Labor targets McConnell in Kentucky over lapse in benefits for unemployed

[babylonsister]

YAY! :applause:


Labor targets McConnell in Kentucky over lapse in benefits for unemployed
By Michael O'Brien - 07/07/10 07:00 AM ET


Labor leaders will go after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in Kentucky on Wednesday over the GOP leader's opposition to legislation extending unemployment benefits.

The Kentucky AFL-CIO is organizing a demonstration for noon on Wednesday at the senator's state office to protest McConnell's leadership of Republicans against a bill extending the jobless benefits.

"We are calling for Senator McConnell to reverse his votes against assistance to jobless workers and funds for job creation and take immediate action to get our economy back on track," said Kentucky AFL-CIO President Bill Londrigan. "The message at events like this across the country is loud and clear: working people won’t stand for elected officials who play politics with people’s livelihoods."

McConnell and the Senate's 40 other Republican members have held up legislation to extend the benefits, demanding that the benefits be offset by cuts elsewhere in the budget. A number of GOP lawmakers have sought to draw funds for the benefits from Democrats' $787 billion stimulus bill from early 2009.

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http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/107321-labor-targets-mcconnell-in-kentucky-over-lapsed-jobless-benefits

[aquart]

1. No one deserves it more.

[jxnmsdemguy65]

2. I would love to send $5 or so to help with this campaign...

how do WE DO IT??

[KillCapitalism]

3. What is wrong with Kentucky?

Why does this guy keep getting elected & how is his approval rating in the mid-high 80's?

[nykym]

4. So why don't the Dems just

find a bunch of pork spending by Reigs and cut them. There you wanted cuts we found some to fund Unemployment benefits.