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Originally Posted by dyna mo
is there any news report on this? i can't find anything other than right wing blogs spinning this from a story from weeks ago.
and i can't find ANY info backing this up. are local labor unions so powerful and organized in 2010 that they can come together, make a few calls and have the entire gulf region wiped out to save a few thousand worker's jobs for a while?
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They aren't just local unions. All unions are interconnected now in the US, and they throw MILLIONS around in campaign contributions....mostly without any oversight from campaign laws.
here is some info:
this is a congressional report.... not a blog.
for some reason MSNBC and CNN haven't picked up on this....
http://republicans.oversight.house.gov/images/stories/Reports/7-1-10_OGR_Report_-_How_the_White_House_Public_Relations_Campaign_on_ the_Oil_Spill_is_Harming_the_Actual_Clean-up.pdf
It's an interesting read if you are really interested.
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