Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Are you unemployed?
And tired of Republicans calling you lazy, drug addled drunkards? Had enough of the Republicans holding up your unemployment benefits for cheap political purposes? Well then Working America is looking for you to become part of a new political force for November.
Working America, a community-organizing affiliate of the AFL-CIO, launched a campaign on Wednesday to organize and motivate hundreds of thousands of unemployed workers to head to the polls in the November elections.This is a direct effort to organize those most directly affected by Republican policies and obstruction. When you are looking for work, you still have some time on your hands, what better way to put it to good use? For those who are pissed off at the Democrats, just remember, if you eliminate Republicans you give the Democrats a chance to grow into the sunlight.
The organization is starting with 100,000 of its own members who are currently out of work. But the list of contacts could wind up being "several hundred thousand" of the nearly 15 million unemployed, said Karen Nussbaum, director of Working America. In Ohio alone, Nussbaum said, Working America has a list of 38,000 unemployed workers who are registered to vote -- a major bloc that could tip the scale of the governor's race as well as elections to the House or the Senate.
"In an election year that is incredibly volatile where we have no idea, really, what turnout's going to look like, where we have no idea what the real appeal of right-wing candidates is going to be, and where we're not sure what kind of information people are going to get about the key issue, which is jobs, this becomes a more influential group," said Nussbaum.
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