[a fool in paradise]

While the Teamsters are big donors, Hoffa says it's an unfair comparison. "There is no million dollar guy on the Teamsters giving money," he says. "Everyone puts in $50 or $20 and they find a way to get the job done."

No Gates or Soros or Streisand or Winfrey or...

FUJH.

[kcvl]

Union leader, Jimmy Hoffa Jr, has an estimated net worth of $2 million. Hoffa gained his net worth as the General President of International of Brotherhood of Teamsters. Hoffa was also an attorney for the Teamsters from the late sixties to the early nineties. As a youngster, Hoffa would regularly attended Teamsters meetings and events with his father, the late Jimmy Hoffa and, on his 18th birthday, he became a Teamster member. The rest was history.

Salaries & Benefits - Union Leaders

http://www.unionfacts.com/employees/Teamsters

[babyfreep]

"There is no million dollar guy on the Teamsters giving money," he says. "Everyone puts in $50 or $20 and they find a way to get the job done."

also

In February 2011 he characterized Walker’s modest proposal that state workers shoulder a small percentage of the costs for their healthcare plans and pensions as “a vindictive attack” that was part of a “union-busting” campaign and a “one-sided class war.”

So, to Hoffa, et al, it's fine for these workers to be forced to put down "$50 or $20" to support a democrat, but a small percentage toward their own healthcare plans is "vindictive", etc.

Talk about greedy...