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Obama: Teamsters' New Ally?

The Teamsters, a union that has been under the government's watchful eye for nearly 20 years due to its past connection with organized crime and the mafia, may have found a friend in Barack Obama.The Wall Street Journal reports today that Obama won the endorsement from the organization of James P. Hoffa's (son of former Teamster's President Jimmy Hoffa, whose 1975 disappearance is still fodder for lore and mystery) in February after the Democratic presidential hopeful said privately he was in favor of ending the strict government oversight of the group to root out corruption. Monitoring of the ...

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