>Your congressman is scheduled to be in Cleveland in mid-March for an Americans
>for Democratic Action swankenda. I've been invited,but, I can't get real
>excited about Congressman Nadler for obvious reasons. Not that I've got
>anything against fat people. Some of my best friends are fat persons! And I
>don't like to make fun of fat people because maybe they have some kind of
>glandular problem. Besides I might get fat someday too. Currently I'm around
>200 lbs. which is ok, I guess for 6'1".
>
>Which AFL-CIO is congressman Nadler talking about. The AFL-CIO around and
>under LBO world headquarters? The New York state AFL-CIO? The one in
>Washington?
>
>I'd be more than willing to send Congressman Nadler your analysis of Social
>Security!
Nadler's a pretty good guy as Congresspersons go. He was ranked as the second most left-wing House member by Roll Call a couple of years ago, after Maxine Waters. He's smart, articulate, and well-informed, very unusual characteristics for a U.S. legislator, as an C-SPAN viewer knows. Nadler's taken up the very unfashionable cause of rebuilding the port of New York, which the FIRE people exiled to New Jersey. But the New Jersey port can't handle today's giant ships, while the old New York port could easily. Not having the port in New York helped accelerate the decline of manufacturing, and the lack of a port (and a direct rail link to the mainland, another Nadler cause) not only raises the costs for manufacturers in Brooklyn and Queens, it means that everything that comes into NYC and Long Island has to come by truck, which is hell on the air and the roads. Chic liberals like Ruth Messinger hate this stuff.
He's got the LBO analysis of SS already. I think he's referring to the national AFL-CIO, known affectionately as The Building.
Doug