Now that we are moving into a "service job" economy, I hope these guys grow stronger as the years go by. Someone has to fight for the people who make this country run.
ORLANDO, Fla., July 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Stuart Appelbaum, President of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union/UFCW, announced today that the delegates attending the union's 20th Quadrennial Convention in Orlando, Florida voted unanimously to support Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm's bid for re-election.
Stuart Appelbaum, President of the RWDSU, said, "Our union members will make sure that our enthusiastic support translates into something good for you and your campaign."
Governor Granholm addressed the RWDSU delegates via satellite. She was introduced by RWDSU Secretary-Treasurer Jack Wurm, Jr., a Michigan-native, who noted that the union supported Granholm four years ago believing that she was someone "whose energy and vision would set Michigan on a new course." Saying "history proved us right," Wurm applauded Granholm's track record of "launching a $6 billion economic plan to create new jobs, improve Michigan's schools, provide access to health care and prescription drug benefits for 300,000 Michigan residents, and raise the minimum wage."
Noting that implementing policies benefiting Michigan's working families hasn't been easy, Granholm said being a Democratic governor with a Republican- controlled legislature has made veto "my new favorite four-letter word." She urged RWDSU delegates to remember, when they go to the polls in November 2006, that "Governors can't do it alone" they need legislatures that don't fight their every policy initiative.
I have some favorite four-letter words I can teach you when it comes to our legislature- sometimes I even string a bunch of them together for a very colorful description. You probably couldn't use it in public though. ;-)