Big Labor is targeting failed Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s Senate seat as the “firewall” in their strategy to keep the pro-Big Labor congressional majority in power this November. Five other states including California, New York, Illinois, Ohio and Pennsylvania will be ground zero for political spending this Fall.
The AFL-CIO is planning its biggest political campaign ever this year, surpassing the $53 million spent in 2008 to help elect President Barack Obama
Trying to avert a Republican takeover of both the House and Senate in the November midterm elections, the labor federation is focusing on a “firewall” of six states with key congressional elections and relatively high numbers of union households: California, New York, Illinois, Nevada, Ohio and Pennsylvania.