Larry Scanlon, AFSCME’s political director, told The Hill that while Romney has yet to officially sow up the nomination, the general election season has begun.
“Our position is: We are in a general election now. We want voters to hear our message,” Scanlon said. “We have endorsed Obama, and we’re going to do what we can to get him reelected.”
AFSCME, the country’s largest public sector union, spent $500,000 on Internet, television and radio ads to air in Ohio that target Romney before the state’s GOP presidential primary this coming Tuesday, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) records. Last month, the union also spent $1 million on Internet and television ads opposing Romney in Florida before that state’s GOP presidential primary…
SEIU spent more than $86,000 on radio ads in Florida and Nevada that criticized the former Massachusetts governor on immigration. Brandon Davis, SEIU’s political director, said the union’s members took issue with Romney’s Spanish-language ad…
The United Auto Workers, meanwhile, has been highly critical of Romney’s stance on government loans that Obama argues kept the auto industry alive.
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