Summary
AFL-CIO President John Sweeney signaled last week just how big a role get-out-the-vote (GOTV) efforts will play in this fall's elections. He announced at a press conference that he is committing tens of millions of dollars of union members' money, which the AFL- CIO will spend exclusively on behalf of the Democratic Party. "We'll spend $40 million in this election cycle the largest ever in a midterm election," Mr. Sweeney pledged.
"The vast majority of that money is for our mobilization efforts," he said. "It's not campaign contributions to individual candidates." Of course, those candidate contributions, the vast majority of which will also go to Democrats, will come from other checks that Big Labor bosses will draw from bank accounts that are also funded by union members' dues.See the full content of this document
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Big Labor's Wallet
In fact, the $40 million commitment by Mr. Sweeney represents a small drop in the ever-expanding, overflowing bucket of money that Big Labor will spend on behalf of the Democratic Party. Indeed, in recent months, as more campaign-finance data has been gathered and published by the Federal Election Commission and watchdog groups, it has become increasingly evident that Big Labor will...
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