Two big endorsements for Elaine Marshall
Submitted by Mike Nellis on Wed, 06/02/2010 - 3:04pm
Elaine Marshall won two very influential endorsements this morning. The first is Civil Rights leader Julius Chambers who joins an impressive list of African American leaders endorsing Elaine Marshall like Ken Lewis and former Congresswoman Eva Clayton.
The second endorsement came from the Independent Weekly out of Durham who said...
The difference may be as simple as the fact that Marshall, in her bones and in her roots, is working-class. So she's not confused about what the rights of working men and women should be in a world economy dominated by giant corporations and banks. Nor is she in doubt about where the federal government should stand. It should stand, she believes, with the working class for their jobs, and against labor and trade policies that privilege capital at the expense of people and the environment—at home or abroad. No more outsourcing of America's future.
Learn more:
http://ElaineMarshall.com
Mr. Nellis...
It's obvious the only reason you're here is to promote Ms. Marshall's campaign. Straight up, I'm getting tired of the posts as well as the battles going on here between the Cunningham / Marshall supporters. Most of us are sufficiently astute to know BS when a steaming pile of it is served up by either side in the various forms this campaign has seen fit to impose on the voters.
Just so you know...I'm undecided. I have a lot of issues with both candidates. It's going to boil down to whom I think might screw us the least when and if they are enthroned in that feckless, sanctimonious pile of pompous jerks called the US Senate.
Stan Bozarth
Yes...
...I work for Elaine, and am more than happy to promote her online.
I've disclosed that.
Personally, we can talk all about the back and forth -- and I agree there has been -- but the first campaign to go negative and launch negative paid ads wasn't our campaign. Now Cunningham was launched two vicious attack ads on Elaine because he is desperate and hoping to erode her support. It's a shame, really.
Nobody in our campaign wanted it to get this way and my real hope is that we can rally after the runoff around the winner despite Cunninghams false attacks.
You really don't get it do you?
I tell you I (and I suspect many others) are tired of the BS...and you can't answer without throwing in a dig at the other candidate. Are you dense or what?
Folks here are astute. Negative campaign ads speak volumes about the candidate using it to promote their own agenda. Case in point: Cunningham's mailer with the purposefully unflattering picture of Marshall spoke volumes to me. Nuance counts. I'm old. I don't look the way I did when I was 30 something. Having that pointed out is less than courteous...and has nothing to do with the issues. If I trusted Elaine, or anyone else, I'd vote for them even if they looked like Jabba the Hut.
I don't give a hoot who did what to whom first. I don't care about your proclamations that Cunningham is "desperate." I don't think your "it's a shame" is anything more than sympathy seeking.
I think James ought to charge you big money to post here.
Whoever wins this primary, they're currently all working hard to appear to be simply the top layer in the sludge at the bottom of the barrel. Now that's "a shame."
Stan Bozarth
Fair enough
I have a job to do, but I understand what you're saying and I've been involved in plenty of races that get like this. It sucks, and nobody likes it.
Let's flip that line around
You know that if he wasn't posting at BlueNC someone would be complaining about this site being ignored. Hell, the senate race is near about the only lively thing happening politically.
Environmental Defense Fund
Cell phones will be to the 21st century what tobacco was to the 20th.
You make a point....
but it's sorta like hitting yourself with a hammer because the pain assures you you're alive. There's a better way.
Stan Bozarth
So, Why?
I have a job to do, but I understand what you're saying and I've been involved in plenty of races that get like this. It sucks, and nobody likes it.
I have a job to do...it sucks...nobody likes it...
But public opinion responds, so everybody still does it. Besides, it's just "politics."
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Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. -- sign on Einstein's office wall.
Employee Free Choice Act
http://www.aflcio.org/joinaunion/voiceatwork/efca/
I had heard very early on that Cal did not endorse the Employee Free Choice Act and that Elaine does.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employee_Free_Choice_Act
Hard to blame the decline of middle class in this country on the death of unions, but it must be part of the reason, we now have such a gap between rich and poor. The ultra super sized rich has developed over the past 20 years, with tax rates declining, unions declining, and a wholesale shift in power to the corporate side.
Too bad.
I would like to know if Cal supports unions.
TurnNCBlue
Charlotte Teamsters
I wrote last month about the Charlotte Teamsters flipping their endorsement from Cunningham to Elaine over the EFCA issue. Here is a bit from my post:
accountability that is what EFCA offers
Let's hope Cal can see his way to changing his mind. This is a basic Democratic Principle. The Unions have been trashed so that there are very few members left -- and the "Company" has a large advantage of the voting for unions takes place on site, under their scrutiny. etc.
We need to support EFCA.
Unions may not be perfect, but Corporations must be held accountable, Everyone must be accountable. The Dems and the Republicans hold each other accountable.
Without accountability, folks can commit any crime.
We all believe in accountability.
Tell Cal to support EFCA.
TurnNCBlue
anti-union
Cunningham feeds his children with wages derived from union busting. He choose to work for a firm that helps big corporations evade environmental regulations, escape the consequences of discriminating against and injuring workers, and engage in what is politely called "union avoidance."
This is what Cunningham does for a living.
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http://twitter.com/Jerimee
Sigh
Cal earns his living doing things like representing indigent tenants against landlords, native americans who had had their tribal holdings stolen from them, and workers who got sick from asbestos.
In other news, who messed with the settings here? The formatting is way off on my computer.
I am proud to work for Cal's campaign. (Another day, another attack, another lack of a disclaimer from Jerimee)
"Keep the Faith"
Hey Will
And here Cunningham's firm celebrates the defeat of workers attempting to organize with the Teamsters.
And here is one where Cunningham's firm denied compensation to workers exposed to toxic working conditions.
I really wish Cunningham could be trusted on labor issues. But I just don't have the faith that you have.
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http://twitter.com/Jerimee
wow
Cunningham had his work records erased from Kilpatrick-Stockton's website. I guess the record doesn't jive with the image his consultants are trying to create.
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