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>>> Tom Lehman <uswa12 at Lorainccc.edu> 10/27/99 09:20AM >>>
Your on the money here Grube!
Btw, have you ever had the pleasure of sitting through a lecture by the inspiring Steve Rosenthal. Whose he related to anyway and how many votes does he have?
Tom Lehman
Steve Grube wrote:
> This is another typical example of a press release being
> published, parading as journalism. If there was actually
> a journalist behind the article, the minimum required in
> balance would be to point out that business outspends
> labor by a huge multiple, something like eight times.
> But the press release is allowed to give the impression
> that *labor* is the big spender. -Steve Grube
>
> From: New York Times 10/26/99:
>
> Business Seeks a Bigger Role in Campaigns for Congress
> By RICHARD W. STEVENSON
>
> [excerpt]
>
> "Thomas J. Donohue, the chamber's president, said the group would spend at
> least $100,000 in each race, for a total of nearly $5 million.
>
> The total is a fraction of the $40 million that the A.F.L.-C.I.O. plans to
> spend this year and next to benefit candidates supported by organized labor,
> almost all of them Democrats."