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McCain Uses Prison Labor

by Natasha Chart, Thu Apr 24, 2008 at 04:35:54 PM EST

The McCain campaign has been caught out using free prison labor for an event at which he also received a significant discount on renting the facility.

I guess that's what happens when a very wealthy Republican realizes that there aren't many people who want to donate to, or volunteer for, their campaign. They hit up a town with a captive labor force for some free elbow grease.

Yes, we have that here.

It's all part of keeping the US competitive on the world labor market.

What? You didn't think that no one was profiting off our sky high incarceration rates, turning public sentencing policy into private wealth, did you?

Also, as of 2004, prison inmates were 45 percent Black, 25 percent Hispanic. I'm sure that doesn't factor at all into continued toleration of this cut-rate abuse of the labor market. I wonder what John McCain, Mr. Civil Right, thinks about that.

Tags: John McCain, 2008 election, prison labor (all tags)

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Mr. Civil Rights is just doing his tour through the "black belt" right now so when his cronies roll out the racist campaign against Barack he can say he was trying to reach out to minorities.

John McCain defends Bush's Iraq strategy.

by recusancy on Thu Apr 24, 2008 at 04:39:51 PM EST

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Actually, if Hillary takes the nomination by coup... he's hoping to sin over some of the disaffected black voters...

"This was never part of our arrangement, Specter" "I am altering the deal! Pray I don't alter it any further!" "This deal keeps getting worse all the time!"

by LordMike on Thu Apr 24, 2008 at 04:42:07 PM EST
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She's not going to do that no matter how much they bluster. It's not up to her. It's up to the supers. And they're not suicidal.

So let's bring our focus to McCain now. All this sniping at fellow dems isn't helping anything.

John McCain defends Bush's Iraq strategy.

by recusancy on Thu Apr 24, 2008 at 04:44:58 PM EST
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Prison labor is a growth industry (2.00 / 1)

as well as prisons in general.

The US has a higher incarceration rate than any other nation on Earth, nobody knows why.

Well, at least someone is making money.

public option=not affordable for middle. It cant cover all affordably, google adverse selection for why

by architek on Thu Apr 24, 2008 at 10:39:20 PM EST
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Re: McCain Uses Prison Labor (2.00 / 1)

fuckin disgraceful.

--++++Stay Gold, Ponyboy!++++--

by amde on Thu Apr 24, 2008 at 04:42:32 PM EST

THANK YOU! (2.00 / 1)

For shedding some light on this! Everyone needs to push this!

We need to get people like Ed Schultz, Randi Rhodes, etc. to stop wasting their and our time bashing Clinton and try using some time to attack mccain for this and other right wing crap!

Washington Woman

Progressive Blue

by kevin22262 on Thu Apr 24, 2008 at 04:57:21 PM EST

Push what? (none / 0)

The GOP will admire McCain for saving money.

public option=not affordable for middle. It cant cover all affordably, google adverse selection for why

by architek on Thu Apr 24, 2008 at 10:40:02 PM EST
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I think the real question is if it is okay to waterboard these individuals if they have actionable intelligence about who put the aluminum cans in the trash instead of the recycling?

Tony Romo for Secretary of Awesome

by kasjogren on Thu Apr 24, 2008 at 05:42:14 PM EST

Back it up, or take it down! (none / 0)

"McCain uses prison labor," my pink fanny.

You have no evidence that McCain knew about this. None.

Look, I'd like to nail McCain's ass to the wall as much as any of us. And Lord knows he's a target-rich environment. But that's what makes unsupported claims like this one so irrational.

All things like this do is discredit the accuser.

by RT on Thu Apr 24, 2008 at 05:58:19 PM EST

Speechless (2.00 / 2)

Every time I think they have exhausted my capacity for outrage, they find another way. Every single time.

"We live entangled in webs of endless deceit, often self-deceit, but with a little honest effort, it is possible to extricate ourselves from them". -- NC

by Trond Jacobsen on Thu Apr 24, 2008 at 07:03:05 PM EST

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We take on McBush...

Everyday...Every way

"If you want to end war and stuff, you gotta sing loud"...Arlo Guthrie

by nogo war on Thu Apr 24, 2008 at 07:13:26 PM EST

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Also, don't know if anyone saw this, but I thought Dean's framing of McCain's "oh its so horrible I hope they don't run it" response to the NC ad was fantastic:
"If he can't pick up the phone and make members of his own party stop airing a television ad he claims to oppose, how can he lead our country through an economic crisis or the war in Iraq?"

Even better is to change the last part and made it about foreign leaders. McCain's always playing up a tough-guy image, that's he's going to make people who hate each other behave by the steely gaze on his visage. But if he can't make his fellow Republicans not run an ad, who's he kidding?

Saxby Chambliss

by bosdcla14 on Thu Apr 24, 2008 at 09:51:39 PM EST

Re: McCain Uses Prison Labor (2.00 / 1)

More than likely the inmates that were used were jailed for for non-violent acts such as smoking or having in their possession the non-drug "marijuana."

No wonder McCain doesn't want any research done on the medical use of marijuana. It would cut in to the private prison industry's use of low cost labor.

by Hempy on Thu Apr 24, 2008 at 10:29:45 PM EST

just when I thought I knew every reason (2.00 / 1)

to detest McCain, you come up with another one! Thanks a lot.

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by desmoinesdem on Fri Apr 25, 2008 at 01:47:14 AM EST

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