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Steelworkers endorse Dean for DNC chair

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Steelworkers Endorse Howard Dean for DNC Chair

For Immediate Release February 2, 2005


(Pittsburgh, PA.) – The United Steelworkers of America (USWA) today endorsed Governor Howard Dean’s candidacy for the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee (DNC).

"As a governor and presidential candidate, Howard Dean has experienced first hand the urgent need of working families for decent-paying jobs and affordable health care – priorities all too often lost on those who spend their time living in the rarefied air of the Beltway Bubble," said USWA International President Leo W. Gerard.

"We’ve had enough of Democrats whose answers to the weighty problems facing working families smack of ‘Republican-lite.’ We need leadership from somebody like Governor Dean who speaks with conviction about how outrageously the great majority of Americans are being short changed by an Administration which brags that its base constituency is the "haves and have mores.’"

The Dean endorsement resulted from a unanimous vote of the USWA’s International Executive Board.

Gerard said that the USWA’s eight members already serving on the DNC, including Vice President Leon Lynch, would immediately begin campaigning for Dean’s election.

Contact: Marco Trbovich (412) 760-4335
 
 

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