Due to the campaign money-laundering scandal which funneled at least $538,100 into the disgraced Carey reelection campaign, Teamsters will vote this fall for a new president. On Jun. 3, U.S. District Judge David Edelstein set Oct. 14 as the date for the mail-in ballots to be tallied. The Court has already disqualified Carey from the rerun. Likely candidates for president are James P. Hoffa, Carey’s 1996 opponent, and Tom Leedham who has the support of the influential liberal-activist group, Teamsters for a Democratic Union, as well as many other Carey supporters.
Related news: Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-MI), chairman of the House committee looking into Teamsters corruption, told the Detroit News on Jun. 9, “I don’t want the election to go forward with the conditions that exist today. I just don’t know how you can run an honest election in this environment.” His concerns are a reminder of the $20 million of taxpayer funds that were squandered by the last election. The Justice Department, under Congressional pressure, is appealing a court ruling that the government has to pay for the rerun election which is estimate to cost $8.4 million. “I don’t want taxpayers to be fleeced one more time,” said Hoekstra.