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IAFF Corruption: “Catch the Rat”
Gangsta’ GP Harold Schaitberger East to West and North to South, Harold Schaitberger, longtime General President (GP) of the International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF), a nearly 100-year-old...
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IAFF Corruption: $795.30
Living the High-Life, On Us I’ve never spent $795 in a restaurant in my life. Even when I treat friends and family I can’t remember it costing more than $400. I guess it’s the restaurants we go to and...
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IAFF Corruption: That Ole’ Grey Goose
Let’s Hope It Was At Least The Grand-Daddy Size Grey Goose Mr. Schaitberger’s distinct preference for Grey Goose Vodka is legendary. Less well known is how much of your money he would pay to have a...
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IAFF Corruption: Shaking Down Jerry’s Kids
More Revenue Than The IAFF Financial Corporation This Labor Day Weekend when thousands of IAFF members hit the streets for MDA, little will they know that a nickel of every dollar they collect will be...
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IAFF-MDA: The Shakedown, Believe it or Not
$1,385,000 I guess we shouldn’t be surprised that a few folks actually can’t bring themselves to believe that the IAFF Executive Board shakes down MDA for just about $1.4 million dollars each year. One...
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IAFF-MDA: To Fund a Narcissist
Reaping What We Sow Harold Schaitberger IAFF-MDA began in Boston with Local 718 in 1952 when they instituted a community-wide fundraising effort. It started with a selfless appeal to help a single...
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IAFF Corruption: Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Bull’s Eye Narcissistic Personality Disorder In order for a person to be diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) they must meet five or more of the following symptoms: Has a grandiose...
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The General in a Different Light
I toured with a group from Wisconsin yesterday and saw GW illumined by stained glass at the Cathedral.
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Schaitberger MDA Shakedown: “Unprecedented”
A Double-Take I have been astonished at some of the statements in support of the IAFF bilking the Muscular Dystrophy Association out of millions of dollars meant for the care and treatment of sick...
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IAFF and Labor Day: Is Our Future More Corruption?
Saving the IAFF 2018 is just around the corner and sooner than we think the IAFF will be 100 years old. Now is the time to contemplate where we are and where we want to go when we begin our second...
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Death of the Fire Service?
This past week Fred S. McChesney, law and economics professor, wrote in the Washington Post that decreasing fires made most paid municipal fire departments unnecessary and that volunteers were the...
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Terror Strikes the Hilton
Appeared From Nowhere I live five minutes from the Washington Hilton, site of the attempted assassination on Ronald Reagan in 1981. The hotel has a heated Olympic-size pool open six months of the year...
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Remembering 9/11: Osama, Kim and Sharee
The Religious Life Bin Laden Whenever I take students to the Pentagon 9/11 memorial I try to leave time for a brief discussion of Osama Bin Laden’s reasoning as we cannot defeat our enemies unless we...
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9/11: The Box Cutters
Our Selfie Culture Twin Tower circa 1993 Jerry Casale, aging rocker, married Kristi Napp on the 14th anniversary of September 11th in an event which included the Twin Towers as wedding cakes and box...
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IAFF Corruption: Nice Ride, Dude
When Only the Very Best Will Do Anyone working, or trying to find work, during the recession of 2009 will not soon forget it. Things were so bad that Paul Krugman, the well-known economist, termed it...
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IAFF Corruption: When Walker Wins
Outside the IAFF Bubble Think of the IAFF “Bubble” as Pyongyang in DC. IAFF HQ and those dependent on Schaitberger’s largesse operate in a sphere where information is refracted through the lens of a...
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IAFF Corruption: When $630,000 Isn’t Enough
Two Engines and a Truck Company IAFF General President Harold Schaitberger’s annual compensation is at least the equivalent of the combined average pay of fourteen firefighters, staffing for a...
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9/11: Guilt by Association
On Fantasy Island Steve Rannazzisi, a Hollywood personality by way of Manhattan, confessed last week to lying about his 9/11 brush with death, apparently on the eve of being outed about it. He used to...
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Line of Duty: An Imperfect Martyr?
Murder, Insanity and Love Darren Goforth This past August 28th, Harris County, Texas, Sheriff’s Deputy Darren Goforth was shot to death as he filled his automobile with gasoline. Gorforth was allegedly...
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Ben Carson’s Arson
Big Ben Walks It Back Ben Carson Former brain surgeon and Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson poured gasoline on a fire the other day when he declared he would not support a Muslim president....
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