Not sure if he still does, but a few years ago he was living in Austin and I would see him around town quite a bit and talked to him a few times over beer.
Executive board member arrested for theft in Iowa Statehouse
On Tuesday, March 16 2009 a contingent of SEIU members were at the Iowa statehouse lobbying legislators. They included 38-year-old Marshall Clemons of Cedar Rapids. Clemons is on the executive board of SEIU local 199. Lieutenant Mark Logsdon is head of the security detail and reported
“A lobbyist on the second floor of the capitol noticed an individual later identified as Marshall Clemons, had reached in and taken a ladies’ billfold out of a purse. He followed this individual on the first floor of the capitol and found the money on this person and the billfold had been discarded into a recycling bin. The suspect reached into the recycling bin and retrieved it.
“At that time, the lobbyist told (Clemons) he needed to leave and basically never do that again, but (Clemons) proceeded down to the bathroom on the ground floor — the men’s room — where he was cornered by one of the capitol security officers, our blue coats we call them, who called for a trooper and this individual was later discovered to have discarded another lady’s billfold in one of the toilets of the men’s rest room.”
During the Democratic National Convention, Clemons was invited to sit with then Vice Presidential nominee Joe Biden and his family. Biden and Clemons had been partners in one of SEIU’s “walk a day in my shoes” events with presidential candidates.
Clemons has been charged with two counts of fifth degree theft, a simple misdemeanor. He’s been booked into the Polk County Jail. Clemons is a custodian at a school in Cedar Rapids. Phone calls to SEIU headquaters in Cedar Rapids and Washington, D.C. have not yet been returned. [14]