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Billionaires Build Their Own Party · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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  So the Colorado Republican Party rendered itself incapable of delivering for those
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  billionaires and business interests.
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  This is the Labor Radio Podcast, daily for Monday, November 2nd.
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  And so those billionaires and business interests took it upon themselves to
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  create a better Colorado Republican Party that might still be able to deliver
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  for them, and that is Advance Colorado.
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  That's from Labor Exchange on the Labor Radio Podcast
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  network, laborradionetwork.org.
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  In today's labor history on this date, in 1989, Carmen Fasanella
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  retired after sixty-eight years and two hundred and forty-three days from
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  taxicab service in Princeton, New Jersey, earning himself a place in
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  the Guinness Book of World Records.
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  Carmen started driving at the age of seventeen and reportedly
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  chauffeured Princeton Professor Albert Einstein around town.
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  Today's labor quote is by Albert Einstein: " I consider it important, indeed urgently
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  necessary, for intellectual workers to get together, both to protect
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  their own economic status and also, generally speaking, to secure their
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  influence in the political field."
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  Support for the Labor Radio Podcast daily comes from Union
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  Plus, a nonprofit organization founded by the AFL-CIO in 1986.
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  More information at unionplus.org.
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  This has been Chris Garlock for the Labor Radio Podcast network.