Cleveland Families Challenge McCain’s Ties to Subprime Housing Corps.

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AFL-CIO News Blog

Ben Waxman, state director of the Ohio AFL-CIO, sends us this report from Cleveland.

Union activists from the North Shore Federation of Labor gathered outside a campaign event for Arizona Sen. John McCain (R) this morning to deliver a clear message to attendees: McCain is doing nothing to solve the housing crisis and help families in trouble keep their homes.

In the past two years, more than 14,000 Cleveland families have lost their homes to foreclosure, leaving entire city blocks abandoned. But this morning, McCain came to town peddling the same corporate-friendly, anti-worker agenda President Bush has been pushing for seven years.

McCain has deep financial ties to corporations at the center of the subprime storm. When it comes to the housing crisis, McCain offers more of the same inaction and failed policies we’ve seen from Bush.



North Shore Federation of Labor Executive Secretary Harriet Applegate, who led the action, says Cleveland’s working families are looking for real solutions to the housing crisis, not more corporate rhetoric.



Read more: http://blog.aflcio.org/2008/02/25/cleveland-families-challenge-mccains-ties-to-subprime-housing-corps/

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[roguevalley]

1. good for them. they look like my neighbors, middle america against

the wall.

[HowHasItComeToThis]

2. HEY MAC, LET'S TALK ABOUT KEATING

ONCE A SLIME, ALWAYS A SLIME

[Robbien]

3. Which is why McCain will try and keep the attention on the war on Muslims

All this economic populist talk coming out of the Dems just has to stop, so says the GOP/McCain.

[Mz Pip]

4. Ahhhh, this is what I love to see!

Let's pull out all the stops on McCrazy and do a little less bashing of our own candidates! :bounce:

Why should we do the GOP's work for them? We need to keep our eye on the prize and work toward defeating McCain.

[barb162]

5. He's openly stated he knows nothing about economics

and he has proved it. Having said that, did any Democrats speak out about it two years ago when they got control of Congress and try to do something about it?