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Illinois Senator Cites SEIU Support

Barack Obama in Salem Senator Barack Obama drew overflow crowds in appearances across Oregon in late March, signaling the importance of the state’s May 20 Presidential primary.
At a rally at the Portland Memorial Coliseum, Obama said the day he spent with SEIU home health care worker Pauline Beck in Oakland, California as part of the union’s “walk in my shoes” program had helped to reinforce his respect for and commitment to America’s working men and women.

He then gave a shout out to purple-clad SEIU members among the crowd of more than 13,000. There and at subsequent events in Salem,Eugene and Medford, Obama sounded the themes to his campaign that have electrified so many Americans and led SEIU to endorse his candidacy. 

SEIU believes an Obama presidency will "achieve economic justice, quality, affordable healthcare for every American, the freedom for workers to unite in unions, and an end to the Iraq war."

 It was a fitting kickoff for SEIU 503’s efforts on behalf of Obama, U. S. Senate candidate Jeff Merkley and Oregon Attorney-General candidate John Kroger in the primary. Members will be going door-to-door and staffing phone banks to elect worker-friendly candidates.
 Sonya Reichwein (l) and Katy Powers were in the crowd  Among the crowd in Salem were Sonya
Reichwein (l) and Katy Powers. Read
an interview with Sonya in the Albany Democrat-Herald.

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