Posted on 01/05/2008 1:45:45 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
January 4, 2008 Gerald McEntee International President AFSCME 1625 L St. NW Washington, DC 20036
Dear President McEntee:
We are writing to protest in the strongest terms the negative campaign that AFSCME is conducting against Barack Obama. We do not believe that such a wholesale assault on one of the great friends of our union was ever contemplated when the International Executive Board (IEB)made its decision to endorse Hillary Clinton.
In fact, when the vote to make a primary endorsement was taken by the IEB, there appeared to be widespread agreement that we had a strong field of Democratic candidates all of whom had made a very positive impression on the IEB Screening Committee. The argument for endorsing Hillary Clinton was not that her positions were better than those_of the other candidates or that she would be the better president for working families, but rather that she was the clear frontrunner, the most likely primary victor, and the strongest general election candidate.
While some of us did not agree with the decision to endorse_Sen. Clinton, we all recognized that once the endorsement was made, AFSCME would have to expend a certain amount of resources on her behalf in order to give weight to its action. While the Board was informed at that time that procedures for independent expenditures had been established, there was never any discussion of how those expenditures would be made.
None of the information presented to the International Executive Board suggested in any way that AFSCME intended to utilize its resources to attack the other Democratic candidates. In fact, a number of IEB_members stressed–either privately or in their comments at the meeting-how much they respected and admired Sen. Obama.
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I love to see some good fighting between Dems. Let’s hope it escalates.
AFSCME of Illinois has endorsed Obama and I bet that the opposite is going on here.
If you endorse any candidate like Hillary she will expect you to do her dirty work for her even if you aren’t willing to.
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