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Article: Minnesota Judge Sustains Coalition for a Democratic Workplace Television Ads
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- August 19, 2008
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To: STATE EDITORS
Contact: Rhonda Bentz of Coalition for a Democratic Workplace, +1-
202-580-7289
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 ...