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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (7985)	10/7/1998 11:11:00 AM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13994

More friends of the First Perjurer: October 7, 1998 Friends of Bill At some point, an Administration has to be judged in part by the friends it keeps. There have been few tighter alliances in politics recently than that between President Clinton and the Teamsters, the nation's largest private-sector union. The grim side of this relationship was on display again last Friday in Philadelphia during the President's 97th fund-raising outing of the year. The Philadelphia Daily News reported "a group of beefy Teamsters kicked and punched some anti-Clinton protesters." One protester suffered two swollen black and blue eyes, bruises and cuts. He was later released from a local hospital. The altercation, which was broadcast on local television, occurred after union members wearing "Teamsters for Clinton" T-shirts argued with about 75 people demonstrating against Mr. Clinton. Don Adams said he was attacked by six to eight Teamsters, who also injured his sister after she tried to help him. He says that John Morris, president of the Pennsylvania Conference of Teamsters, began the violence by placing his union cap on Mr. Adams's head, a tactic known as "marking" a nonunion member for violence. Mr. Morris denies that; he said, "I put my hat in his face, on his head, to stop him from punching two women." Mr. Adams says he did not threaten the Teamster women, both of whom told the Conservative News Service that they hadn't filed charges and hadn't required hospitalization. Mr. Morris says they may file charges later this week. When it comes to violence, Mr. Adams has no record. The same cannot be said for Mr. Morris's Local 115, of which he is the secretary-treasurer. In 1995, it was found in civil contempt of a 1986 court injunction barring it from using violence on picket lines. The U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals acted at the request of the National Labor Relations Board, which noted the local had a recent record of violent strike-related conduct. At the time, Mr. Morris accused the NLRB of trying "to break unions by taking away their power." The Teamsters certainly have protected their power during the Clinton years. At a House hearing yesterday chaired by Rep. Pete Hoekstra, compelling evidence was presented that former deputy White House Chief of Staff Harold Ickes and former Trade Representative Mickey Kantor put pressure on Diamond Walnut Growers Inc. to settle a Teamster strike. At the same time, Teamster officials were pouring millions in campaign funds into Democratic coffers. Democratic National Committee officials later conspired unsuccessfully to funnel money into Teamster President Ron Carey's re-election campaign. Since then, Mr. Carey has been purged from the union by a federal oversight board and his fraudulent 1996 re-election invalidated. But foot-dragging by the Justice Department will have allowed the Teamsters headquarters to be run by Carey holdovers through this November's critical election. Mr. Morris was Mr. Carey's candidate for regional vice president in 1996, and has been a fanatical supporter of the Clinton White House. Last Friday, before Mr. Clinton's fund-raiser, he told Teamsters that as part of his next negotiations he would demand that workers get a day off for Hillary Clinton's birthday. This tangled friendship goes on and on. The federal indictment of William Hamilton, Mr. Carey's chief political deputy, has also implicated Clinton-Gore finance director Terry McAuliffe in an unsuccessful conspiracy to funnel money into the Carey campaign in exchange for Teamster help in securing $1 million for the Democratic Party. Mr. McAuliffe is now a top fund-raiser for President Clinton's legal defense fund, offering assurances that he could raise the money to pay a possible $1 million settlement to Paula Jones. If Attorney General Reno had appointed an independent counsel to look at the 1996 election abuses, we might all be able to get a better sense of what exactly is the nature of Mr. Clinton's association with the Teamsters Union. For now, the Teamsters themselves are showing their loyalties on the streets of Philadelphia. interactive.wsj.com

To: Bill who wrote (7985)	10/7/1998 4:31:00 PM
From: Big D	Respond to of 13994

Bill, Nice work. It's obvious that the Clinton supporters can't defend him and promote moral values at the same time. It places them in a juxtaposition from which they must argue with themselves, and must decide which is more important, defending their hero or stand tall for decency and truth. Their arguments are full of digressions, they can't allow themselves to be penned down to arguing the facts or the moral transgressions of the sick mind that occupies the Oval Office. They efforts to diffuse the veracity of the charges against The Coward makes them transparent and ineffective in the protection of constitutional government that we inherited for safekeeping. In fact, their attitude is part of the real problem,i.e., they don't expect nor demand that a President should conduct both his public and private life, at least while in office, at a level consistent with the responsibilities of that position. They are willing to excuse and make excuses for a president who doesn't honor his agreement to honor and protect the office to which he was elected. Their support is totally based on their political agenda and philosophy to which he professes. To hell with the long term consequences of perjury, obstruction of justice,and legalistic doubletalk. If they could only understand that short term gamesmanship does not serve the long term interests of our country.