Author: Eric
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The Closing Argument from Kasim Reed
This was sent to me by Kasim Reed’s campaign: I’m running for Mayor because I love Atlanta. Our city is a treasured place which gave me countless opportunities when I was growing up. But Atlanta is in a crisis right now and is at the most challenging point I have seen in my lifetime. We…
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Kasim Reed Hits Back
The dust hasn’t even settled yet from the uproar over Lisa Borders being annointed as the only black candidate who can beat Mary Norwood in the Atlanta Mayors race, and Kasim Reed has responded with a poll that shows the race is much closer: The results, when respondents were asked who they would vote for…
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Labor Gets Pissed
This from the likely next President of the AFL-CIO, Richard Trumpka at the Sheet Metal Workers Convention.
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It’s Time to Stand Up
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, it’s been a rough week for Democratic Congresspeople holding health care town halls Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Now progressive have started to recover from being taken off guard and are counter mobilizing . Here in Georgia we have a chance…
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Kasim Reed and Labor
The Kasim Reed campaign has released a video of the press conference where the Atlanta Labor Council announced the endorsement of Senator Reed for Mayor. I know the video is somewhat old news but it does offer a glimpse of Kasim’s vision for Atlanta’s working families and how and why Kasim was able to secure…
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Somebody Check the Watercooler Content at FedEx
From threatening to not buy American made planes if they don’t get their way, to one of their bigshots announcing that they will destroy (yes i said destroy) members of congress, the FedEx “hissyfit” I referenced in my previous post continues over the house passage of the FAA Reauthorization Act which includes an ammendment that…