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Leader: John J. Sweeney John Sweeney (born May 5, 1934) is the president of the AFL-CIO, elected at the federation's biennial convention in October 1995 and was most recently re-elected in 2005. He replaced the do-nothing Lane Kirkland in a shrill reform campaign to revitalize the union and recruit new members. During his campaign, Sweeney joined the Democratic Socialists of America, sending a strong signal which way he was going. Among his many changes as president was a new concentration on political activism. Sweeney supported the idea of the Blue Green Working Group to make union members more willing to limit emissions and endorse the Kyoto Protocol to control global warming, but the plan failed to win union support. In 2004, Sweeney assigned a talented AFL-CIO staff political director, Steven Rosenthal, to lead America Coming Together, a pro-Democrat 527 electioneering organization. John Sweeney's relationships are mapped on Muckety.
Steven S. Rosenthal Get Out The Vote organizer Steve Rosenthal is a close personal friend of Andy Stern; they have shared a New Jersey getaway beach house for over 25 years. Unlike Stern, Rosenthal was born into a union family (1953, New York). His father sold shoes in a union shop in Brooklyn. Rosenthal attributes his passion for social justice to his religious mother and the Judaic tradition of tikkun olam, "repair the world." He graduated from State University of New York at New Paltz, where he majored in political science and became radicalized against the Vietnam war, volunteering for George McGovern’s presidential campaign. Rosenthal became New Jersey political director for the Communication Workers of America in 1985. He married a fellow CWA organizer, "a Teamster’s daughter," Eileen Kirlin. They later adopted two children, Ana from Brazil, and Sam from Paraguay. He left CWA to join Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign in 1991, then served on the Democratic National Committee and in the Clinton administration as Associate Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor for two years. When John Sweeney was elected president of the AFL-CIO in 1995, he invited Rosenthal to come with him as political director. Rosenthal served for seven years and showed himself the leading Get Out The Vote campaign organizer in the labor movement. The door-to-door expertise he gained from the ground up played a key role in the 2004 presidential campaign. Steve Rosenthal's relationships are mapped on Muckety. |
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American
Federation of Labor -
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Political
Action Committee finances
2008 election cycle
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Open Secrets
| Total Receipts | $1,692,335 |
| Total Spent (view expenditures) | $1,747,824 |
| Begin Cash on Hand | $90,281 |
| End Cash on Hand | $34,794 |
| Debts | $0 |
| Independent Expenditures | $7,354 |
| Date of last report | December 31, 2008 |
| Contributions from
this PAC to federal candidates (list
recipients) (99% to Democrats, 1% to Republicans) |
$630,900 |
| Contributions to this PAC from individual donors of $200 or more (list donors) | $1,430 |
| Name | Title | Compensation |
|---|---|---|
| JOHN J. SWEENEY | PRESIDENT | $247,500 |
| RICHARD L. TRUMKA | SECR/TREAS | $217,250 |
| LINDA CHAVEZ-THOMPSON | EXEC. V.P. | $217,250 |
| Brooks, Andrea | Vice-President | |
| Woerth, Capt. Duane | Vice-President | |
| Rivers, Clyde | Vice-President | |
| Cohen, Larry | Vice-President | |
| Bowers, John M. | Vice-President | |
| George, Warren | Vice-President | |
| Hoffa, James P. | Vice-President | |
| LaCour, Nat | Vice-President | |
| Hunt, Joseph | Vice-President | |
| Rico, Laura | Vice-President | |
| Hurt, Frank | Vice-President | |
| O'Sullivan, Terence | Vice-President | |
| O'Brien, Michael | Vice-President | |
| Lynch, Leon | Vice-President | |
| Wilhelm, John W. | Vice-President | |
| Roberts, Cecil E. | Vice-President | |
| Young, Boyd D. | Vice-President | |
| Atkinson, Baxter | Vice-President | |
| Thompson, Paul | Vice-President | |
| Bahr, Morton | Vice-President | |
| Young, William | Vice-President | |
| Gilbert, Melissa | Vice-President | |
| Johnson, Gloria T. | Vice-President | |
| Raynor, Bruce | Vice-President | |
| Goodwin, Michael | Vice-President | |
| Giblin, Vincent | Vice-President | |
| Scardelletti, Robert A. | Vice-President | |
| McEntee, Gerald W. | Vice-President | |
| Hill, Edwin D. | Vice-President | |
| Short, Thomas | Vice-President | |
| Gerard, Leo W. | Vice-President | |
| Junemann, Gregory | Vice-President | |
| Sullivan, Michael J. | Vice-President | |
| Friend, Patricia | Vice-President | |
| Appelbaum, Stuart | Vice-President | |
| Sullivan, Edward | Vice-President | |
| Hite, William | Vice-President | |
| Johnson, Cheryl | Vice-President | |
| Shaitberger, Harold | Vice-President | |
| Wohlforth, Nancy | Vice-President | |
| Rivera, Dennis | Vice-President | |
| Brown, Clayola | Vice-President | |
| Buffenberger, R. Thomas | Vice-President | |
| Sacco, Michael | Vice-President | |
| Stem, Andrew L. | Vice-President | |
| Burrus, William | Vice-President | |
| Upshaw, Gene | Vice-President | |
| Flynn, John | Vice-President | |
| Rodriquez, Arturo S. | Vice-President | |
| Hansen, Joseph | Vice-President | |
| Sparks, Robbie | Vice-President | |
| Bunn, Elizabeth | Vice-President | |
| Cipriani, Jack | Vice-President | |
| McElroy, Edward J. | Vice-President | |
| Gettlelfinger, Ron | Vice-President | |
| Lucy, William | Vice-President | |
| Williams, James | Vice-President | |
| Gage, John | Vice-President |