Bernie Sanders has a great new ad that directly links the problem of outsourcing and corporate irresponsibility with a progressive Pro-Worker and Pro Business agenda.
No that's not contradictory. Watch the ad linked on his campaign website. Democrats this is how it should be done.
http://www.progressiveamerica.us/archives/2006/09/bernie_takes_on.htmlFrom website:
by David-DC
A Saturday event in Winooski kicked off the launch of Bernie's latest TV ad, this time focusing on the staggering 10,000 Vermont jobs lost to corporate overseas outsourcing over the past five years.
WCAX was on hand for the event:
Sanders held a Saturday event where he met about two dozen workers from four Vermont companies that shut their doors due to much cheaper competition overseas. Three of them, plus the owner of the former York Capacitor company, participated in the ad. York, located in the Winooski Industrial Park, shut down last year, citing brutal competition from China. The ad taps into the frustration felt by those who lost good paying jobs.
The ad can be viewed at Bernie.org, by clicking
http://bernie.org/?p=261. Sanders told the workers and reporters who covered the event, "Instead of giving corporate welfare to outsourcers, we should reinvest that money into small and medium sized businesses in this country who want to grow jobs right here in the United States of America. I don't think that is too much to ask."
The ad uses the workers in their own words rather than a script. One of them, Mark Santelli, lost his job when Johnson Controls, the maker of Diehard batteries, moved from Bennington to Mexico. He says Sanders helped get the company's abandoned plant restored to the Superfund environmental cleanup program and subsequently torn down and cleaned up.
"Anywhere Bernie needs my help, I'll be there," Santelli said.
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