So is this the leading contender for the Democrats?
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Dick's Brother contradicts story about Dick's father.
Gephardt milks his father?s union job
Presidential candidate Rep. Richard Gephardt (D-Mo.) likes to tell audiences that his father drove a milk truck.
?He was a Teamster,? Gephardt said in a speech last January to kick off his campaign in Iowa. ?He told me every time ? we were at the dinner table that we had food on the table and clothes on our back because he was represented by a union that could bargain and get him fair wages for his work.?
Gephardt?s father, Louis, who died in 1984, had a variety of jobs, among them selling real estate and life insurance. Even so, his nine years on a milk route have given Gephardt the most mileage with organized labor.
But according to Gephardt?s brother, Don, their father hated driving a milk truck. ?My father was in the Teamsters, but that?s because he had to be to get the job,? he told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
?I don?t recall him talking much about the union, how great it was. He prided himself on being a Republican. He hated Harry Truman. He had the feeling you had to make it on your own, that any kind of welfare program would just raise taxes.?
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Hmmm
CkG
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Dick's Brother contradicts story about Dick's father.
Gephardt milks his father?s union job
Presidential candidate Rep. Richard Gephardt (D-Mo.) likes to tell audiences that his father drove a milk truck.
?He was a Teamster,? Gephardt said in a speech last January to kick off his campaign in Iowa. ?He told me every time ? we were at the dinner table that we had food on the table and clothes on our back because he was represented by a union that could bargain and get him fair wages for his work.?
Gephardt?s father, Louis, who died in 1984, had a variety of jobs, among them selling real estate and life insurance. Even so, his nine years on a milk route have given Gephardt the most mileage with organized labor.
But according to Gephardt?s brother, Don, their father hated driving a milk truck. ?My father was in the Teamsters, but that?s because he had to be to get the job,? he told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
?I don?t recall him talking much about the union, how great it was. He prided himself on being a Republican. He hated Harry Truman. He had the feeling you had to make it on your own, that any kind of welfare program would just raise taxes.?
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Hmmm
CkG
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