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...committed more than $2 million to the race. United Seniors Association, a group subsidized in large part by the pharmaceutical industry, has spent about $1 million running ads with Art Linkletter touting Gekas' support for a prescription-drug benefit plan. (Holden supports a more comprehensive, Medicare-run plan.) The AFL-CIO has spent about $400,000 attacking, among other things, Gekas' support for nafta. Democrats, having some fun with Gekas' 1998 sponsorship of a measure allowing bankrupt property owners in five states, including Texas, to shield the full value of their homes from creditors, produced a flyer that features...
After the AFL-CIO’s public presence in front of Mass. Hall, Hiatt and Sweeney went into a closed meeting with Rudenstine and Paul S. Grogan, then Harvard’s vice president for government, community and public affairs...
...AFL-CIO helped to broker a deal bringing students out of Mass. Hall—and Harvard was obligated to post three press releases on its website: its own, PSLM’s and the AFL-CIO?...
...think we would have preferred to sit at the table ourselves,” McKean says, “but it’s not every day that you get the general counsel of the AFL-CIO offering to help...
...Institutions like Harvard...want to deal with other institutions, like the AFL-CIO,” says Nancy DellaMattera of the UMass-Lowell Labor Extension Program. “They don’t recognize the students as having an institution; they see them as just a group of students who took on this issue, and they don’t take them that seriously, frankly...