Indeed, Hoffa the Younger tapped his greatest strength in the industrial Midwest, where a cabal of traditionally questionable Teamsters assisted in a campaign that succeeded in manipulating allies within the public relations field and press to serve the specific purpose of returning the old guard and all its stench to power. Some reports brushed aside the findings of the Independent Review Board with respect to politically connected Billy Hogan and his family-run Local 714 which has been removed from his control. Rather than take the maneuvering Hogan to task for the litany of sins outlined in the 122-page extract of the I.R.B. record, in some quarters Hogan was erroneously portrayed as the innocent victim of Carey's ruthlessness when it was actually a federal court calling the shots. Indeed there seems to be extreme reluctance by many in the Chicago power structure to criticize Billy Hogan and his wheeling and dealing and clout bought with political campaign contributions and favors others paid for in one way or another. Those who are quick to credit Hogan for the foundation of the movie business industry in Chicago and who have gone on record and predicted that the Hollywood studios will not want to come to Chicago unless they can deal directly with Hogan and Local 714 are dead wrong.
Power sometimes breeds contempt and arrogance.
And power can breed fear which little Billy always likes to use and some of his friends in life know how to administer quite well. But Billy Hogan has little of it now within the Teamsters union and in his own words, he expects to be a candidate for an indictment in the not too distant future. The half-million members of the Teamsters Union who cast ballots in this election showed good common sense but one has to wonder about the reasoning of those who voted the Hoffa ticket and the myth of mob power benefiting the working members of the overall union. There was a high percentage vote for evil to the detriment of the overall union. The membership should breathe a collective sigh of relief and be thankful that the mob lost this one.