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Obama to address unionists in Trenton
AFL-CIO sponsoring town hall meetings
Tuesday, May 08, 2007
Star-Ledger Staff

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama is expected to make an appearance Monday in Trenton, where he will talk to union members as part of a series of town meetings organized by the AFL-CIO.

Obama (D-Ill.) will take questions from the audience during the 90-minute forum at the Trenton War Memorial, one block from the Statehouse, the union announced yesterday.

The town meetings are the cornerstone of the "Working Families Vote 2008" campaign, led by the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations.

"These town hall meetings provide the candidates with a real opportunity to rally and inspire the grassroots activists who are essential to victory in 2008," AFSCME president and AFL-CIO political committee chairman Gerald McEntee said in announcing the series last month. "Union members are looking forward to hearing from the candidates and being more active than we've ever been before."

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