Subject: Labor Day
From: "Cheri Bustos " <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2012 20:33:05 -0400

Dear John,

On this Labor Day, I wanted to share with you my thoughts on the importance of labor and working families to this campaign. I held a labor card early in my career and my husband has been a union member for almost 30 years. Organized labor is important to me and my family. My father-in-law had an eighth-grade education. But because of the United Auto Workers (UAW), he was able to earn an honest wage for his hard work and provide his kids with more opportunity than he had. That’s how it’s supposed to work. If you work hard and play by the rules, the next generation is supposed to have more opportunity.

But the middle class is under assault by politicians like Romney, Ryan and my opponent Bobby Schilling. If you want to see those failed policies in action, you don’t need to look any further than just up the road in Freeport. Bain Capital, which was founded by Mitt Romney, owns the Sensata plant and is sending 170 jobs to China.

To add insult to injury, the company is literally making the Freeport workers train their Chinese replacements. And what has Bobby Schilling done about this? Absolutely nothing. Here’s what he has done. He’s chosen millionaires over Medicare, gridlock over governing and ideology over Illinois! He just has the wrong priorities.

In Congress, I will be a passionate advocate for workers and middle class families, and I will make job creation my No.1 priority. I will fight to keep jobs here, oppose bad trade deals and I will fight to end tax loop holes that send jobs overseas. Together, we can fix Washington’s failed priorities.

Have a safe and happy Labor Day.

Kindest Personal Regards,

Cheri Bustos

Paid for by Friends of Cheri Bustos

P.O. Box 77
East Moline, IL 61244

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