Union Prez Boasts That 400,000 Union Volunteers Will Campaign Door-to-Door for Obama
- Posted on August 9, 2012 at 4:25pm by
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Labor unions plan to send out roughly 400,000 volunteers later this month to canvass voters to support President Barack Obama’s re-election.
The effort begins on Aug. 25, when activists fan out across 27 states during a national “day of action.”

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka talks to President Barack Obama in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka says a record 400,000 union-based volunteers will be knocking on doors and talking to voters in all 50 states later this year.
For the first time, unions can use their funds to target non-union households as well as those with family members in a union. That change comes as a result of the Supreme Court’s landmark campaign finance decision in Citizens United.
It is hardly surprising that unions would support President Obama in the upcoming 2012 elections. In 2008, nearly two-thirds of people in union households backed the president in 2008.
It is also noteworthy that Trumka is a regular visitor of the White House, sometimes visiting the White House more than once a week. This is what Trumka said about his relationship with the Obama administration in 2011:
“I’m at the White House a couple times a week. Two, three times a week. I have conversations everyday with someone in the White House or in the administration — Everyday.”
Interestingly enough, all the videos we could find of Trumka’s remarks have been scrubbed from YouTube due to “copyright infringements.” In fact, it looks as if someone worked very hard to remove most of the videos on blogs and even TheBlaze.
Listed as “claimants” on the copyright infringement complaint are The UpTake, a liberal blog, The Final Call (FCN Publishing), originally founded by none other than Louis Farrakhan as “The Final Call to Islam,” and Three Sonorans, a “progressive and activist” blog. It is interesting that these three groups together would have such a problem with Trumka being displayed speaking in his own words, but the video is now hard to come by.
Luckily though, Glenn Beck covered the story while he was still at Fox News and that footage is still available. Beck argued back in 2011 that President Obama had failed to talk to six of of his own cabinet members for two years but allegedly Trumka was somehow in contact with the Obama White House every single day.
It is unclear whether Trumka still enjoys the same level of closeness to the Obama administration as he did last year. However, sending 400,000 union volunteers to campaign for Obama certainly makes it look as if they are still courting one another.
Watch the 2011 Beck segment here:
The Associated Press contributed to this report.




















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Comments (231)
Rodney111
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 5:05pmGood this is the same ding dong group that went after the governor! Idiots lost that just like they will lose this!!
Report Post »The_Cabrito_Goat
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 5:14pmIf anyone has read Rules For Radicals by Saul Alinsky, Mr. Alinsky lionizes the AFL and the CIO unions (before they merged) which makes me think he was purposely kissing up to them.
There’s a reason the unions use Alinsky tactics, and there’s a reason we should fear them: They work.
Report Post »1947
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 5:17pmTell FAT Man to start in CA.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 5:25pmOne word…..WISCONSIN……
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 5:37pmI pray one of those worthless slugs knocks on my door……and I hope it’s the communist transgendered encicom……..to remove it from the planet….
Report Post »kaydeebeau
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 6:21pmThis could be really fun!!!! Prepare folks – make sure you are armed with facts, Alinsky them!!! Engage them, if the interviews with “protesters” are any indication, this could be a great opportunity to turn the tables on them
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 6:27pm1001 Reasons to Vote Against Barack Obama: Complete Edition
Report Post »This is the full list of 1001 Reasons to Vote Against Barack Obama: The man started his presidency off with a bang by botching his oath of office. For good…
http://www.conservativedailynews.com/2012/06/1001-reasons-to... – Cached
Thatsitivehadenough
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 6:33pmI expect they’ll be carrying baseball bats just to be more effective too.
Thugs.
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 6:35pmPrint the list of 1001 reasons not to vote for Obama and hand it to the Union guys when they knock on your door.
Report Post »A New Patriot
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 7:12pmJust this morning here in CT, I heard a proud union member phone in to support Dem Rep Joe Courtney as he interviewed on a local radio show. Joe was playing his Dem cards perfectly regardless of the subject…point, blame, point, blame…
Anyway the guy says that as soon as he hung up they were piling onto a bus for a “door to door tour of some pivotal stars.” I believe he mentioned Ohio as their first stop. Ugh. Nice to know these union tools who already make more than me and probably with less actual labor can afford to take the time out of work to go on tour with Marxapalooza.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 7:33pmSocialist/Union “volunteers” — What an Oxy-Moron!
Report Post »Red Meat
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 7:45pmI have two signs on our gate. NO TRESPASSING and IF YOU CAN READ THIS YOU’RE IN RANGE.
Report Post »Independent4233
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 7:49pm“Union Prez Boasts That 400,000 Union Volunteers Will Campaign Door-to-Door for Obama.
Woud anybody like to hazard a guess as to how many get their asses kicked before they flee the premises?
Report Post »CatB
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 7:54pmGet a Romney and a STAY OFF MY GRASS sign ;-)
Report Post »db321
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 8:04pmIf a Union Worker knocks on my door. I’m going to tell him to thank his sons and Grand Kids for him/her being able to retire early on nearly full pay. Then, I would ask if Satan was running for President, he/she would still support him – because of their self greed.
Report Post »PATTY HENRY
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 8:27pmTHIS POISONOUS GAME, this demand Union Votes in exchange for UNION BOSSES pay offs…it doesn’t go to the workers…it just goes to those thugs who gain power by intimidation. IT’S OVER BOYS and GIRLS….
WE are going to vote on DEEDS
NOT
WORDS
LAST TIME
YOU
VOTED ON
WORDS
….. we were all suckered by this Teleprompter Creep…. now he has ‘deeds’
That’s all you need to say to anyone: I DO NOT VOTE ON WORDS.
I
VOTE
ON
DEEDS
!
George Washington gave us that advice…maybe for times like this: DEEDS not WORDS.
OBAMA take your thugs and your shallow, stinkin’ thieves and get the hell out of our HOUSE.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 9:12pmI heard that there will be Tea Party members going to white neighborhoods to support Romney. True?
Report Post »MCDAVE
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 10:22pm@NHWINTER Good site 1001 reasons not to vote for Obama, Here is a site with the list of his crimes http://commieblaster.com/obamacrimes/index.html
Report Post »Shiroi Raion
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 11:40pmThey’ll probably come to my door then. I’ll be more than happy to talk to them to say, “Not a single one in my family, here in Colorado, in New Hampshire, Montana, and Texas supports Obama nor his cronies. We’re all gun owners and many served in the forces. We‘re anxiously counting down the days when we’ll all be voting for Mitt Romney.” I’ll be smiling and enjoying this little chat.
Report Post »SCREW-WINDOWS
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 11:55pmMy reply to union members “Thanks for making everything more expensive”.
Report Post »RGFROMTEXAS
Posted on August 10, 2012 at 12:27amMy reply to Union Memebers: Thank you for overtime pay, thank
you for two weeks vacation, thank you for all the benefits I recieved
over the years even though I was not a Union Member since
you laid the Ground Work
Thank You !! Thank You !! Thank You !!
Report Post »SCREW-WINDOWS
Posted on August 10, 2012 at 3:29amGreat point RG again My reply to union members “Thanks for making everything more expensive”.
Report Post »jcldwl
Posted on August 10, 2012 at 9:16amVolunteers? Right….paid workers is what they are. Or are they 400,000 laid off union members. Or are they just not going to show up to work that day. If they are laid off then I would think none of them would want to vote for Obama. Then again they are probably now living off our tax dollars and just want it to stay that way. Pay for no work. Next they will try to unionize the unemployed so they can send some of that money back to the Dems through union dues. These people are sick.
Report Post »ashestoashes
Posted on August 10, 2012 at 9:58amIt would be worth it to tell them that when Hitler did the Holocaust..that there were 13 million who died..not just the 6 million Jews..but the other 7 million included Union people..
Report Post »G-WHIZ
Posted on August 10, 2012 at 10:29amReeeelax!! It’s just the UNION-BOOT on the THROAT of the NON-UNION workers and ordinarry folks. Nuuttin-ta-see-here…gobaaaa-k ta sleeeeeep, …. Zzzzzzzzzzz….. .
Report Post »DonaldH
Posted on August 11, 2012 at 5:46amDon’t come to my door!!
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 5:05pmRecomend that you don’t bring your commie Union ass to my door
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 5:35pmor my door. won’t end well if they open my gate clearly marked no trespassing. Oh well let the idiots go out. I am so sick of this garbage if these fools in the unions cannot see when they compain about their benefits etc that their union bosses spend millions of dollars on dem donations as well as millions on their own salaries, they are beyond fixing or the ability to properly problem solve. its just stupid at this point
Report Post »CatB
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 7:56pmI would hope the NRA LIFETIME membership sticker on my door would be enough for them to take a “hint” ;-)
Report Post »4xeverything
Posted on August 10, 2012 at 12:10amTwice, before the 2010 elections, union idiots (once from SEIU and once from AFL-CIO) knocked on my door. I believe I even called into Beck’s show about it. I firmly removed them from my property with just a bit of force and made it very clear that next time they set foot on my property they would be introduced to the business end of Old Gert. I made sure to smile when I said it though.
Report Post »atechgeek
Posted on August 10, 2012 at 8:10amKnock on my door and the exercise my 2nd amendment right goes into effect.
Report Post »Godfather.1
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 5:04pmI’m sure they got the volunteer idea from Glenn Beck. No one has ever put together a volunteering effort before so they must have stole this idea from Beck.
Report Post »perry1980
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 5:03pmNot at my door they won’t be.
Report Post »loafer4952
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 5:02pmJust so they don’t come to my house. I don‘t like Obama and don’t like the unions either………
Report Post »DEFCON4
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 5:02pmInvite them in. Then ask them how they feel about the Keystone Pipeline and the EPA’s regulations that are destroying Oil refineries and the Coal industry!!!
Report Post »JustAboutHadIt
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 11:03pmYes…and be as nice as you could(might be the hardest thing you’ve ever done), have a nice fresh batch of cookies available saturated with ex-lax. If everyone did this just imagine the crap storm that would occur, might rank up there with the one obammy is laying on our country now. I bet their little tour won’t last long.
Report Post »kapnkd
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 5:00pmHey Union commies! Thanks for the heads up….I’ve now placed a baseball bat close to my front door!
Report Post »amazingphotos
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 5:49pmI prefer my AR-15 with 30-round magazine.
Report Post »Godfather.1
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 6:06pmIt’s really great to see all you peace loving teabaggers promote so much violence.
Report Post »integrican
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 7:34pmAmazingphotos: Yeah, me too, those 100 round drums jam to easily.
Report Post »integrican
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 7:46pmHey great and might Godfather, wasn’t that Aurora, CO murdering fool a registered Democrat?
Report Post »soybomb315_II
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 8:04pmbetter to carry a copy of the Constitution, it will ward of progressives of both parties
Report Post »Godfather.1
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 8:47pm@integrican
I have no idea if he was a Democrat or not. That is besides the point. You teabaggers love to talk about how you are all peace leaving people. However, many of you constantly like to talk about how you will shoot people you don’t like.
Maybe he was a Democrat. That wouldn’t change the fact that teabaggers are hypocritical ********.
Report Post »electrician8
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 10:09pm@Godfather. We don’t want to kill, We don’t want to be killed by a violent union ambush. And be honest with yourself, these mafia ran unions aren’t above violence to get their way. That’s how they grew, and that’s how they maintain their strength.
Report Post »RGFROMTEXAS
Posted on August 10, 2012 at 12:35amWow !! Baseball Bats, AR-14s, shotguns, axes, etc. I guess Glenn Beck’s
Report Post »“restoring love” was a waste of time.
Zipit
Posted on August 10, 2012 at 9:15amI agree RG, too much violence!!! I on the other hand,, knowing that these hard working patriots will be out in the hot sun pounding the pavement in some very hot weather,(global warming you know), will be watching for salt depletion. I will recommend and even administer a dose of rock salt courtesy of Dr. Browning. Should help them with their caus!!!
Report Post »Wango
Posted on August 10, 2012 at 1:00pmInnerGrecian . . .
You wrote “Amazingphotos: Yeah, me too, those 100 round drums jam to easily.”
1. No need for a colon. You’re not introducing a list or separate but related thought.
2. Amazing photos is two words.
3.“ jam to easily” should be “jam too easily” unless they’re jamming to a song or toward a place called easily, in which case Easily should be capitalized.
4. “100 round drums” should be hyphenated as a compound modifier.
5. You should divide your post-colon phrase into two separate sentences.
Twelve words. Five mistakes.
I was going to dissect all of your posts after the other day. But looking at this one, well, it would just take too much time. I think you get the point. Hey! Maybe you and Kooch have cause to talk. Perhaps you could create a hybrid expert. Well, a hybrid opinionator, anyway. Safety in numbers. Word on the street is that he’s already joined forces with LIBSALWAYSLIE. So, with you in the mix, why it’s like you could be the next Three Musketeers. How keen is that??????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »Zipit
Posted on August 10, 2012 at 4:13pmWANGO/HORDEDANCER! Dude! Get a life….. Your probably on summer break from your position as an English-Lit professor at some obscure liberal arts college outside of San Fran! If you’re still teaching, get it all out now so that your students don’t band together and kill you before mid-terms! I’m sorry that life is such a challenge for you, that you have to spend you summer break annoying the kindly, like minded folks who chose to converse with each other here on The Blaze. So there you go! Open up the windows, go outside, make up with your boyfriend and Live a little. And oh yeah! PI$$ OFF!
Report Post »FEMALL
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 4:59pmI‘m sure with their new ap they’ll just be calling on their fellow registered Democrats. Oh my–so many cemeteries, vacant lots and non citizen households and so little time.
O-ver
Report Post »kaydeebeau
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 6:23pmWe can use the same app for counter insurgency “raids”
Report Post »historyguy48
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 4:58pmIn the Socialist Workers Paradise known as Northern Ohio, this is an every election event, and it is so much fun!
Report Post »Two years ago some poor dweeb made the mistake of coming to my door and then made the bigger mistake of spouting Democrat talking points! To say it didn’t work out well for him is just a slight understatement.
Perhaps I can do even better this year, I just hope he (or she) doesn’t get blood on my driveway when they commit Seppuku!
kapnkd
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 5:02pmDarn, I sure do wish this site had “like” buttons!! ….GOOD ONE!
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 5:38pmOh the image that generates – who will stand in for their second?
Report Post »SimpleTruths
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 11:02pmSays another peace loving Tea ******.
Report Post »OneTermPresident
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 4:56pmI’ll come to the door with a Bible in one hand and a shotgun in the other…. just to see the looks on their faces.
Report Post »ColoradoMaverick
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 4:52pmIf some union lemming steps one foot onto my property, they better be ready to get their pathetic asses chewed out.
Report Post »dgonzalez01
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 4:52pmHey, Obama, I will get 400,000 union employees to help you campaign if you fill our coffers again. You bet ya, Trumka, I will make all those union employee pensions whole and wipe out all the non union employee pensions.
Report Post »VotersOfNY
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 4:49pmThey better not come into my neighborhood. They’ll be wheeled out.
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 4:51pmAgree with you!
Report Post »ScrewObama
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 4:48pmIf they come to my door, they better have the required permits to solicit in my city or I will call the police on them.
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 4:52pmGood idea!
Report Post »historyguy48
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 4:53pmNow that’s going to terrify them! Especially since the AFL-CIO probably represents your police!
Report Post »Daniel4
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 4:42pmWhen one of these door-to-door “Volunteers” comes to your door, Invite them in, give them some milk and cookies, listen to their presentation, and ask polite questions that they can answer. Don’t make them uncomfortable and encourage them to stay and talk for as long as possible. At the end, thank them and wish them well. Then, on November 6th, go vote for the most conservative candidates on the ballot.
This will reduce the number of people that they can visit and increase the cost to the unions.
Seems fair to me…
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 4:53pmGreat idea…heading off to buy earplugs!
For those with hearing aids: turn them off.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 4:41pmFine let them come to my door; the first sign of a threat they make and its jail or the grave, depending on the course they choose to carry forth with – to deal with the police I call or to deal with the consequence of assault on my being.
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 4:54pmLike it, but see DANIEL4′s ideas…. What do you think?
Report Post »dj109
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 5:32pmI’d go a step further and ask them for literature. Then if they give you that, ask for extra literature to give to your friends. Then when they leave, dump it all through your paper shredder. Anything you can do to cost this criminal organization time and money is a noble objective in my opinion.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 5:39pm@DJ109 – I was thinking to use such for starting my hibachi.
Report Post »Gita
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 4:38pm400,000 union members will voluntarily go out and spend their day off knocking on doors, yeah right, even union members know that Obama must be voted out in November as they are Americans first.
Report Post »nonofmybiznez
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 5:46pmEvery union member I know hates what Obama has done. They just haven’t shared that opinion with their union mafia bosses. I was in deep UAW land last month and nobody I talked to was gonna vote for him. My whole family of Democrats are gonna vote for Romney. Not just stay home, they are gonna vote for Romney. First time they will vote Republican in their lives. My mother is a UAW retiree and asked me help her register to vote for the first time. She’s gonna vote for Romney.
Report Post »Wango
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 4:37pmDon’t like democracy, eh?
Report Post »travlman77
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 4:51pmNo I Don’t,
Report Post »That is why I live in a Representative Republic!
integrican
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 6:43pmDemocracy eh?
I put forth a vote, to hang Wanko by his toes from a tree.
Let’s see how Wanko likes true democracy.
Report Post »Wango
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 7:08pmINTERGRECIAN . . .We know, you like hanging people from trees. There’s an entire thread on it here at The Blaze today. Not that you’re proof of anything.
Report Post »integrican
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 7:39pmOkay, from a light pole then. And, from your toes, you moron, a form of punishment NOT death. So, would you stand by the decision by a popular vote, like any true democracy?
Report Post »Wango
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 9:02pmOK, so you like to torture people by hanging them from trees. Thanks for clarifying. And you shouldn’t use those commas after the introductory and and so. That is a needless convention that only obstructs and dehumanizes. (No wonder you like them.) Consult Cormac McCarthy. He’s one of the best. He’ll show you the difference between knowledge of a rule and the mastery required to ignore it. Know what? Stick with the commas. That’s your zone. (Yeah, you shouldn’t have picked this fight, Iggy. Im gonna tear you a new one on your posts for the next day or so. Stay on your toes.)
Report Post »LIBSALWAYSLIE
Posted on August 10, 2012 at 8:50amWANKO, if only you had a clue what the hell you’re taling about! We live in a Representative Republic, not a democracy. Dont you ever get tired of being an idiot?
Report Post »Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 4:34pmVolunteers? Canvassing to keep your legs from being broken is not volunteering.
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 4:55pmNailed it, bro!
Report Post »landman1
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 4:34pmBrother Trumka is dead wrong if he thinks 400,000 union members are going to “volunteer” to canvass for Obama. There may be some that will do it for pay such as Mr. Trumpka himself. But all of the leadership of the unions better take a little time to take the pulse of their membership. All of ‘em ain’t happy. Hell some of them might just vote Republican this time around. They ain’t all stupid as Mr. Trumpka thinks they are!
Report Post »ReggieLove
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 4:48pmWe booted the SEIU from our workplace this year!! WOOT WOOT!!! They are officially gone on September 5th 2012, when the current contract ends!!! (I live in Wisconsin!!)
Report Post »cookcountypatriot
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 4:32pmwow they can actually organize 4oo,ooo chumps to campaign for this pos…i dont believe it
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 4:55pmIt’s called BRIBERY!
Report Post »stumpy68
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 5:26pmMore likely coercion
Report Post »SCREW-WINDOWS
Posted on August 10, 2012 at 12:07amI bet they will receive atleast double time pay on the taxpayers dime.
Report Post »SCREW-WINDOWS
Posted on August 10, 2012 at 12:10amMonkeys can be trained to do anything !
Report Post »FaithfulFriend
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 4:32pmI hope just one of them makes it to my door. We’ll have a good old fashioned camp meeting.
Report Post »Wango
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 4:41pmThat reminds me of the time two cute little Mormon boys came a knockin’. I wasn’t interested in their faith-based vacuum cleaners. So I sent them to Avegecake’s house. They were never heard from again. All they found was one shoe and a toothbrush in AC’s crawlspace.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 6:48pmYou found these boys that visited you “cute” did you WANGO/ENCINOM? You‘re posting as one of your male personalities for this latest insight into your sociopathy so I’m guessing this is a homoerotic/r@pe fantasy you’re projecting now? Or is this another manisfestation of the terrible traumatic and imaginary experience you described on the “Romney Spokesperson” board that happened to you in your capacity as an imaginary desk clerk at an imaginary hotel in 1986?
Report Post »By all means find as many boys as you like “cute” WANGO/ENCINOM, imaginary or otherwise…just keep your fantasies to yourself though…they’re betraying your unsettled mind. There’s a good troll….
Wango
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 7:06pmAVNEGECAKE . . . Why the toothbrush?
Report Post »NO_MORE_OBAMA
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 4:30pmPlease, please, please let them come to my door!
Report Post »marcus_arealius
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 4:30pm400,000 baseball bats should take care of that! Thanks Hickory !
Report Post »LIBSALWAYSLIE
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 4:34pmWhen they knock on your door do your best to keep them talking, and cause them to waste loads of time.
Report Post »orlandojon
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 4:27pmPeople rarely even answer their doors now days too many creeps out and about
Report Post »Wango
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 4:42pmFor sure, usually wearing black pants and a white shirt, narrow black tie, and on bicycles.
Report Post »JBaer
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 4:46pmI’d tell them to get the heck off my property.
Report Post »integrican
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 6:51pmWow, Wanko really hates Harry Reid!!!
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