Union Workers Should be for Lamont Over Lieberman........ [View All]

[louis c]

I just saw on Mathews a firefighter for lieberman explaining why he was for Joe.

First off, my credentials are that I have served as a President and Business Manager of an IBEW local in Boston for five years. I am a member of the AFL-CIO committee on Political Education (COPE). that's no big deal, but it does give some union credentials.

I respect my brothers and sisters in the IAFF (AFL-CIO). They are truly a credit to organized labor. However, I disagree with their stand on this one.

First off, Lieberman betrayed unions when he voted for NAFTA. I know a lot of Dems did, also, but Gephart led the fight and a majority of Dems saw the handwriting on the wall, but to no avail. That disaster is plain as day now. And it was when ass-kissing Joe joined only 12 other Dems to support CAFTA. At that point, he didn't even support labor when there was no excuse left. Why do we as union members vilify Wal-Mart and then support Joe Lieberman when he supported the WTO treaty with China? In february of this year, the Longshoreman and Teamsters joined Left-wing and right-wing elected officials to denounce the Dubai Port Deal. You couldn't find a Bush supporter on that one, anywhere. Except Asshole Joe, Bush's lap-dog, making excuses for him once again. Horrifying. Add to that his support on Gonzales, an Atorney general that refuses to enforce labor laws and Joe's refusing to filibuster Supreme Court nominees that will vote to gut labor laws. Add Schiavo to the list and Lieberman's support of stricter bankruptcy laws that hurt the middle-class, and I certainly don't see a friend of working men and women in Joe Lieberman.

That's before we get to his support on Iraq for that lying, coward, black-hearted piece of shit we have in the White House. I know, a lot of Dems were fooled with the lies in March, 2003. But Joe has literally stood alone as a Democrat and literally kissed up to President Bush, right up to this very day. Nearly 3,000 Americans (from mostly working class families) have died for a lie and $250 million a day is squandered in a senseless war in Iraq that only benefits the ultra-rich at home our enemies abroad. Money that could be spent right here at home making us more secure and creating jobs and providing better health care and education. All of these mistakes by Bush were supported by Lieberman to the detriment of working families.

Finally, a firefighter for Lieberman asked rhetorically about Lamont, "Do you think a man worth $250 million cares about you?". Well, I don't know, but I'll take my chances just as my grandfather and father did. You see, my grandfather supported FDR and my dad supported JFK. They didn't vote against them because they were rich but for them because of what they stood for and voted against their opponents because of what Hoover and Nixon stood for. I think history proved them both correct and I think history will be on my side, too. I'm for Lamont