Political Quotes

“That is because the union dues could not be used directly for the election of Mr. Carey. So they were laundered through campaign organizations with a quid pro quo, you do this for me and I will do this for you. The end result is what do we have? We have $20 million of taxpayer money that is right down the drain. We know that when the Teamsters ran their own election, they ran a clean election. When the Federal Government and this administration got involved in the process, we spent $20 million of taxpayers' money and all we got was an illegal election. So we know that the Teamsters election was full of illegalities. That is why it was overthrown. We know that there were lots of dollars that were funneled out into congressional campaigns, meaning that I believe that there were many congressional campaigns that we can accurately describe as being tainted elections because the dollars got into those elections in an illegal way. So we have got tainted Teamsters elections. We have got tainted congressional elections. And we have $20 million of taxpayers' money right down the shooter. I just want to add one thing, what we did last week, in a very surprising vote, is Congress finally stood up twice in the last 10 days and said, we are not going to pay for the rerunning of the Teamsters election. We are going to follow the current law. We can run a Teamsters election fairly. We know that we did that in 1991. We do not need any change of the law to have Teamsters get a fair election.”