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Byline: Aurelio Rojas
Aug. 27--MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif.--The California Labor Federation on Tuesday blessed the shotgun wedding of Gov. Gray Davis and Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante, endorsing a "no on recall, yes on Bustamante" ballot strategy for the Oct. 7 recall election and tethering Republican hopeful Arnold Schwarzenegger to the "anti-labor policies" of former Gov. Pete Wilson.
The state's AFL-CIO governing board earlier this summer urged Democratic gubernatorial aspirants to rally around Davis and stay out of the race. But three weeks after Bustamante broke party ranks, the 500 union delegates at a recall convention bowed to political reality and followed the lead of other Democratic stakeholders by adopting the dual-candidate strategy.
"We see the great value of this no-yes tandem, if you will, to be sure that we get a maximum turnout of voters," said Art Pulaski, executive secretary-treasurer of the 2.1…