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		<title>Senate Sends ACORN’s Rathke Endorsed NLRB Nominee Back to Obama</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:49:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Loos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rather than carryover National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) nominee and current AFL-CIO and Service Employees International Union lawyer Craig Becker until next year like most of president Obama’s nominees, the U.S. Senate sent a message back to the President about his nominations. While not a severed horse head in his bed … it is like [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rather than carryover National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) nominee and current AFL-CIO and Service Employees International Union lawyer Craig Becker until next year like most of president Obama’s nominees, the <a href="http://www.legalnewsline.com/news/224746-senate-rejects-obamas-nlrb-nominee">U.S. Senate sent</a> a message back to the President about his nominations. While not a severed horse head in his bed … it is like the canary in the coal-mine.</p>
<p>Right after the Becker nomination, The National Right to Work Committee posted this President Obama Personnel Alert video regarding Becker (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ia-l1RASG8">link here</a>) along with the Committee’s Becker Alert report (<a href="http://www.nrtwc.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/BHO-Personnel-ALERT-Becker2.pdf">link here</a>).</p>
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<p>The report highlights the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) Founder Wade Rathke’s ringing endorsement of Obama’s Becker nomination. Rathke wrote, “Here’s a big win no matter how you shake and bake it: Craig Becker being nominated for a seat on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)!”</p>
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<p>Rathke went on to reveal Becker’s involvement in the creation of the “non-employee state employees” known as home healthcare workers. California and other states call home healthcare workers “employees” for collective bargaining purposes (re: forced dues paying purposes) and excluded these “employees” from all benefits of state employees like retirement, healthcare, vacation time, sick leave, set work rules, etc…</p>
<p>Rathke emphasized his joy in Becker’s manipulation of labor laws, “For my money Craig [Becker]’s signal contribution has been his work in crafting and executing the legal strategies which have allowed the …effective organization of informal workers — home health and home day care — has been the great, exceptional success story within the American labor movement for our generation, leading to the [forced dues] of perhaps a half-million such workers in unions like SEIU, AFSCME, CWA, and the AFT.”</p>
<p>According to Rathke, Becker is “the key lawyer from the beginning in the early 1980’s who was able to piece together the arguments and representation that allowed those of us involved in trying to organize home health care workers in Illinois, Massachusetts, and elsewhere &#8230; [Becker’s] role was often behind the scenes devising the strategy with the organizer and lawyers, writing the briefs for others to file, and putting all of the pieces together, but he was the go-to-guy on all of this.”</p>
<p>Rathke concludes, “I can remember Keith Kelleher negotiating the subsidy for SEIU Local 880 in Chicago and always making sure that there was the money for the organizers, but that SEIU was also still willing to allow access to Craig …Thanks for a solid [sic], President Obama!”</p>
<p>The President may resubmit Becker to the Senate, appoint him as a recess appointment, or simply nominate someone else for the NLRB post. No doubt the actions of concerned Americans across the country have gotten the Senate thinking about this nomination.</p>
<p>Thanks to the outrage of many across America, Becker is not on the NLRB – yet. But, do not let your guard down. Becker may return, and as BigGovernment and others continue to highlight, this Administration is already loaded with many other forced-unionism radicals like Becker.</p>
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		<title>ACORN&#8217;s Man is &#8216;Political Director&#8217; in White House</title>
		<link>http://biggovernment.com/mvadum/2009/09/28/acorns-man-is-political-director-in-white-house/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:27:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Vadum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over at the American Spectator, Big Government Contributor Matthew Vadum writes:
Newly discovered evidence shows the radical advocacy group ACORN has a man in the Obama White House.This power behind the throne is longtime ACORN operative Patrick Gaspard. He holds the title of White House political affairs director, the same title Karl Rove held in President [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span>Over at the <em>American Spectator</em>, Big Government Contributor Matthew Vadum writes:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span>Newly discovered evidence shows the radical advocacy group <a href="http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pubs.html?id=663" target="_blank">ACORN</a> has a man in the Obama White House.</span><span>This power behind the throne is longtime ACORN operative Patrick Gaspard. He holds the title of <a href="http://www.whorunsgov.com/Profiles/Patrick_Gaspard" target="_blank">White House political affairs director</a>, the same title Karl Rove held in President Bush&#8217;s White House.</span></p>
<div class="mceTemp mceIEcenter" style="text-align: left;"><span>Evidence shows that years before he joined the Obama administration, Gaspard was ACORN boss Bertha Lewis&#8217;s political director in New York.</span></div>
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<div class="mceTemp mceIEcenter" style="text-align: left;"><span> </span><span>Lewis, the current &#8220;chief organizer&#8221; or CEO of ACORN, was head of New York ACORN from at least 1994 through 2008, when she took over as national leader of ACORN. With Gaspard at work in the White House, Lewis might as well be speaking to President Obama through an earpiece as he goes about his daily business ruining the country.</span></div>
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<p>Read the whole story <a href="http://spectator.org/archives/2009/09/28/acorns-man-in-the-white-house">here</a>.</p>
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