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Tuesday 24 January 2012

Mitch Daniels' Former Classmate And Labor Historian Upset Over Governor's Right-To-Work Stance

WASHINGTON -- The push to make Indiana a right-to-work state has caused a deep partisan divide in the state legislature, with Democratic lawmakers doing all they can to block the GOP majority from passing a bill.

It's also pitting Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels (R) against his former classmate from North Central High School in Indianapolis.

Leon Fink is now a history professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, specializing in the U.S. labor movement.

But in 1966, he was a senior handing off his gavel as North Central student government president to Daniels, a junior classmate. The moment was memorialized in a picture (here and below) in the school yearbook, with Daniels at the microphone and Fink in the background. Fink recently scanned the image from his own yearbook.         More Read

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