AFL-CIO Launches Campaign To Take Down These Pro-TPP GOPers

[think]

OH, MO, PA, NV, FL & WI-Sen: AFL-CIO Launches Campaign To Take Down These Pro-TPP GOPers

By poopdogcomedy - Thursday Jun 30, 2016 · 4:23 PM EDT

More good news:

The AFL-CIO is making its first foray into 2016 Senate races Thursday with a six-figure digital ad buy in six key races, officials told NBC News.

The targeted Facebook ads will run in Ohio, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Florida and Wisconsin, each of which have competitive Senate races.

With messages on issues like trade, Wall Street, paid family leave, and infrastructure, the ads ask voters to sign a petition knocking the GOP candidate in the race, a tactic which can also help the group grow its data on voters.

For instance, an ad targeting Florida Sen. Marco Rubio asks voters to "tell Sen. Rubio [to] stop supporting bad trade deals." Ads targeting Joe Heck in Nevada tie him to Donald Trump, calling on the candidate to speak out against the presumptive GOP nominee's "hateful rhetoric."

Read more:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/6/30/1544061/-OH-MO-PA-NV-FL-WI-Sen-AFL-CIO-Launches-Campaign-To-Take-Down-These-Pro-TPP-GOPers

[99th_Monkey]

1. Is the AFL-CIO tracking the Dem Platform Committee's deliberations? n/t

[cstanleytech]

3. Probably but the GOP is still the larger problem by far. nt

[99th_Monkey]

4. Agreed wholeheartedly! n/t

[MisterP]

5. or its own endorsements?

[Gabi Hayes]

7. as a result of your sig link.....very disturbing....not surprising. smedley butler territory:

The homicide rate in Honduras, already the highest in the world, increased by 50 percent from 2008 to 2011; political repression, the murder of opposition political candidates, peasant organizers and LGBT activists increased and continue to this day. Femicides skyrocketed. The violence and insecurity were exacerbated by a generalized institutional collapse. Drug-related violence has worsened amid allegations of rampant corruption in Honduras’ police and government. While the gangs are responsible for much of the violence, Honduran security forces have engaged in a wave of killings and other human rights crimes with impunity.

Despite this, however, both under Clinton and Kerry, the State Department’s response to the violence and military and police impunity has largely been silence, along with continued U.S. aid to Honduran security forces. In “Hard Choices,” Clinton describes her role in the aftermath of the coup that brought about this dire situation. Her firsthand account is significant both for the confession of an important truth and for a crucial false testimony.

First, the confession: Clinton admits that she used the power of her office to make sure that Zelaya would not return to office. “In the subsequent days [after the coup] I spoke with my counterparts around the hemisphere, including Secretary [Patricia] Espinosa in Mexico,” Clinton writes. “We strategized on a plan to restore order in Honduras and ensure that free and fair elections could be held quickly and legitimately, which would render the question of Zelaya moot.”

This may not come as a surprise to those who followed the post-coup drama closely. (See my commentary from 2009 on Washington’s role in helping the coup succeed here, here and here.) But the official storyline, which was dutifully accepted by most in the media, was that the Obama administration actually opposed the coup and wanted Zelaya to return to office.

http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/9/hillary-clinton-honduraslatinamericaforeignpolicy.html

[99th_Monkey]

9. +10

[scscholar]

2. Is the AFL-CIO also going to attack the Party?

This is scary.

[think]

8. The title specifically states they are targetting Republicans that are pro TPP

Most Democrats in congress do not support the TPP.

It will be the GOP that pushes the TPP through the lame suck session.

[99th_Monkey]

10. "Most Democrats" need to contact the Dem Platform Committee to weigh-in against the TPP. nt

[think]

11. Indeed they should /nt

[TheFarseer]

12. No kidding

I'd swear I'm the last democrat opposing TPP half the time. My dem rep voted to fast track it.

[silvershadow]

6. I got scared for a minute. Glad you put GOP in the headline. nt