{"id":475370,"date":"2010-03-26T11:45:27","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T15:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=75226"},"modified":"2010-03-26T11:45:27","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T15:45:27","slug":"blanche-lincoln%e2%80%99s-campaign-running-anti-union-telephone-survey-to-arkansas-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/475370","title":{"rendered":"Blanche Lincoln\u2019s Campaign Running Anti-Union Telephone Survey to Arkansas Voters"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(photo: Leo Reynolds)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

According to the Arkansas State AFL-CIO, members are reporting that they’ve received phone calls from Blanche Lincoln’s Senate campaign that smear Bill Halter for receiving support from labor unions. A source with the Arkansas AFL-CIO reports:<\/p>\n

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The Senators phone survey first asks how the constitutient feels about Lt. Gov. Halter. The survey then goes on to ask the constitutient if they are aware that the Lt. Governor has accepted money from unions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Uh, Blanche?<\/a><\/p>\n

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Career Donations from Labor PACs: $576,900<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Arkansas AFL-CIO President Alan Hughes fired back at Lincoln:<\/p>\n

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\u201cOnly someone who has become a career politician in Washington DC could spend ten years asking for our support, take hundreds of thousands of dollars from blue collar workers, then turn around and attack us as \u2018outsiders\u2019 because we wouldn\u2019t help her this time around. That\u2019s not the values people in Arkansas believe in.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Zing!<\/p>\n

Tags: 2010 Election<\/a>, AFL-CIO<\/a>, AR-Sen<\/a>, Arkansas<\/a>, arkansas afl-cio<\/a>, Blanche Lincoln<\/a>, political contributions<\/a><\/p>\n

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(photo: Leo Reynolds) According to the Arkansas State AFL-CIO, members are reporting that they’ve received phone calls from Blanche Lincoln’s Senate campaign that smear Bill Halter for receiving support from labor unions. A source with the Arkansas AFL-CIO reports: The Senators phone survey first asks how the constitutient feels about Lt. Gov. Halter. The survey […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4097,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4097"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}