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Obama's Corrupt Promise to End the Feds' Supervision of the Teamsters to Reduce Mob InfluenceIt's in TNR. Here's how it was teased to me: I think you and your readers at Ace of Spades HQ will like this New Republic web exclusive by John B. Judis, “The Local,” which we have just posted on our site. It’s a major story, in which Judis explores the Obama campaign’s promise to end federal oversight of the Teamsters Union—even though its Chicago branch remains strongly linked to organized crime. Shouldn’t a Chicago politician know better? Judis writes:If there is continuing mob influence in the Teamsters, it is probably centered in the Chicago area. And in the last decade, the Teamsters in Chicago have shown little enthusiasm for rooting out corruption in their ranks. As a veteran Chicago politician surrounded by a veteran Chicago campaign staff, Obama had to have known this--and that makes his warm words to the Teamsters all the more disturbing. Here's the beginning: The Wall Street Journal recently reported that last summer, Illinois Senator Barack Obama told officials in the Teamsters union that he favored ending the Independent Review Board (IRB) that was created in 1989 by the federal government to rid the union of organized crime. Tommy Vietor, a spokesman for Obama, confirmed the story, saying that the candidate believed that the IRB had "run its course" because "organized crime influence in the union has drastically declined." The Teamsters subsequently endorsed Obama for president, in late February. A different type of politics, to be sure. Making corrupt deals with mob-connected thugs to win union endorsements. I guess it's "new" in the sense it's so retro; we haven't seen much of this kind of open, not-even-trying-to-hide-it corruption since the bad old days of, say, the sixties. | Recent Comments
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