Quepos A week before Christmas there was a long AP piece by Andrew DeMillo that indicated that the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) was going to take the lead in seeking to retire the campaign debt of over $400,000 which Lieutenant Governor Bill Halter owed himself from his election several years ago. All of this [...]
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Niagara Falls, Ontario Maybe progressives and liberals are finally willing to exercise some leverage rather than watching painfully as conservatives and moderates strip every bill that arises down to the bone with health care reform being the latest front page casualty? There are signs of a stirring. SEIU and Andy Stern after having seemed for [...]
New Orleans It’s amazing to me how many people came up to me over the last week on the East Coast and mentioned having read my recent blog about “Pink Sheeting and One-on-One’s” in UNITE-HERE and elsewhere in the labor movement. Google analytics tells me that this is most frequently visited current item on [...] New Orleans It’s a small sample, but the Virginia bellwether and the deeply blue state New Jersey went hard Republican and in Jersey tossed a Democratic governor looking for a second shot. Across the river, New York City voters surprised the chattering political classes by almost moving Mayor Bloomberg to his next career as [...] |
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