"Obama advisers asking unions for convention aid
After he selected a city in a right-to-work state?
WASHINGTON - President Obama’s political advisers are pressing labor
unions to underwrite September’s Democratic convention to cover a
fund-raising shortfall that resulted from a self-imposed ban on
corporate donations, according to two people familiar with the matter.
The Obama campaign gave representatives of the major unions,
including the AFL-CIO, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, and
the United Auto Workers, a tour of the convention sites in Charlotte,
N.C., Monday in advance of a formal request for donations, according to
the two people, who requested anonymity because they were not authorized
to discuss internal strategy.
The three-day convention will culminate in Obama’s re-nomination in
Bank of America Stadium on Sept. 6. So far, the host committee in
Charlotte is roughly halfway to its $36.6 million goal.
He will be re-nominated in Bank of America stadium?
That says it all, doesn't it?
Four years ago, unions contributed more than $8 million to the
Democratic convention in Denver, according to financial disclosure
reports.
Jeff Hauser, a spokesman for the AFL-CIO, declined to comment on the new request....
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