The Obama administration is boycotting a U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting in Providence, R.I., this weekend to avoid crossing picket lines and taking sides in a decade-long labor dispute between the local mayor and firefighters union.

But Mayor Daley apparently has no such qualms, in part because he¹s been in the same boat as Providence Mayor David Cicilline.

Not only is Daley planning to cross a picket line to attend the mayor¹s meeting, but he¹s also sent a message to the White House that it¹s setting a “very bad precedent” by directing Vice President Joe Biden and more than 100 federal officials to stay away

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