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03-04-2011, 09:20 PM
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Sen. Brown apologizes for Hitler, Stalin comment (http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2011/03/04/sorry.html?sid=101)
Columbus Dispatch
March 4, 2011
Sen. Sherrod Brown (http://brown.senate.gov/) has apologized for a speech in which he invoked the names of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin while he criticized Republican efforts in Ohio and Wisconsin to curtail the power of public employee unions to bargain with state and local governments.
In a statement today, Brown, D-Ohio, said he was "passionate about fighting for the middle class. Ohio's teachers and nurses and police and firefighters are facing the loss of their collective-bargaining rights, and I think that's wrong.
"But in speaking about this, I should not have mentioned the hostility of tyrants, like Hitler, to unions,'' Brown said. "I don't want my mistake to distract from the critical debate in Ohio, and I apologize for it."
By doing so, Brown is trying to defuse a controversy sparked by a Senate floor speech he delivered yesterday when he said "some of the worst governments that we've ever had, do you know one of the first things they did? They went after unions.''
"Hitler didn't want unions, Stalin didn't want unions, (former Egyptian President Hosni) Mubarak didn't want independent unions,'' Brown said.
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Sen. Brown apologizes for Hitler, Stalin comment (http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2011/03/04/sorry.html?sid=101)
Columbus Dispatch
March 4, 2011
Sen. Sherrod Brown (http://brown.senate.gov/) has apologized for a speech in which he invoked the names of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin while he criticized Republican efforts in Ohio and Wisconsin to curtail the power of public employee unions to bargain with state and local governments.
In a statement today, Brown, D-Ohio, said he was "passionate about fighting for the middle class. Ohio's teachers and nurses and police and firefighters are facing the loss of their collective-bargaining rights, and I think that's wrong.
"But in speaking about this, I should not have mentioned the hostility of tyrants, like Hitler, to unions,'' Brown said. "I don't want my mistake to distract from the critical debate in Ohio, and I apologize for it."
By doing so, Brown is trying to defuse a controversy sparked by a Senate floor speech he delivered yesterday when he said "some of the worst governments that we've ever had, do you know one of the first things they did? They went after unions.''
"Hitler didn't want unions, Stalin didn't want unions, (former Egyptian President Hosni) Mubarak didn't want independent unions,'' Brown said.
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Full Story:
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2011/03/04/sorry.html?sid=101