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...and here's the answer from the Labor Union Report:
Reportedly, it was the Teamsters—or, more accurately, a mafia hitman named Frank Sheeran who also happened to be the president of Teamsters local 326 in Delaware—who helped make Joe Biden a U.S. senator.
“In the fascinating biography of Teamsters and Mafia hit-man Frank Sheeran, “I Heard You Paint Houses,” the lifelong thug describes a favor he performed while he was president of Teamsters Local 326 in Wilmington, Delaware.”
“In 1972 Sheeran received a visit from ‘a very prominent lawyer’ he knew who was “very big in the Democratic Party” in Delaware. The November general election was approaching, and the race for the U.S. Senate seat held by a Republican was expected to be close. The lawyer wanted help in preventing the distribution of a paid Republican political ad – an insert in the Delaware-wide newspapers – that would run for a week and expose the campaign misrepresentations by the Democratic challenger. Sheeran promised the operative that he ‘would hire some people and put them on the picket line.’ He added, ‘People nobody would mess with.'”
“The picket line went up, the papers were not delivered all week, and, as Sheeran said, ‘The day after the election the informational picket line came down, and the newspaper went back to normal and Delaware had a new United States Senator.’ His name was Joe Biden. Thereafter, said admitted extortionist, thief and murderer Sheeran, of Biden, ‘You could reach out for him, and he would listen.'”
Once the mob does you a favor, you're beholden to them.
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...more on Biden’s 1972 upset win over Senator Boggs with further details on the union action that made the difference...
In the book, Sheeran described how much he enjoyed being president of Local 326....The incumbent, a Republican Senator named Caleb Boggs, had wanted to speak to the union members, but Sheeran felt Boggs was against labor.
Boggs’ opponent, Joe Biden, had already asked to speak to the union members. Sheeran said he “took it to the executive board,” and no one said no so he said “sure.”
At that time, Biden was a County Council member and a Democrat. He was a “young kid” and a “very good talker” who gave a “really good pro-labor speech” to the union rank-and-file. He said “his door would always be open to the Teamsters,” Sheeran told Brandt, saying he was thus “already in Biden’s corner” when the lawyer came calling.
Now the lawyer told Sheeran that Boggs was going to be running advertising inserts claiming Biden had distorted his record. The lawyer “didn’t want those newspapers to be delivered,” said Sheeran, adding, “I told my friend the lawyer and the guy he had with him that they could count on me to get it handled. I always had a lot of respect for that lawyer and I thought Biden was better for labor anyway.”
The book explained that Wilmington was in the more liberal part of the state and, at that time, Delaware was a small state of 600,000 people and half lived in the northern county. Nearly “every newspaper buyer in the state” read the Wilmington newspaper, the book says.
“The ads were going to show what Biden had said about Boggs alongside of Boggs’s actual voting record or whatever,” Sheeran says in the book. Another man present with the lawyer “worked on the paper.” Sheeran told that man “I would hire some people and put them on the picket line for him. They were people nobody would mess with.”
He said that man wanted to put up an informational picket line but didn’t have good people at the newspaper “he could trust to walk the line.” He said he would put up a picket line and “see to it that no truck driver crossed that picket line.” The newspapers were never delivered, the book says. Another union was also involved.
“The day after the election the information picket line came down and the newspaper went back to normal and Delaware had a new United States Senator,” Sheeran told Brandt.
Sheeran stated in the book that he had no way of knowing if Biden knew “that picket line thing was done on purpose on his behalf” but he said that Biden, as a U.S. Senator (he won the narrow election in a surprise upset) “stuck by his word he gave to the membership. You could reach out for him and he would listen.”
The Boggs’ ads that didn’t reach voters were designed to counteract ads from Biden shortly before in the same newspapers.
Slate.com reports that, a little more than a week before election day in 1972, the readers of the Wilmington newspapers were “greeted with a series of advertisements” from Biden that were “meant to highlight how Boggs, and his generation, were out of touch.”
One ad said that “Cale Boggs’ generation dreamed of conquering polio. Joe Biden’s generation dreams of conquering heroin.” Another said, “To Cale Boggs, an unfair tax was the 1948 poll tax. To Joe Biden, an unfair tax is the 1972 income tax.”
The article explains how Biden had other things going for him that election, including a desire by voters for change and youth and Boggs’ reluctance to run again. However, even Biden didn’t think he was going to win, telling the Morning News, “If I were a bookie, I’d give five-to-one odds right now that Boggs will be reelected.” Slate describes how Boggs was a beloved political figure, undefeated, and had enjoyed Labor’s support in the past.
In 2019, Roll Call described how Biden’s 1972 Senate run was a “long-shot challenge.” Biden was only 29 years old then and running against Boggs, “one of the most popular politicians in Delaware history.”
The election was considered “one of the biggest electoral upsets in Senate history,” Roll Call reported. Of course, Biden’s life was soon punctured by tragedy when his wife and young daughter were killed in a car crash that also injured his two sons, Beau and Hunter. That happened just a month after he won the election.
Ted Kaufman, a Biden friend and aide, told Roll Call: “I have never seen a single one that can compare to the Biden ’72 campaign in terms of the size of the upset.”
Roll Call explains how, indeed Boggs was planning a campaign insert in the Wilmington News Journal, but the “newspaper was hit with a labor strike, and the state GOP had to deliver the fliers by hand.” Biden won 50 to 49 percent, according to Roll Call.
The Wilmington, Delaware Morning News, in an article dated on November 9, 1972, a Thursday, described how “striking drivers at the News-Journal Co. yesterday began a handbill campaign to mount a public boycott of The Morning News and Evening Journal.”
The strike was entering its seventh day at that point, and the company said the losses were “substantial.” That article ran two days after the November 7, 1972 election.
The company said the “problems of putting out papers Monday (the day before the election) and subsequent election and post-election editions made it impossible to estimate the loss accurately.”
The newspaper added that “threats against members of the International Typographical Union were reported yesterday, and carrier boys and girls continued to report harassment in their efforts to deliver papers.”
A company spokesman said some district circulation mangers who were also Guild members “apparently continued to request carriers under their jurisdiction not to deliver papers.”
Old articles on the Teamsters website make it clear that union support for Biden has continued throughout the years.
The Teamsters website says, “Vice President Joe Biden credits organized labor with helping him win a U.S. Senate seat and the vice presidency. Now he’s looking for Teamster support to return him and President Barack Obama to the White House in 2012.” And, in 2011: “Security will be tight on Day Five of the 28th International Brotherhood of Teamsters Convention as Vice President Biden caps off an exciting five days in Las Vegas.”
According to the National Right to Work Committee, Biden “kicked off his 2020 campaign at a union hall owned by Teamsters Local.”
“I make no apologies; I am a union man, period,” Biden said, according to that site.
(from Heavy.com: https://heavy.com/news/2019/11/frank-sheeran-joe-biden/)