Garments stamped "Made In USA" are really made by chinese slaves in the
Mariana Islands thanx to Ralph Reed's conservative "christians."
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Subject: [ctrl] Another Stumble for Ralph Reed
Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 14:58:28 -0500
From: Alamaine, IVe <fratliff@gra.midco.net>
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Another Stumble for Ralph Reed's Beleaguered Campaign
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/28/AR2006052800964_pf.html
By Thomas B. Edsall
Monday, May 29, 2006; A05
In August 1999, political organizer Ralph Reed's firm sent out a mailer
to Alabama conservative Christians asking them to call then-Rep. Bob
Riley (R-Ala.) and tell him to vote against legislation that would have
made the U.S. commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands subject to federal
wage and worker safety laws.
Now those seven-year-old words are coming back to haunt Reed, the former
executive director of the Christian Coalition and a candidate for the
Republican nomination to be Georgia's lieutenant governor.
"The radical left, the Big Labor Union Bosses, and Bill Clinton want to
pass a law preventing Chinese from coming to work on the Marianas
Islands," the mailer from Reed's firm said. The Chinese workers, it
added, "are exposed to the teachings of Jesus Christ" while on the
islands, and many "are converted to the Christian faith and return to
China with Bibles in hand."
A year earlier, the Department of the Interior -- which oversees federal
policy toward the U.S. territory -- presented a very different picture of
life for Chinese workers on the islands. An Interior report found that
Chinese women were subject to forced abortions and that women and
children were subject to forced prostitution in the local sex-tourism
industry.
It also alleged that the garment industry and other businesses set up
facilities on the Northern Marianas to produce products labeled "Made in
the USA," while importing workers from China and other Asian countries
and paying them less than U.S. minimum wage under conditions not subject
to federal safety standards.
Lisa Baron, a spokeswoman for Reed's campaign, said Millennium Marketing
"was hired as a direct-mail subcontractor to assist in encouraging grass-
roots citizens to promote the propagation of the gospel."
"As a defender of the unborn, Ralph was unaware of any allegations
regarding inhumane or illegal treatment of workers, and he would strongly
object to such practices, if true," she added.
Reed's close friend and political ally, disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff,
represented the commonwealth as a partner of Greenberg Traurig. The
islands' government paid Abramoff $4.04 million from 1998 to 2002.
Greenberg Traurig hired Millennium Marketing to print the mailing.
Reed is running for the GOP nomination against state Sen. Casey Cagle.
The old mailing was brought to a reporter's attention by former employees
of Reed, who said the support on behalf of Northern Marinas leaves their
former boss exposed as a hypocrite.
The Mariana mailing adds another hurdle to Reed's campaign, which already
has been plagued by the disclosures that Abramoff paid Reed more than $4
million to conduct grass-roots lobbying on behalf of Indian casinos
seeking to prevent potential competitors from getting approval to open
new facilities.
Alamaine, IVe
Grand Forks, ND, US of A
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