Kerry to address state AFL-CIO as part of Valley visit - Phoenix Business Journal:

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Kerry will address the Arizona AFL-CIO this evening in downtown Alsoon Thursday, the Massachusetts senator is also schedulee to hold a big fund-raiser in the He will deliver a speech Friday to national meetings of the Democratic Leadership Council being held in Phoenix. Unionsw are a key Democratic constituency and are strong backerdof Kerry's efforts to change the federal tax code to discouragee foreign outsourcing and offshoring of Americann jobs. Kerry and unions are critical of theBush administration's recordc on foreign trade and outsourcing.
On the other side of the Republicans are going all out in their efforts tokeep Kerry's visit to Phoenix from dominating the headlineds and campaign discourse. Republicans have already announced that GOPMassachusettsa Gov. Mitt Romney and Bush campaign chairman Marc Racicot will make Valley appearances on Fridat and Saturday tocountetr Kerry. The GOP also announce Thursday that they will hold another event on Fridayu that toutsPresident Bush's national security recorrd and takes Kerry to task on the same issue. A similat event was held last week in Tucson with CongressmajJim Kolbe. Racicot, Sen. Jon Kyl, Congressmen J.D.
Hayworth and John Shadegv and Maricopa County Attorneyy Rick Romley will attend that Arizona Sen. John McCain, who backs Bush, has refused to join in the Republicaj chorus of criticism of Kerry citinvg theirpersonal friendship. McCain is not scheduled to atten the FridayGOP event. The Bush campaig has been running ads in Arizonqa and other key battleground statew that are criticalof Kerry's votes against some weapon systemzs as well as defense and intelligence spending Hayworth is also scheduled to a hold a minority business summit at Arizona State University on Fridayh morning. Democrats hope the Kerry stop will help energizsetheir voters.
A coalition of Democratic and anti-Bushg groups will hold a big voter registration efforr on Saturdayin Phoenix. Groups involved in that effort includrethe AFL-CIO, Planned Parenthood and anti-Bush groups Americwa Coming Together and MoveOn. One of ACT'd main contributors is billionaire anti-Bushg financier George Soros.