Time to e-mail your senator. Here’s an appointment that needs some old fashioned, Obama-promised transparency. Craig Becker, Associate General Counsel to both the Service Employees International Union, the joined at the hip ACORN twin, and the American Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial Organizations. Obama has appointed him to the 5 member National Labor Relations Board. According to an op ed in today’s WSJ, in a 1993 Minnesota Law Review article, written when he was a UCLA professor, Mr. Becker argued for rewriting current union-election rules in favor of labor. And he suggested the NLRB could do this by regulatory fiat, without a vote of Congress. So it’s clear what he plans to do, and why Obama wants him on that board. More power for the executive branch, less for our elected Congress.
Acorn's Ally at the NLRB; Obama appoints an SEIU man with ties to Blago.
Mr. Labor Lobby Becker is very evasive about his role on Obama’s transition team and just which parts of executive orders he researched and authored while still in the employ of SEIU. He also has ties to Blagojevich. His open mindedness on labor issues will be about as wide and deep as Obama’s transparency--zilch, nada, zip.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
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Murray sez:
Writing to your legislators is a frustrating hopeless endeavor.
We are being inundated with so many negative issues at the same time that it's becoming impossible to keep up. It's like trying to hold water in your hands while someone is slapping you around. Obama's "team" is taking control of everything at an alarming pace while most citizens are looking the other way.
Senator Durbin has never responded to my e-mails or for that matter, he's never even acknowledged I exist.
Our legislators are out of our control. The only alternative the taxpaying citizen has is a national revolt. Our legislators are betting heavily that we won't organize. It's ugly but they're right! They're counting on the fact that the only resistance they will get is a few e-mails from those who are paying attention.
Yes, it's frustrating. Each contact template is different; some never respond. Interestingly, I hear immediately from the Democrat senator with very good, well thought out replies, but only rarely from the Republican, George Voinovich. But write anyway.
The Obama administration: "suborned by the dead hand of organized labor"
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