Tennessee Union Members Tell McCain: ‘It’s the Economy!’

[Omaha Steve]

http://blog.aflcio.org/2008/06/04/tennessee-union-members-tell-mccain-its-the-economy/

by Seth Michaels, Jun 4, 2008

More than 100 union members and allies converged in Nashville, Tenn., earlier this week to ask Sen. John McCain for real solutions on the crisis in our economy.

McCain was in town for—what else?—a fundraiser with wealthy supporters, while outside, union members carried signs reading “Turn Around America” and demanding an end to the failed Bush policies that aren’t helping working families.



Unfortunately, McCain isn’t listening to these union members. Instead, he’s taking his economic cues from one of his campaign co-chairs, former Sen. Phil Gramm, a finance industry lobbyist who has been the subject of scrutiny in Newsweek, Mother Jones and Texas Observer, as well as on MSNBC’s “Countdown with Keith Olbermann,” in recent days.

Gramm was actively lobbying for UBS—an investment bank with interests in the subprime crisis that’s under Justice Department and congressional investigation, and warning its executives not to even visit the United States—at the same time he was helping to craft McCain’s housing policy.

FULL story at link.