Hot to Trot

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Dec 19 14:08:25 PST 2000


Nathan Newman wrote:


>Yes, Stanley Hill was scum- now what does that has to do with Sandra
>Feldman - who may be scum but in no way related to the corruption involving
>DC37. Now you are doing corruption guilt by association.

I said the NYC municipal unions as a group were dreadful. I gave several examples of why. They are part of a complex web of corruption, conservatism, and complacency that characterize the whole damn set-up. Like the Dems. You can find some good ones, you can find some issues on which Dems on average are better than Reps on average, but as an institution the party is dreadful. On the whole, organized labor in NYC is dreadful. Each union may be dreadful in its own way, just as Teddy Kennedy is dreadful in a different way from John Breaux.

Doug



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