It's sort of funny that the only Google News hit I've got for this is a blogger who learned about it the same place I did -- a facebook page set up by Rick Perlstein. But it looks like Tom Geoghegan is thinking about running for Rahm Emanuel's vacated House seat. I don't know a whole lot about Geoghegan, except that he's a badass labor lawyer who wrote a book called "Which Side Are You On?: Trying to Be For Labor When It's Flat On Its Back" that Ezra liked a lot. And I'm told it's pronounced "Gaygen".
Update: He'd like to amend the Civil Rights Act so that people can't be fired merely for being union members. That sounds pretty awesome.
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Let's reorg the unions as churches and dare employers to fire people.
Which Side Are You On?: Trying to Be For Labor When It's Flat On Its Back is definitely worth reading. Even if you have no interest in labour relations, its a fascination protrait of a human being and of American history. Definitely a great book.
I know this is off-topic, or on topic in a strange way.
Has anyone there heard about the death of Michael Connell, an informant who had been threatened by Karl Rove?
http://discuss.epluribusmedia.net/node/2164
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Geoghegan is truly one of the good guys. I can't even imagine him being in Congress. It would just be too sweet.
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