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June 24, 2010
PHOENIX, Ariz. — U.S. Sen. John McCain just sent an unmistakable message that he will stand up for Wall Street hedge fund managers and stand against those knocked out of work by the recession Wall Street caused.
McCain voted against H.R. 4213, the unemployment insurance, jobs and tax extenders bill, legislation that would extend unemployment benefits at a time when jobs are scarce. Meanwhile, banks are afraid to lend under threat from hedge fund managers, who are happy with the status quo because they benefit from a 15 percent tax rate on their income. That’s a little more than half what middle class wage earners pay on their taxes.
McCain’s top five 2008 campaign contributors were Wall Street banks and he suspended that campaign to race back to Washington, D.C. to help bail out these banks.
Meanwhile, Arizona voters have overwhelmingly agreed to raise their own taxes to protect schools, public safety and health care services.
“I’ll stand up for Arizona workers and businesses who pull their own weight. I’ll stand up for those who lost their jobs because far-off financiers’ risky schemes collapsed,” said U.S. Senate candidate Rodney Glassman. “John McCain seems happy to stand up for his friends who caused this mess.”
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June 23, 2010
U.S. Senate candidate Rodney Glassman is calling on John McCain to prove his independence and donate to Gulf Coast communities the $2.4 million he has taken from Big Oil.
McCain has taken $2.4 million in campaign cash from Big Oil companies and $36,000 from British Petroleum since 2006. McCain’s most well-known presidential campaign slogan was “Drill Baby, Drill!”
Friends of the Earth has identified McCain as the top fundraiser from Big Oil, headlining a bi-partisan list of the “BP 10.” The environmental group is calling on each Washington insider to show their own energy independence by giving the money to help the families of shrimpers, restaurant owners and roughnecks who have been financially devastated by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
“Arizona’s thoughts and prayers go out to our fellow Americans coping with a disaster created by Big Oil,” said U.S. Senate candidate Rodney Glassman. “John McCain should show he stands with the people on the gulf coast and show Arizona he is not beholden to Big Oil’s special interests by giving his Big Oil contributions to relief efforts.”
McCain once sponsored climate change legislation and supported energy independence. The United States has three percent of the world’s oil reserves and consumes 20 percent of the supply.
“McCain was once a voice for the environment, now he has become an agent of the companies that take hard earned tax dollars, fight against safety regulations and ensure America remains addicted to oil. The people of Arizona need a U.S. Senator who will look to a sustainable future and invest in renewable energy and innovative green technologies. For Arizona this includes solar.” Glassman said. “We can create thousands of Arizona jobs and improve our national security by not borrowing money from China to send to Saudi Arabia.”
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 17, 2010
PHOENIX, Ariz. — Although the Armed Forces is one of the few institutions in which women receive equal pay for equal work, when women veterans return to civilian life, they face unequal pay and disproportionately high rates of unemployment and homelessness. U.S. Senate candidate Rodney Glassman is calling for the creation of a Veteran Employment Discrimination Prevention (VEDP) office and various training and support programs targeted toward women service members and veterans.
“Women are an increasing segment of our Armed Forces,” said Glassman. “It is unconscionable that we allow them to return to civilian life only to face unfair wages and discrimination.”
“Despite his admirable military service, McCain has repeatedly and vocally opposed expanding health benefits for veterans and the 2008 GI Bill, which provided much-needed educational opportunities for our troops. McCain’s record protecting women’s rights has been hallmarked by his adamant objections to the Fair Pay Act, which advanced women’s rights to take legal action when employers are caught discriminating against women.”
Both men and women veterans face frequent employment discrimination after returning to civilian life, and women earn an average of $10,000 less per year than their male counterparts.
Over the last year, the unemployment rate for women veterans has nearly doubled to about 11 percent, and women veterans are about four times more likely to be homeless than male veterans.
“As a woman and a veteran, I truly appreciate Rodney’s focus on preventing veteran employment discrimination,” said Major Susan Parker-Hotchkiss (USAF, ret.). “This is exactly the type of leadership we need in Washington to ensure our service members have the opportunities they deserve when they return to civilian life.”
As part of a broader effort to address discrimination against all veterans and military service members, the proposed Veteran Employment Discrimination Prevention (VEDP) office would be housed within the Veterans’ Employment and Training Services (VETS) agency of the U.S. Department of Labor.
The VEDP would provide the following services:
- Operate a central hotline for veterans to report and seek information regarding veteran employment discrimination;
- Proactively inform veterans and service members of their legal rights to fair and equitable employment;
- Allow attorneys to register in a database, so veterans and service members can access proper legal resources within their communities; and
- Offer a specialized course on identifying and reporting veteran employment discrimination through the Transition Assistance Program (TAP).
Glassman is also seeking to broaden the range of services provided to service members and veterans by establishing the following:
- Expand counseling and services to veterans and transitioning service members that focus on managing family life while seeking work;
- Provide temporary child support for veterans re-entering the civilian workforce who are single parents; and
- Early outreach to women preparing to leave the service (12-24 months before leaving the service) and longer support after they return to civilian life (12-18 months).
“I’ve been encouraged by the recent progress made in Congress toward supporting our troops’ health and employment opportunities,” said Glassman. “But I hope we can cast a national spotlight on veteran employment discrimination as something we need to immediately address.”
The Caregivers and Veterans Omnibus Health Services Act of 2010 was recently signed into law and provides a wide range of programs that support veterans’ health, including programs specifically targeted toward women’s health and homeless veterans. A bipartisan Veterans Employment Act of 2010 is currently moving through the Senate and would provide funding for training and small business support for veterans. Neither of these pieces of legislation specifically address veteran employment discrimination.
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Rodney currently serves as a Judge Advocate General (JAG) officer in the U.S. Air Force Reserves at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. He is also a businessman, social entrepreneur, author, and former Vice Mayor of the city of Tucson. Through his charitable foundation, Glassman has raised money for a variety of women’s causes, including for victims of sexual assault and battered women, educational programs for girls, and the Women’s Studies Department at the University of Arizona.
U.S. Sen. John McCain will be the guest of honor Monday at a fund-raiser hosted by the Virginia governor who recently commemorated the Confederate States of America, a tradition McCain once said he was wrong to keep quiet about.
McCain once called it one of his top personal regrets that he stayed quiet about the state of South Carolina flying a Confederate Flag above its state capitol because it hailed an uprising against the United States.
Today, he’ll stand beside the governor who resurrected “Confederate History Month,” at first without even mentioning slavery as relevant to the Civil War. It’s the latest turn in McCain’s backing away from what he once considered character-defining beliefs.
“John McCain’s moral compass just keeps spinning,” said Dawn Teo, Communications Director for U.S. Senate candidate Rodney Glassman. “John McCain once thought the slave-state uprising to defend the institution of slavery was a stain on our country’s history. Now, he’s shrugging it off to rake in some cash. The only thing he’s been consistent on is his refusal to represent Arizona.”
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 14, 2010
PHOENIX, Ariz. — U.S. Senate candidate Rodney Glassman announced today that he will be adding an Arizona flag pin to his lapel, right next to his American flag pin, as a symbol of his dedication and commitment to the people of Arizona first.
“I respect and appreciate McCain’s service to his country, but Arizona needs a U.S. Senator who is committed to Arizona,” said Glassman. “Arizona needs someone willing to compete with other U.S. Senators to stop sending our tax dollars to other states and start bringing some of our money back home. Arizona needs a U.S. Senator who calls Arizona home and puts Arizona first.”
“In 1777, the Second Continental Congress adopted Old Glory as the official flag of the United States. I celebrate our country every day by wearing the American flag pin. Starting today, I will also wear the Arizona flag as a symbol of my dedication to Arizona first,” said Glassman.
The Glassman campaign also announced Monday an “Arizonans for Glassman” photo contest. Supporters will download an official Glassman for Arizona sign and take a photo of the sign somewhere in Arizona . The top photos will be used in campaign marketing. The contest will last through July 4, and the First Place winner will get a Flip camera. Second place is a dinner for two in Tucson or Flagstaff with Rodney Glassman and a special guest, and third place is a Rodney Glassman for U.S. Senate Supporter Pack.
Supporters of Rodney Glassman for U.S. Senate can enter the contest at http://www.rodneyglassman.com/puttingazfirst
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The broader political world has relatively little clue right now about who Rodney Glassman is. But as the Arizona Democratic Senate candidate made the rounds in D.C. this past week — discussing his candidacy with members of Congress, wooing labor unions for their endorsements, and sitting down with officials at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee — he offered a compelling if not succinct explanation.
“I want to be our party’s Scott Brown,” he said, in a sit-down with the Huffington Post, one of several media interviews he did during his recent Washington swing. “The only thing we can do as a party to trump Republicans taking Ted Kennedy’s seat is for us to take out John McCain.”
It is an ambitious goal for the former Vice-Mayor of Tucson. Even he acknowledges the institutional deficits he’s likely to encounter when running for office.
“There are two credibility gaps,” he says. “The first is, I’m 32-years-old. I’ve been vice mayor of the state’s second largest city and I have private business experience. But I’m also a young man beginning his family while trying to make it to the U.S. Senate.”
“The second credibility gap,” Glassman adds, deals with the state with Arizona itself. “We have had only two viable candidates in the past two decades against either U.S. Senator, McCain or Jon Kyl.”
Convincing Arizonans that he’s not too wet-behind-the-ears to take a seat in the Senate is something that Glassman can do primarily with extensive campaigning. The viability of his candidacy, however, depends in large part on the assistance of others. While in D.C. this past week both he and several aides began working the key institutional players in the Democratic Party to lend their credibility to his campaign. Meetings took place at the two major unions: AFL-CIO and SEIU. He held fundraising events around town. A sit-down was conducted with the powers that be at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. Glassman even roamed the halls of Congress, soliciting advise from lawmakers he hopes to call colleagues, including Sens. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI).
Not everyone is ready to commit, let alone tout his capacity to pull off an upset. At a briefing on Thursday, DSCC chairman Robert Menendez was asked whether the Democrats had positioned themselves poorly to benefit from the bloody primary fight between McCain and former Congressman J.D. Hayworth. To which he responded with a demonstration of only tepid interest in the race.
“We have seen John McCain go from being someone who believed that comprehensive immigration was necessary fro the country’s national security, to someone who has some of the ugliest videos and advertisement I’ve seen to do what is necessary to win,” said the Senator. So I think that that’s an ugly primary. We have two candidates on the Democratic side and we will see who gets elected there [Glassman remains the frontrunner in a primary against, among others, former New Times columnist John Dougherty]. And I don’t underestimate that person’s chances at the end of the day.”
That said, Glassman has made some notable advances in a campaign that started on a shoestring budget just months prior. He has the endorsement of the AFL-CIO’s state-branch, as well as other affiliates, like CWA, the Teamsters and AFSCME, which has 8,000 members in Arizona. He’s also managed to parlay a personal down payment of $250,000 into the same amount in matching donations to his campaign over the course of just three weeks. Right now he has raised $750,000 in funds. And while a portion of that has been spent, there is an evident (indeed, proud) frugality to his operations. The team is moving through Arizona by bus. Glassman flew, after his trip to D.C., to New Jersey for a fundraiser hosted by family friends. And his aides have yet to be given business cards (the candidate is the only one dispensing contact info).
The idea is to wait for McCain and Hayworth to bloody each other up and pounce when that primary inevitably delivers a decidedly conservative candidate for the general election audience. Hayward, conventionally, would be the easier candidate for Glassman to face — owing to his Tea Party leanings and dabbling in birther conspiracies. But Glassman says he wants and is preparing for the incumbent.
“I got in to run against John McCain,” he said. “Senator McCain has not only ignored Arizona. He said [after health care reform] I’m not going to work with anybody anymore. It’s one thing to not work with anyone for the rest of the year. But he is asking us to give him a contract renewal.”
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Democrats may be salivating over the possibility of running against former Rep. J.D. Hayworth in the Arizona Senate race this fall, but Tucson City Councilman Rodney Glassman says he’d rather end up campaigning against Sen. John McCain, the incumbent battling a primary challenge from Hayworth.
Glassman, the leading Democrat in the Senate race, said he thinks McCain would be an easier target because voters are tired of incumbency — and McCain’s already been in the Senate for four terms.
“The’s election is a job application, it’s a job interview for a six-year irrevocable employment contract,” Glassman told POLITICO. “And you’ve heard the definition of insanity? Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result? I don’t know many Arizonans who would hire John McCain and give him a six-year irrevocable employment contract after his previous performance for the past 28 years of ignoring our state.”
Public polling shows Glassman would be in a better position to defeat Hayworth: a Research 2000 poll in May showed him effectively tied with the former congressman but trailing McCain by 13 percentage points.
McCain spokesman Brian Rogers brushed off Glassman’s comments this week, quipping: “Sounds like Rodney’s trying for ‘Last Comic Standing.’”
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