To begin with, the organization has nothing to do with the U.S. government; "U.S." is simply an impressive, useful name. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is a powerful lobbying group funded by big businesses; it lobbies against financial reform, consumer protection, health care reform, and climate change reform, to name a few. To see a partial list of memebers, look at the October 30th Huffington Post article "Who Funds the Chamber of Commerce? HuffPost Readers Respond."
The week of October 19th - 25th, in the Charlottesville area, the Chamber ran blatantly anti-union TV ads against the Democratic candidate for governor, Creigh Deeds. They were inflammatory and untruthful. Nice touch with our workers hurting.
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