Executives with the Arizona Chapter of the AFL-CIO planned to mobilize their members to demonstrate outside a GOP fundraiser featuring President Bush.

The event in Phoenix on May 27 will benefit John McCain’s presidential campaign and several GOP campaign committees.

“McCain did tell the truth he said he would be proud to have Bush campaign for him,” union spokeswoman Dana Marie Kennedy said in a statement.

“I guess it is payback time for all the times McCain stuck by Bush and his failed economic policies. McCain is a strong supporter of NAFTA and believes it has helped jobs,” she said in reference to the North American Free Trade Agreement. “Tell that to all be people who have lost jobs oversees.”

Information about the fund-raiser is available through McCain campaign executive Andrea Tyler Evans at (602) 488-5959 or aveans@mccain08hq.com.

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