Who are "Americans for Job Security"?

[Swede]

They are doing lots of ads on CNN and I've never heard of them before.

[lurky]

1. I haven't seen the ads, but the name sounds like astroturf.

Are they anti-union? Anti-environment? What corporate interest are they flogging?

[Eric J in MN]

2. A right-wing soft money business group.

They ran this ad against Al Franken:
http://www.savejobs.org/mediacenter.php?qseg=8

Al Franken was speaking out against predatory lenders during the speech they took him out-of-context on:

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/11/2/112458/502/46/649835

[leftofthedial]

3. wingnut anti-worker front for corporations

anti-tax, pro-"free market," drill baby drill, vouchers, further privatize health care (let the market fix it), ...

[lurky]

4. Here is what Sourcewatch has to say:

Americans for Job Security (AJS) is a Republican "sham front group that would be better called Corporations Influencing Elections ... masquerading as a non-profit to conceal its funders and the scope of its electioneering activities,"<1> the Center for Responsive Politics wrote in April 2007.<2> Incorporated October 1997 in Virginia, AJS was described by the Center as "pro-Republican", "pro-business", and "established to directly counter labor's influence".

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Americans_for_Job_Security

[Swede]

5. Thanks. It sounded fishy.

nt

[hobbit709]

6. Any group that calls itself "Americans For ***" is usually against the people in some way.