And now, the Democrats
Posted: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 12:40 PM by firstread
AFL-CIO chief John Sweeney will hold a press briefing at 12 noon today to detail the labor group's "election mobilization" efforts for the midterm elections. As we reported earlier this month, the group plans to spend $40 million and will focus their efforts on 21 gubernatorial, 15 Senate, and 50 House races. The AFL says this effort -- which they hope will reach more than 12.4 million voters in 21 states -- is the largest in their history. Sweeney will discuss how they plan on making advances on workers' issues like the minimum wage and health care, and will present new polling information on other issues.
The Financial Times recalls DNC chair Howard Dean's remarks to another paper recently that "the 'religious community' would have to decide 'whether they want to be tax exempt or involved in politics'. It was not the most intelligent thing he could have said, given the current state of church-state relations in the US. Mr Dean tried to contain the damage by explaining that he was not pushing for challenges to the tax exemption of conservative churches. He was simply warning against giving congregation lists to political parties and other forms of prohibited political action by bodies of worship."
