Posted on 02/06/2010 9:50:55 AM PST by opentalk
Craig Becker Uses Rules for Radicals
For #1 SEIU-Obama priority, the ends justify the means
President Obama’s radical union-backed nominee to the National Labor Relations Board lied to a Senate confirmation panel earlier this week about his ties to the embattled leftist advocacy group ACORN. The nominee is Craig Becker, who, at least until recently, was longtime associate general counsel to SEIU. Becker is considered radical in part because he believes that “employers should have no role in the unionization process,” according to Brian Johnson, executive director of the Alliance for Worker Freedom.
During a hearing Tuesday by the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) asked Becker this question: “Do you perform work for and provide advice to ACORN or ACORN-affiliated groups while employed by your current employers or on a volunteer basis?”
Becker responded, “Senator McCain, I have never done so.”
But that answer — that Becker “never” provided advice “to ACORN or ACORN-affiliated groups” — is demonstrably false. Evidence abounds that he gave advice to SEIU Local 880, which, as I will show below, was part and parcel of ACORN before it merged with another SEIU bargaining unit.
As the Wall Street Journal noted, Becker acknowledged previously that he had “worked with and provided advice” to Local 880.
And in a blog post last April, ACORN founder Wade Rathke couldn’t help bragging about Becker’s NLRB nomination, calling it “a big win no matter how you shake and bake it.” Rathke, who is also founder and chief organizer of SEIU Local 100 in New Orleans, reminisced about the good old days. “I can still 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.”
I hope he was under oath so Eric Holder can get right on the case!
Good point. He is the reason Scott Brown demanded to be seated sooner.
Perhaps then McCain was the wrong Senator for Becker to fib to. He’s the only one Brown owes loyalty to so far.
The U.S. Senate established that it is OK for a Democrat to lie under oath, by acquitting Clinton in 1999.
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