By Christi Parsons
There are thousands of union members gathering for a candidates' forum at Soldier Field this afternoon, and the hometown candidates are making the most of their local connections.
As the crowds are assembling for the AFL-CIO event, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) will be holding a rally for anybody who cares to show up early.
Never one to put off her homework, Hillary Clinton will have volunteers working on a campaign to-do list. As the union members spill out of the stadium, supporters of the Park Ridge native will greet them with clipboards in hand, kicking off her signature drive to put herself on the Illinois ballot.
AFL-CIO President John Sweeney at Soldier Field: His coalition of unions was unable to agree on one Democrat to endorse during the 2004 primaries, and withheld its nod until Feb. 19 that year, when John Kerry was on his way to nomination. A similar scenario is expected this time around. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
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Hopefully union leadership will divorce itself from the radical left wing that has
catapulted itself into so much power within the Democratic hierarchy. The
traditional Democratic party is not a far left organization. That title belonged to the old Progressive Party that was largely acknowledged to be a wholly owned subsidiary of the Soviet Union in the 40s and 50s. Democrats come in all stripes, but most of us lie in the vast middle. We ask our labor leadership to act accordingly.
Posted by: Quintel | August 7, 2007 2:05 PM
Hopefully union leadership will divorce itself from the radical left wing that has
catapulted itself into so much power within the Democratic hierarchy. The
traditional Democratic party is not a far left organization. That title belonged to the old Progressive Party that was largely acknowledged to be a wholly owned subsidiary of the Soviet Union in the 40s and 50s. Democrats come in all stripes, but most of us lie in the vast middle. We ask our labor leadership to act accordingly.
Posted by: Quintel | August 7, 2007 2:05 PM
Quintely,
America has been waiting 6 years now for the "Conservatives" to divorce themselves from Deficit spending, the Neocons, the Evangelicals and Fox Noise Channel, get lost you wanker.
Posted by: John E | August 7, 2007 2:21 PM
It is too soon for labor to endorse. As far as the democrats being too left leaning, Quitel needs to pay more attention to the real world and less to lying Fox News talking heads. You could accuse the dem candidates with lack of focus and no concept of what true leadership really is, but to consider them too left is just silly.
Posted by: Victor | August 7, 2007 3:30 PM