Working people made our voices heard in the 2018 midterm elections. Together, we knocked on 2.3 million doors and made a half a million phone calls in support of the labor-endorsed candidates who will advocate for working families.
We’ve all heard it, sadly even from some of our union brothers and sisters: "There’s no point in voting. Candidates are all the same, and none of them will do anything for me.”
Move over, “Turtle Man.” Make way for “the gravedigger of American democracy,” Mitch McConnell’s brand-new moniker.
Historian and author Christopher R. Browning debuted “gravedigger” in the Oct. 25 issue of The New York Review of Books.
Who knows if it will top “Turtle Man” as a McConnell handle. But “gravedigger” is based on substance, not the just senator’s supposed resemblance to a myopic tortoise.
“On Nov. 6, we will be making what many are calling the most important vote in our lifetime,” wrote Marshall Ward of Murray, a frequent contributor to the website.
President of the Calloway County Retired Teachers Association, Ward neatly summarized the differences between Republican and Democratic candidates in bullet points that are worth sharing with your family, friends and union brothers and sisters.
Frankfort, KY— On Tuesday, the Kentucky Democratic Party called on the Republican Party of Kentucky, the Oldham County GOP and Oldham County Republican candidates to renounce a political mail piece that used violent language.
“Both sides” are not responsible for the horrific political terrorism we have seen this past week. Only the right is to blame — starting with President Trump and his complicit enablers in the Republican Party.
They have been playing with fire. It was inevitable that people would get burned.
