McEntee Gives ‘Em Hell

by digby

Gerald McEntee’s keynote address at the AFSCME convention in Boston was a real barn burner. This excerpt is particularly tart:

I’ve been awfully impressed with the rhetoric coming from our union brothers and sisters lately. While all the villagers bob and weave and run from the hard truths they seem to have found their voices. It’s natural that they would in a time of great stress on working people, but I’m not sure I would have always assumed they had it in them. It’s good to see — and very necessary.

“We can’t leave it to the politicians. Too many of them think that what’s good for corporate America is good for working people and that is bullshit.”