“We’re in the middle of a dispute with the City, and my job is to make sure that I can slam them any way I can. It’s like politics…But this is the union’s way of political rhetoric. I slam them, they slam us…This is strictly the game I play as union president to slam them any way I can with the tires, the wheels falling off the car…My job is to make it sound like we’re the poor little victims and I have to do it.” (Gill v. Rawlings, Oct. 24 2002).

“…you have to understand a lot of what I say in the newspaper is, A, not accurate…I mean, I’ve got a point and I’m going to needle somebody or shoot somebody or score points for us…It’s political bull. I’m going to say whatever I have to say.” (Gill v. Rawlings, Oct. 24, 2002).