(ISSN 0023-6667) Get Out The Vote and we make history By Chad McKenna nationally more than 250,000 flyers for months. Now comes Field Organizer, North East volunteers have made 70 mil- time for closing this thing off. Area Labor Council, AFL-CIO lion phone calls, distributed 27 Campaign for Change is the We will make history this million worksite fliers and name of the effort uniting year in American politics. knocking on 10 million doors Obama/Biden, Franken, Not just because we are already. Oberstar, and a long list of electing the first African The Change to Win labor other candidates. It is expecting American to be President of the federation says its volunteers 10,000 volunteers to join and United States. made more than 20 million mobilize statewide for election An Injury to One is an Injury to All! Not just because we are phone calls and knocked on day. That is a truly staggering WEDNESDAY VOL. 114 reclaiming Senator Paul hundreds of thousands of doors number of volunteers. OCTOBER 29, 2008 NO. 9 Wellstone’s seat. nationwide. We are asking local unions Not just because we will Locally we have been to commit to recruiting one elect a president for working incredibly active as well with half of one percent of their people and send him 60 sena- staff and volunteers that have membership towards the Labor tors to get things done for the been making calls, knocking movement’s voter mobilization middle class. doors, and delivering work site plan. Doing the math for many Not just because we will local unions that is only a hand- have to begin to right what the MinnesotaMinnesota ful of people, five for every conservative right has made 100. That small handful could wrong over the last eight years. AFL-CIO make all the difference on But because this year voters Endorsements November 5th. are going to be mobilized to get Endorsements A lot of great work has been to the voting booth in numbers President done already over the last few this country has never seen. On Barack Obama months and it is important to Tuesday, November 4th mil- recognize those efforts. lions of Americans will speak U.S. Senate Things are looking good for in one loud and clear voice: Al Franken many of our candidates, but “It’s time to turn our country U.S. House of picture it as a bicyclist heading around!” for the finish line. He looks With Labor 2008 we are Representatives back and sees that he is so far launching the largest Get Out 8th District ahead that he can’t see an The Vote (GOTV) effort our opponent. He thinks he’s won, Labor movement has ever Jim Oberstar stops pedaling, raises his arms, seen. Our endorsed presidential Minnesota House and pumps his fists again and candidate, Senator Barack Representatives again to the cheering crowd. Obama has infused so much But then he falters, a rock in energy into politics that union Districts the road causes him to lose his members, and progressives at 3A- Tom Anzelc balance and he bites it. Down. large, are taking action in Before he can get up and get unprecedented numbers to 3B- Loren Solberg back on the bike and on track, Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) ran the gamut of emotions reverse th impact of eight years 4A- John Persell See Getting out vote...page 4 in a 25-minute speech at a Change We Need Rally in of a right wing administration. 5A- Tom Rukavina Hibbing last week for the Obama/Biden presidential ticket. The AFL-CIO reports that 5B- Tony Sertich WisconsinWisconsin Hillary: Election about “jobs, baby, jobs” 6A- David Dill AFL-CIO Senator Hillary Clinton was had the highest enlistment for America under George Bush. AFL-CIO 6B- Mary Murphy Endorsements on Minnesota’s Iron Range for our conflicts since World War I She said Obama will end 7A- Tom Huntley the first time in her life Oct. 21 and our nation owes you a debt tax breaks for companies ship- President at a “Change We Need” rally in of gratitude,” Clinton said. ping jobs overseas. America 7B- Roger Reinert Hibbing. Judging by the wild “You deserve better than what will start building again by 8A- Bill Hilty Barack Obama reception she got at Miners you’ve been delivered.” investing in infrastructure as U.S. House Memorial Arena from the 4600 She said she came to Congressman Jim Oberstar, 8B- Tim Faust in attendance, it isn’t a stretch Hibbing for the only candidate who spoke earlier, is propos- St. Louis County Representatives to say many had the former that will fight for the middle ing. 7th District First Lady as their first choice class and change the direction “There’s no guess work in Commissioners Dave Obey for the Democratic presidential of the country. the choice for this election, Districts State Assembly nominee. “That’s why I’m here, there’s evidence,” she said. “It 3- Bill Kron That wasn’t to be for the because we need Barack took a Democratic to clean up Districts New York senator, but she Obama and Joe Biden in the after the first Bush, and it will 5- Peg Sweeney included Hibbing in her whirl- White House in January,” she take a Democrat to clean up Lake County 73- Nick Milroy wind ride around the country said to cheers. “This isn’t a after the second Bush!” Commissioners 74- Gary Sherman stumping for her fellow senator question of faith. This is based Later in her speech she said, 75- Mary Hubler from Illinois, Barack Obama. on evidence. Just compare the “America will arise from the Districts Clinton quickly connected last Republican eight years ashes of the Bushes if you give 3- Brad Jones PLEASE VOTE with the raucous gathering by against the prior eight years us a chance to lead.” praising Iron Rangers for help- under Democratic leadership.” More evidence against 5- Rich Sve Tuesday, Nov. 4 ing make America safe while Those eight years were led Republican leadership is that Two Harbors winning its conflicts dating by her husband, President Bill nest eggs are cracking, she City Council back to World War I with their Clinton, who is also touring the said, and people are afraid to work ethic that mined ore for nation on behalf of Obama. open the envelopes containing Ward 4 steel to win wars. Sen. Clinton said 22 million their 401(k) statements. Steve Detlefsen She praised the commit- jobs were created during that Education has become too Duluth Schools ment of the region to Demo- Democratic administration, expensive for many, others are cratic values and voting child poverty was lowered, the losing their health care cover- Levy Vote YES! turnouts that brought the likes budget was balanced and even age, and our economy just isn’t of JFK, Humphrey, and Walter produced a surplus. working. PLEASE VOTE Mondale to victory. Nine straight months have See Hillary:...page 4 “Northeast Minnesota has seen staggering job losses in Tuesday, Nov. 4 Wellstone remembered with doorknock On a cold Saturday morning Republican challenger Norm (Rukavina’s daughter).” Oct. 25 on the Bodas Road Coleman, who went on to win Former state representative south of Eveleth, four dozen the election against Walter Joe Begich told the gathering, people gathered to remember Mondale, who entered in the “Wellstone was the best sena- Senator Paul Wellstone on the last days as Wellstone’s tor Minnesota ever had. I never 6th anniversary of the tragic replacement. met a person so close to work- airplane crash that took his life. But Wellstone wasn’t going ing people, and it was sincere, Also perishing in the crash to Eveleth to campaign. He not like you hear on TV today.” were his wife, Sheila, their was going to the funeral of Mary Rosenthal said when daughter Marcia Markuson, his Rep. Tom Rukavina’s father, Wellstone first ran it was at a campaign staffers Mary Bunny. time when no one thought any- McEvoy, Tom Lapic, and Will “I told Paul you don’t have one could beat Senator Rudy McLaughlin, and pilots to come up here you need to be Boschwitz, who was the num- Richard Conry and Michael campaigning for every vote, ber one national fundraiser for Guess. Rukavina related to the gather- the Republicans. “The The pain of losing them was ing in an observance at the Steelworkers were the first to still very evident, and felt espe- stone remembering Paul and endorse Paul, and his love of cially bad this year, on the eve Sheila. “He laughed and said the Iron Range took off from of another General Election for ‘I’m way ahead’ but it was only there.” Rep. Tom Rukavina, Chad McKenna, and former Rep. Jo the seat Wellstone had held. by a few points in the polls. Mary Theurer said she Begich were among the 40 people at the Wellsto His death came just days Then he said ‘I’m not coming remembered the first time she Memorial last Saturday to mark the 6th anniversary of th before the election in 2002 as to see you I’m coming to see met Wellstone and didn’t talk airplane crash that took Sen. Paul Wellstone, his w he campaigned against his your mother and Ida politics at all, he only wanted Sheila, their daughter, and five others. After the observan to talk about specific issues. the group and others phone banked, doorknocked a Helping others at the holidays Jerry Fallos said Wellstone dropped literature at every home in Eveleth and Gilbert.