (five lanes in each direction) plus passenger and freight rail lines running alongside pipelines laid for oil and natural gas. One glance at the map of the NAFTA Super Highway on the front page of the NASCO website will make clear that the design is to connect Mexico, Canada, and the U.S. into one transportation system.


Kansas City SmartPort Inc. is an “investor based organization supported by the public and private sector” to create the key hub on the NAFTA Super Highway. At the Kansas City SmartPort, the containers from the Far East can be transferred to trucks going east and west, dramatically reducing the ground transportation time dropping the containers off in Los Angeles or Long Beach involves for most of the country. A brochure on the SmartPort website describes the plan in glowing terms: “For those who live in Kansas City, the idea of receiving containers nonstop from the Far East by way of Mexico may sound unlikely, but later this month that seemingly far-fetched notion will become a reality.”


The U.S. government has housed within the Department of Commerce (DOC) an “SPP office” that is dedicated to organizing the many working groups laboring within the executive branches of the U.S., Mexico and Canada to create the regulatory reality for the Security and Prosperity Partnership. The SPP agreement was signed by Bush, President Vicente Fox, and then-Prime Minister Paul Martin in Waco, Tex., on March 23, 2005. According to the DOC website, a U.S.-Mexico Joint Working Committee on Transportation Planning has finalized a plan such that “(m)ethods for detecting bottlenecks on the U.S.-Mexico border will be developed and low cost/high impact projects identified in bottleneck studies will be constructed or implemented.” The report notes that new SENTRI travel lanes on the Mexican border will be constructed this year. The border at Laredo should be reduced to an electronic speed bump for the Mexican trucks containing goods from the Far East to enter the U.S. on their way to the Kansas City SmartPort.


The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is overseeing the Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC) as the first leg of the NAFTA Super Highway. A 4,000-page environmental impact statement has already been completed and public hearings are scheduled for five weeks, beginning next month, in July 2006. The billions involved will be provided by a foreign company, Cintra Concessions de Infraestructuras de Transporte, S.A. of Spain. As a consequence, the TTC will be privately operated, leased to the Cintra consortium to be operated as a toll-road.
The details of the NAFTA Super Highway are hidden in plan view. Still, Bush has not given speeches to bring the NAFTA Super Highway plans to the full attention of the American public. Missing in the move toward creating a North American Union is the robust public debate that preceded the decision to form the European Union. All this may be for calculated political reasons on the part of the Bush Administration.

A good reason Bush does not want to secure the border with Mexico may be that the administration is trying to create express lanes for Mexican trucks to bring containers with cheap Far East goods into the heart of the U.S., all without the involvement of any U.S. union workers on the docks or in the trucks.



http://infowars.com/articles/nwo/nafta_superhighway_bush_admin_secret_plan.htm
map = http://www.nascocorridor.com/

(also a good explanation for why Bush wants 'guest workers' on a 'temporary' time frame, who wouldn't accrue any pension time, or probably even workers comp, or health benefits - 'guest workers' can be paid below minimum wages, all to save his Corporation-Support-Base a LOT of payroll money!!)

The banks and mortgage companies are complicit in the PNAC/Zionist takeover of America, by extending credit and loans to millions of Americans who cannot afford it. Most Americans are living one paycheck from disaster, while constantly being told our economy is improving. When the stuff hits the fan, who is it that will call in the markers and foreclose? yep... and who is it that owns the banks and mortgage companies? yep... which means the 'moneychangers' will own America, without actually having to fire a shot.... think about it..... :(


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http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=268 Check your state for PNAC activities...

http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=164 Watch what they're doing in Congress...
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still_one Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-29-06 10:04 PM
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9. Hmm most of your posts talks about the PNAC/Zionist agenda
I might think that you have an agenda which has more to do with HATE than with Democrats, Democracy or America



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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-28-06 04:59 PM
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5. I'm glad they've opened their eyes about the way GOPs use gay issues to
mask their screwing of ALL working class Americans.
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MH1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-28-06 07:46 PM
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7. I'm not sure how far those eyes are really open,
but it's a start, and we'll take it!
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karynnj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-28-06 04:58 PM
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4. fantastic!!
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Omaha Steve Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-29-06 08:24 AM
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8. from a high of 48 percent to a low of 13 percent

It seems they did the right thing!

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