State Gov Candidates Raising Card Check’s Profile

Saturday, October 31st, 2009 by Admin

Despite the steady stream of bills coming out of Washington, D.C. — think: cap and trade, health care, “green jobs” — card check and the Employee Free Choice Act continue as a core concern for politicians.

Card check continues as an issue in Virginia, with the state’s Republican Party candidate Bob McDonnell saying:

“Some of the policies that this Congress has pursued and supported by the president like cap and trade and card check and tax increases and intrusions on the free enterprise system and deficit spending, I’ve made those issues in the race and I think Virginians are not enamored with those policies,” he said. “I don’t think they’re good for Virginia….I think that is making a difference in the race.”

And in Florida:

Hoping to capitalize on President Barack Obama’s declining popularity in Florida, Republican governor candidate Bill McCollum is trying to tie his Democratic opponent, Alex Sink, to Obama and national issues pushed by Democrats.

McCollum, the state attorney general, has pressed Sink to take stands on whether a national health care reform plan should include a public option, and on the “card-check” proposal now in Congress that would make it easier for workers to organize unions.

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