Sen. Obama: "I Owe These Unions..."
According to the Union-Free Employer:
Many have begun to take Democratic front-runner Sen. Barack Obama to task for possible hypocrisy on the issue of special interest influence-peddling. While the Senator has carefully parsed his words to denounce accepting money from federal or Washington lobbyists, in the past he has taken sustantial sums from state-level lobbyists and law firms acting in similar fashion.
Last week, we noted that the Change To Win unions were quickly pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars into the primary efforts in Texas and Ohio, while Senator Obama had previously criticized the Clinton and Edwards campaigns' reliance on cash from organized labor...click to continue.
