Oregon AG candidate Kroger gets key labor endorsement
SALEM - Oregon Federal Attorney General, a candidate John Kroger Tuesday a problem in another indication of the state on the main unions.
In his note, the Oregon AFL-CIO’s Kroger on work as a prosecutor of the Confederation, goes to the Corporate scofflaws, including leaders of Enron Corp.
“John Kroger rose against corrupt companies like Enron, whose pockets of their leaders lined raubst assiduously for the Americans of their pensions, Oregon AFL-CIO President Tom Chamberlain, said in a statement.” It is of the same tenacity and sense of fairness to the Attorney General, Bureau of Oregon. ”
Kroger, a Democrat and a professor at Lewis & Clark Law School, was previously received by the Oregon Education Association and the Service Employees International Union, which it is assigned by the State, the three largest unions.
Kroger, 41, runs counter to the State Scholars Greg Macpherson Czech Democrat, has been established by many of his fellow Democrats legislature, the retirement state Attorney General Hardy Myers and Gov. Ted Kulongoski.
Macpherson, 57, the assumption of certain union United Food and Commercial Workers Local 555, which gave it the name “For a solid spokesman for families to work.”
Macpherson, despite the experience of the State Legislature, where he was chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, his bid for the Attorney General was rejected uniform of the state public employee unions to a great extent, because some groups Working public mind, the leadership role he played in the revision of State’s Public Employees Retirement System.
Many union leaders of the debt of three legislators-term plan for a reduction of benefits for workers in the state. For its part, Macpherson, the plan identifies PERS given solvent system, amid billions of dollars of unsustainable debt.
As there is no current in the Republicans, the Attorney General, race, the winner in May of the state Democratic primary is almost sure to be Oregon’s next Attorney General.
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