GEORGE "DUBYA'S" POSITION ON HOUSING AND UNIONS

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QUOTE OF THE MONTH: "If you don't think it's a gamble to put a man in the White House who believes we should have guns in church, who thinks the Taliban is a rock band, who was such a failure as a businessman that his company was nicknamed "El-Busto," who wants to turn our Social Security system into a Wall Street boiler room, who can't name a single thing he disagrees with Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson on, who smeared a bona fide hero named John McCain, and whose principle policy proposal is to give America's surplus to the idle rich in the form of a $1.3 trillion tax cut, you're either nuts or a Republican."

... Equal Time co-host Paul Begala, shooting the bull.

WHAT IS GEORGE "DUBYA'S" POSITION ON HOUSING AND UNIONS?

Housing activists and unions have blasted the Republican's Texas record. and say that if George W. Bush wants to move into the White House, the nation's most lavish public housing, he needs to get his own house in order first.  The Washington Post reports that the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs is plagued by corruption and incompetence, leaving many low-income citizens out in the cold. "It's a genuine, certifiable mess," said developer Robert Bobinchuck, who claims his warnings to the governor's office about favoritism at the agency went unheeded. "This could be the best housing agency in the country. Instead, it's a laughingstock." Far more than a mere civic embarrassment, the organization has come under FBI scrutiny, with several Bush appointees under fire for shady deals and one board member currently under indictment for bribery.

Though the governor's representatives insist that the criticism of the department is politically motivated, housing experts and politicians from across the ideological spectrum have found fault with the agency. "The agency has many problems," said state Sen. Chris Harris, a conservative Republican who co-chaired the state Legislature's bipartisan review of the department. Even parts of the business community find the system fatally flawed, and say Bush shares the blame. "This latest crisis is partly a reflection of a lack of leadership on housing by Governor Bush," said Andre Shashaty, editor of Affordable Housing Finance magazine, a publication for mortgage bankers. "Bush has been extremely blasé about housing and this agency, and during all the time it's needed leadership from him, it hasn't gotten it."

The Texas governor has also offered the GOP as a new home for some in the labor movement. Now one of the nation's largest unions has slammed its door on that idea. The Associated Press reports that the AFL-CIO has launched a series of town meetings to inform its members about the low points of Bush's Texas record. "You're hearing a lot about what George W. Bush says he would do as president. But it's time to hear about what he has done as governor of Texas," said union chief John Sweeney. The AFL-CIO has assembled the "Texas Truth Squad," a collection of union workers from Bush's home state ready to tell all about his shortcomings.

Mr. Bush is not acting like a responsible Christian.

The Bush campaign counters that the AFL-CIO is acting as a front for Al Gore to bash their candidate. The organization has endorsed the Democrat, and a visit to their official Web site lends credence to some of the Bush team's complaints. There, the group hammers home the merits of the Gore worker training program and the vice president's proposal for Social Security reform. Texas union members are also invited to email nasty-grams about their lives under the Bush administration to the AFL-CIO. That Web page comes complete with a picture of Bush sporting his infamous smirk.

Bush crosses Hollywood picket lines, union workers  Aside from labor leaders and Gore, the best anti-Bush propaganda is being provided to union workers by, well, Bush. The Texas governor is breaking a pledge to honor the Screen Actors Guild strike by using non-union talent in upcoming campaign commercials, according to a report from Variety posted by Zap2It.com. Bush's decision comes after the union's offer to let him use its workers in spite of the strike. He has requested "real-looking" non-union actors for a New York ad shoot in early July.

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