By The PA. AFL-CIO
– The RV was on the road before the sunshine today with a stop at Northampton Gracedale Nursing Home at 6 a.m. to distribute election material to educate the union members that work there on the issues we all face in this election.
Northeast ALF Director Dave Carey was there along with Ellen and John Weiss, Jim Irwin and Jim Schlener of AFSCME to pass out flyers. Thank you to everyone who helped and thank you to the workers at Northampton Gracedale for being so receptive to our efforts.
Fast forward to 6 p.m. when the RV was at University of Pittsburgh Johnstown for a rally before the debate between PA AFL-CIO endorsed candidate for Congressional District 12 Erin McClelland and anti-worker Keith Rothfus.
McClelland, her team (#TeamErin), her family (including her father who is a 39-year member of IBEW Local 29), union members, veterans and taxpaying voters gathered around the RV and Rosie The Riveter to get pumped up for the upcoming debate.
During the debate, the two candidates took questions from the audience about topics including healthcare, education, medical marijuana, Ebola, veteran care, news consumption, minimum wage and more.
Ultimately, McClelland came off as a regular working Pennsylvanian speaking from her heart while Rothfus seemed like just another politician reading scripted talking points to try and say what he thinks people want to hear.
McClelland is truly a pro-labor candidate who will fight for working Pennsylvanians. Rothfus’ voting record speaks for itself as he has voted against providing aid to the people of the East Coast of the U.S. following Super Storm Sandy (one has to wonder if he would have voted against aid for the people of Johnstown after the flood of 1889), voted for the 2014 Paul Ryan budget that stomped on the middle class while providing tax cuts to the wealthy and corporations, and voted multiple times against the Affordable Care Act along with a litany of other votes against the interests of children, veterans, retirees and middle class taxpayers.
We need more people like Erin McClelland in Washington D.C., and less like Keith Rothfus. We look forward to seeing her succeed, but that can only happen if we get out the vote on November 4.
We are done with Burgers And Ballots for the week, but will get the grill (and voters) fired back up next week.
Burgers And Ballots comes to Clarion University on Monday, October 20 at 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. between Gimmel Student Center and Tippin Gymnasium. We will be at Slippery Rock University on Tuesday, October 21 at 12:30 until 1:30 p.m. in The Quad’s SGA Pavilion. We will be at Edinboro University on Wednesday, October 22 at 12 until 2 p.m. in front of the Pogue Student Center. We will be at California University on Thursday, October 23 at 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. outside of the Student Union Buiding.
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And don’t forget to vote on November 4!
Source: http://www.paaflcio.org/?p=5347
