WHILE ROME BURNS

Facing the prospect of finishing third in the upcoming delegate election John Phillipenas the front man for his weak minded band of fools AKA the Empowerment Slate recently traveled to Cleveland, Ohio with Kermit "the Fraud" Williams to study a "state of the art" convention call-in system used by Local 507. Phillipenas could not explain why Williams accompanied him to Cleveland and not Convention Business Agents Donny Weimer or Kevin Clove. The fact that Cleveland isn't even in the top twenty convention destinations or that Local 631 already purchased a new automated call-in system apparently didn't deter Phillipenas from his road trip.