McCain Revealed: same Bush policies, different wrapping

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.pww.org/article/view/12705/

Author: John Wojcik

Everywhere Republican presidential candidate John McCain goes these days he is finding union activists confronting him on economic issues and demanding that he speak to working families’ concerns. Since March 1, union members have held actions at McCain events in Cleveland, Cincinnati, St. Louis and in New Hampshire.

The AFL-CIO officially launched on March 12 a campaign to expose the senator’s economic record and his plans to continue the failed economic program of the Bush administration. The “McCain Revealed” campaign, as it is called, will reach more than 13 million voters in 23 battleground states, the federation’s political director Karen Ackerman said.

The campaign is a major component of the AFL-CIO’s $53.4 million 2008 election mobilization, its largest in history.

“Our economy is in crisis after years of failed Bush Administration policies that Sen. McCain supports and has adopted as his own,” Ackerman said. “Sen. McCain’s record shows he’s in lockstep with President Bush on economic issues. He’s voted repeatedly for trade deals that ship our jobs overseas, he’s voted against protecting overtime pay, he’s voted against health insurance for children, and he supports the Bush Social Security privatization plan. McCain is Bush No. 3.”

“It’s clear that John McCain hopes to conduct this campaign without ever having to explain his economic priorities to working people,” Ackerman said. “Public opinion polls show the economy is the top concern of voters, yet Sen. McCain has said very little about his economic positions and, as a result, working families know very little about where he stands on pocketbook concerns. That all changes today.”

A look at the main elements of labor’s “McCain Revealed” push shows that the unions are dead serious about all this.

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