Statement by Jerry Hood, Former Special Assistant on Energy, International Brotherhood of Teamsters

George W. Bush ^ | October 7, 2004

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Cooler Heads Coalition
February 18, 2004
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Hoffa Says Kerry Will Drill for Oil “All Over the United States”

The Teamsters Union has endorsed Senator John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) for president.  On February 18, Chris Matthews interviewed Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa, Jr. on Hardball and asked him about Kerry’s votes against oil exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, one of the Teamsters’ top legislative goals.  Here is an excerpt from the interview:

MATTHEWS: How about ANWR? You guys want to see ANWR because you want to see guys working in your business.  I guess there‘s a lot of Teamsters jobs up there lined up and organized, if you could put a pipeline up to the Alaska wilderness.  He [Kerry] is against that.

HOFFA: Well, we talked about that….   He says, look, I am against ANWR, but I am going to put that pipeline in and we‘re going to drill like never before….

MATTHEWS: But he is against drilling up there.  What are they going to run through the pipeline?

HOFFA: Well, they are going to drill all over, according to him.  And he says, we‘re going to be drilling all over the United States.  And he says that is going to create more jobs….

MATTHEWS: It just seems amazing that he has turned around on NAFTA, turned around on WTO, turned around on ANWR, anything to get the Teamsters.

HOFFA: Oh.

This excerpt has been tidied up to remove crosstalk.  The full interview transcript is available on the MSNBC site at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4302564/.  The League of Conservation Voters has also endorsed Senator Kerry for president.