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Union Urges Democrats [PA] to Switch Parties
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| Contributor | Eddie |
| Last Edited | Eddie Mar 24, 2004 04:05pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Doylestown (PA) Intelligencer |
| News Date | Wednesday, March 24, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | An international labor union is urging its Democratic members in Pennsylvania to switch their voter registration to Republican to vote for Sen. Arlen Specter in his tough primary fight against conservative Rep. Pat Toomey.
The registration push comes as national groups scramble to sign up voters for November's presidential race in Pennsylvania, a battleground state and the nation's fifth-largest electoral prize. Voters who don't switch back risk falling through the cracks during Democratic get-out-the-vote drives and other outreach efforts.
Specter, a political moderate who generally supports labor issues, is the only sitting senator in the nation to face a primary. He "needs as much support in the April 27 primary as possible," wrote Robert A. Scardelletti, president of the Transportation Communications International Union in a March 15 letter to Pennsylvania members. |
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