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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (121126)	1/6/2001 3:06:25 PM
From: Mr. Whist	Read Replies (6) \| Respond to of 769667

Actually, Chuck, the Chavez appointment might be a blessing in disguise to organized labor for the following reason: Organized labor awoke in year 2000 from a 20-year-long slumber. Sort of like Rip Van Winkle. Thousands of union men and women campaigned actively in the fall for candidates that supported "the common working man's agenda," and we saw the results of this shoe-leather campaign in Michigan, Pennsylvania and other places. So now you and other union bashers are high-fiving each other on the selection of Ms. Chavez, because she'll "be tough" on unions. Go for it, pal. That's playing right into the hands of the Democrats. If the GOP were smart, it would let this sleeping dog (i.e., Organized Labor) lie. But the GOP is anything but smart. So the first thing we'll see is the Beck decision enforced, which won't amount to anything significant. (I believe the NEA in certain locales already allows dues checkoff if a teacher doesn't want his or her money going for political causes.) Then along the way there'll be some more union-bashing initiatives, and come two years from now, the AFL-CIO will really be mobilized. Emphasis on the word "really". The strength of the AFL-CIO is not in how much money it funnels to candidates. Remember, organized labor donations = 6 percent and big-business donations = 94 percent. No, the strength and beauty lies in individual union members working as a campaign team (as the autoworkers did on Nov. 7 with the blessing of Ford and GM) to promote the agenda that best serves the common American working man and woman. Union donations didn't put Michigan and Pennsylvania in Gore's column on Nov. 7. Hard work did. So, please, from my perspective as a union executive committee member, let's see some real "get-tough-on-unions" rhetoric from Linda Chavez, Tom DeLay, D-Dubya-I, et al. The more the better. I'll have a steady supply of stuff to post on the union bulletin board in our lunchroom.

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (121126)	1/7/2001 1:51:39 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

I like it. Linda will be good for the working man and woman......

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (121126)	1/7/2001 6:22:09 PM
From: Ish	Respond to of 769667

<<Gotta love the selection of Linda Chavez as the next Secretary of Labor. >> Liberals are going after her like sharks when there's blood in the water. I had Ski and Skinner on WLS Radio ( I can take about 15 minutes of them before vomiting )and Susan Skinner got so pissed she kept saying "land of the law" instead of law of the land. Then she pegged Ms. Chavez as being 100% Irish. Even better, Skinner was going on about no Senators contesting the electors. Blah blah, if only Pete Fitzgerald hadn't stolen, stolen is big with lefties now, the election from Carol Mosely Brown, Carol would had contested the electors and Gore would have won in the House. It gets better. A caller asked why the new Senator from New York, Hillary, didn't protest. Answer... she would have been attacked by the vast.. you know the rest.