This is a quote from Franklin Roosevelt. When confronted with the wishes of his progressive voters, his reply was, “I agree with you, Now go make me do it!” In the coming elections this year, that is what Labor and Progressives are going to do.
The incumbents in Arkansas and Pennsylvania have opposed the Employee Free Choice Act and, in Arkansas, National Health Care. Luckily, there are real progressives willing to take their jobs. By placing real Democrats in Congress we are attempting to place pressure on the President (you remember, the guy who promised us he would pass the Employee free Choice Act) to do the right thing.
But it appears there are forces amassed against us that don’t want to do the right thing. Offering Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter’s opponent a position in the administration if he would not run, and sending former President Bill Clinton to Arkansas to rage against us to “not be manipulated!” tells me they just don’t get it.
Clinton, we have not forgotten the North American Free Trade Agreement. We know whose side you are on. But we still have some hope for the present administration, and we stand ready to “make them do it!”
Kris Dye
President
USW Local 4959
Spokane, Wash.
Posted June 1, 2010 at 9:40 am, in Free Speech Zone
