[CTRL] Roll over Karl. A racist capitalist bigot will save the working man.
-Caveat Lector- For the first time since the Vietnam war, I will vote in a major election. I will vote for a racist, sexist, Jew hating, capitalist bigot who is the only one that can stop the Global Capitalists. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Holding my nose, Joshua2 = CNN CROSSFIRE - September 6, 1999 What Party Deserves the Union Label? BILL PRESS, CO-HOST: Tonight, looking for the union label -- on this Labor Day, candidates are appealing for the support of labor unions. Who deserves it more? Democrats or Republicans? ANNOUNCER: From Washington, CROSSFIRE. On the left, Bill Press; on the right, Mary Matalin. In the CROSSFIRE, Congressman Tom Davis of Virginia, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, and Richard Trumka, secretary treasurer of the AFL-CIO. PRESS: Good evening. Welcome to CROSSFIRE. It's Labor Day, when anybody with any sense is at the beach, and everybody else is out campaigning, Democrat and Republican. GOP front-runner George W. Bush rode in Labor Day parade in South Carolina. Gary Bauer, Steve Forbes and Dan Quayle all worked the same labor crowd up in New Hampshire. And Vice President Al Gore was grand marshal for the big Labor Day parade in Des Moines, Iowa, all of which is a sure sign that labor's going to be a big player in the 2000 elections, and is, in fact, already gearing up. The AFL-CIO reportedly plans to spend up to $46 million in 2000, supporting candidates, mostly Democrats. In 1998, only 27 Republican members of Congress received labor support. Is that fair? A lot of union members vote Republican, but are union bosses willing to support more Republicans? Or are unions, as some charge, just political subdivisions of the Democratic National Committee? Weighty questions for tonight's guests as we examine labor and politics, 2000. Mary. MARY MATALIN, CO-HOST: Well, happy Labor Day. And we'd much rather be with you than at the beach, Mr. Trumka. Now, I am a member in good standing of the vast right-wing conspiracy. I am also... RICHARD TRUMKA, SECRETARY TREASURER, AFL-CIO: That's good. I'm glad to finally meet you, by the way. MATALIN: Well, and happy to be there, and also proud card- carrying member of the American Steelworkers, AFTRA, SAG, I belong to three different unions, and that is not that weird. Thirty-one percent of union members -- union households identify themselves as conservative. Somewhere between 40 percent and even higher vote for Republicans. Why, Mr. Trumka, then, in past elections, does 99 percent of union money go to support Democrats? TRUMKA: Well, first of all, only 20 percent of our members are really where you said they were. And we actually looked at that program, and at one point about two years ago, about 40 percent of our members actually voted where we thought they shouldn't be. I'm not going to name that political party. MATALIN: That's almost half of your party voting against... TRUMKA: But it drove our current program, because what we found out is they were voting for people who were not going to Congress and voting in their interests. So our new program is designed to issue- educate them, and give them a real informed choice so they can make a decision on Election Day on who goes to support him and who doesn't. MATALIN: Of all the issues that all American families are concerned about, particularly union households are interested in and do support tax cuts. Seventy percent of union members supported the across the board 10 percent tax cut, which is no more, yet you oppose it. They also obviously must support policies that promote job creation, not the kind of policies Democrat support. Those are the two biggest issues for union families. TRUMKA: Well, first of all, they don't support tax cuts when it's going to destroy Social Security, Medicare and other groups. And they tell us, whenever they talk to us, we wish that that Congress up there would spend a little less time bickering with each other and more time figure out ways to keep jobs here, to keep -- develop good trade policies that help us with manufacturing. They also don't think it's a very fair tax cut when 70 percent of it goes to the top 10 percent. That's not a blue collar friendly tax plan. That's a country club tax plan. PRESS: Congressman Davis, welcome to the show, by the way. REP. THOMAS DAVIS (R-VA), CHAIRMAN, NATIONAL REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE: The tax plan is totally misrepresented. You have been reading that AFL-CIO material. That's not what's in the tax... TRUMKA: I helped develop that, Tom. DAVIS: Listen, we're ending the marriage penalty in this. We have some -- some of your pension plans are better protected, and we don't touch the Social Security trust fund. It is protected in a lock-box. TRUMKA: Over 70 percent of the tax cut that you talked about goes to the top 10 percent. DAVIS: That's because they pay 70 percent of taxes, today. TRUMKA: That's not a worker
Re: [CTRL] Roll over Karl. A racist capitalist bigot will save the working man.
-Caveat Lector- Read Forbes' new book, A New Birth Of Freedom, and vote for the guy who will do this without the bigotry! From: Nurev Ind Research [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Conspiracy Theory Research List [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CTRL] Roll over Karl. A racist capitalist bigot will save the working man. Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 22:39:34 -0100 -Caveat Lector- For the first time since the Vietnam war, I will vote in a major election. I will vote for a racist, sexist, Jew hating, capitalist bigot who is the only one that can stop the Global Capitalists. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Holding my nose, Joshua2 = CNN CROSSFIRE - September 6, 1999 What Party Deserves the Union Label? BILL PRESS, CO-HOST: Tonight, looking for the union label -- on this Labor Day, candidates are appealing for the support of labor unions. Who deserves it more? Democrats or Republicans? ANNOUNCER: From Washington, CROSSFIRE. On the left, Bill Press; on the right, Mary Matalin. In the CROSSFIRE, Congressman Tom Davis of Virginia, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, and Richard Trumka, secretary treasurer of the AFL-CIO. PRESS: Good evening. Welcome to CROSSFIRE. It's Labor Day, when anybody with any sense is at the beach, and everybody else is out campaigning, Democrat and Republican. GOP front-runner George W. Bush rode in Labor Day parade in South Carolina. Gary Bauer, Steve Forbes and Dan Quayle all worked the same labor crowd up in New Hampshire. And Vice President Al Gore was grand marshal for the big Labor Day parade in Des Moines, Iowa, all of which is a sure sign that labor's going to be a big player in the 2000 elections, and is, in fact, already gearing up. The AFL-CIO reportedly plans to spend up to $46 million in 2000, supporting candidates, mostly Democrats. In 1998, only 27 Republican members of Congress received labor support. Is that fair? A lot of union members vote Republican, but are union bosses willing to support more Republicans? Or are unions, as some charge, just political subdivisions of the Democratic National Committee? Weighty questions for tonight's guests as we examine labor and politics, 2000. Mary. MARY MATALIN, CO-HOST: Well, happy Labor Day. And we'd much rather be with you than at the beach, Mr. Trumka. Now, I am a member in good standing of the vast right-wing conspiracy. I am also... RICHARD TRUMKA, SECRETARY TREASURER, AFL-CIO: That's good. I'm glad to finally meet you, by the way. MATALIN: Well, and happy to be there, and also proud card- carrying member of the American Steelworkers, AFTRA, SAG, I belong to three different unions, and that is not that weird. Thirty-one percent of union members -- union households identify themselves as conservative. Somewhere between 40 percent and even higher vote for Republicans. Why, Mr. Trumka, then, in past elections, does 99 percent of union money go to support Democrats? TRUMKA: Well, first of all, only 20 percent of our members are really where you said they were. And we actually looked at that program, and at one point about two years ago, about 40 percent of our members actually voted where we thought they shouldn't be. I'm not going to name that political party. MATALIN: That's almost half of your party voting against... TRUMKA: But it drove our current program, because what we found out is they were voting for people who were not going to Congress and voting in their interests. So our new program is designed to issue- educate them, and give them a real informed choice so they can make a decision on Election Day on who goes to support him and who doesn't. MATALIN: Of all the issues that all American families are concerned about, particularly union households are interested in and do support tax cuts. Seventy percent of union members supported the across the board 10 percent tax cut, which is no more, yet you oppose it. They also obviously must support policies that promote job creation, not the kind of policies Democrat support. Those are the two biggest issues for union families. TRUMKA: Well, first of all, they don't support tax cuts when it's going to destroy Social Security, Medicare and other groups. And they tell us, whenever they talk to us, we wish that that Congress up there would spend a little less time bickering with each other and more time figure out ways to keep jobs here, to keep -- develop good trade policies that help us with manufacturing. They also don't think it's a very fair tax cut when 70 percent of it goes to the top 10 percent. That's not a blue collar friendly tax plan. That's a country club tax plan. PRESS: Congressman Davis, welcome to the show, by the way. REP. THOMAS DAVIS (R-VA), CHAIRMAN, NATIONAL REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE: The tax plan is totally misrepresented. You have been reading that AFL-CIO material. That's not what's in the tax... TRUMKA: I helped develop that,
