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Will Jerry Brown far-left radio diatribes be used by Gavin Newsom, GOP to portray themselves as mainstream? - 10/21/2009

... on American roads as part of a NAFTA scheme that would indeed result in truckers' wages trending towards those of their Mexican competitors. If the first, who cares? Next question. If the second, Brown is definitely going against Beltway orthodoxy, but he was right. Now, that doesn't mean that "Moonbeam" is right on everything; far from it. However, he does have quite a bit mo...

Mexican trucks on U.S. highways program on hold... for now (Ron Kirk) - 3/11/2009

... Kirk. He's a very strong NAFTA supporter who's waiting to be confirmed.

Ron Kirk, Obama's U.S. Trade Representive? (supported "NAFTA freeway") - 12/19/2008

... Representative. Kirk is a strong NAFTA booster while Obama has only pretended not to be one. During the campaign, Obama played a cute game: pretending to want to "renegotiate" NAFTA, only to later admit that he'd been misleading. With Kirk, at least what they want to do is a bit more out in the open. Around March 12, 2001, Dino Chiecci of the Associated Press included this in "...

John McCain at National Council of La Raza convention (charter schools, immigration "reform") - 7/14/2008

... "unapologetic supporter of NAFTA, the Central American Free Trade Agreement, and the Colombian Free Trade Agreement" and once again promotes a "hemispheric free trade agreement". Then this bit of "conservative" thinking: I'm a strong believer in charter schools. La Raza has helped establish 100 charter schools and the results they are producing are very encourag...

SPP North American Leaders Summit April 21, 22 in New Orleans - 4/20/2008

... of voters, many of whom blame NAFTA for job losses, especially in the manufacturing sector. Well, not exactly. Obama recently spoke in code, indicating his support for the SPP process, and of course there's GoolsbeeGate to consider. Her paper was given ("obtained") a warning to the leaders from the "North American Competitiveness Council", a group of major businesses such...

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