AFL-CIO forwards e-mail about Obama immigration plans to reporters by mistake

The Washington Post ^ | 11/19/2014 | Colby Itkowitz

[mdittmar]

File this under always double-check before hitting send.

As reporters fell over themselves Wednesday morning to confirm the breaking news that President Obama had plans to announce his immigration executive order Thursday and expand upon it  Friday, some received an e-mail confirmation by mistake.

AFL-CIO spokesman Jeff Hauser inadvertently forwarded an e-mail intended for immigration activists to a long list of national reporters, including several at The Washington Post.

[Enterprise]

What a coincidence that this happened right after the Keystone vote failed.

[Jane Long]

He (Midge McConnell) is folding before the fight has begun:

And, this surprises you, how?

[mplsconservative]

And it sure takes Grubergate and all the 0bamacare lies off the front page...

[BobL]

To paraphrase Thomas Sowell: “I’m so old, I can remember when unions were more concerned with keeping Americans employed in high-wage jobs, rather than flooding the country with low-paid workers to take away those same jobs.”

Dr. Sowell’s actual quote was pretty much as follows: “I’m so old I can remember when most interracial crimes were committed by whites against blacks.”