Clark/Loebsack/Blouin - Hawkeye Labor Council Event

Email from our Linn County Chair...


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Dear Linn County and Other Area Democrats:

Good afternoon to you!

Hey, Dems! It's not too late to purchase tickets to the Workers for a
Better
Iowa Fund Raiser!

Be at the Teamsters Hall, 5000 J Street SE, Cedar Rapids this Saturday
evening
at 5:30 pm for this truly great event sponsored by the good folks over
at
the Hawkeye Labor Council.

The featured speaker for the evening will be General Wesley Clark. The
event
will also include speeches from two great Democrats campaigning for
public
office this year: Gubernatorial candidate Mike Blouin and congressional
candidate
Dave Loebsack.

Now, I'm quoting the Hawkeye Labor Council here directly from their
flyer.
There's going to be "Free Beer -- Good Food, Musical Entertainment,
(and
a) Silent Auction." And if that wasn't enough, Hawkeye Labor is also
raffling
off a Maytag "ICE 2-0" Refrigerator, a COOL little item valued at
$2500.
The drawing for the refrigerator will be at the conclusion of the
evening.


Event Tickets are just $25. Pick them up at the Hawkeye Labor Council,
1211
Wiley Blvd SW, Cedar Rapids, 319.396.8461 or at the Teamsters Hall or
at
locat union offices.

Thanks so much, Dems, and we'll see you at the Workers for a Better
Iowa
Fund Raiser!

sincerely,

Mike Robinson, Chairman
Linn County Democratic Central Committee

And being the GREAT parents that we are, we are helping decorate/bringing food/chaperon post prom (plus running the kids to dinner/dance/post prom).

Plus, really, a night w/Mike Blouin? IS there enough beer in CR???? :rofl:

Sorry, but congrats on getting the General here!

Have fun at prom! I am sure it will be entertaining to see all the kids dressed up and minding their manners...oh wait, you said prom. Lol.

Now, now...Clark is the featured speaker. Blouin will be there as he has been endorsed by the Hawkeye Labor Council and I am sure he will speak, but Loebsack will be there too, and he would more than make up for it for those who aren't impressed with Blouin.

Ok, so anyone else coming to this then?

It would be a shame if it weren't.

:rofl:

Shame isn't it?!

I drive a Toyota. Shame on me huh?

(although I think some of today's Toyotas are made here in USA plants by Union members)

So maybe you're not so bad!

It's a beat up 1995 Camry so I am probably the anti-christ himself, but I was young when I bought it and didn't really consider where it was built at the time.

To be quite honest with you though (and sorry everyone and don't shoot me), I have abused the crap out of my car without putting more than tires/brakes and a very rare oil change into it...its quite the piece of foreign machinery.

Edited to add:

http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2000/05/24/fin_toyota_boss.html

Toyota now operates four North American assembly plants employing more than 30,500.

Its list of North American-made vehicles includes its best-selling Camry, the Corolla, Avalon, Sienna minivan and Tundra and Tacoma pickup trucks. This fall, the new Sequoia sport-utility vehicle will be made at Toyota's Princeton, Ind., plant.

Mr. Cho declined to comment on what Toyota's next North American-built vehicle will be.

“It hasn't been decided yet, but it will be something with a big sales volume,” he said.

“I think the expansion in Indiana will occupy us for the next three or four years,” he said.

for the Iowa-DU meet up at the State Convention.

Everyone agreed? :bounce:

:yoiks:

Toyota has worked long and hard to keep the union out of their plants.

I thought the plant in Fremont had a union. They currently build the small Toyota pick up, Corolla and Prius, which is also sold under a Pontiac name. At one time it was a GM plant and built the Geo Prism with Toyota as well as the Chevy Nova (later junk version, not early real car version) as a joint venture. Just like many joint ventures it ended up all Japanese.

I worked for a company, which had a satellite plant supplying the weather seals to this particular plant. We also went in on a joint venture with a Japanese company. Guess the outcome. The Japanese took over.

and Honda is second. They operate generally clean, unionized plants. GM and Ford I think make nearly have their vehicles outside the US (and that number is sure to grow after this year). Hyundai actually has a big union plant outside Chicago.

There are no more truly American cars (with the possible exception of Saturn).

I should be more educated than I am on this. I just know that my 2002 Ford was 'assembled' in a union shop in Chicago. I wonder what that means? :shrug:

My understanding was that Toyota -- save the GM-Toyota joint venture NUMMI -- were all non-union and that executives were pressing hard to keep the unions out of Toyota in the U.S.

There was a big uproar by the CAW (Canadian Auto Workers) to unionize a Toyota plant in Ontario last spring, but my understanding is they were shot down.

It's difficult because I feel as if I'm leaving my family alone so often these days.

With Kay in the hospital, if I do go, I'll be flying solo.

Lest I forget...

Dave Loebsack was in full force this past Saturday night. More and more I can see Mr Loebsack working for us in Washington and giving us a voice that has been missing since before I was born. He talked a lot about leadership (or the lack thereof), and he talked about the Democratic ideals.

Now, I am a broke young man, but I STILL plan on giving to Loebsack's campaign before the next deadline of June 30th (I think that's right?). If any of you not-so-young and not-so-broke people can afford even $25.00 to help give voice to the 2nd district, to make sure that everything we believe in is represented in Washington, pleeeeease do so here:

http://www.loebsackforcongress.org/contribute/

And Dave, if you are reading, you did very well this weekend. I heard a lot of good things about you as I was eavesdropping around the room. I do believe the support out there for you is genuine and that EVERYONE feels that THIS time is going to be THE time.

Thanks Dave!!