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Article: Minnesota Judge Sustains Coalition for a Democratic Workplace Television Ads.
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- PR Newswire
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- August 19, 2008
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- In a decisive blow to the Minnesota Democrat Farm Labor (DFL) Party's attempts to curtail free speech, on Monday a Minnesota judge dismissed the DFL Party's complaint against the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace (CDW). CDW's television ad said Al Franken supports a federal bill to permit labor unions to force themselves on workers without a secret ballot. The DFL claimed that statement was false. But after examining the DFL's evidence at a hearing, Judge Barbara L. Nielsen dismissed the case, ruling that "The statement that Mr. Franken wants to eliminate the secret ballot is not factually false." (To view the ad, please visit ...