The Alabama AFL-CIO has scheduled a second public press conference for Monday, March 8, at 3 p.m. at the Huntsville Marriot concerning the re-election efforts of Rep. Parker Griffith in the 5th congressional district. It will be in the Enterprise Room at 5 Tranquility Base.

“Parker Griffith has scammed us out of $219,000 and that, my friends is a bitter pill to swallow,” AFL-CIO spokesman Al Henley said in a statement. “He used our volunteer base to advance is personal political goals and has done a terrible job of representing middle class working families the short time he has been a congressman.”

“After using us and our money to get elected and create name recognition he has aligned himself totally with corporate America and the wealthiest 5 percent of our country’s population,” Henley added. “We intend to do all we can do to see that his political career ends ASAP and this scheduled press conference is another step towards reaching that goal.”

Griffith has invited John Bohner, the U.S. House Republican Minority Leader, to Huntsville to support is re-election efforts, according to the press release, even though the Madison county Rebulican Party has adopted a resolution to endorse “anybody but Parker Griffith.”

“So much for supporting the will of the people,” Henley said.

The public is invited to attend.

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