Union doesn't let John Gard use them in photo op

A great story out of Green Bay about the 8th Congressional District can be found here at Daily Kos.

This time when John Gard wanted to pretend the workers of his new found home support his bid for Congress, the workers took a stand.

Last week in Green Bay, the big chiefs at the Georgia-Pacific paper plant thought they had the picture perfect photo op for Republican 8th Congressional District candidate John Gard--a plant tour where he could mingle with a bunch of happy workers.

So far so good for Gard. But then Dan Vandenbush, USW District 2 staff rep, got wind of the trip about two hours before the scheduled visit.

We got out a whole bunch of Kagen stickers out to everybody. Jeff (USW Local 9 president Jeff Welhouse) ran across town for signs. When Gard got there, there were about two dozen people with Kagen signs to greet him and when he got into the plant almost everybody was stickered up. I don't think they wanted a picture of their guy surrounded by Steelworkers covered in Kagen stickers.

Guess Gard is going to have to work harder next time to trick people into being in his campaign commercials.