INTERNATIONAL UNION OF PAINTERS AND ALLIED TRADES, AFL - CIO, CLCDISTRICT COUNCIL 53NEWS and EVENTSNew staff Members Jim Erlandson 304-539-2489 Cecil Ferguson 304-360-2857 Jim Walls 304-380-8948 Dave Morris 304-380-5635 New director of Marketing Mike Smith 304-539-2278 Signatory Contractors Letter from Busisiness Manager ‘Awesome’ Union Campaign Lifts Ohio Write-In Candidate to Huge Win
In what is likely a record-breaking performance by a write-in candidate, former UAW member Charlie Wilson won the Democratic primary May 2 fo r Ohio’s 6th Congressional District with 67 percent of the vote in a three-way race. Nearly 45,000 voters took the time to write Wilson’s name on the ballot from which he was missing because of a technicality. Working families and their unions in the southeastern Ohio district mounted a workplace and grassroots campaign for Wilson that more than overcame the $200,000 negative barrage the National Republican Congressional Committee threw at Wilson because they were hoping to face a ... Article taken from AFL-CIO Weblog - http://blog.aflcio.org
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