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jeff47

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16. Can't find google yourself?

Reply to SoapBox (Reply #12)

Mon Dec 29, 2014, 01:38 PM

Dec 2014

Or do you think union leaders are selected by divine right?

Perhaps you could bother looking around their web site, https://www.nycpba.org.

Lynch has lead the PBA for a very long time now. He has always behaved in this manner. He keeps getting reelected. Thus the NYPD must like what he's doing.

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