Blanche Lincoln’s Campaign Running Anti-Union Telephone Survey To Arkansas Voters

[WillyT]

Blanche Lincoln’s Campaign Running Anti-Union Telephone Survey to Arkansas Voters
By: Michael Whitney Thursday March 25, 2010 5:10 pm

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According to the Arkansas State AFL-CIO, members are reporting that they’ve received phone calls from Blanche Lincoln’s Senate campaign that smear Bill Halter for receiving support from labor unions. A source with the Arkansas AFL-CIO reports:

The Senators phone survey first asks how the constitutient feels about Lt. Gov. Halter. The survey then goes on to ask the constitutient if they are aware that the Lt. Governor has accepted money from unions.

Uh, Blanche?

Career Donations from Labor PACs: $576,900

Arkansas AFL-CIO President Alan Hughes fired back at Lincoln:

“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. That’s not the values people in Arkansas believe in.”

Zing!

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Link: http://workinprogress.firedoglake.com/2010/03/25/blanche-lincolns-campaign-running-anti-union-telephone-survey-to-arkansas-voters/

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[Mike 03]

1. I once supported Blanche Lincoln, but she has turned into a self-exploding

disaster.

She lacked the courage of her convictions.

She had a chance, if she had been courageous and voted for HCR.

But she blew out like a bad tire, and now she has no hope of retaining her office.

She had no confidence in the truth, although she talked a great game during the Senate Finance Markups, which are archived on C-Span, if anybody wants to watch them.