Cleveland Families Challenge McCain’s Ties to Subprime Housing Corps. [View All]

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AFL-CIO News Blog

Ben Waxman, state director of the Ohio AFL-CIO, sends us this report from Cleveland.

Union activists from the North Shore Federation of Labor gathered outside a campaign event for Arizona Sen. John McCain (R) this morning to deliver a clear message to attendees: McCain is doing nothing to solve the housing crisis and help families in trouble keep their homes.

In the past two years, more than 14,000 Cleveland families have lost their homes to foreclosure, leaving entire city blocks abandoned. But this morning, McCain came to town peddling the same corporate-friendly, anti-worker agenda President Bush has been pushing for seven years.

McCain has deep financial ties to corporations at the center of the subprime storm. When it comes to the housing crisis, McCain offers more of the same inaction and failed policies we’ve seen from Bush.



North Shore Federation of Labor Executive Secretary Harriet Applegate, who led the action, says Cleveland’s working families are looking for real solutions to the housing crisis, not more corporate rhetoric.



Read more: http://blog.aflcio.org/2008/02/25/cleveland-families-challenge-mccains-ties-to-subprime-housing-corps/

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