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To: TomGuy

Is he still yelling at James Hoffa?


76 posted on 07/27/2004 12:49:56 PM PDT by socal_parrot
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To: socal_parrot
"Is he still yelling at James Hoffa?"

I wrote Hannity about this. I told him he sounded like a broken record. I had to turn it off. I told Sean he should have asked Hoffa how much his salary is and how much in taxes he paid last year. That would have shut him up. I'm sure his earnings are in the 6 figure range, far more than the rank and file he's supposed to represent. And isn't it the Dems who consider anyone who makes over $50,000 a year as being "rich?

Before retiring, I worked in a unionized job. At one time, the union was affiliated with an international agency (AFSME). Each rank and file member of this union had the opportunity (during a specific period of the year), to request reimbursement for their share of union money that had been donated (by the union) to a party or candidate that they themselves did not support. Of course, this wasn't common knowledge among the rank and file members, and the union leaders did not advertise that this opportunity existed. I'm not sure how it is with the Teamsters, or any of the other large unions, but I'd find it hard to believe that members who disagreed with the union's choice of political donations, didn't have the right to request their share back. I'm surprised that Hoffa didn't mention this. He has to know it. But then, perhaps he thought that if he publicly acknowledged existence of such a law/rule, that the Teamsters would be overwhelmed by an influx of members requesting their money back.

3,851 posted on 07/28/2004 6:37:49 AM PDT by mass55th (We are The Knights Who Say "Ni!" No! Not The Knights Who Say "Ni!" The same!)
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