Dean: ''Year-Round 50 State Strategy To Change GOP Anti-Worker Agenda''

"Organized labor still has the best grassroots in the nation and we need you to win. We are going to all 50 states all the time, not just 18 states before elections. We need you to increase your efforts because we need to keep up the pressure in every state. I believe Americans are democratic with a big D. Our problem isn't that America does not share our values. It's that we have to do a better job communicating our values to them. We need to talk about what we care about ... American jobs, controlling health care costs, protecting kids from what is coming over the TV ... not talking about a list of programs ... they don't want program talk. They voted against their own economic interest because they're afraid of what's going to happen to their kids." Dean said labor and Democrats both need to talk about values like truth, honesty, ethics and hold the GOP accountable when they claim those values and act in an opposite way. He sited treatment of veterans returning from Iraq and Tom Delay's ethics problems as examples. Dean said the Democratic Party and Labor built America and it's up to both to fix what's going wrong. Dean said, "Together we can help Central Pennsylvania and send Rick Santorum back to his fancy house in Virginia!" He concluded, "There's no political downside to standing up for what you believe in!"-from the press release by the AFL-CIO Building and Construction Trades Dept.