NY Times’ Paul Krugman Calls for ‘Government Jobs’ Jobs Plan; Cites Union-Funded Study

Undeterred by stubbornly high unemployment rates, and a stimulus plan that has fallen flat, talk of a second stimulus package is growing louder.  But to shed the unsuccessful “stimulus” moniker, Democrats and government labor unions have adopted a “jobs plan.”

Paul Krugman, the New York Times columnist who’s never seen a government expenditure he didn’t like, Sunday  pointed to a “study” by the Economic Policy Institute, which alleges spending $40 billion over 3 years could create about a million “public-service” jobs.

In other words, Krugman and EPI would see fit to simply create government jobs, instead of trying to help the private sector.  That makes sense, given who supports EPI.

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Tags: Andy Stern, economic growth, Economic Policy Institute, economic recession, EcPI
Posted Dec 7th 2009 at 7:33 am in Big Labor, Economics, News, Politics | 4181466 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/kolson/2009/12/07/ny-times-paul-krugman-calls-for-government-jobs-jobs-plan-cites-union-funded-study/NY+Times%27+Paul+Krugman+Calls+for+%27Government+Jobs%27+Jobs+Plan%3B+Cites+Union-Funded+Study2009-12-07+14%3A33%3A27Kyle+Olson

SEIU’s Pay-to-Play Politics Key to Understanding its Salivation Over ObamaCare

The Service Employees International Union has demonstrated a history of blatant “pay-to-play” political tactics. And “pay-to-play” is probably why the SEIU has been at the forefront of promoting ObamaCare, with a “robust” public option.

In 2002, the union spent well over $1 million and worked tirelessly getting Rod Blagojevich elected governor of Illinois.  Shortly after he was sworn in, he signed an executive order, allowing SEIU to unionize 20,000 state health care employees.  It was the first such move by any governor on SEIU’s behalf.  Dozens of campaign contributions from the SEIU to Blogojevich are compiled in a list posted on shopfloor.org, a blog maintained by the National Association of Manufacturers.

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Tags: Andy Stern, Anna Burger, Bob Holden, government health care, health care reform
Posted Dec 4th 2009 at 3:06 pm in Big Labor, Healthcare, News, Politics | 4053839 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/kolson/2009/12/04/seius-pay-to-play-politics-key-to-understanding-its-salivation-over-obamacare/SEIU%E2%80%99s+Pay-to-Play+Politics+Key+to+Understanding+its+Salivation+Over+ObamaCare2009-12-04+22%3A06%3A22Kyle+Olson

Obama’s Jobs Summit: The Invisible Hand of SEIU and ACORN

As President Obama concludes his first jobs summit, almost a year into his presidency, the nature of the guest list hints at a deliberate initiative that’s been underway for over 15 years – and it’s not one of the obvious presumptions that most would make.  Notice that of the list of leaders invited, the majority are labor union leaders, leaders of businesses with government contracts, or leaders of businesses that operate on partial public funding.  There is a common element across most of the businesses represented:  in one capacity or another, even if they are private sector businesses, most on the list benefit from some form of public money.

There is a legal precedent over 15 years old that is the pervasive push behind such a premise, one that was the product of ACORN and labor union coalitions.  And judging by Change to Win / SEIU’s Anna Burger’s plan for today’s jobs summit, it’s evident that this precedent is in play as we speak.

It’s no coincidence that in the wake of America’s economic crisis, some lawmakers have been pushing for infusions of public funds into the private sector.  No, we’re not just talking bank and insurance company bailouts. We’re talking about tax credit and incentive programs, health care reform proposals, green jobs programs, energy efficiency initiatives,  and even real estate development companies.  As the conservative accusations of socialism have begun to sink in with progressive leaders -especially with union leaders, who are especially sensitive to being perceived as public spenders – the language has been changing.  Adam Smith’s “Invisible Hand” doesn’t sound so scary when it’s wrapped in the glove of words like “co-ops” and “public-private partnerships” and “national service”, which are now quickly being mainstreamed into the rhetoric.

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Tags: ACORN, adam smith, Andy Stern, Anna Burger, capitalism
Posted Dec 4th 2009 at 11:03 am in ACORN, Big Labor, Economics, News, Obama, Politics | 4069063 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/libertychick/2009/12/04/obamas-jobs-summit-the-invisible-hand-of-seiu-and-acorn/Obama%27s+Jobs+Summit%3A+The+Invisible+Hand+of+SEIU+and+ACORN2009-12-04+18%3A03%3A12Liberty+Chick

Obama’s Labor Department Gives Big Labor and Its Front Groups Another Gift

Thursday, the Obama Administration announced that it will rescind rules requiring the disclosure of financial information for Big Labor slush funds and front groups.  And, the Obama Administration is giving you only 11 (eleven) days to comment!

At least they are consistent!  Just as they did for union conflict-of-interest disclosure reporting that SEIU’s Andy Stern may be ignoring and just as it rescinded union-boss perk disclosures, the Obama Administration continues to rollback union financial disclosures.

It is not surprising that Obama’s Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis would rescind these financial disclosure rules since she is the former treasurer of the Big Labor funded American Rights at Work (ARAW) lobbying and political group.   These disclosures would reveal much about the group’s expenditures on behalf Big Labor’s agenda; the very types of expenditures Solis would have signed-off on as ARAW Treasurer.

Union officials have fought these financial disclosures since 2003.  One of the AFL-CIO lawyers involved in opposing these disclosure requirements was Deborah Greenfield.   Now, Greenfield is the Obama Administration’s Acting Deputy Solicitor of Labor and Director of the Office of the Secretariat.  As Deputy Solicitor, Greenfield oversees these regulations.

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Tags: Americans Rights at Work, Andy Stern, Big Labor, comment period, conflict of interest
Posted Dec 4th 2009 at 6:57 am in ACORN, Big Labor, Featured Story | 4090276 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/dloos/2009/12/04/obamas-labor-department-gives-big-labor-and-its-front-groups-another-gift/Obama%E2%80%99s+Labor+Department+Gives+Big+Labor+and+Its+Front+Groups+Another+Gift2009-12-04+13%3A57%3A55Don+Loos

A Lobbyist By Any Other Name: SEIU and the Obama White House

Successfully demonizing Washington insiders on the campaign trail, President Obama needed to find a way to meet with lobbyists without appearing hypocritical. The administration’s advice to lobbyists? De-register.

For an administration that promised to renounce interest groups, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) certainly has the president’s ear and is sure to be a major player in the December jobs summit. In 2008, SEIU donated nearly $28 million to the Obama campaign setting the stage for SEIU President Andy Stern to become the White House’s most frequent visitor in 2009, according to White House visitor logs. Anna Burger, Treasure of the SEIU and Chairwoman of their Change to Win campaign was even appointed to Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board earlier this year and will represent SEIU at the December jobs summit held by the White House.

To the objective observer, it is clear that Andy Stern and Anna Burger are meeting with members of the White House to advance goals of the SEIU, they are lobbying. However, in 2008 both Stern and Burger de-registered as lobbyists providing the Obama administration cover to meet with them while avoiding cries of duplicity. Yet, neither Stern nor Burger changed positions or job responsibilities, they just stopped registering as lobbyists.

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Tags: Andy Stern, Anna Burger, Change to Win, Grover Norquist, jobs summit
Posted Dec 3rd 2009 at 7:29 am in Big Labor, Economics, News, Politics | 4035847 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/brjohnson/2009/12/03/a-lobbyist-by-any-other-name-seiu-and-the-obama-white-house/A+Lobbyist+By+Any+Other+Name%3A+SEIU+and+the+Obama+White+House2009-12-03+14%3A29%3A04Brian++Johnson

Did SEIU’s Andy Stern Violate Federal Conflict of Interest Reporting Laws, the Same Regs that the Obama Labor Department is Repealing?

The Labor-Management Disclosure and Reporting Act (LMRDA) requires labor union officials to report potential or certain conflict-of-interests they might encounter if they receive gifts or cash payments from employers. Service Employees International Union (SEIU) President Andrew Stern may be in violation of that requirement since he has not filed a report disclosing $140,000 in advance payments from publisher and service industry employer Simon & Schuster.

In addition to this, documents made public during an intra-union California lawsuit and obtained by a “BigGovernment researcher” (posted on NRTWC.org’s Scribd, seen below) reveal that SEIU Treasurer Anna Burger recommended that the union use general treasury money, much collected from employees as a condition of employment, to promote Stern’s book, A Country that Works.

It’s not as if Stern has never filed a conflict-of-interest disclosure report; in fact, he has filed two in 2004 and one in 2005. But, why has he not filed any reports related to his special book deal?

SEIU President Andy Stern’s Book Advance and Past Conflict of Interest Reports (LM-30s)

Unfortunately for rank and file workers forced to pay dues or fees to the SEIU, rather than spending its resources investigating potential LMRDA violations, the Obama Labor Department (DOL) is busy rescinding conflict-of-interest and other union financial reporting requirements.

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Tags: A Country that Works, Andy Stern, Anna Burger, Hilda Solis, Labor-Management Disclosure and Reporting Act
Posted Dec 2nd 2009 at 6:51 am in Big Labor, Featured Story | 3933018 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/dloos/2009/12/02/did-seius-andy-stern-violate-federal-conflict-of-interest-reporting-laws-the-same-regs-that-the-obama-labor-department-is-busily-repealing/Did+SEIU%E2%80%99s+Andy+Stern+Violate+Federal+Conflict+of+Interest+Reporting+Laws%2C+the+Same+Regs+that+the+Obama+Labor+Department+is+Repealing%3F2009-12-02+13%3A51%3A05Don+Loos

Something Rotten in River City: The Gladney Beating and a Prosecutor’s Political Application of the Law

The symbol of our judicial system is the blind folded lady liberty holding the scales of justice in her hands.  In St. Louis County it appears she may be peeking.

On October 9th, 2000, Patricia Redington, a newly appointed St. Louis County Counselor showed such dedication to her job, that she opened the office on the Columbus Day holiday in order to file assault charges against Republican candidate Bill Federer.  This is in contrast to the way she handles the, typical case and the way she is handling the case of Democrat SEIU members pounding a businessman.   St. Louis area patriots smell a rat and show no signs of letting up until justice is served.

Realizing that workers can lose their initial zeal for their jobs, we can understand why Counselor Redington now says that despite what she did for Federer, her typical time to get charges written up and filed is six to eight weeks.  That is unfortunate for Federer who had an election in four weeks and might have appreciated a delay.  He lost his election as voters had to choose between throwing out Gephart and voting in a guy under a legal cloud and media scrutiny.   The respected author, historian and family man just might be mentally unstable considering he had in fact, been charged with a crime.  Redington, by the way, is a Democrat.

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Tags: Al Gore, Andy Stern, Bill Federer, Bob McCullough, Carnahan townhall
Posted Dec 1st 2009 at 7:03 am in Big Labor, Featured Story, Justice/Legal, News, Politics, Tea Party | 3891047 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/jloudon/2009/12/01/something-rotten-in-river-city-the-gladney-beating-and-a-prosecutors-political-application-of-the-law/Something+Rotten+in+River+City%3A+The+Gladney+Beating+and+a+Prosecutor%27s+Political+Application+of+the+Law2009-12-01+14%3A03%3A03John++Loudon

SEIU and the Law of Intended Consequences

SEIU has made a good living off the law of unintended consequences.  Or so the labor union would have you think. The reality is, there’s nothing unintended about the consequences they reap.  And when it comes to local, state and federal lawmaking, SEIU banks on the propensity of the American people to respond to emotion rather than logic, and orchestrated concern that becomes a popular mantra.  Even some SEIU members (those brave enough to say so) plead for the public to investigate the union’s true intentions. But if you’re just an average citizen disengaged from the issues, before you know it, you’re ignoring the consequences staring you right between the eyes.

This past September Lisa Snyder, a 35 year old Michigan mother,  made the news when she received a disturbing letter from the Michigan Department of Human Services.  In it, the letter warned her that she was in violation of the law.  Her offense?  Watching a handful of neighborhood kids  each morning for about 20 minutes as they waited at the end of her driveway for the school bus to arrive, with the blessing of their parents. State law in Michigan prohibits the home supervision of unrelated children for more than four weeks in a year without a child care provider license.  Turns out a neighbor had complained and the Michigan Department of Human Services, the watchdog for home child care licensing, intervened by sending the warning letter.  In Michigan, state employees for the DHS are represented by the United Auto Workers (UAW) labor union.  Coincidentally, the union that represents the state’s home child care workers?  Also the UAW.

AFSCME: American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees
FCC: Family child care   |   FNN: Family, friend and neighbor
” Building a Union of Family Child Care and FFN Providers”
by SEIU & AFSCME members to the National Women’s Law Center

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Tags: AFSCME, Andy Stern, Blago, California Nurses Association, Child Care
Posted Nov 24th 2009 at 6:11 am in Big Labor, News, Politics, State Politics | 3569045 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/libertychick/2009/11/24/seiu-and-the-law-of-intended-consequences/SEIU+and+the+Law+of+Intended+Consequences2009-11-24+13%3A11%3A43Liberty+Chick

SEIU’s Next Beatdown Victim: Joe Lieberman

It appears one of the few things standing between SEIU and government-run health care is U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman.  That may be the most dangerous place to stand in Washington these days.

The SEIU issued an e-mail screed a few days ago, entitled “Joe Lieberman will hate this,” exclaiming: “Joe Lieberman is at it again. Jockeying for attention.”

Something tells me SEIU fell all over themselves when Lieberman was on the cusp of being elected vice president in 2000, but that was a long time ago I suppose.

Anyway, Lieberman, along with Democratic Sens. Ben Nelson of Nebraska, Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, and Mary Landrieu of Louisiana are named in the e-mail as “targets” that may join a “Republican filibuster” of a Senate health care reform bill that tops the length of Pelosi’s monster 1,990 pager.

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Tags: Andy Stern, Ben Nelson, Blanche Lincoln, government health care, Joe Lieberman
Posted Nov 20th 2009 at 2:47 pm in Big Labor, Healthcare, Politics | 3389856 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/kolson/2009/11/20/seius-next-beatdown-victim-joe-lieberman/SEIU%27s+Next+Beatdown+Victim%3A+Joe+Lieberman2009-11-20+21%3A47%3A41Kyle+Olson

Whistleblower Video Reveals SEIU Ballot Fraud

Earlier this week, we brought you the story of SEIU’s alleged ballot fraud during a union election in Fresno, CA. SEIU’s fraud wasn’t against political opponents or some evil capitalist. No, SEIU’s fraud was against a brother/sister labor union.

SEIU has been engaged in a fire-fight with the National Union of Health Workers. For SEIU, it isn’t enough that workers are unionized, but they must be unionized AND their dues flow into the purple political machine. The video features SEIU official David Regan, who ran the union’s voting campaign. Keep in mind, again, the “opponents” he mentions aren’t Republicans or businesses, but another labor union.

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Tags: Andy Stern, Barack Obama, Card Check, David Regan, National Union of Health Workers
Posted Nov 20th 2009 at 11:27 am in Big Labor, Justice/Legal, Politics | 34354116 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/publius/2009/11/20/whistleblower-video-reveals-seiu-ballot-fraud/Whistleblower+Video+Reveals+SEIU+Ballot+Fraud2009-11-20+18%3A27%3A08Publius

Ousted Goldman CEO and Ousted NJ Governor Jon Corzine to Head Bank of America?

As the Bank of America (BofA) CEO, one of the first phone calls that Jon Corzine might receive could come from Service Employees International Union (SEIU) President and White House frequent guest Andy Stern asking Corzine to forgive SEIU’s $88 million debt or at least to renegotiate the BofA terms. As former head of the Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee and a Democrat governor from New jersey, Corzine knows all too well how much the Democrat party owes SEIU bosses. Corzine as head of Bank of America could create interesting opportunities for Stern.

SEIU Debt Ceiling

Debts are increasing at every level of the SEIU purple conglomerate. SEIU’s national headquarters reported that at the end of 2008, its total liabilities grew to $156 million, a total debt increase of $36 million from the prior year. And, about $60 million of its assets are receivables owed to it by SEIU affiliates.

Even though SEIU’s national headquarters reports receiving $247 million in dues revenue called “per capita taxes”, much coming from workers who would be fired if they did not pay, its combined “Representational,” “Political,” “General Overhead,” “Union Administration,” “Benefits,” and “Gifts” activities cost the union $285 million.

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Tags: ACORN, amalgamated bank, Andy Stern, Bank of America, Big Labor
Posted Nov 20th 2009 at 9:47 am in Big Labor, News, Politics | 3335829 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/dloos/2009/11/20/ousted-goldman-ceo-and-ousted-nj-governor-jon-corzine-to-head-bank-of-america/Ousted+Goldman+CEO+and+Ousted+NJ+Governor+Jon+Corzine+to+Head+Bank+of+America%3F2009-11-20+16%3A47%3A48Don+Loos

ObamaCare: Show Me the SEIU Money!

Throughout the debate over health care reform, there has been a great deal of discussion over the role of special interests in influencing the votes of lawmakers. Liberal democrats, progressive think tanks and mainstream media have repeatedly accused anyone who opposes government run health care of standing with special interests instead of with needy Americans, painting them as greedy and selfish. And now that a bill has passed in the House and is on its way to the Senate, big government proponents of a ‘public option’ are already attacking their fellow Democrats’ own bill, insisting that it may as well have been written by special interests.

Funny they should mention that. Because, just like the stimulus bill, it was written by special interests.

While it’s true that Republicans certainly receive their fair share of donations from the health industry, the surprising truth is that Democrats actually receive more.  Because there’s one giant special interest sector that everyone seems to be leaving out:  Big Labor.  And in the monarchy of labor these days,  there is one queen that’s at the top of the money chain, and that’s the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the top billing union in its parent coalition, Change to Win. Especially when it comes to the issue of health care.

Let’s start first by breaking down the numbers.

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Tags: 527, Andy Stern, Anna Burger, campaign finance, health care
Posted Nov 17th 2009 at 11:13 am in ACORN, Big Labor, Featured Story, Healthcare, Obama, Politics | 3091040 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/libertychick/2009/11/17/obamacare-show-me-the-seiu-money/ObamaCare%3A+Show+Me+the+SEIU+Money%212009-11-17+18%3A13%3A33Liberty+Chick

Calif. Attorney General Brown Will Face Independent Investigation for Secretly Recorded Conversations

A letter from California Attorney General Jerry Brown has surfaced that deals a tremendous blow to sham internal investigations everywhere.  Brown, also a California gubernatorial candidate, has requested the Alameda County district attorney look into secret tapings his office conducted with five different news reporters on six different occasions.  California is what’s known as a “two-party state,” that is, it is illegal to record someone without their consent.  Brown’s former communication director recorded the conversations and has since resigned; still the Attorney General’s office has asserted secretly recording news reporters is legal if it is for public use.

Brown’s office announced an internal investigation into the matter and was roundly condemned by the right for undertaking a case in which it has a vested interest.

Brown’s position on the recordings strikes the Big Government editorial panel as arrogant.  First, the Attorney General is in the process of investigating the ACORN filmmakers for violating laws about secret tape-recordings while conducting similar recordings himself… repeatedly.  Second, Brown conducted an internal investigation on himself (much like John Podesta of Media Matters and Andy Stern of the SEIU conducting the internal investigation of ACORN) for nearly three weeks before he solicited a third party.  And judging by the wording in the attached letter, Brown seems none too happy to pass that duty elsewhere.

Much like the internal investigations movement, Brown might be hurting right now.  Stay tuned…

A complete article on the controversy here.  Read the letter below:

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Tags: ACORN, acorn scandal, Alameda Country, Andy Stern, California
Posted Nov 17th 2009 at 2:14 am in ACORN, Justice/Legal, Politics | 3213816 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/publius/2009/11/17/calif-d-a-brown-will-face-independent-investigation-for-secretly-recorded-conversations/Calif.+Attorney+General+Brown+Will+Face+Independent+Investigation+for+Secretly+Recorded+Conversations2009-11-17+09%3A14%3A58Publius

How Andy Stern Got Around Obama’s “No Lobbyist” Policy; He Just Didn’t Register

President Obama has always made a pretty big deal about not working with “lobbyists”. Registered lobbyists can’t get stimulus money, can’t be White House advisors and are not allowed access to meetings and summits. So how does one get around that? It’s simple; you just don’t register as a lobbyist. That’s what Andy Stern did and it may come back to bite him.

Grover Norquist, President of Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) and me, as Executive Director of the Alliance for Worker Freedom (AWF) formally requested an investigation by the acting United States Attorney Channing D. Phillips, Esq., into the potentially illegal lobbying activities of the Service Employee International Union (SEIU) President Andy Stern.

In a letter hand delivered today to Mr. Phillips, Senate Secretary Erickson and House Clerk Miller, we wrote:

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Tags: Alliance for Worker Freedom, Americans for Tax Reform, Andy Stern, Card Check, LDA
Posted Nov 16th 2009 at 11:57 am in Big Labor, Congress, Obama, Politics | 3178288 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/brjohnson/2009/11/16/how-andy-stern-got-around-obamas-no-lobbyist-policy-he-just-didnt-register/How+Andy+Stern+Got+Around+Obama%E2%80%99s+%E2%80%9CNo+Lobbyist%E2%80%9D+Policy%3B+He+Just+Didn%E2%80%99t+Register+2009-11-16+18%3A57%3A51Brian++Johnson

SEIU: Building a New American Health Care Empire?

Most average Americans know little about the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). Some know them as the people in purple shirts that beat up attendees at the town halls this summer.  Some equate them to ACORN, or to the Obama administration.  While there is some truth to all of the above, there is for certain one title that every voting American should be bestowing upon SEIU, and that is the title of “special interest”.

From 2000 to current, SEIU has spent at least $187,500,000 through combined lobbying, PAC and 527s group donations and expenses on candidates and policy issues – nearly 100% of which went to Democrats and to liberal policy initiatives.  Much has been focused on influencing universal health care, as well as other indirectly related health legislation, such as public nutrition, food safety, research, and environmental health – all part of SEIU’s supposed plan for Building a New American Health Care System. Because, in their words, they “will not stop until every man, woman and child has quality, affordable care they can count on.”

So really…why is SEIU so invested in health care?

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Tags: 527, AARP, Americans for Stable Quality care, Andy Stern, Anna Burger
Posted Nov 16th 2009 at 6:51 am in Big Labor, Featured Story, Healthcare, Obama, Politics | 3151894 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/libertychick/2009/11/16/seiu-building-a-new-american-health-care-empire/SEIU%3A+Building+a+New+American+Health+Care+Empire%3F2009-11-16+13%3A51%3A19Liberty+Chick

SEIU President Andy Stern Discusses Health Care, Obama, ACORN

SEIU President Andy Stern, took a couple of minutes to discuss with us recent developments in the Health Care debate, his support for a public option in the bill and the mistakes committed by ACORN.

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Tags: ACORN, acorn scandal, Andy Stern, Arlen Specter, Card Check
Posted Nov 15th 2009 at 12:01 pm in ACORN, Big Labor, Congress, Healthcare | 3127441 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/wno/2009/11/15/seiu-president-andy-stern-discusses-health-care-obama-acorn/SEIU+President+Andy+Stern+Discusses+Health+Care%2C+Obama%2C+ACORN2009-11-15+19%3A01%3A30Washington+News+Observer

Obama’s ACORN Connection Can’t Survive Inspection

Media Matters continues to try to provide cover for the public flogging ACORN has received as a result of investigative videos which showed ACORN employees giving advice on a number of illegal activities including human trafficking, child prostitution, bank fraud, illegal immigration and tax evasion. Meanwhile, the mainstream media has largely ignored a growing scandal that cannot be contained: ACORN is reportedly closing offices across the country, including the site of the DC undercover videotape.

Also, today another damning ACORN tape was released at Big Government. This time an ACORN member openly confessed to ACORN using non-partisan voter registration to secretly produce Obama votes.

Anyone paying attention knows accusations relating to voter registration fraud, illicit partisan activity and other chicanery often have been made against ACORN, with ACORN either denying all or any ACORN fault. In October of 2008, I testified in Pennsylvania regarding the illegal coordination between Barack Obama’s Campaign and ACORN:

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Posted Nov 13th 2009 at 8:28 pm in ACORN, Congress, Media Criticism, Obama | 30550120 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/amoncrief/2009/11/13/obamas-acorn-connection-cant-survive-inspection/Obama%27s+ACORN+Connection+Can%27t+Survive+Inspection2009-11-14+03%3A28%3A08Anita+MonCrief

ACORN: The LA Story, Part I

Today I received a phone call from my friend, Gary H., who said that ACORN was staging a protest outside the Fox News studios in West Los Angeles. I called someone at the Fox News bureau to find out that there were no protesters there, but quickly realized ACORN had gotten that wrong too. They were protesting in front of FOX Television Center, the home of local affiliate KTTV.

Since I woke up to the news that ACORN had sued the U.S. government to get its federal funding back, it struck me as obvious that ACORN is in the process of trying to get its mojo back absent any real investigations by the Holder Justice Department, the Democratic-controlled Congress, and the Jerry Brown sham investigation in California – not to mention the  so-called “internal investigation” whose chief investigator was picked by number one ACORN defender, John Podesta, and SEIU head Andy Stern, whose union is deeply aligned with the troubled “community organizing” group.

Despite all the evidence we have published that exposes ACORN as both corrupt and criminal, no other mainstream media organization has shown any signs of investigating ACORN despite countless angles and document trails.  So I knew I had to go down to the protest on Bundy Drive to ask ACORN protesters a few questions.

With very little time I got in the car with Big Government Associate Editor Alex Marlow to meet Gary H. down at the protest. When we arrived, the protesters were fifty or so strong, monitored by a few police units standing to the side. Given that the police made me feel safe, I walked straight toward the chanting protesters while accepting an ACORN full-color single page handout entitled, “ACORN MEMBERS — MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN  THEIR COMMUNITIES,” which sung the praises of the organization. (more…)

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Tags: ACORN, ACORN internal investigation, Alex Marlow, Andrew Breitbart, Andy Stern
Posted Nov 12th 2009 at 7:17 pm in ACORN, Featured Story | 30082177 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/abreitbart/2009/11/12/acorn-the-la-story-part-i/ACORN%3A+The+LA+Story%2C+Part+I2009-11-13+02%3A17%3A41Andrew+Breitbart

New Document Reveals: SEIU Will Conquer Using Any Means Necessary

When a small sampling of the White House guest list was revealed several days, Obama campaign bankroller SEIU was at the top of the list.  Having spent over $60 million to elect Obama, why should we expect anything different?

Earlier this year, SEIU president Andy Stern admitted he holds weekly meetings at the White House and, according to the guest list, several with the president himself.  That makes Andy Stern one important man.  Perhaps one of the most important in Washington, in fact.

Andy Stern has long been labeled a ruthless, bare-knuckled union organizer.  His union has a significant portion of its membership made up of health care workers and, not surprisingly, has been of the groups most aggressively pushing for socialized medicine.

Stern’s SEIU has been very aggressive at increasing its membership, often employing intimidation to meet its ends.  Just one example: In, 2008 SEIU thugs beat up members, mainly women, from rival unions at a labor union convention.  SEIU then issued a press release entitled, “SEIU Members Stand Up for the Future of the Labor Movement and the Interests of All Workers.”

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