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Nar1: At the Dunlop Tire Factory in Buffalo, 1,100 workers are on strike, to save their pensions. But they're also angry at Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and they have a question for her.
Act 1: "Where are the jobs? where are my jobs."
Nar2: One striker, Mike Jacques, has lived in Buffalo all his life. He isn't happy with Clinton.
Act 2: She hasn't proven nothin' to me. it comes back to the same thing.
Where are all the jobs. That's the most important thing in this country,
bringing jobs to people.
Nar3: Jaques and other strikers worry that the factory may just close down
and move elsewhere.
Act 3: I got 33 years here, what do I do? where am I going? if we don't' go
back to work, where am I gonna go. I'm 55 years old. everybody says oh you
can retire. retire to what I may not have a pension to do it because they
want to take the pension.
Nar4: The first time she ran for the senate, Clinton promised she would bring 200,000 jobs to the area. James Campbell teaches political science at the State University of New York in Buffalo. He says Clinton didn't deliver on that promise.
Act 4: I would love to see what her explanation was for that. Since she
doesn't have a serious challenger to raise that. she doesn't have anybody to
hold her to account."
Nar5: Democratic political consultant Bob Liff has an explanation. He says Clinton didn't have enough support in the Senate to accomplish her goals.
Act 5: "She's done what she has done what she can. And understanding that she is here in the minority so there's just so much she can do. But think how much more she can do if the democrats take control of the senate."
Nar 6: The democrats need to take 6 seats to do that. Allison Bourne-Vanneck, Columbia Radio News.