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Major Labor Union Launches Two-Week Ad Campaign In Key House Republican Districts
Glad to see the AFL-CIO take on Mike Coffman (R-Co) as we have been treated to the same ads over and over from "Americans for Prosperity" telling us to "thank Coffman for fighting Obamacare right from the start."
A good pro union liberal is running against Coffman in 2014. Check out Andrew Romanoff at
http://www.andrewromanoff.com/
http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2013/11/06/2902931/afl-cio-campaign-house-gop/
On Wednesday, the largest pro-immigration labor union AFL-CIO launched a bilingual ad campaign that calls out some House Republicans for obstructing comprehensive immigration reform and resorting to anti-immigrant sentiments. The two-week, seven-figure ad purchase will run online, on Spanish media, and in nine key House Republican districts with sizable Latino populations, in order to pressure House Republicans into cosponsoring a comprehensive immigration reform bill by the end of the Congressional year
