Don't mess with Lautenberg: 84-year-old Senator is ready for fist fight with labor leader
By Wally EdgeFrank 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.
After Lautenberg gave his pro-union stump speech to around 100 union members, he tried to engage a reportedly agitated Capasso in a discussion outside the union hall. The debate became heated when Capasso accused Lautenberg of taking work away from his union members, and Lautenberg responding that he fought in World War II to protect the rights that union members now enjoy. Both parties dropped a few expletives - nothing out of the ordinary for a political event in Bayonne. At one point, Steve Lenox, Lautenberg's state director (and a former AFL-CIO staffer) needed to get between the octogenarian Senator and the union leader to make sure the argument did not escalate into a fist fight in front of about a dozen union members captivated by the debate.
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Paterson boys
Please. Frank is all talk without "Pasadena Pete" in his corner.
George Ajjan
Lautenberg is a disgrace.
The guy has no business running again. When he gts like 53% of the vote Republicans will be kicking themselves in the ass wondering why they didn't run a real candidate.
Vote Column "A"- All the way!
Great
Great story.
Frank is ... a brawler!
Let Frank be Frank. Let’s built a boxing ring for Frank and invite anybody with a grudge with Frank to take him on. It will be called Frankothone.
If I recall correctly...
Frank threatened to neuter the Torch... just another crazy old White guy, like McCain...
Heavyweight Champ of the Garden State!
Senator Lautenberg is tough as nails and will not back down from a fight when it comes to protecting the values of the citizens of New Jersey. He has taken this sturdy brand of tireless leadership wherever it needs to go, be it in the halls of government in Washington DC or the union halls of working class towns like Bayonne, NJ. When it comes to the citizens of New Jersey, no one better get in the way of our Senator Frank Lautenberg!
YEAAAHHHH BOYYYEEEE!!!
The pugilist from Paterson!
Go get 'em Frank! You should have kicked his a@#.
This is sad
So now Lautenberg's camp has resorted to circulating stories about how "vigorous" Frank is cuz he "was gonna kick that guys ass!" Good thing Lenox held him back. Frank might have taken a swing and snapped his hip. What a dottering old fool. He'll fight some union goon, but he won't match words or wits with Zimmer.
By the way....
I didn't know that WWII was really about liberating the American worker to unionize and prevent the onslaught of the Nazi anti-labor movement. Interesting bit of history there Senator Nincompoop.
gopanimal
If you bothered to read history you would know that one of the first things Hitler did after coming to power was to get rid of the unions. And had Germany won the war he would have done it here. But they were stopped by the "Greatest Generation", including Lautenberg. So show a little respect if thats possible. By the way how frustrated are you knowing that no matter what you do or say, Lautenberg is going to win?
Frank was mistaken
frank was mistaken. He was ready to brawl because he thought they were taking away his jello cup from his lunch tray. He later apologized.
Lautenberg and WW2
Vet Lautenberg's altzeimers is no excuse for constantly infringing that same Constitution that he faught for in WW2
Propaganda
This is no more than LOUSEnberg to publically distance himself while he votes the way the unions tell him...hey Walley check you sources this sounds like a fake storey made up by LOUSEnbergs henchmen
Typical DUMBOCRAT says one thing votes another
LOSUEnberg - Rated 100% by the AFL-CIO, indicating a pro-union voting record.
Broy you are mistaken
LOUSEnberg faught in WW1 he was too old to fight in WW2....