Talk about putting your action behind your words: Elizabeth Edwards spoke to striking union members at the University of Minnesota yesterday.
Local TV station KARE-TV carries the details:
"...Braving the heat and humidity in a grey suit, Elizabeth Edwards, wife of presidential candidate John Edwards, showed up to lend support. She told the sign-waving strikers and their supporters, "If they respect you and believe in your dignity, they're going to provide you with this raise!"
It was a sudden burst of political star power on the first day of AFSCME's second strike in four years at the institution..." (http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article. aspx?storyid=264007)
KARE-TV also notes that the news of the strike wasn't even carried in the campus newspaper, the "Minnesota Daily" that day. It wouldn't be a stretch to say that because of Elizabeth's presence supporting the strikers, they're covering it now: http://www.mndaily.com/articles/2007/09/ 06/72163251?com=add
Also, please see KARE11's video news report posted online here: http://www.kare11.com/video/player.aspx? aid=53345&bw=
Elizabeth put the case for the workers in clear, blunt language at the end of the report, "This is just to keep up with inflation, for Pete's sakes, they're not askin' for the moon."
I couldn't agree more.
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