ALL PA Residents Urge Sen. Specter to support Free Choice Act

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.midatlanticlabor.com/appiesnet/wordpress/?p=832

04-05-09

WASHINGTON - Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) said this week he would use a senatorial privilege to block a vote on the Employee Free Choice Act.

According to the Associated Press, Specter has flip-flopped, two years ago having been the only Republican to support the proposed labor-endorsed legislation.

Specter’s position is important because organized labor was expecting Specter to be the crucial 60th vote needed to overcome an expected GOP filibuster of the measure when it is considered by the entire Senate this summer.

In fact, Specter was the lone Republican voting to halt a filibuster on the issue by his fellow Republicans in 2007, but the 60 votes could not then be mustered and the bill was not voted upon in the Senate.

This year, organized labor and their friends in the Senate see the vote much closer, and Specter as the crucial 60th vote to halt a filibuster and permit the Employee Free Choice Act to be voted upon - and passage then is expected by a simple majority20vote.

Specter acknowledges that organized labor is “looking to this legislation to reverse the steep decline in union membership.

FULL story at link.

[Dennis Donovan]

1. Recommended, although Specter's head is SOOO far up the ass of the establishment...

...that even a "MAGIC BULLET" couldn't find its way.:crazy:

[PA Democrat]

2. I will call his office tomorrow.

He also voted against Obama's budget. I will let him know that working people are watching.