RI-Sen: Labor backs Democrat Whitehouse
Posted by Laura Reznick on September 15th, 2006
Rhode Island news | projo.com | The Providence Journal | Digital Extra: Elections
PROVIDENCE — Rekindling his long and friendly relationship with organized labor, Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse won the endorsement of the AFL-CIO last night, in his race for the U.S. Senate against incumbent Republican Lincoln D. Chafee.
The endorsement fulfills a prediction Whitehouse made four years ago, just days after his stinging 2002 defeat in the Democratic primary for governor, when Whitehouse implored delegates at the AFL-CIO endorsement convention to “not forget me, because something tells me we may not be done yet.”
After easily defeating two largely unknown primary opponents in Tuesday’s election, Whitehouse returned last night to the union meeting at the Providence Convention Center as the Democratic nominee for Senate. The endorsement of the affiliated unions, representing some 80,000 members, brings campaign cash and grass-roots support to Whitehouse, including union-sponsored direct mail, phone banks and Election Day turnout efforts, said AFL-CIO secretary treasurer George Nee.
Chafee made Whitehouse work for the endorsement. The senator offered his own record as a friend to labor before 221 union delegates.
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