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Issue ads like these are flying under the radar of campaign-finance laws and into the living rooms of voters this election season. They came into vogue in 1996, when the AFL-CIO unleashed $20 million for ads targeting various members of Congress, and business groups retaliated. This year there's more money than ever going into making these ads, and more meanness being sunk into them...
...targeted by a money-loving Republican establishment. "They're dying to take the Feingold off McCain-Feingold," he says. Neumann, a former math teacher and homebuilder, argues that Feingold isn't the goody-goody he claims to be: over Feingold's objections, the League of Conservation Voters and the AFL-CIO have run a few advocacy ads criticizing Neumann. "It would be O.K. if he weren't such a hypocrite about it," says Neumann. "But he wants the Republican Party to go away and to leave the prim and proper Democrats alone." Last week Neumann, stuck in budget talks...
...this respect, Sibal S. Holt, secretary-treasurer of the Louisiana chapter of the AFL-CIO, said she saw the Institute of Politics event as a success...
Thea Lee, an economist for the AFL-CIO, disagreed...
While many claim that they care about labor issues, I am the only candidate who was selected by the AFL-CIO to investigate the impact of so-called "maquiladores"--cross-border factories set up by American corporations to exploit low-cost Mexican labor and lax environmental enforcement. I am also the only candidate in the race who has officially refused to take money from political action committees...