In the auto industry, as in politics, a third-party entry into a well-known, hotlycontestedrace can cause significant consternation among the rank and file.
The hotlycontestedrace occurred in a newly drawn Democratic-leaning Congressional district northwest of Chicago that Walsh moved into to avoid battling another Republican.
Raphael Sonenshein, executive director of the Pat Brown Institute of Public Affairs at California State University Los Angeles, noted that old-fashioned boots-on-the-ground union campaigning won out in the hotlycontested Zimmer-Anderson race.