Sunday, August 7, 2011

Today's Teamster News 08.07.11

Wisconsin Recall Races No Slam Dunk  Forbes   ...While Wisconsin Democrats are putting on a confident face as they head into next week’s defining recall elections, behind the scenes they have reason to be far less confident...
Minnesota union members give Wisconsin recall campaigns a boost  Workday Minnesota   ...The campaign to replace those six GOP senators with labor-endorsed, Democratic challengers is getting a boost from union activists in Minnesota, who are lending a hand in two districts along the states’ shared border...
Tammy Baldwin and John Nichols speak before Get Out the Vote Recall Weekend in Wisconsin  blue cheddar   ...in all 72 counties of my state thousands of Wisconsinites are feeling the same mix of butterflies and excitement...
Kasich goes looking for extra trouble (opinion)  Cleveland Plain Dealer   ...With Democrats already plotting Kasich's demise, and with a crucial election looming on collective bargaining, it fails the common-sense test for Kasich to be sowing seeds of ill will within his own party...
Report: Gov. Christie failed to disclose helicopter trips to shore  USA Today   ...Michael Drewniak, Christie's spokesman, told the Courier-Post that the failure to include the trips to the state-owned Governor's Ocean House was a "mix-up" and that the governor's office "did not hold back anything..."
Dems call NH speaker a hypocrite on student voting  Associated Press   ...The chairman of the New Hampshire Democratic Party called Republican House Speaker Bill O'Brien a hypocrite Thursday for trying to ban out-of-state college students from voting in New Hampshire while his son voted in two states...