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Trumka: Massachusetts Election Shows Need for Results in Washington

By Tula Connell

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The loss of Martha Coakley to Scott Brown in yesterday’s Senate race in Massachusetts shows the American people are “frustrated at the lack of action coming from Washington,” says AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka.  Saying “the American people are justifiably uncertain and fearful in these tough economic times,” Trumka warned that the election should be “a sobering reminder to candidates running in 2010.”

The American people are urgently expecting RESULTS from Washington. If elected officials want the support of working families, they need to fight to win legislation on jobs, health care and financial regulation. Americans need champions who will fight for their cause.

Scott Brown?s victory as the next senator from Massachusetts is a giant step backward for working families. Brown has already promised to be the 41st vote for the Republican party of NO on crucial improvements for working men and women.

Let’s just hope, as Jason Rosenbaum warns at the Seminal, that the Democrats don’t take the wrong lessons from this loss.

 

 

Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on January 20, 2010 (boomark / email).

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