This country is being run by a gang of hoodlums, criminals, thieves and racketeers. Where is everyone? Where are the good guys? Where is Elliot Ness? Where are the crimebusters?
Rod Blagojevich's lawyers want the FBI to give up details of interviews
conducted last year of President Obama, his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, White
House adviser Valerie Jarrett and others as part of the investigation into the
former governor.
In a Friday filing, Blagojevich attorneys also asked for information
regarding first lady Michelle Obama. However, a source said late Friday that the
FBI never interviewed the first lady.
Rod Blagojevich's lawyers want the FBI to give up details of
interviews conducted last year with President Obama (from top left), Michelle
Obama, Valerie Jarrett and Rahm Emanuel. A source said Friday, the FBI never
interviewed the first lady.
Then-President-elect Obama, Emanuel and Jarrett sat down with the FBI about a
year ago -- just after Blagojevich was arrested on charges of trying to sell
Obama's recently vacated Senate seat to the highest bidder.
Obama revealed he was interviewed in a report he made public last
December.
The defense request, filed in federal court, asks for "notes, transcripts and
reports" of interviews with the Obamas, Emanuel, Jarrett and union chiefs Thomas
Balanoff and Andy Stern.
The request was part of a larger bid by defense lawyers to have prosecutors
turn over additional materials, including witness statements, six months before
the June trial date. Typically, prosecutors give the defense such information 30
days before the trial.
Shelly Sorosky, an attorney for Blagojevich, said the defense needs
additional time with the material "because there's so much of it. This is
massive stuff."
"I have been fighting alongside ACORN on issues you care about my entire career." (Obama, in address to ACORN in 2007)
Obama's first job out of college was with ACORN as a community organizer. Obama hired ACORN affiliates for voter registration. Obama was a speaker at ACORN seminars. Obama was their lawyer. And now he says the enormous, gross ACORN scandal is not something he is "paying a lot of attention to"?
Only one of the five television networks that interviewed President Obama for their Sunday shows bothered to ask him about Acorn, the left-wing community organizing group whose federal funding was cut off last week by an overwhelming vote in Congress.
"Frankly, it's not something I've followed closely," Mr. Obama claimed, adding he wasn't even aware the group had been the recipient of significant federal funding. "This is not the biggest issue facing the country. It's not something I'm paying a lot of attention to," he said.
Mr. Obama added that an investigation of Acorn was appropriate after an amateur hidden-camera investigation had found Acorn offices willing to abet prostitution, but he carefully declined to say whether he would approve a federal cutoff of funds to the group.
Not the biggest issue facing the country? I beg to differ. I think a national organization dedicated to stealth revolution, Communism, ripping off the American taxpayer, and subverting free markets, among other insidious traitorous objectives, is of enormous import.
What is he paying attention to? Nationalizing a perfectly good private health care system, the best on the world? Outreach to the ummah (worldwide global Muslim community)?
What is he paying attention to? Mounting a DoJ witch hunt, a persecution of CIA agents whose crime was keeping us safe in immediacy of 911 and a worldwide jihad. What's he paying attention to - ethnically cleansing Israel of the Jewish people? Or facilitating a nuclear Iran? Sanctioning Islamic law? Snuffing out the people marching for freedom in Iran? Lest we forget his priority of crushing democracy in Honduras.
Mr. Obama
added that an investigation of Acorn was appropriate after an amateur
hidden-camera investigation had found Acorn offices willing to abet
prostitution, but he carefully declined to say whether he would approve a
federal cutoff of funds to the group.
Mr. Obama took
great pains to act as if he barely knew about Acorn. In fact, his association
goes back almost 20 years. In 1991, he took time off from his law firm to run a
voter-registration drive for Project Vote, an Acorn partner that was soon fully
absorbed under the Acorn umbrella. The drive registered 135,000 voters and was
considered a major factor in the upset victory of Democrat Carol Moseley Braun
over incumbent Democratic Senator Alan Dixon in the 1992 Democratic Senate
primary.
Mr. Obama's
success made him a hot commodity on the community organizing circuit. He became
a top trainer at Acorn's Chicago conferences. In 1995, he became Acorn's attorney, participating in a landmark
case to force the state of
Illinois to implement the federal
Motor Voter Law. That law's loose voter registration requirements would later be
exploited by Acorn employees in an effort to flood voter rolls with fake
names.
In 1996, Mr.
Obama filled out a questionnaire listing key supporters for his campaign for the
Illinois Senate. He put Acorn first (it was not an alphabetical list). In the
U.S. Senate, Mr. Obama became the leading critic of Voter ID laws, whose
overturn was a top Acorn priority. In 2007, in a speech to Acorn's leaders prior
to their political arm's endorsement of his presidential campaign, Mr. Obama was
effusive: "I've been fighting alongside of Acorn on issues you care about my
entire career. Even before I was an elected official, when I ran Project Vote in
Illinois, Acorn was smack dab in
the middle of it, and we appreciate your work."
But the Obama
campaign didn't appear eager to discuss the candidate's ties to Acorn. Its press
operation vividly denied Mr. Obama had been an Acorn trainer until the New York
Times uncovered records demonstrating that he had been. The Obama campaign also
gave Citizens Consulting, Inc., an Acorn subsidiary, $832,000 for
get-out-the-vote activities in key primary states. In filings with the Federal
Election Commission, the Obama campaign listed the payments as "staging, sound,
lighting," only correcting the filings after the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
revealed their true nature.
Given his
longstanding ties with Acorn, President Obama's protestations of ignorance or
disinterest in the group's latest scandal seem preposterous. Here's hoping White
House reporters will press the president to clarify just how much he really
knows about Acorn and when he knew it.
It is implausible to think, based on Bertha Lewis’s White House
contacts, that Barack Obama is not paying attention to ACORN.
The story in a
nutshell:
Bertha Lewis is the CEO of ACORN.
In a review of Lewis’s contacts list, which was leaked to RedState, Bertha
Lewis has the office, cell phone, home number, and private personal email
address of Patrick Gaspard.
Patrick Gaspard holds Karl Rove’s position in the White House and was
Obama’s Political Director during the campaign.
In addition to Patrick, Bertha has Patrick’s brother Michael in her rolodex.
She lists Michael as working at the Advance Group.
The Advance Group is ACORN’s lobbying organization.
In other words, besides having Obama’s political director’s contact info,
the political director’s brother works for ACORN via its lobbying shop.
On Sunday, Barack
Obama played ignorant on the situation with ACORN. Obama told ABC’s George
Stephanopoulos, “Frankly, it’s not really something I’ve followed closely.
I didn’t even know that ACORN was getting a whole lot of federal
money.” Never mind that Barack Obama used to work for ACORN.
Based on information obtained by RedState, we think Barack Obama may live to
regret those words.
With everybody focused on ACORN these days, what if we could dig around and
see who in the Obama administration shows up in Bertha Lewis’s rolodex? Bertha Lewis is the
CEO of ACORN.
It’s not that hard to look into her contacts. RedState has seen a list of
Bertha Lewis’s contacts. We did not seek it out. It just showed up one day
unsolicited. We did not ask for it. We did not expect to get it. But now that we
have it, we should see who is in there.
The contacts came from a credible source who is no fan of ACORN. An ACORN
employee gave it to him. Having examined the file for a week and after
consulting with others, we believe the list is legitimate. It fits a recent
pattern of leaks out of ACORN as the rats scramble from the sinking ship.
The list contains the private email addresses and cell phones of scores of
powerful and influential people from Al Sharpton to Charlie Rangel. It contains
several people inside the Barack Obama administration including one of the
closest ties to Barack Obama other than his wife.
This is one of the dirtiest administrations in modern history and the media provides the alibi. Breathtaking corruption.
The House Republican
Conference digs in today to a fact reported recently by Bloomberg's im Burger: That the
pharmaceutical lobby, PhRMA, has hired David Axelrod's AKPD Media -- a fact that
raises eyebrows because Axelrod sold the firm under an agreement that left it
owing him $2 million, a lot of money for a political media company.
It's
hard to imagine a situation in which, say, Karl Rove was still getting checks
from a firm that was, in turn, employed by the drug lobby not drawing fire from
the left, and Axelrod's arrangement is, a bit belatedly, getting that attention.
Emails HRC spokesman Matt Lloyd:
As the pharmaceutical
industry spends hundreds of millions supporting a government takeover of health
care—one which drug companies obviously believe will increase their profits,
even as it raises Medicare premiums for seniors—some may wonder whether White
House senior advisors earning millions of dollars paid for in part by the
pharmaceutical industry represents the kind of change Americans can believe
in.
Exposed "Ethicsgate" Obama and the Democrats' multiple direct links to the political effort to destroy Sarah Palin.
I encourage Atlas readers to DOWNLOAD THIS VIDEO. Post it everywhere. Post it offshore. The left fascists will keep writing their emails to take it down -- "they are using my mug!" -- and we will keep putting it up.
If I tried to have removed every image and video the left has ripped off of me, I would employ a small nation. Believe me, it pains us to look at those momzers -- it's an ugly part of the job.
DEKALB COUNTY, Ga.
-- Two DeKalb County police officers have been placed on paid
administrative leave after an investigation revealed they ran a background check
on President Barack Obama.
A representative for the DeKalb County CEO’s office identified the
officers as Ryan White and C.M. Route.
Officials said Obama’s name was typed into a computer inside a DeKalb
County police car on July 20 and ran through the National Crime Information
Center.
The secret service was immediately notified and contacted the DeKalb
County Police Department.
A representative said both officers have been with the department less
than five years.
A representative said one of the officers denied involvement.
An official investigation is being conducted by the DeKalb County Police
Department’s Internal Affairs division.
It is unclear why the officers ran a check on the president.
As the rule of law continues to break down by the actions of what is, in effect, the autocrat in chief, there comes the latest egregious act of flagrant despotism.
The Senate protects the independence of Inspector Generals. The firing of the brave Inspector General Gerald Waprin is fresh on the heels of the
Obama administration cutting a Chicago gangland style deal with a major Obama backer, the corrupt Gerald Johnson. Obama OK'ed more taxpayer dollars in federal funding to Johnson as mayor of Sacramento. Worse still, Kevin Johnson does not have to return the money he robbed from taxpayers.
In
an email and fax sent late Friday, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa,
demanded that Alan D. Solomont, the chairman of the Corporation for National and
Community Service, provide "any and all records, email, memoranda, documents,
communications, or other information, whether in draft or final form" related to
President Obama's firing of CNCS Inspector General Gerald Walpin.
Walpin had investigated Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson's community service
organization, St. HOPE Academy, which confessed to misusing AmeriCORPS grants.
In April of this year, St. HOPE Academy agreed to pay a $423,836.50 settlement
-- $72,836.50 of which would be paid personally by Mayor Johnson.
"For reasons that I do not yet understand, the OIG was excluded from this
proceeding and the settlement lifting the suspension, was done in complete
disregard of the OIG’s findings, as well as the previous determination of wrong
doing identified in the Notice of Suspension," Grassley wrote. "Perhaps the
settlement agreement was reached without any input from the OIG, because less
than half of what was misused by the Corporation grantees is being returned to
the taxpayer and the OIG would not have agreed to this arrangement. In fact, an
argument can be made that not even half of the misused funds is being returned,
because the settlement does not require that payment in full be made. Rather
the settlement places the grantees on a type of payment plan that will occur
over a decade; to date less than 10% of the misused money has been
recovered."
During the course of his investigation, Walpin clashed with the US Attorney's
office; eventually Acting US Attorney Lawrence Brown, complaining that Walpin
acted "as the investigator, advocate, judge, jury and town crier" in his
investigation, wrote to the chair of the Integrity Committee for the Counsel of
the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency "to express my Office's
concerns about the conduct" of Walpin.
Over the weekend we covered this firing HERE
and HERE.
In his Friday email and fax, Grassley told Solomont, who backed Walpin's
termination, that he wanted to see all materials related to Walpin's performance
as Inspector General, his removal, any contacts CNCS had with the United States
Attorney’s Office, St. HOPE Academy, Mayor Johnson, the White House, or the
First Lady's office.
This appears to be related to a report in Youth
Today, an independent, nationally distributed newspaper for
professionals in the youth service field, which reported that "Some decisions
about CNCS are being made by First Lady Michelle Obama, according to service
advocates (who asked not to be named). Last week, Mrs. Obama announced that her
chief of staff, Jackie Norris, would move to CNCS as a senior adviser. Officials
said yesterday that Norris is scheduled to arrive on June 22."
Bottom line: The AmeriCorps IG accuses
prominent Obama supporter of misusing AmeriCorps grant money. Prominent Obama
supporter has to pay back more than $400,000 of that grant money. Obama fires
AmeriCorps IG.
From what is shaping up to be the most corrupt administration in American history comes this Obombshell (Americorps - Obama's civilian army, mandatory "volunteerism"):
There are a number of unanswered questions today about President Obama's abrupt decision to fire the inspector general of the AmeriCorps program, Gerald Walpin. Obama sent letters to House and Senate leaders yesterday informing them that he was firing Walpin, effective 30 days from the date of the letters.
"It is vital that I have the fullest confidence in the appointees serving as Inspectors General," the president wrote. "That is no longer the case with regard to this Inspector General."
The 30 day requirement is important because last year Congress passed the Inspectors General Reform Act, which was designed to strengthen protections for IGs, who have the responsibility of investigating allegations of waste, fraud and abuse within federal agencies, against interference by political appointees or the White House. Part of the Act was a requirement that the president give Congress 30 days' notice before dismissing an IG. One of the co-sponsors of the Act was then-Sen. Barack Obama.
The Act also requires the president to outline the cause for his decision to remove an IG. Beyond saying that he did not have the "fullest confidence" in Walpin, Obama gave no reason for his action.
There are two big questions about the president's actions. One, why did he decide to fire Walpin? And two, did he abide by the law that he himself co-sponsored?
According to Republican Sen. Charles Grassley, a strong advocate of inspectors general, Walpin received a call from the White House Counsel's office on Wednesday evening. Walpin was told that he had one hour to either resign or be fired. Senate sources say Walpin asked why he was being fired and, according to one source, "The answer that was given was that it's just time to move on. The president would like to have someone else in that position." Walpin declined to resign.
Grassley fired off a letter to the president on Thursday saying that, "I was troubled to learn that [Wednesday] night your staff reportedly issued an ultimatum to the AmeriCorps Inspector General Gerald Walpin that he had one hour to resign or be terminated," Grassley wrote. "As you know, Inspectors General were created by Congress as a means to combat waste, fraud, and abuse and to be independent watchdogs ensuring that federal agencies were held accountable for their actions. Inspectors General were designed to have a dual role reporting to both the President and Congress so that they would be free from undue political pressure. This independence is the hallmark of all Inspectors General and is essential so they may operate independently, without political pressure or interference from agencies attempting to keep their failings from public scrutiny."
Grassley's version of events suggests that the White House first tried to muscle Walpin out of his job without having to go through the 30-day process. It was only when Walpin refused to resign that the White House then notified Congress of the president's intention to fire Walpin.
The bigger question is why the president is doing this and why he is attempting to do it so quickly. Senate sources now believe Obama is firing Walpin over Walpin's investigation of Kevin Johnson, a former NBA star and a prominent supporter of the president.
It bears repeating that if any Republican ever pulled the crooked, politically corrupt garbage that Obama does, he'd be hanged in effigy. Geez, Bush was hanged in effigy for loving America and trying to protect the American people.
The Bush presidency was a breath of fresh air next to this hack. What a scoundrel. Bringing Chicago-land political gang politics to DC. This is the "transparency" that O promised? He promised "a new era of openness in our country " and "Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency" (here).
By MATTHEW LEE
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama on Thursday tapped four big Democratic Party donors for plum ambassadorships in Europe and Latin America while naming six career diplomats to posts in Africa, the Mideast and the Pacific.
A tipster over at Director Blues made a startling assertion. A cursory review by
that person showed that many of the Chrysler dealers on the closing list were heavy Republican donors.
To
quickly review the situation, I took all dealer owners whose names
appeared more than once in the list. And, of those who contributed to
political campaigns, every single one had donated almost exclusively to GOP candidates. While this isn't an exhaustive review, it does have some ominous implications if it can be verified.
However, I also found additional research online at Scribd (author unknown), which also appears to point to a highly partisan decision-making process.
Consider
the partial list of Chrysler dealership owners, listed below. You'll
notice that all were opponents of Barack Obama, most through
sponsorship of GOP candidates and organizations, but a handful through
Barack's Democrat rivals (Hillary Clinton and John Edwards in 2008, for
example).
• Vernon G. Buchanan: $147,450 to GOP candidates and organizations • Wallace D. Alley and Family: $4,500 to GOP. • Robert Archer: $4,600 to GOP and conservative causes. • Homer S. Higginbotham and Family: $2950 to GOP. • James Auffenberg and Family: $28,000 to GOP; $6,000 to one Democrat candidate. • Michael Maroone and Family: $60,000 to GOP; $8,500 to two Democrat candidates. • Jerome Fader: $6,500 to Democrats; $2,500 to Independent Joe Lieberman. • Stephen Fay and Family: $13,500 to GOP. • William Numrich: $20,000 to GOP. • Robert Carver: $10,000 to Democrats including $1,950 to Hillary Clinton, nothing to Barack Obama.
In Obama's continuing mission to make America safe for his thugs and scoundrels, now comes this - his latest attack on America. What a crook we installed, eh?
Obama received millions of payoff dollars from unions to fund his coup on America. Check this out from Don Todd, Director of Research for Americans for Limited Government, who formerly served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office of Labor Management
Standards under President George W. Bush.
The President’s fiscal year 2010 budget for the federal government was unveiled
last Thursday and surprisingly he found one agency that he thinks deserves a 9%
budget cut. This agency is the Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS) in
the U.S. Department of Labor. Obama proposed to cut its budget from $45 million
in fiscal year 2009 to $41 million in fiscal year 2010.
OLMS is the federal agency that investigates financial crimes that occur when
union officials steal from their union. OLMS also investigates cases where union
officials engage in fraud and other corrupt practices in conducting union
officer elections.
Over the last eight years this office secured over 900 criminal convictions
of union officials for embezzlement and other crimes and obtained court orders
of over $91 million dollars – dollars that will be returned to union members.
One would think that given Obama’s emphasis on helping unions that he would want
to beef up the only agency in the federal government that watches out for union
members and prosecutes those who steal from them.
However, apparently Obama believes that there is no need to prosecute those
union officials who steal from their members because his budget cuts this
agency, while at the same time other enforcement agencies in the Labor
Department are given a huge boost. For instance, the Wage and Hour Division in
the Labor Department received a boost of 18%, from $201 million in fiscal year
2009 to $238 in fiscal year 2010.
In the last appropriations cycle OLMS was the only agency in the entire Labor
Department that was targeted by Congressional Democrats for a budget cut.
Democrats were successful in cutting the budget from $47 million to $45. Now
with a Democratic president in the White House and Democratic control of
Congress one can only wonder where the final budget number will land.
The loss of $4 million dollars, millions that are being shifted to other
programs such as the Wage and Hour Division, will most certainly in a reduction
of the ability of OLMS to prosecute those who steal from the working man and
woman.
My quick back of the envelope calculations lead me to believe that OLMS is
probably looking at staff reductions in the neighborhood of 40-50 personnel.
This is significant for an agency that has slightly over 300 personnel
nationwide.
Atlas Shrugs: ***ACORN OBAMA VOTER FRAUD ALERT*** I have repeatedly asked, why hasn't ACORN been stripped of its
eligibility? Obama is poised to lose. He knows it. He also knows there
is more than one way ...
Atlas Shrugs: STEALING THE ELECTION
Sep 15, 2008 ... Every voter registered by ACORN should be voided. More
ACORN Voter Fraud in Wisconsin Weekly Standard In light of the reports
of voter fraud ...
Much needed cuts were made in February to the SEIU, the unionized home health care workers, as
part of the budget approved by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and state
lawmakers.
The Service Employees International Union, which represents the
workers, said in a statement that it had asked the Obama administration to
intervene.
“SEIU’s members are temperamentally suited to Obama; he
is a longtime friend of Chicago’s SEIU Local 880 and worked closely
with the union as an organizer and later as a state legislator.”
SEIU paid for door-to-door canvassing for Obama, voter identification and registration, phonebanks…an expenditures document.
Atlas reader Laura S. provided updated figures for the obscene sums that SEIU spent on getting Obama elected. I under reported the $13,355,389.00 in dirty money paid to Obama during the election.
All the figures are right off the FEC site.
SEIU spent $18,818,358.97 through December of 2008 on
behalf of Obama. Source here.
The $13 million dollar figure was only through
August/2008--actually SEIU spent $18,818,358.97 through December of 2008 on
behalf of Obama. Total on FEC site. I did not add it myself.
This doesnot include the $$$ SEIU spent against McCain.
Here are some entries of notice as pertains to SEIU
healthcare workers-first is 100 grand to the Healthcare Workers in Oakland, CA
to phone bank for Obama. There are tons more but I don't have time right
now.
Here is entry for $100,000.00 for phone banking paid to SEIU United Healthcare Workers West out of Oakland, CA, 560
Thomas L. Berkley Way, Oakland, CA 94612.
Phone banking calls on behalf of Obama listed on
FEC wedsite as Against McCain. So under the McCain category on FEC website.
DatedOctober 15th, 2008. Schedule E (FEC form 3x)
Itemized Independent Expenditures. (documentation here)
$322,372.35 spent on
October 17,2008 for SEIU HEALTHCARE IL_IN to canvas
for Obama (more here)
$50,000.00 on April
30,2008 to SEIU General fund for th ecost of Healthcare Bus Tour AGAINST
McCain (more here)
This amount does not tally as $$$ spent for Obama
BUT as Money spent AGAINST MCCAIN.
$50,000 to SEIU General
Fund for the healthcare bus "Road to Heal" Healthcare Bus Tour and $50,000 to "costs of anti-greed events" Both against
McCain Total $100,000 for July 17, 2008. Wow, that bus must have gotten
around. (here)
Over $918,719.81 for canvas staff on July 31, 2008
payable to SEIU General Fund-TONS of entries are for
SEIU General fund for canvassing-they had an army knocking door to door all
working for the SEIU and paid from SEIU General Fund this is only one of many
of like receipts on FEC site.
October 15, 2008 $172,008.00 for mailings in
Caifornia payable to TBWB Strategies-on behalf of Obama with love from
SEIU (here and here)
$465,000 to pay for canvass workers-$165,000 to
"GOTV" canvass workers in Feb, 2008 (here)
Also lots and lots to Compass Media Group-for
mailers and distribution on behalf of Obama. Hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Compass Media group is out of Chicago with address of 1415 N Dayton Ste 1S;
Chicago IL 60622--no maybe over a million at least or two as I am running across
lots of these.
Here's a fun one "PHONE BANK PERSUASION AND GOTV"
WTF is GOTV? "Get out the Vote"
$50,000 to SEIU Communications center in DC February 21, 2008
Tyson organization-another grass roots phone bank
call center that is non-profit but charges for their services. here
$250,000 to Tyson.org for "phone bank persuasion
and GOTV" on 2-21-2008 here and again for $162,139.24 to non-profit phone bank
Tyson Organization lol-this one paid on Feb 28,2008-seven days after SEIU paid
Tyson $250,000 here
Obama continues the slash and burn approach to economy and the "balance of power" that keeps this ship on its constitutional course. Regular Atlas readers recall one of many EXCLUSIVES I broke on Obama's massive illegal campaign activity. Obama paid out at least $2,250,000 to the SEIU, the Service Employees International Union - the nation's largest labor union. And SEIU COPE-PAC spent $13,355,389.00
on behalf of Barack Hussein.
Payback time for voter fraud and illegal campaign activity.
More illegal harassment and intimidation - more blackmail from the thug-in-chief. Over at Newsmax, by Jim Meyers:
The Obama administration
is threatening to rescind nearly $7 billion in
federal stimulus money
earmarked for California if the state does not
restore wage cuts to
unionized home healthcare workers.
[...]
Federal health officials have advised Schwarzenegger's office
that the
cuts violate provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment
Act,
the Los Angeles Times reports.
The cuts involve workers who care
for around 440,000 low-income disabled
and elderly Californians. They would
see their wages reduced from a
maximum of $12.10 an hour to a maximum of
$10.10. The Service Employees International Union, which represents the
workers, said in a statement that it had asked the Obama administration to
intervene.
SEIU COPE-PAC
$13,355,389.00 was spent on behalf of Barack Obama through August 21, 2008.
($1,600,415.00 has been spent against John McCain through July 31, 2008). Click below for breakdown. Source here.
“SEIU’s members are temperamentally suited to Obama; he
is a longtime friend of Chicago’s SEIU Local 880 and worked closely
with the union as an organizer and later as a state legislator.”
SEIU paid for door-to-door canvassing for Obama, voter identification and registration, phonebanks…an expenditures document.
To an observer from outside Louisiana, it’s
sometimes difficult to tell where SEIU ends and
ACORN begins. The union and the community
organization seem to merge. The relationship is
easier to understand when one learns that Wade
Rathke, who founded the New Orleans ACORN
chapter 30 years ago, is also the chief organizer
of SEIU local 100. The two are fraternal, not
identical, twins.40 (here)
Rathke is the founder of the Association of Community Organizations
for Reform Now (ACORN) and Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
Local 100. He was ACORN's chief organizer from its founding in 1970
until he stepped down June 2, 2008.[1] Rathke and his wife, Beth
Butler, live in New Orleans, Louisiana. (All the cockroaches are at
this party). (from Rotten ACORN)
When employees of Rathke’s SEIU Local 100 wanted
to organize themselves into a union, Rathke relied on
his wife and brother to plot out an aggressive (and
hypocritical) union-avoidance strategy. One former
employee reported that after employees provided
Rathke with a petition demanding union recognition:
Rathke quickly called a meeting of ACORN’s inner
circle, which included his wife, Beth Butler, head
organizer of Louisiana ACORN, and Rathke’s
brother Dale, who is the financial guru of the outfit.
The troika devised a variety of tactics, such as can be expected from any union-busting corporation, to
divide and destroy our solidarity.
Department of Labor financial disclosures
show at least $623,829 in transactions
between ACORN’s SEIU locals 100 and 880
and other Rathke/ACORN-run operations.
Democrats are split on how to deal with Acorn, the liberal "community organizing" group that deployed thousands of get-out-the-vote workers last election. State and city Democratic officials -- who've been contending with its many scandals -- are moving against it. Washington Democrats are still sweeping Acorn abuses under a rug.
On Monday, Nevada officials charged Acorn, its regional director and its Las Vegas field director with submitting thousands of fraudulent voter registration forms last year. Larry Lomax, the registrar of voters in Las Vegas, says he believes 48% of Acorn's forms "are clearly fraudulent." On Thursday, prosecutors in Pittsburgh, Pa., also charged seven Acorn employees with filing hundreds of fraudulent voter registrations before last year's general election.
Acorn spokesman Scott Levenson calls the Nevada criminal complaint "political grandstanding" and says that any problems were the actions of an unnamed "bad employee." But Catherine Cortez Masto, Nevada's Democratic Attorney General, told the Las Vegas Sun that Acorn itself is named in the criminal complaint. She says that Acorn's training manuals "clearly detail, condone and . . . require illegal acts," such as requiring its workers to meet strict voter-registration targets to keep their jobs.
Other Democrats on the ground have complaints. Fred Voight, deputy election commissioner in Philadelphia, protested after Acorn (according to the registrar of voters and his own investigation) submitted at least 1,500 fraudulent registrations last fall. "This has been going on for a number of years," he told CNN in October. St. Louis Democrat Matthew Potter, the city's deputy elections director, had similar complaints.
Elsewhere, Washington state prosecutors fined Acorn $25,000 after several employees were convicted of voter registration fraud in 2007. The group signed a consent decree with King County (Seattle), requiring it to beef up its oversight or face criminal prosecution. In the 2008 election, Acorn's practices led to investigations, some ongoing, in 14 other states.
The stink is bad enough that some congressional Democrats have taken notice. At a March 19 hearing on election problems, Michigan Rep. John Conyers, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, pressed New York Rep. Gerald Nadler, chairman of the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, to hold a hearing on Acorn. He called the charges against it "serious." Mr. Nadler agreed to consider the request.
Mr. Nadler's office now says there will be no hearing on Acorn because Mr. Conyers has changed his mind. Mr. Conyers's office released a statement on Monday saying that after reviewing "the complaints against Acorn, I have concluded that a hearing on this matter appears unwarranted at this time." A Democratic staffer told me he believes the House leadership put pressure on Mr. Conyers to back down. Mr. Conyers's office says it is "unaware" of any contacts with House leaders.
Then there's Barney Frank, the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee. Last month, he voted for a committee amendment (to the Mortgage Reform and Anti-Predatory Lending Act) by Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R., Minn.) to block groups indicted for voter fraud from receiving federal housing or legal assistance grants. Identical language was passed into law in the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008. Mr. Frank now says he "had not read [the amendment] carefully" before backing it. He gutted the amendment on Thursday, claiming that the language Congress passed just last year is "a violation of the basic principles of due process."
A lot of money is at stake. In the stimulus bill passed by Congress, Acorn is eligible -- along with other activist groups -- to apply for $2 billion in funds to redevelop abandoned and foreclosed homes. Meanwhile, public records show that last spring the IRS filed three tax liens totaling almost $1 million against Acorn, most of which concerned employee withholding.
The corrupt media lies by omission while propagandizing the 'public enlightenment'. Goebbels redux. Obama and his goons are perfecting the "Big Lie" technique of propaganda -- the principle that a lie, if audacious enough and repeated enough times, will be believed by the masses. President Lie.
The Madman Theory of the
Presidency Robert Tracinski, TIA DAILY
The Business Insiderprovides
more corroboration, including the quote I used as the title of today's TIA
Daily:
Although the focus has so far been on allegations that the White
House threatened Perella Weinberg, sources familiar with the matter say that
other firms felt they were threatened as well. None of the sources would agree
to speak except on the condition of anonymity, citing fear of political
repercussions.
The sources, who represent creditors to Chrysler, say they were taken aback
by the hardball tactics that the Obama administration employed to cajole them
into acquiescing to plans to restructure Chrysler. One person described the
administration as the most shocking "end justifies the means" group they have
ever encountered. Another characterized Obama as "the most dangerous smooth
talker on the planet—and I knew Kissinger." Both were voters for Obama in the
last election.
One participant in negotiations said that the administration's tactic was to
present what one described as a "madman theory of the presidency" in which the
president is someone to be feared because he was willing to do anything to get
his way. The person said this threat was taken very seriously by his firm….
These allegations add to the picture of an administration willing to use
intimidation to win over support for its Chrysler plans—and then categorically
deny it.
Carney also links
to another financial blog which provides a hedge fund manager's
account of what "car czar" Steven Rattner told him to assure his fund's
acquiescence in the Chrysler deal:
Who the ---- do you think you're dealing with? We'll have the IRS
audit your fund. Every one of your employees. Your investors. Then we will have
the Securities and Exchange Commission rip through your books looking for
anything and everything and nothing we find to destroy you with."
The blogger continues:
[T]he fund whose tale I am privy to is allegedly not the only entity
that was subject to such inducements. There are, according to my source, two
others. Of course, in the present climate it would take a rather courageous
witness to come forward and confirm these allegations. Let's hope that comes to
pass. No, scratch that. Let's hope that the entire thing turns out to be a
fabrication. While I doubt this, it would be much easier to sleep if it were.
Yet as a blogger at the Wall Street
Journal points out, the intrepid investigative reporters in the mainstream
media have yet to touch any of these stories. No wonder the newspapers are going
bankrupt.
The
far-reaching — and potentially dangerous — provision that no one knows
about.
You’ve heard a lot about the astonishing spending in the $787 billion
economic stimulus bill, signed into law this week by President Barack Obama. But
you probably haven’t heard about a provision in the bill that threatens to
politicize the way allegations of fraud and and corruption are investigated — or not investigated — throughout the federal
government.
The provision, which attracted virtually no attention in the debate over the
1,073-page stimulus bill, creates something called the Recovery Accountability
and Transparency Board — the RAT Board, as it’s known by the few insiders who
are aware of it. The board would oversee the in-house watchdogs, known as
inspectors general, whose job is to independently investigate allegations of
wrongdoing at various federal agencies, without fear of interference by
political appointees or the White House.
In the name of accountability and transparency, Congress has given the RAT
Board the authority to ask “that an inspector general conduct or refrain from
conducting an audit or investigation.” If the inspector general doesn’t want to
follow the wishes of the RAT Board, he’ll have to write a report explaining his
decision to the board, as well as to the head of his agency (from whom he is
supposedly independent) and to Congress. In the end, a determined inspector
general can probably get his way, but only after jumping through bureaucratic
hoops that will inevitably make him hesitate to go forward.
When Iowa Republican Sen. Charles Grassley, a longtime champion of inspectors
general, read the words “conduct or refrain from conducting,” alarm bells went
off. The language means that the board — whose chairman will be appointed by the
president — can reach deep inside a federal agency and tell an inspector general
to lay off some particularly sensitive subject. Or, conversely, it can tell the
inspector general to go after a tempting political target.
“This strikes at the heart of the independence of inspectors general,”
Grassley told me this week, in a phone conversation between visits to town
meetings in rural Iowa. “Anytime an inspector general has somebody questioning
his authority, it tends to dampen the aggressiveness with which they pursue
something, particularly if it’s going to make the incumbent administration look
bad.”
I asked Grassley how he learned that the RAT Board was part of the stimulus
bill. You’d think that as a member of the House-Senate conference committee, he
would have known all about it. But it turns out Grassley’s office first heard
about the provision creating the RAT Board last Wednesday, in a tip from a
worried inspector general. It wasn’t until Friday morning — after the bill was
finished and just hours before the Senate was to begin voting — that Grassley
discovered the board was in the final text. “This was snuck in,” Grassley told
me. “It wasn’t something that was debated.”
Snuck in by whom? It’s not entirely clear. “I intend to get down to the
bottom of where this comes from,” Grassley vowed. “And quite frankly, it better
not come from this administration, because this administration has reminded us
that it is not about business as usual, that it is for total transparency.”
Maybe not this time. When I inquired with the office of a Democratic senator,
one who is a big fan of inspectors general, I was told the RAT Board was
“something the Obama administration wanted included in this bill.” When I asked
the White House, staffers told me they’d look into it. So for now, at least,
there’s been no claim of paternity.
The RAT Board has all sorts of other things wrong with it. For one thing,
it’s redundant; there is already a board through which inspectors general police
themselves, created last year in the Inspectors General Reform Act. For another
thing, it could complicate criminal investigations stemming from inspector
general probes. And then there’s the question of what it has to do with
stimulating the economy.
But none of that matters now. It’s the law.
Last Friday, when he learned the RAT Board was in the final bill, Grassley
wanted to voice his objections on the Senate floor. But there was no time in the
rush to a vote, so Grassley’s statement went unread. “It’s fitting that the
acronym for this board is RAT,” he was prepared to tell the Senate, “because
that’s what I smell here.”
I think Rahm should be fired, not American CEOs. I think dirty, filthy politicians should be fired. Does Hussein hang with anyone who is not dirty and corrupt?
Obama - more like Capone than Lincoln. The Chicago Mob is running the not -so- clean White House.
Before its portfolio of bad loans helped trigger the current housing crisis, mortgage giant Freddie Mac was the focus of a major accounting scandal that led to a management shake-up, huge fines and scalding condemnation of passive directors by a top federal regulator.
One of those allegedly asleep-at-the-switch board members was Chicago's Rahm Emanuel—now chief of staff to President Barack Obama—who made at least $320,000 for a 14-month stint at Freddie Mac that required little effort.
As gatekeeper to Obama, Emanuel now plays a critical role in addressing the nation's mortgage woes and fulfilling the administration's pledge to impose responsibility on the financial world.
Emanuel's Freddie Mac involvement has been a prominent point on his political résumé, and his healthy payday from the firm has been no secret either. What is less known, however, is how little he apparently did for his money and how he benefited from the kind of cozy ties between Washington and Wall Street that have fueled the nation's current economic mess.
Though just 49, Emanuel is a veteran Democratic strategist and fundraiser who served three terms in the U.S. House after helping elect Mayor Richard Daley and former President Bill Clinton. The Freddie Mac money was a small piece of the $16 million he made in a three-year interlude as an investment banker a decade ago.
In business as in politics, Emanuel has cultivated an aggressive, take-charge reputation that made him rich and propelled his rise to the front of the national stage. But buried deep in corporate and government documents on the Freddie Mac scandal is a little-known and very different story involving Emanuel.
He was named to the Freddie Mac board in February 2000 by Clinton, whom Emanuel had served as White House political director and vocal defender during the Whitewater and Monica Lewinsky scandals.
The board met no more than six times a year. Unlike most fellow directors, Emanuel was not assigned to any of the board's working committees, according to company proxy statements. Immediately upon joining the board, Emanuel and other new directors qualified for $380,000 in stock and options plus a $20,000 annual fee, records indicate.
On Emanuel's watch, the board was told by executives of a plan to use accounting tricks to mislead shareholders about outsize profits the government-chartered firm was then reaping from risky investments. The goal was to push earnings onto the books in future years, ensuring that Freddie Mac would appear profitable on paper for years to come and helping maximize annual bonuses for company brass.
The accounting scandal wasn't the only one that brewed during Emanuel's tenure.
During his brief time on the board, the company hatched a plan to enhance its political muscle. That scheme, also reviewed by the board, led to a record $3.8 million fine from the Federal Election Commission for illegally using corporate resources to host fundraisers for politicians. Emanuel was the beneficiary of one of those parties after he left the board and ran in 2002 for a seat in Congress from the North Side of Chicago.
The board was throttled for its acquiescence to the accounting manipulation in a
2003 report by Armando Falcon Jr., head of a federal oversight agency for
Freddie Mac. The scandal forced Freddie Mac to restate $5 billion in earnings
and pay $585 million in fines and legal settlements. It also foreshadowed even
harder times at the firm.
Barack Obama's chief of staff spent two years
working as an investment banker in Chicago. Wassterstein Perella paid Rahm
Emanuel $16.2 million and made him a managing director, despite the fact that
Emanuel had never held a job outside of politics before. So what did he do to
earn that kind of pay day? "He was a highly-paid deal-maker who enriched himself
by using his government connections to enrich big business," Tim Carney writes.
(Disclosure: blah, blah, blah, brother.) From
the Washington Examiner:
One of Emanuel’s two biggest deals never would
have happened without government pressure. When telecom giant SBC bought fellow
telecom company Ameritech, SBC executives intended to hold onto Ameritech’s
home-security company SecurityLink.
But Bill Clinton’s Federal Communications
Commission insisted that federal law required SBC to sell the security company.
Clinton’s old right-hand man, Emanuel, happened to be working on behalf of a
venture capital firm called GTCR Golder Rauner that wanted to buy SecurityLink
from SBC. The government pressure helped Emanuel get his clients a good deal, as
the Tribune tells the story:
“Under a regulatory deadline to divest itself of
SecurityLink, SBC financed all but $100 million of GTCR’s $479 million purchase
of the firm. Less than six months later, GTCR resold the company for $1 billion,
earning a quick $500 million on its investment.”
UPDATE: Tracy sent us this bit of thuggery:
When Lyman reads a Washington Post profile of him which tells how he sent a
congressman a rotting fish in the post, he asks his assistant, Donna, if she was
the source. In fact, it was Mr Emanuel – who reportedly once sent a pollster he
had fallen out with the same gift – as a warning never to cross him again.
It is not the only episode in Mr Emanuel’s history which reads like a scene
from a gangster movie.
At a dinner to celebrate Bill Clinton’s first presidential victory – Mr
Emanuel was his chief fundraiser – he began to reel off the names of those who
had 'crossed' him. He grabbed a steak knife and began plunging it into the table
shouting “Dead! Dead! Dead!” after each name.
“When he was done the table looked like a lunar landscape,” a witness
relates. “It was like something out of The Godfather. But that’s Rahm for you.”
Mr Emmanuel became infamous for his cutting manner during the Clinton years,
even towards the world’s most powerful leaders.
In 1998, when Tony Blair visited the White House at the height of the Monica
Lewinsky scandal, the Prime Minister and Mr Clinton scheduled a public
appearance. As he was preparing to walk out, Mr Emanuel cautioned Mr Blair :
“This is important. Don’t f*** it up.”
This is madness. What this constitutes is a coup on the American electoral system, a usurpation of the will of the people, a government by the people for the people made into a sham. It's a government by the moochers and the looters, for the moochers and the looters, stolen from the good, hardworking American. Do you see how tragic this is - and worse, the American people have sat by and let it happen. Drip drip drip drip ................ until what? President Hussein, that's what.
The Mansourian candidate was not accident of history. It was a very deliberate assault by the hard left on foundation of the greatest country in human history. The hatred of the good for being good.
If we purged the illegals, the dead and the fraudulent, this would be a different country, with honest leadership that reflected the real landscape of this great nation (look at the tea parties, for example). That criminal gang would not be running this country. Foeshizzle. Do you expect the corrupt Congress to take action on this? And the "polite," aka weak and timid Republicans?
These pigs are stealing your money, robbing your wealth, bankrupting America and your children. What are you going to do about it?
I say we allocate a mere 50 million of O-bankruptcy's 7.8 trillion dollar rout and create an independent verifying company that validates EVERY VOTER REGISTRATION IN THE USA - so that they are ALIVE, LEGAL, ..... AND EXIST! Create jobs in every state - with the "Legal Voter Defense of America Act" - this save America action will pay off in ways we cannot even begin to see. For every fraudulent registration - get a buck! You'll be a millionaire in no time!
More than half the voter registrations turned in by ACORN canvassers during
the last election were not valid, according to testimony to be presented before
a House Judiciary subcommittee.
The testimony is from Anita MonCrief, a former employee of an affiliate of
the Association of Community Organizations. MonCrief, who was fired for
improperly charging personal expenses to the ACORN affiliate, originally
testified under oath as part of a request by the Republican State Committee in
Pennsylvania for an injunction against ACORN. The request was denied. The FBI
has been investigating the liberal community organizing group for possible voter
registration fraud.
MonCrief will appear at the congressional hearing Thursday with Heather
Heidelbaugh, who represented the Republican committee in the civil suit and is
on the executive board of the Republican National Lawyers Association. She will
provide a legal analysis of MonCrief’s testimony.
“We will be presenting evidence that ACORN is engaged in voter registration
irregularities and fraud,” Heidelbaugh tells Newsmax,
According to MonCrief, ACORN considered 40 percent an acceptable level of
accurate voter registrations turned in by its workers. She said ACORN barely
trained its workers in how to register voters properly and would fire employees
if they did not meet a quota of 20 new voter applicants daily. If the
registration cards turned in did not meet the quota, supervisors were told to
“fire them right there; don’t let them waste your money for the day.”
If a canvasser was caught committing fraud, ACORN threw the individual “under
the bus,” MonCrief said. ACORN employees were briefed on how to deny that voter
registration fraud existed, she said.
According to MonCrief, the Obama presidential campaign called her in October
2007 asking for coordination in soliciting donations from people who had already
made the maximum contribution to Obama allowed by election laws. MonCrief
testified that she was given a massive database of Obama donors who had already
reached the limit. Her task was to cull it for potential donors who would then
donate to Project Vote, an ACORN affiliate which targets individuals and
entities to solicit donations.
If true, MonCrief’s allegations constitute violations of the Internal Revenue
Code, federal campaign finance laws, and laws against voter registration fraud,
according to a memo by Cleta Mitchell, co-chairman of the Republican National
Lawyers Association.
FBI agents have made two arrests after raiding the D.C. office of the man
tapped to be President Obama's chief information officer, sources told FOX
News.
The agents on Thursday morning raided the office of Vivek Kundra, who was
leaving his post as the D.C. chief technology officer to join the
administration. The investigation is related to allegations of corruption, one
source said, but is not targeting Kundra.
FBI agents arrested a District of Columbia government worker, Yusuf Acar, as
well as Sushil Bansal, who works for a company called Advanced Integrated
Technologies Corp, sources said. Both are expected in court later Thursday.
FBI spokeswoman Lindsay Gotwin would not describe the nature of the
probe.
"It's an ongoing law enforcement investigation," she said.
In a March 5 White House press release, the administration said it chose
Kundra to be the federal chief information officer because of his "depth of
experience in the technology arena and a commitment to lowering the cost of
government operations to this position."
The chief information officer is responsible for overseeing federal
technology spending.
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