(2004-01-20) — A spokesman for the nation’s leading labor organization said today that union workers’ efforts on behalf of Democrat presidential contenders Dick Gephardt and Howard Dean were “good enough for government work.”
Mr. Dean garnered 18 percent of Iowa’s delegates, and Mr. Gephardt got 11 percent. Senator John F. Kerry won the contest with 38 percent.
“We know that Dean and Gephardt didn’t get what they wanted,” said an AFL-CIO spokesman, “but at least their third and fourth place finishes were made with union labor. Their supporters are well paid, not overworked, and not forced to do things they don’t want to. Dean and Gephardt should feel good and patriotic about that.”
Reports indicate that union workers may have refused to enter some caucus sites last night because the buildings were cleaned and maintained by non-union janitorial services.
“We would like to have helped our candidates at those sites,” said the spokesman, “but those blasted non-union workers ruined it for everyone.”
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1 Chaos Central // Jan 20, 2004 at 5:04 pm
Good enough for government work…
While Scrappleface is almost universally hilarious, this post rings truer than most: A spokesman for the nation’s leading labor organization said today that union workers’ efforts on behalf of Democrat presidential contenders Dick Gephardt and Howard D…