Clem Smith
Clem Smith is a Missouri State Representative.
Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
In 2008 Clem Smith, member of CBTU; member of UAW Local 163, St Louis, MO signed a statement circulated by the Partisan Defense Committee calling for the release of convicted “cop-killer” Mumia Abu-Jamal.[1]
Leftist state rep
"In other words," freshman state Rep. Clem Smith, D-71, told the Communist Party USA's People's World, Jan. 27, 2011], "Republicans want to give tax breaks to the rich. They want to let corporations have free rein. They want to weaken unions. And they want to destroy our social safety net."
"How is that a 'change' in culture," he asked?
Smith, a former union autoworker and current union machinist, won a hard-fought primary election last August in St. Louis' North County, a predominantly African American working class community.
"As a union member," Smith continued, "I know tax breaks for the rich and corporations will not create good paying union jobs with benefits, health care and a pension. Tax breaks will, however, make the rich richer."[2]