If there is any such thing as a cinch bet, it is that James Riddle Hoffa will be overwhelmingly re-elected president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters at the union's Miami convention next month. But Jimmy is not the sort to take any chances: his headquarters admitted last week that an "independent" committee (headed by Hoffa lieutenants) had sent letters putting the bite on the union's 3,000 fulltime staff members for $25 each "to defray the election campaign expenses" of Jimmy and Secretary-Treasurer John English.
If everyone kicks in (and they had better), the total will come to $75,000. "You...
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