Plumbers Local 14

October 8, 2008 - 2:48pm

Don't mess with Lautenberg: 84-year-old Senator is ready for fist fight with labor leader

Frank Lautenberg may be 84-years-old, but he's still a Paterson boy who's not afraid of a brawl.  And when a labor leader unhappy with his position on immigration reform balked at including the Democratic U.S. Senator's campaign literature in a New Jersey AFL-CIO GOTV program, Lautenberg had to be restrained from a physical altercation.

According to labor sources familiar with the incident, Don Capasso, the Assistant Business Manager of Plumbers Local 14 United Association of New Jersey walked his members out of the Boilermakers Local 27 hall in Bayonne just prior to Lautenberg's arrival there. 

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