A wonderful post at Firedoglake.
Labor provides the money for campaigns, the reliable volunteers who show up rain or shine. Labor helps with field, GOTV, and media. It's not just that labor provides a lot of help, it's that labor provides help reliably, cycle after cycle. Unions don't get bored with politics, they don't decide that politics doesn't matter, and union members show up and vote in primaries up and down the ticket.Read the whole thing here.
They invest long-term in voter registration programs, they build infrastructure that the party committees have traditionally scoffed at, and they have been an immense force in progressive politics for a hundred years, holding politicians accountable for their choices in office...
See you Tuesday. Comments?
And you Mr. Mayor? No need for union suppoprt anymore? In Chicago?
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