Following the campaign, November 7
From Karin Caifa:
ENDORSEMENT
On a day when endorsement news was all about Dean’s anticipated nods from the SEIU and AFSCME, Kucinich had a small endorsement of his own to announce. On Saturday, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 23 of Washington State will formally endorse Kucinich in Seattle. The ILWU was at the center of the West Coast lockout that shut down ports along the Pacific for 10 days earlier this year. “This is the first step toward having the ILWU international endorse Kucinich. His principles are right in line with those of the ILWU,” said union member Vance Lelli in a statement. “He is the only candidate working for repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act. We were locked out last year. The Taft-Hartley Act handcuffs workers, and Dennis Kucinich is the only candidate from a major party to say so. We want to give Dennis a bigger voice.” In response to the endorsement of Dean by the major unions, Kucinich, who is a card-carrying union member and has one of the most labor-friendly voting records in Congress told me, “Well that doesn’t change my commitment to working men and women. It’s a constant in my life. I make those commitments without regard to whether I have the favor of any particular organization at any particular time. My commitments are constant. No one owes me anything in return.”
AND SPEAKING OF ENDORSEMENTS…
Those at Thursday night’s Meet-Up in Washington were happily informed that the quirky musical group Barenaked Ladies has endorsed Kucinich. Unfortunately, the group members won’t be able to vote for him next November. They’re Canadian.
‘FAILED POLICY’
While Bush put ink on the $87 billion supplemental for Iraq, Kucinich took the opportunity to once again rail against the commander-in-chief for sending troops there in the first place. “The occupation of Iraq is not only a fiscal drain on our nation. At a time when our resources should be used to root out terrorism, the ill-advised occupation of Iraq is draining our armed forces,” Kucinich said, responding to the announcement that an additional 43,000 National Guard troops are being called on for service in Iraq.
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