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A Firefighter Election: Can Veteran of Wisconsin Uprising Rescue the IAFF?


Election Could Reshape Labor Movement
A rare contested race for president of the International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) has given its members a clear choice between a union traditionalist from Boston and a progressive activist who backed massive labor protests against Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker a decade ago and then joined electoral efforts to oust the anti-union Republican.
In mail balloting already underway, 3,400 local union delegates are casting votes on behalf of 320,000 IAFF members throughout the U.S. and Canada. They are choosing a replacement for 75-year old Harold Schaitberger, a full-time union official for more than four decades and a longtime mover-and-shaker in national Democratic Party circles, who announced his retirement last fall. Vying to succeed him are IAFF Secretary-Treasurer Edward Kelly, a 47- year old Air Force veteran and former leader of the union’s Massachusetts branch, and Mahlon Mitchell, a 43- year old African-American from ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120320:07:15:00

Jury and let the facts be weighed based on the evidence that is presented to a jury, not based in some police station where they decide to become the judge and jury. on thursday, you re going to be down in sanford, florida. thursday we re joining the family and attorney who is on my show tonight with the father. we re having a national rally and michael baisden to call for justice for this family. thanks for being here. thank you. remember to answer tonight s question at the bottom of the screen and share your thoughts on twitter. we want to know what you think. up next, will the case against george zimmerman be dismissed. dan gross of the brady campaign tells me whether the florida law gives citizens the right to commit murder. a major announcement in wisconsin in the recall election. madison firefighter will join me with be big news. ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120320:00:15:00

Family and attorney who is on my show tonight with the father. we re having a national rally and michael baisden to call for justice for this family. thanks for being here. thank you. remember to answer tonight s question at the bottom of the screen and share your thoughts on twitter. we want to know what you think. up next, will the case against george zimmerman be dismissed. dan gross of the brady campaign tells me whether the florida law gives citizens the right to commit murder. a major announcement in wisconsin in the recall election. madison firefighter will join me with be big news. you re watching the ed show. stay with us. a living, breathing intelligence teaching data how to do more for business. [ beeping ] in here, data knows what to do. because the network finds it and tailors it across all the right points, automating all the right actions. [ beeping ] ....

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