"The successful campaigns that groups like ACORN and SEIU have waged have raised wages and, therefore, the quality of life for millions of low-income Americans across the country...as a result [they] have become the enemy of corporations that are willing to pay beltway slime merchants almost anything if it might mean avoiding paying higher wages to their own employees. The easiest way to destroy the whole movement to rage the wages and the standard of living for poor Americans, of course, to destroy the best advocates of that cause..."
- Rachel Maddow, September 29, 2009
- Rachel Maddow, September 29, 2009
L ast night MSNBC's Rachel Maddow took on the radical right-wingers seeking to silence working families by attacking progressive community organizations. As part of that segment, she discussed with Peter Dreier, professor of politics at Occidental College in Los Angeles, why they're trying to target the SEIU next.
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