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Article: A bare-knuckled brawl. (second national elections of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters)
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- Newsweek
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- December 9, 1996
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In the Teamsters, democracy means the right to call your opponent a mobster. Inside a vicious union election--and Jimmy Hoffa Jr.'s bid for power.
SOME REPORTERS covering the 1996 presidential campaign were hoping for a different, more combative tone. Rougher. Tougher. Grafter. For real bare-knuckled democracy, they should have been trucking with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, now holding only the second national election in its long and astonishingly sordid history.
On the surface, this election resembles the one on Nov. 5, except that incumbent Ron Carey and challenger James Hoffa Jr. are bludgeoning each other like a couple of... ...