Executive Council Statement
Special Convention
… Republican Congressional leadership had in mind for them -- slashing Medicare funding, cutting Medicaid and then giving it to the states with no guarantees and few standards, cutting funding for education and college loans, weakening environmental … Republican Contract -- details hidden by their rhetoric. We communicated with workers and their families, mobilized them to resist, and began the process of forming a national grassroots network to carry their voice into the national political debate. We have hit the nerve center of the Gingrich extremists. As a result …