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Unions Plan to Spend $400 Million to Reelect Obama
fox ^ | 3/12/12 | Washington Free Beacon Staff
The AFL-CIO will formally endorse Obama on Tuesday, as it kicks off a campaign sending 400,00 union members door to door to encourage voters to support the president’s reelection bid. Labor leaders say their efforts are to counteract the political power of Super PACs. They also will commit $400 million to the campaign.
The New York Times reports:
With numerous super PACs expected to broadcast a flood of TV spots in support of the Republican nominee, the Obama campaign is looking to organized labor to play a major role in offsetting that. Labor leaders say they expect unions to spend $400 million this year on national, state and local elections — including $100 million by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees — but they say their ground troops, not money, is labor’s signal contribution.
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Unions Plan to Spend $400 Million to Reelect Obama
fox ^ | 3/12/12 | Washington Free Beacon Staff
The AFL-CIO will formally endorse Obama on Tuesday, as it kicks off a campaign sending 400,00 union members door to door to encourage voters to support the president’s reelection bid. Labor leaders say their efforts are to counteract the political power of Super PACs. They also will commit $400 million to the campaign.
The New York Times reports:
With numerous super PACs expected to broadcast a flood of TV spots in support of the Republican nominee, the Obama campaign is looking to organized labor to play a major role in offsetting that. Labor leaders say they expect unions to spend $400 million this year on national, state and local elections — including $100 million by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees — but they say their ground troops, not money, is labor’s signal contribution.
(Excerpt) Read more at nation.foxnews.com ...
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That's a lot of money....WOW!!!
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They will probably not even need that much. Besides I am sure corporations love OB too
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and anti-union billionaires will spend that much to defeat obama.
money and superpacs ruining everything.