Jimmy Hoffa Jr.’s Threats And Irony

Jimmy Hoffa Jr. issued a cry for war against the Tea Party movement during his warm-up act for  President Barack Obama’s Labor
Day speech in Detroit.

“President Obama, this is your army,” said Hoffa, who has followed his father to head the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.  “We are ready to march. Let’s
take these sons of bitches out and take America back to where America we
belong.”

Well, “let’s take these sons of bitches out” is not exactly what Russell A. Bufalino of Kingston, Pa. told one-time Darby-Colwyn High School student Frank Sheeran in 1975.

But it’s close.

Sheeran never could say for certain what became of Hoffa Sr.’s body although he was confident it did not end up in the Meadowlands.

Charles Brandt describes in I Heard You Paint Houses how Sheeran, besides shooting Hoffa Sr., takes a good deal of credit for getting Vice President Joe Biden into the U.S. Senate in 1972. 

That’s irony.

“I Heard You Paint Houses” is in the works to become a major motion pictured directed by Martin Scorese and starring Robert DeNiro.

The book ends with Sheeran making confession at Saint Dorothy’s Church described by Brandt as being in Springfield albeit is just over the border in the Drexel Hill section of Upper Darby.

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