Huckabee Will Cross Picket Line to Appear on Leno

[Omaha Steve]

http://blog.aflcio.org/2008/01/02/huckabee-will-cross-picket-line-to-appear-on-leno/

by Seth Michaels, Jan 2, 2008

Looks like former Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) will be among the first to cross the television writers’ picket line when Jay Leno goes back on NBC’s “Tonight Show.”

Huckabee, who’s seeking the Republican presidential nomination, will go ahead with a scheduled appearance when Leno returns to the air tonight. TV writers have been on strike for the past two months for a new contract that includes a fair share of revenues from Internet and electronic distribution of material they’ve written.

According to The New York Times, Huckabee today

professed his support for the striking television writers union just a few hours before he was expected to board a plane to for a taping of the “Tonight Show” with Jay Leno where he will face a vocal picket line of striking writers.

Uh, sorry. Expressing support for striking workers means not crossing the picket line.

Huckabee was endorsed in the Republican primary by the Machinists (IAM), who also endorsed Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) in the Democratic primary. Tom Buffenbarger, president of the Machinists, had this to say:

Governor Huckabee should not cross the picket line. We have made that abundantly clear to his campaign. With such missteps, he risks losing the support his jobs and economic policies have won for him among trade unionists who will attend the GOP caucuses in Iowa or will vote in the later primaries.

FULL story at link.

[Jackpine Radical]

1. He's a Republican, fer Chrissake.

They're worse than chickens. They'll cross a picket line just to cross it, even when they don't want to get to the other side.

[demosincebirth]

3. Exactly.

[NC_Nurse]

2. Perhaps he thinks that's what Jeebus would do.

[msongs]

4. will he be nailed to a cross, crucifixtion style? nt