"This is the most important election indeed in our lifetime"
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"This is the most important election indeed in our lifetime," said Gerald McEntee, chairman of the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s political committee and president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.
A.F.L.-C.I.O. Plans to Spend $44 Million to Unseat Bush
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
Published: March 11, 2004
BAL HARBOUR, Fla., March 10 — The A.F.L.-C.I.O., long one of the biggest players in presidential politics, announced its most ambitious, most expensive campaign effort on Wednesday, a $44 million program aimed at unseating President Bush.
The labor federation plans to urge its 13 million members to vote for Senator John Kerry, the expected Democratic presidential nominee, and will make a special effort to focus on union members who are swing voters. Also for the first time, organized labor will seek to persuade and mobilize hundreds of thousands of nonunion members to vote for labor's preferred presidential candidate.
"America's unions are united for the biggest and earliest mobilization effort for the 2004 elections in the union movement's history," said John J. Sweeney, the federation's president.
