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On the recordSeptember 14, 1998
The one we paid for, the one where the regime, members of the group that were part of the ticket that won the election are still running the Teamsters. Think about it. They were part of the fraudulently elected leadership. They are still running the Teamsters. I have met with my rank and file Teamsters at the local level. They cannot believe it. They want the same thing we want. They want a fairly elected leadership representing them, because they know what happened under the last leadership. As good as they got at laundering money, they did get caught. The other thing that they have even gotten better at is making sure that we do not get all of the information that we need. There were documents that were at one law firm and we requested them, and they are at another law firm. It is kind of like one of these things, you have to ask the question exactly right, because if you have anything a little bit out of order, you are never going to find it and you are never going to get it. They are masters at hiding information, at slowing down the process and trying to turn the tables. Whether it is what is going on in the executive branch, whether it is what is going on at the Democratic National Committee, or whether it is still going on at the Teamsters, they have made it very difficult for almost anybody to get at this quickly and effectively.
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Pete Hoekstra
Michigan

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Discussing issues of leadership and transparency within the Teamsters union.

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