October 15, 2008

A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group is calling on Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama to repudiate anti-Muslim and anti-Arab bias during tonight's final presidential debate. Full release.

A web site that offers cash bounties of up to $50,000 to those who can offer verifiable facts about our Presidential candidates has gone live with the objective of getting to the truth about those seeking the nation's highest elective office. Full release.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi today issued the following statement on the need for an economic recovery package. In keeping with the Speaker's request, the House Budget Committee, Ways and Means Committee, Education and Labor Committee, Joint Economic Committee and others will conduct hearings on a new economic recovery package. Full release.

As the historic economic crisis forces more American families to rely on school-based food programs, SEIU and UNITE-HERE, which together represent more than 250,000 workers in early care and education settings nationwide, are calling on the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Congress today to strengthen the nutrition safety net for our nation's children. Full release.

The ongoing Republican attack on the lawful voter registration efforts of ACORN is a "desperate smokescreen maneuver" masking an extensive coast-to-coast GOP push to disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of voters through a wide range of vote suppression tactics, according to Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, former lieutenant governor of the state of Maryland and a member of the board of advisors of NoVoterLeftBehind.net. Full release.

Tonight, SEIU President Andy Stern and Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger will attend the final presidential debate and will be available to speak to the media about the issues at stake this election for working people and SEIU's efforts to elect Barack Obama and a pro-working family majority in Congress. Full release

The following is an excerpt from a transcript of a report by CNN, and is being released today by the Republican National Committee: KIRAN CHETRY: A group that claims it signed up more than a million new voters is now facing allegations that many forms may be fake. Drew Griffin from the Special Investigations Unit is in Philadelphia. He's looking at the facts for us this morning. Hi, Drew. Full release

In a stealth effort coordinated at the highest levels of the Bush administration, multiple federal agencies were repeatedly ordered to usurp state law and undermine consumer protections, according to documents obtained through repeated FOIA requests by the American Association for Justice (AAJ). The documents released today detail how helping corporations escape accountability for dangerous products has been the administration's top priority. Full release

Republican National Committee (RNC) Chief Counsel Sean Cairncross and Communications Director Danny Diaz will hold a conference call today on the recent developments in North Carolina regarding ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. Full release

The following is an excerpt from an editorial from New York Post, and is being released today by the Republican National Committee: An unscripted moment with an Ohio plumber produced a startling confession from Barack Obama Sunday: The Democrat's "middle-class tax cut" is in fact a scheme to "spread the wealth around." Obama dropped the mask long enough to tell the truth to Toledo plumber Joe Wurzelbacher -- who had asked the Democratic nominee why he wanted to jack up his taxes just for "fulfilling the American dream." Full release

While Senators Barack Obama and John McCain are presenting dueling economic recovery bills for the middle class, a bill has been floating around Congress for more than a year that could immediately infuse more money into the middle class economy than anything that has been proposed so far. Full release

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