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To: redreno

Randy Radtke ... don’t that name ring a bell??


5 posted on 08/29/2011 7:14:20 AM PDT by dusttoyou ("Progressives" are wee-weeing all over themselves, Foc nobama)
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To: dusttoyou

Sure does. Looks like a slight misspelling of “Rathke” as in Wade.


29 posted on 08/29/2011 7:38:02 AM PDT by icanhasbailout (Draft Napolitano 2012)
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To: dusttoyou

Probably related to the Radtkes who founded Acorn.


50 posted on 08/29/2011 8:32:53 AM PDT by Melchior
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To: dusttoyou

Wade Radtke

Wade Rathke (born August 5, 1948) is the co-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

The New York Times reported on July 9, 2008, that Dale Rathke, the brother of ACORN’s founder Wade Rathke, was found to have embezzled $948,607.50 from the group and affiliated charitable organizations back in 1999 and 2000

Rathke is also founder and Chief Organizer of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 100, which is headquartered in New Orleans and also has chapters in Texas. Founded in 1980 in New Orleans as an independent union of Hyatt employees, the union became part of SEIU in 1984. SEIU Local 100 organizes public sector public workers, including school employees, Head Start, and health care workers, as well as lower wage private sector workers in the hospitality, janitorial, and other service industries.

His work in the labor movement includes three terms as Secretary-Treasurer of the Greater New Orleans AFL-CIO. Rathke is the president and co-founder of the SEIU Southern Conference; a member of the International Executive Board of SEIU; and Chief Organizer of the Hotel and Restaurant Organizing Committee (HOTROC) a multi-union organizing project for hospitality workers in New Orleans sponsored by the AFL-CIO and its president, John Sweeney.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wade_Rathke


53 posted on 08/29/2011 8:35:38 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: dusttoyou

Probably not the same Randy Radtke, but there was a Republican in the Assembly by that same name a few years back.


68 posted on 08/29/2011 9:26:47 AM PDT by Obadiah (November 6, 2012 -- The date of the next great American Revolution!)
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