WASHINGTON--Please attribute following comments to NLPC Chairman Ken Boehm:
“John Sweeney’s lobbying effort for Clinton against impeachment should come as no surprise,” said Ken Boehm, Chairman of the National Legal and Policy Center, a union watchdog in McLean, Va. “Sweeney has a history of overlooking ethics problems of individuals whom he can use for his larger political and social purpose. Take for example Richard Trumka, Sweeney’s second-in-command; Trumka pled the 5th last year in the Teamsters scandal probe and Sweeney didn’t kick him out of the federation despite federation rules to the contrary.”
“Sweeney’s anti-impeachment campaign isn’t limited to this week. It’s part of his and Big Labor’s continued cultivation of Northeast liberal Republicans,” said Boehm. “National Legal and Policy Center’s recent Union PAC report showed that the likes of Peter King topped Big Labor’s money list.”
“King should be held accountable,” added Boehm. “He should disclose all his recent communications with Sweeney and Big Labor during the impeachment debate. Then the public will see King for who he honestly is. Honesty, full-disclosure -- are those too much to ask for from Peter King?”
According NLPC’s preelection report on Union PAC giving, Rep. Peter King (R-NY) received $52,100 from the twenty largest Union PACs of the 1998 election cycle. King was the number five on the list of top House and Senate Republicans recipients in this report. To view the entire report, please visit www.nlpc.org.
NLPC’s Organized Labor Accountability Project is investigating and exposing corruption and abuses in the Teamsters, LIUNA, AFL-CIO and other labor organizations. NLPC is a nonpartisan, nonprofit foundation promoting ethics and accountability in government through research, education and legal action. NLPC was a plaintiff in the lawsuit which succeeded in opening the records of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Health Care Task Force. Please visit www.nlpc.org.
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