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By Doug Cunningham

The election season is in full swing and groups vested in the outcome of races throughout the country are mobilizing funds and supporters. Organized labor is promising one of the bigger voter turn outs. Doug Cunningham has more:

AFL-CIO Political Director Karen Ackerman says the labor federation is not only spending a record $40 million on voter turnout in the midterm elections in November, but it has developed a state of the art program that will eclipse all other get out the vote efforts this year.

[Karen Ackerman 1]: “We will be the single biggest turnout program of anyone in this country. Our program reaches 12.4 million union voters in 21
top-tier states.”

Ackerman says the AFL-CIO has developed new voter targeting techniques and is using permanent mobilization to reach union voters on the job, in their neighborhoods and on the internet. It’s a massive effort, Ackerman says, to create a working family friendly Congress.

[Ackerman 2]: “The failures of the Bush administration and the Republican controlled Congress on jobs, on health care, on energy, on tax breaks for the wealthy, on the shift of wealth in this country from working and middle income people to the wealthiest citizens in our country – these issues will motivate members to vote.”