General President Hoffa acted forcefully last week to insure a fair election at Local 631. Based on the election protest filed by Secretary-Treasurer candidate Tommy Blitsch, Hoffa ordered fumbling, stumbling, bumbling and generally incompetent John Phillipenas to immediately mail new ballots to all members of Local 631 or face the immediate imposition of a trusteeship to protect a fair election.
General President Hoffa was forced to take decisive action because Phillipenas and his high priced inside and outside legal counsel failed to take two minutes to view the envelope for the ballot return package to ascertain if it contained return postage. None of the almost 6,000 envelopes contained postage as required by the election rules. Phillipenas refused to have the ballots mailed with proper postage affixed until ordered by Hoffa. Everyone should expect Phillipenas to use every dirty trick possible to suppress the ability of members to vote him and his entire slate out of office.
We hear Phillipenas, Weimer and Williams are so convinced that the membership will not return them to office that they recently filed an election protest requesting that the election be delayed. Mail your ballot brothers and sisters and send home Phillipenas and his crew of incompetent business agents!
