No doubt about it. Question is whether it was more important to give them the treatment or to figure out how to move around them to get the job done. Given the outcome, who do you think comes out ahead. The addition of Jimmy Jr. to the Executive Council changes the political mix radically. Watch for a Jimmy Jr.-Sandra Feldman duet with the building trades providing backup singers. At 12:23 PM 12/6/98 -0500, you wrote: >Michael Eisenscher wrote: > >>Bensinger was never known as a paragon of diplomacy. He's blunt, >>hard-driving, >>and, I suspect, not very politic about how he dealt with the leaders of the >>affiliates and the apparachiki at the headquarters. > >And is there a group of people that ever deserved such treatment more? > >Doug