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Home » Hoffa holds commanding lead in Teamster election
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Hoffa holds commanding lead in Teamster election

November 17, 2011
Mark B. Solomon
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With about 70 percent of the votes counted, James P. Hoffa appears well on his way to a third term as president of the Teamsters union.

With about 170,000 votes tabulated as of 2: 30 p.m. Eastern time today, Hoffa had received more than 97,000 votes. One of his opponents, Fred Gegare, chairman of the board of trustees of the union's Central States pension plan, had received slightly more than 42,000 votes. Sandy Pope, head of Teamster Local 805, had more than 30,000 votes. The results are unofficial and were found on Pope's website. If Pope were to win, she would become the first female Teamster president in the union's 108-year history.

As of mid-afternoon, all votes from the Central, Southern, and Eastern regions had been tallied. Still to be counted are votes from the Western United States and from Canada. All told, an estimated 245,000 out of 1.3 million Teamsters cast ballots.

The winner will serve a five-year term.

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Marksolomon
Mark Solomon joined DC VELOCITY as senior editor in August 2008, and was promoted to his current position on January 1, 2015. He has spent more than 30 years in the transportation, logistics and supply chain management fields as a journalist and public relations professional. From 1989 to 1994, he worked in Washington as a reporter for the Journal of Commerce, covering the aviation and trucking industries, the Department of Transportation, Congress and the U.S. Supreme Court. Prior to that, he worked for Traffic World for seven years in a similar role. From 1994 to 2008, Mr. Solomon ran Media-Based Solutions, a public relations firm based in Atlanta. He graduated in 1978 with a B.A. in journalism from The American University in Washington, D.C.

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