Before Primary, GOP Rep. Spencer ‘Serve The Banks’ Bachus Gets Last Minute Fundraising Boost From Wall Street

Before Primary, GOP Rep. Spencer ‘Serve The Banks’ Bachus Gets Last Minute Fundraising Boost From Wall Street: pHouse Financial Services Chairman Spencer Bachus (R-AL) — who said in an interview that he believes Washington’s role is to “serve the banks” — is facing one of the stiffest primary challenges of his long career. State Sen. Scott Beason (R) has been chasing Bachus ahead of today’s Alabama elections, helped by some hefty spending [...]/p

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Labor unions rethinking role in politics

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WASHINGTON — As top union leaders gather in Florida on Tuesday to determine labor’s political strategy this year, the influential AFL-CIO appears poised to endorse President Barack Obama’s re-election — despite some lingering dissatisfaction with his record.
But the way in which unions back him and other Democrats this year is likely to take a very different form than in past campaigns.

Concluding they need to be more independent of the Democratic Party, many unions are increasingly financing their own efforts instead of writing large checks to candidates and the party.

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