Posted on 10/24/2003 10:44:13 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:09:41 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Democrats missed a good chance to try to defeat President Bush's competitive-sourcing initiative, which would privatize some government jobs, and unions are blaming presidential candidates Sens. John Edwards and John Kerry for missing the vote.
"There's disappointment that senators who are presidential candidates were not there," said one union source who had been tracking the issue. "It seems they may have been blindsided by the schedule of the vote, and if that's the case, it's certainly understandable, but it's disappointing."
(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...
Blowing off the working man in the "Other America" bump.
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