NY union leader holds fundraiser for Dean

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Dem Dean Counts on City Union

By STEFAN C. FRIEDMAN and ED ROBINSON

September 24, 2003 -- The head of one of the state's most influential labor unions held a fund-raiser in Midtown yesterday for Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean, sending a strong signal that the former Vermont governor will get his endorsement.

Dennis Rivera, the leader of Local 1199 of the Service Employees International Union, held the fund-raiser at the 200,000-member health-care workers union headquarters on West 42nd Street.

Dean is the only candidate for whom Rivera is raising cash. About 100 people paid between $100 to $1,000 to attend.

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Rivera, a former member of the Democratic National Committee, is also a key member of the union's national leadership. The national union has said it is too early yet to offer an endorsement.

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1. Good for Dean and Democrats

We need to make sure union voters stick with the Democratic party. Fox news and talk radio tries to trick union members into voting Republican, even though Republicans hate unions and want to destroy them.