The firestorm surrounding disgraced former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer is now drawing the wrath of labor groups around the country as well. The District of Columbia Street Walkers Union (DCSWU) issued a statement condemning Spitzer's alleged hiring of a New York City call girl to escort him to Washington last month as a prime example of "outsourcing" of jobs. DCSWU president Hugh G. Rection said in the statement, "We've already seen the permanent damage that 'free trade' agreements like NAFTA have done to American workers. Now it appears that some are taking that next step and invoking hiring practices that will damage their neighboring states and cities. DCSWU would like to ask the Governor a simple question: what's wrong with D.C. hookers? By hiring a New York call girl and bringing her with him to our city - and paying her thousands of dollars in the process - he has deprived a call girl in Washington of the same opportunity. This act committed by Gov. Spitzer and others like him is simply anti-worker, anti-Washington D.C., and - hopefully - anti-bacterial...
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