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LEFTOVERS: Labor support for Sestak and Wagner, anti-Dahlkemper ad called ‘tasteless’
Hardly a day goes by now that we don’t hear about one labor union or another endorsing one candidate or another.
On Wednesday, it was Democrats Joe Sestak and Jack Wagner getting into the act. Sestak, the Senate hopeful, won the backing of the International Association of Machinists Lodge 1776 in Essington. The union represents about 3,000 workers throughout the state, including a bunch at Philadelphia International Airport, which resides in Sestak’s 7th Congressional District.
“Joe Sestak is there for us when we need him, not just when he needs us,” local union president Rich Howell said in a statement.
Wagner, meanwhile, won the recommendation of a mid-state affiliate of the state AFL-CIO. The Central Labor Council in Indiana, Armstrong and Clarion counties will recommend Wagner for the statewide AFL-CIO endorsement, which is probably the most sought after labor support in the state.
“The choice was a no-brainer for our Council, with a 20-0 vote to recommend Jack Wagner for consideration of endorsement,” council president Kenneth Cecconi said in a statement. “Jack is a good man who has worked well with us many times in the past.”
And in northwest Pennsylvania, Congresswoman Kathy Dahlkemper (D-3) was lashing out this week against a TV ad airing in the district that says health care reform legislation will imperil cancer patients. The ad from the conservative group Americans for Prosperity drew fire from Dahklemper in large part because both of her parents recently died of cancer.
“These attacks from a Washington-based front group are false, tasteless, and shameful,” Dahlkemper said in a statement. “In the past month, I’ve lost both my parents to cancer. It’s truly disgraceful for outside groups to then attack me for not being tough enough on cancer.”
Politico reports that Americans for Prosperity will not be pulling the ad, which is embedded below.
March 17, 2010 at 8:33 pm
Tags: Jack Wagner, Joe Sestak, Kathy Dahlkemper, PA-3
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Adam Lang
Mar 17th, 2010
No where in the ad does it say Dahlkemper is not tough on cancer. All it does is ask people to call her to vote against the proposed health care reform bill.
Victoria
Mar 18th, 2010
I didn’t find anything about this ad to be false, tasteless or shameful. If this is the ad that Dahlkemper is “lashing out” at – I’d say she has lost touch with reality and the legitimate concerns of her constituents.