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Senate Committee Should Question Trump Labor Nominee Andy Puzder About Russian Ties
Allied Progress released the following open letter encouraging Senate HELP Committee members to question Puzder about his Russian ties.
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Washington Free Beacon: Labor Activists Turn Up Pressure on Murkowski, Collins
Allied Progress, a liberal non-profit research group, released a pair of ads targeting the senators. The 30-second spots attempt to connect Puzder, CEO of CKE Restaurants, to sexual harassment in the restaurant industry. They then call on the senators by name to oppose the nomination.
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Vox: The Ex-Wife of Trump’s Labor Pick Appeared on This Domestic Violence Episode of Oprah
Almost 60 percent of Fair Labor Standards Act investigations into Carl’s Jr. or Hardee’s resulted in violations against the fast-food chains, according to the advocacy group Allied Progress.
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Wall Street Journal: Andy Puzder’s Strategy Grew Fast-Food Business, Raised Questions About Worker Treatment
“This fight wasn’t just about Andy Puzder and his record of mistreating workers and shocking personal history – it was a repudiation of the anti-worker policies championed by the Trump Administration’, said Karl Frisch, executive director of Allied Progress.
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I Agree To See: Progressive Group Deep Fries Fast Food Tycoon Andy Puzder with Wave of Attack Ads
Allied Progress, has launched “damning” new TV ads, calling on Senators to reject President Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Labor, fast food mogul Andy Puzder. And it seems like it worked, because this morning Puzder withdrew his nomination.
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ABC News: New Ads Against Puzder
The progressive group Allied Progress is launching new TV ad buys today calling on Senators Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Susan Collins, R-Maine, to vote no on President Donald Trump’s labor secretary nominee Andrew Puzder.
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Damning New Ad Calls on Senators to Reject Trump’s Labor Nominee
With Andy Puzder’s nomination on the ropes, damning new ad begins airing in Maine, Alaska, and the nation’s capital.
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New Ad Calls on Sen. Murkowski to Reject Trump’s Labor Nominee
With Andy Puzder’s nomination on the ropes, damning new ad begins airing in Alaska.
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New Ad Calls on Sen. Collins to Reject Trump’s Labor Nominee
With Andy Puzder’s nomination on the ropes, damning new ad begins airing in Maine.
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Washington Examiner: Smelling Blood, Left Ups Pressure on Puzder
Another liberal group called Allied Progress called on Oprah Winfrey to release a tape of Fierstein appearing on her program in a late 1980s episode devoted to domestic violence in the late 1980s. Fierstein has said that she appeared anonymously on the show, stating that she was “caught up in the notion of a free trip to Chicago and being a champion of women’s issues.”