Union Bosses Dump Blue Dogs
October 27th 2010 · 0 Comments
Labor helps key Senate Dems, but abandons most House Blue Dogs
Alexander Bolton | The Hill
10/27/10
Organized labor is holding its nose and spending money to protect key Democrats in the Senate, hoping to create a bulwark to hold back Republicans in the House.
But labor has abandoned 26 House Democrats who did not support the union agenda in the 111th Congress, leaving them to be pounded by corporate-funded third party groups.
Two of the nation’s biggest labor unions, AFSCME and SEIU, have spent generously on independent expenditures to help Democratic House candidates. But Blue Dog Democrats and other Democratic centrists who did not support healthcare reform or the Employee Free Choice Act are facing a one-sided barrage of television attack ads.
A review of independent expenditures reported in the last two months show that labor unions have not spent money on television ads to defend vulnerable House Democratic centrists such as Reps. Bobby Bright (Ala.), John Salazar (Co.), Joe Donnelly (Ind.), Baron Hill (Ind.), Ben Chandler (Ky.), Travis Childers (Miss.), Lincoln Davis (Tenn.), Jim Marshall (Ga.), Gene Taylor (Miss.), Ike Skelton (Mo.) and John Adler (N.J.).
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