For Immediate Release
Wednesday, March 07, 2001
George Magazine Names AFSCME President One of America's 50 Most Powerful People in Politics
Washington —American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), President Gerald W. McEntee has been named one of America's 50 most powerful people in politics in the farewell issue of George Magazine, founded by the late John F. Kennedy Jr.
Mr. McEntee is 34th in George's extensively researched rankings of the most powerful. McEntee joins such political heavy-weights as President George W. Bush, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Colin Powell, Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle and House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt on the list of fifty leaders.
The only Labor leader named to the magazine's power chart, McEntee as Chairman of the AFL-CIO's 14-million-member "Labor 2000," efforts is credited with spearheading a massive get-out-the-vote effort that targeted 12 key states.
McEntee was first elected president of the 1.3 million-member American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees in 1981 and was re-elected in June 2000 for a sixth consecutive four-year term. AFSCME is the largest union in the AFL-CIO and one of the fastest growing.
