Subject: [big campaign] AFL-CIO Working Families to McCain: Actions Speak Louder than Words
From: "Alison Omens" <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:25:28 -0400
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For Immediate Release
Contact: Alison Omens 202-637-5018

AFL-CIO Working Families to McCain: Actions Speak Louder than Words
Protestors will shadow McCain’s trip to Florida, denouncing his
actions and  proposals on kitchen table issues and encouraging him to
support policies  that help working people

(Tallahassee FL, June 11) Working people will follow Sen. John McCain 
through Florida this week, denouncing his actions as Senator, saying
they  don’t live up to his rhetoric of promising to be a “different
kind of  Republican.”  They will challenge Sen. McCain’s claim that
his proposals  represent a positive departure from Pres. Bush’s
policies, noting he’s voted  100 percent of the time with Bush in 2008
and 95 percent of the time in  2007. 

Participants will highlight McCain’s support of the Bush
Administration on  key issues, like permanently extending the Bush tax
cuts, and his free  market, privatization ideas on others, like taxing
employer-provided  healthcare benefits. 

“Working people are reeling from the damage done by the Bush 
Administration,” said Florida AFL-CIO President Cindy Hall. “Sen.
McCain’s  proposals, from the economy to healthcare to the war, are as
bad as or worse  than Pres. Bush. Working people can’t afford another
four years of a Bush- like economic policy- - that’s the message
they’ll be delivering to McCain  as he hop scotches through Florida
this week.” 

Participants will highlight just how bad it is for working people, from
high  gas prices and food costs to low wages and benefits. They will
demand McCain  cut ties with the lobbyists. Protestors will go on to say
that on all  kitchen table issues, Bush and McCain are in lock step.

●     In St. Petersburg, working families and retirees will gather
outside  McCain’s fundraisers, calling on him to 
       reverse his stance on making the  Bush tax cuts permanent.

●     In Orlando and Ft. Lauderdale, workers struggling with finding
quality  healthcare will denounce McCain’s 
       healthcare plan, including his proposal to  tax
employer-provided healthcare benefits. 

●     In Miami, working families struggling with out of control gas
prices and  other costs will decry McCain’s 
       proposed tax cuts to Big Oil, including his  $3.8 billion tax
cut to the five largest American oil companies.  

“McCain Revealed,” is an AFL-CIO national campaign to expose Sen.
John  McCain's economic record and plans to continue the failed Bush
economic  agenda, and to generate public pressure on him to support
policies that  advance working families’ interests. To learn more, go
to  www.mccainrevealed.org.

Alison Omens
AFL-CIO Media Outreach
202-637-5083 phone 
202-341-7263 cell
202-508-6986 fax
[email-masked]

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