Union hits back at Blanche Lincoln

[Enrique]

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/03/17/union-hits-back-at-lincoln-in-arkansas/?fbid=fZIDsoDaFhI

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Just this week, Lincoln launched a new television ad taking aim at the "bunch of Washington D.C. unions" running ads accusing her of siding with big business over middle class workers. A union-backed group called "Arkansans For Change" is behind those ads.

"I'm not working for them," she tells viewers in her response ad. "I work for you."

One union, the Arkansas AFL-CIO, is now hitting back at Lincoln for that claim, calling her "a hypocritical, flip-flopping D.C. politician." The group has endorsed Halter.

"It's easy for her to try to paint opponents as outsiders, but working class voters in Arkansas can see as well as anybody that she has turned her back on us," Arkansas AFL-CIO President Alan Hughes said in a statement Wednesday.


"Only someone who has become a career politician in Washington DC could spend ten years asking for our support, take hundreds of thousands of dollars from blue collar workers, then turn around and attack us as 'outsiders' because we wouldn't help her this time around," he said.

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The AFL-CIO noted that Lincoln welcomed its endorsement during her 2004 campaign. "I'm honored to receive the endorsement today from the Arkansas AFL-CIO for my work in the Senate to improve the lives of Arkansas working families while fighting to keep our jobs from going overseas," she said at the time.

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[Catshrink]

1. Good for them.

[SoFlaJet]

2. The Unions ain't fucking around this time

Vote AGAINST HCR and they will do everything they can to replace you.

[Stuart G]

3. I sure hope Blanche becomes a former senator. nt

[SoFlaJet]

4. I like that guy

challenging her-I forget his name

[Bluebear]

5. SOLIDARITY