Santorum is big labor? Pa. union leaders say 'ridiculous'

[tosh]

Santorum is big labor? Pa. union leaders say 'ridiculous'

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-santorum-is-big-labor-pa-union-leaders-say-ridiculous-20120217,0,2670127.story

By Colby Itkowtiz
The Morning Call
3:41 PM PST, February 17, 2012

As Rick Santorum's poll numbers rise, so do the Mitt Romney attacks. This week the Romney campaign, directly and through surrogates, have attacked Rick Santorum as “big labor’s favorite senator.”

But that’s not how Pennsylvania labor leaders remember their former senator.

Aside from votes here and there, they remember a man who was hostile to unions and received a career average of just 12 percent from the AFL-CIO for votes he cast from 1995 to 2006. Three of those years he received a zero on the labor lobby’s scorecard.

Rick Bloomingdale, president of the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO, remembered trying to schedule meetings with Santorum, but always being passed over to his staff. After appealing to the Republican Senator’s aides on the labor issue of the day, Bloomingdale said his office would receive a letter stating the senator “was opposing you on whatever that issue was.”

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[IamK]

1. obama & unions

The quotes about Santorum could just as easily be said about President Obama.... Ever since the Employee Free Choice Act was passed when we controlled the House & Senate its gone downhill... oh wait, another broken promise .....

[marasinghe]

2. must mean the kind of labor that repukes think "god created the female species for".

It's like the crappy remake of a 50's monster flick: "Dogzilla vs. Frothra".
and a river of Santorum runs through it.

[customerserviceguy]

3. "Dogzilla vs. Frothra"!!

Now that was funny! Damned funny!

[marasinghe]

5. thanks. nice of you to say so. :)

shall not forget Mitt's vacation voyage, with the poor dog strapped to the car roof.

[customerserviceguy]

6. It's just so damned clever

on so many levels!

[rum sod]

7. no such thing

There's no such thing as "Big Labor", Unions are such a small part of political donations they're essentially irrelevant. It's a myth engineered by the right.