March 12, 2008

• Today the AFL-CIO announced plans for a $53 Million effort “To Paint McCain As Anti-Worker.”  Their campaign to define Senator McCain as “anti-worker” is expected to begin immediately with TV ads in key states across the country.
  
  
• This week’s “Talking Points” will provide you with good information to offset the AFL-CIO’s negative campaign.
  
  
• While the AFL-CIO spends millions of dollars to attack Senator McCain with the same, old attack-and-destroy politics, McCain is working to move America forward with an optimistic agenda.
  
  
• Protecting hard-working American families is a priority for John McCain, and it is unfortunate that Big Labor’s priority seems to be attacking Republicans.
  
  
•  The AFL-CIO’s campaign against Senator McCain isn’t about those working families, it is about partisan politics.
  
  
• The AFL-CIO is a consistently partisan group, having given 95% to Democrat candidates and committees in 2004 and 97% in 2006.  In 2005, some of the AFL-CIO’s own affiliates split from the group, saying it had “wasted too much time on money and politics.”
  
  
• The AFL-CIO and its affiliates spent a total of $150 million against President Bush and Republicans in 2004.
  
  
• Senator Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have condemned special interest groups, yet unions have spent millions of dollars on their behalf.
  
  
• Considering Senator Clinton and Barack Obama’s previous rhetoric on special interest spending, will they reject the AFL-CIO’s attacks and campaign against John McCain? 
  
  

This Week’s Note From Jo Ann:

Thank you for all that you are doing to help get out our message.  The AFL-CIO is a partisan group that has a long history of supporting Democrat candidates.  In previous elections, AFL-CIO spent millions on partisan attacks against Republicans.  Obviously that is going to continue in the 2008 election.

Thanks for all you are doing.

PS.  Please pass along these “Talking Points” to your e-mail list and encourage other women to go to www.gop.com, click on Groups to get to the Women’s Group and join the Pink Elephants.

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