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Message: <blockquote data-quote="outta hours" data-source="post: 621588" data-attributes="member: 4568">Kristan, I applaud your organizing efforts and all the work you have put in to make our local better. I also appreciate the respectful manner in which you replied to my post. This forum is designed so we can have a dialogue and discuss our viewpoints. Can't get anymore American than that can you. We could go on forever here as it is my guess that we are both fairly articulate and opinionated.  That being said I will try to stick to the issue at hand.You mentioned several hard working Local 767 brothers and sisters in your reply to me. The one name that was never mentioned was that of the man you support for president of our local Billy Smith. Where was he? Or where has he been? How can you possibly entrust the enormous responsibility of our union to a man who has done nothing? I mean he can't even come to the monthly meetings. You seem to be well educated, how can you embrace such a candidate? Are you really all for Billy Smith or just against Wesley Jenkins? Have you allowed some negative personal experiences to cloud your better judgment? I have nothing against Billy Smith. Heck I don't know anything about him. And that's the problem. I don't begrudge him for exercising  his right to run for office. But any informed member can see that he is not qualified for the job. The president position is a huge responsibility. You have to be a very diverse person. A multi-tasker to the umpteenth degree. Local 767 represents thousands of workers at several different companies. You may be more aware than most due to your union work, just how insanely busy the president is. And as much as you have seen there is still more to it than that. It is not the job for someone who simply "thinks" they could do it.  You state several instances of things the current president has in your opinion not done well. I ask you to reconsider your position. Has he not done anything, or has the outcome not been one that was favorable to you. I could post thousands of similar stories with members who have had great outcomes because of the work of Wesley Jenkins. And in my opinion this is where the crux of your argument losses credibility and validity. If in the course of your work you do a thousand things ,a few of them may be wrong. No man is perfect. The point being you have to actually do something to have failures and detractors. Your candidate has done NOTHING. That means he has not achieved anything. It's easy not to fail when you don't do anything.  I ask you to accentuate the accomplishments of your candidate, not simply focus on a few incidents that you deem negative from my choice of men to lead our local.The Teamsters Union has afforded me the opportunity to have a wonderfully comfortable life. With great pay and benefits.  My future depends on this union. I entrust the responsibility of leading this local to Wesley Jenkins. After all my family's well being depends on it. I ask you and every member to view it with the same importance.</blockquote>

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