Kuhl Cancels $2500 Per Person Golf Fundraiser

MEDIA RELEASE

October 14, 2008

Kuhl sees shadow; Hides for 3 more weeks


Protest by workers prompts Kuhl to cancel $2500 round of golf at Oak Hill Country Club

(Brighton, NY) – Congressman John R. “Randy” Kuhl, Jr. (29th District of New York) has canceled his planned two day golf fundraiser at Oak Hill Country Club due to pressure from local workers.

“Although it has not yet changed on Kuhl’s fundraising firm’s website: [ http://thehammondgrp.com/_wsn/page5.html ]Kuhl will likely  claim this change was designed to help him “prepare” for his debate with Eric Massa last evening (October 13, 2008). This is simply untrue. Kuhl is fearful of facing the working men and women of his district because he has failed to get his job done. He is afraid to come face to face with local labor because he already knows his performance review will be abysmal,” stated Jim Bertolone, President of the Rochester & Genesee Valley Area Labor Federation, AFL-CIO.

Bertolone continued, “Kuhl has failed the working men and women of his district at every turn during his tenure in the US Congress. He failed to protect jobs by encouraging their outsourcing to foreign countries in exchange for larger trade deficits. He failed to protect the rights of working men and women in the workplace by voting against the Employee Free Choice Act – a bill he once sponsored and now calls “communist legislation”. And most importantly, Kuhl failed to be a voice and an advocate for families in his district throughout our current economic crisis. By canceling his golf outing, even Randy Kuhl understands that his performance has failed to meet the cut.”

Local workers, members of the Rochester and Genesee Valley Area Labor Federation (RGVALF), had planned to picket Oak Hill Country Club at 12 noon, Tuesday, October 14 to protest an expensive two-day golf fundraiser to benefit Congressman John R. "Randy" Kuhl, Jr. (29th District of New York). Bertolone concluded, “Although we still take serious issue with Kuhl’s lack of leadership and representation, we have canceled our picket out of respect for our working brothers and sisters at Oak Hill Country Club.”



Press conference - CANCELED

Tuesday, October 13
12pm
Outside Oak Hill Country Club, 346 Kilbourn Road, Rochester, NY 14618


For further information, please contact Aron Reina (585) 263-2650

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