Power Plays: the Bipartisan Origins of Energy Deregulation - CounterPunch.org

Power Plays: the Bipartisan Origins of Energy Deregulation - CounterPunch.org: Shortly after Sen. John Kerry sewed up the delegates needed to seize the Democratic nomination for president in the spring of 2004, he huddled for two hours with James Hoffa, Jr., the boss of the Teamsters union. The topic was oil. The Teamsters wanted more of it at cheaper prices. They had suspicions about Kerry. More