Posted on 06/12/2004 5:09:43 PM PDT by Land_of_Lincoln_John
James P. Hoffa spat out the answer before the question was finished. "John Kerry. Absolutely," said the general president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters on Thursday. "It will be a close election, but he'll win."
Hoffa spoke to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review at the Wyndam Pittsburgh Airport Hotel, Coraopolis, before addressing a meeting of Teamsters Joint Council 40, which represents the western half of Pennsylvania.
The Teamsters leader also predicted the presumptive Democratic nominee would carry Pennsylvania and Ohio. The Teamsters endorsed Kerry, despite his support of the North American Free Trade Agreement and other free-trade initiatives that the union abhors. But Hoffa said Kerry scored 95 percent on Teamsters' labor issues, such as a minimum wage hike.
The union represents roughly 1.4 million workers through about 500 locals in North America. There are about 89,000 members in Pennsylvania. Members include truck drivers, warehouse and dock workers, tradesmen and government workers. The union turned 100 last year.
Hoffa, 63, was elected general president in 1999. He is the only son of James R. "Jimmy" Hoffa, who led the union for 14 years and mysteriously disappeared in 1975.
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Jimmy, it will not be close and Kerry will lose.
that should probably read "and he'll win", as rats can always mix their special sauce much easier in close elections.
I hate unions. They served a purpose once. Too bad the rank and file have the likes of him to tell them how to vote. Even worse, the sheeple who follow.
The people that are in charge of the stored election machines, are they union?
Once again the union morons will marginalize themselves. They will be sitting at a table in the Lonely Hearts Cafe with the Blacks, the far left and the far right, come election night.
This again demonstrates that GWB's reaching out to the 'rats will always fail. He needs to recognize 'rats are the Evil Empire and must be destroyed ala Ronald Reagan and the Soviet commies. I hope GWB has learned some lessons from RWR during this past week.....stop appeasing the 'rats and their evil - it can never be successful.
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