WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–October 22, 2012. Civil and voting rights groups today commended Clear Channel Corporation for agreeing to take down a number of billboards placed in predominantly African-American and Latino neighborhoods in Cleveland, Columbus, and Milwaukee. The groups had mounted a campaign over the past week to persuade Clear Channel[Read More…]
Opinion
New Website Tracks Politicians & Celebrities Who Support Legalizing Marijuana
Marijuana Reform Is An Increasingly Mainstream, Majority-Support Position Site Lets Supporters Tweet Prominent People to Encourage Speaking Out SAN FRANCISCO, CA –(ENEWSPF)–October 22, 2012. Just over two weeks before voters in three U.S. states decide on ballot measures to legalize marijuana, a new website launches on Monday that tracks prominent people[Read More…]
AFL-CIO and Workers’ Voice Battleground Polling and Get-Out-The-Vote Push
Key Issues Drive Massive Final GOTV Push Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 19, 2012. The AFL-CIO is preparing to kick off the “final four” days get-out-the-vote effort for working family champions and around key issues driving the working class vote. Overwhelmingly, what we’re seeing is that core economic issues like protecting Medicare, ending[Read More…]
NRDC Opposes Proposition 31 in California
Ballot Measure Would Override Landmark State Laws that Protect Our Environment and Health San Francisco, CA–(ENEWSPF)–October 19, 2012 – The Natural Resources Defense Council today announced its opposition to Proposition 31, the misleadingly named Government Performance and Accountability Act. While this measure may be well intentioned, it would allow state[Read More…]
Report Highlights Regional Energy Solutions to Provide a Real Energy Vision for America
Washington, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–October 19, 2012. As voters contemplate who will occupy the White House and Congress in the years ahead, The Center for the Next Generation and the Center for American Progress released “Regional Energy, National Solutions,” a new report that argues that the United States needs a long-term[Read More…]
Statement by AFL-CIO President Richard L. Trumka on Political Coercion of Workers by Employers
Mitt Romney asks NFIB members to “make it very clear to [their] employees what you believe is in the best interest of your enterprise and therefore their job and their future in the upcoming elections.” Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 18, 2012. Though we did not need another example of how Mitt Romney[Read More…]
Video: At ‘47%’ Dinner, Romney Expressed Hope for Something Tragic Like the Iranian Hostage Crisis
Commentary A bit more insight as to why Mitt Romney was so quick to politicize the attack at the Amerian Embassy in Libya. In another excerpt from the ‘47%’ dinner, Romney sounds like he was hoping for a tragedy, hoping for terrorists to strike, at least hoping for something similar[Read More…]
Montel Williams Calls for Racist Anti-Medical Marijuana Ad to Be Pulled
LITTLE ROCK, AR–(ENEWSPF)–October 28, 2012. This morning we became aware of a TV ad the Arkansas Family Council has put on YouTube, and apparently made a very small ad buy for, in opposition to Issue 5 that features several actors. The one African-American actor was depicted as a criminal drug[Read More…]
Facts About Romney’s ‘Binder Full of Women’
MassGAP Statement on Presidential Debate BOSTON–(ENEWSPF)–October 18, 2012. At the presidential debate Tuesday night, questions arose regarding how women candidates were identified for potential appointment to leadership roles by former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. What follows details the process that was created by the Massachusetts Women’s Political Caucus in 2002[Read More…]
AARP: No Further Extension of Payroll Tax Holiday
Washington, DC –(ENEWSPF)–October 18, 2012. AARP Chief Executive Officer A. Barry Rand sent a letter opposing any further extension of the Social Security payroll tax holiday to Members of Congress and the White House today. The text of the letter follows. “On behalf of millions of AARP members nationwide and[Read More…]
