A trucker at the White House?
Why not? Karl Krueger, conservative Democrat has every intention of doing his best to get there, and he is not taking campaign donations exceeding $50
Krueger is a union driver for Yellow Freight and his line is “eliminate America’s use of foreign oil” and he supports the use of alternative fuels – batteries, ethanol and biodiesel – to the forefront of American transport. A war veteran, Krueger feels that fuel is a major tactical supply. According to him, Germany lost in World War II because of lack of fuel. America now gets its fuel from places where there is continuous unrest. Krueger is not on media like TV yet – rather, you will find him pitching in small towns, weekly newspapers and the like, in the Midwest.
After this week’s MATS, Krueger intends to go to small town newspapers, parades and fairs to propagate his point. Politics is nothing new to him – he ran for US Senate in South Dakota a decade ago but did not win. He has the distinction of having met Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton and the elder George Bush during his career-long stint with the U.S. military. In 1960, he met Jack Kennedy in the course of raising money for his school band as a teenager. Kennedy happened to be passing Krueger’s town and Krueger sold him a 50 cent chocolate bar. Kennedy had no money and borrowed from his driver to pay for it.