Big Labor-Backed Group To Unleash Massive Mail Blitz In Swing States Tying McCain To Bush
By Greg Sargent - September 17, 2008, 2:53PM

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The AFL-CIO and an affiliated independent group are preparing to unleash an unusually large blitz of mailers targeting at least 1.5 million households in battleground states and across the country -- the group's first foray in a new and all-out campaign to win back Reagan and Bush-supporting Dems in the race's final stretch.

The mailer, which we obtained in advance of its public release, features testimonials from a number of these workers, including a school bus driver and Marine veteran who articulates the campaign's core message: "I voted for George W. Bush because he promised to change Washington. I'm not falling for the same old line from John McCain."

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nice to see the union dues going to good use

A New New Deal Is Crucial


David Moberg, a senior editor at In These Times wrote this week in Back for the Future:

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3907/b...for_the_future/

the 1930s. Progressives pointed to a panoply of problems facing the country: deepening economic downturn, environmental and economic crises based on our dependence on oil, record economic inequality, a broken healthcare system, and inadequate public investment in education and infrastructure.

Redressing these failings will require a "transformational presidency," like that of Franklin D. Roosevelt, as journalist Robert Kuttner argues in his new book, Obama’s Challenge. They will require the "next New Deal," according to U.S. Action, a coalition of statewide citizen organizations.


The new New Deal's about renewal of a concept that still resonates with many Americans but also about looking at the old New Deal's failures, the fact it didn't go far enough and how far a new version might take us. You can read what they have to say at these links:


Naturally, the oligarchs will gather their troops and their propaganda to fight any new New Deal, just as they have sought to undermine, repeal and obliterate the old one for the past 60 years, with slowly growing success on many, though not all, fronts.

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