There are some items up on News Unfiltered that may interest the community.
Will McCain stand up for Ohio jobs?:
John McCain will visit Ohio today amid new revelations about his role in a deal that will cost Ohio more than 8,000 jobs. Yesterday, the Cleveland Plain Dealer revealed that while Chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, McCain, and former DHL lobbyist and current campaign manager Rick Davis, played instrumental roles in helping DHL and its German parent company take over operations in Wilmington, Ohio in 2003, despite concerns about the local impact of the deal. Both companies hired Davis' firm to push the deal through Congress, with DHL-Airborne Express paying Davis and his business partner $185,000 in 2003 and $405,000 from the German company Deutsche Post for other work in 2004 and 2005. [Cleveland Plain Dealer, 8/6/08]
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Social Security's birthday is not all about celebrating:
Current and future Social Security recipients are coming together at more than 45 events over the next 7 days all across the country to sound the alarm on the economic impact of the McCain-Bush plan to privatize Social Security. The events will take place as Social Security, the most successful anti-poverty program in history, approaches its 73rd birthday on August 14th.
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DNC statement on the anniversary of the Voting Rights Act:
Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean and DNC Voting Rights Institute Chair Donna Brazile issued the following statement to commemorate the forty-third anniversary of the signing of the Voting Rights Act by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965: "This week we commemorate the signing of the Voting Rights Act, a bill that has come to be known as one of the most important pieces of civil rights legislation in history. Its mission was to promote democracy by tearing down institutional barriers to voter registration and polling places and represents our core Democratic values."
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