Democrats in Iowa boast union label

Source: Associated Press

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) - Democratic presidential candidates argued Saturday night that organized labor is an essential part of the nation's economy whose troubles mirror the deterioration of the middle-class way of life.


Christopher Dodd of Connecticut, left, and former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina shake hands at an event Saturday in Clinton, Iowa. At another event earlier, candidates stressed their ties to organized labor, with Dodd shouting, "I'm a union guy!"

"The only way to reinvigorate the middle class is to reinvigorate the labor movement," Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware told several hundred union members at a labor forum in eastern Iowa.

For all the candidates, it was one stop in a busy several days leading to a debate today in Des Moines. Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York leads the Democratic field in national polls and has pulled into a three-way tie in Iowa, where the first votes of the 2008 campaign will be tallied.

One of her chief rivals, former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina, energized the crowd with his rebuke of Democratic candidates who accept donations from lobbyists. While he has done so at other forums, this time Edwards did not single out Clinton for raising tens of thousands of dollars from lobbyists.


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Other than Kucinich, which of them wants to repeal NAFTA? More BS!

I have heard some rumblings amoung democrats about repealing the Act in congress....I wonder if it is a campaing issue.

And still seems quite friendly with them...

http://www.viewimages.com/Search.aspx?mid=71972455

Someone went to this event. S/he said that the crowd was chanting:

No more money...no more pact....John will get the White House back!

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