"Most Ethical Administration in History I"
"Most Ethical Administration in History II"
Posted on 03/10/2009 6:18:38 PM PDT by markomalley
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The White House Tuesday evening disclosed that almost three weeks ago the Obama administration granted ethics wavers for two additional officials who had previously worked as lobbyists. On February 20 the administration signed waivers for Jocelyn Frye, former general counsel at the National Partnership for Women & Families, and Cecilia Muñoz, the former senior vice president for the National Council of La Raza, allowing them to work on issues for which they lobbied.
These two are in addition to deputy Defense Secretary Bill Lynn, a former Raytheon lobbyist whose waiver was granted two days after President Obama announced on January 21 what he heralded as the most sweeping ethics rules in American history -- ones that would "close the revolving door that lets lobbyists come into government freely."
The Executive Order on Ethics Commitments by Executive Branch Personnel requires that lobbyists who become members of Obama administration will not be able to work on matters they lobbied on for two years, or in the agencies they lobbied during the previous two years. Out of approximately 800 executive branch appointments, three waivers have been granted, the Obama administration said.
Not all of the former lobbyists entering the administration have required the formal waivers; the White House has also required incoming administration officials who worked as lobbyists to write letters of recusal, indicating issues that they will stay away from dealing with because of their previous jobs. But those letters of recusal have not yet been disclosed.
Frye's waiver, signed by Norm Eisen, the special counsel to the President and designate agency ethics official, states that it's "in the public interest to grant the waiver because Ms. Fry's expertise in the areas in which she acted as a registered lobbyist is essential to her service to the Office of the First Lady." Frye, director of policy and projects in the Office of the First Lady, has "a particular focus on women, families and on engagement with the greater D.C. community," the White House says. Having directed the National Partnership’s Workplace Fairness Program in her previous job, she focused on "employment and gender discrimination issues, with a particular emphasis on employment barriers facing women of color and low-income women."
Muñoz's waiver was granted also in the public interest "because Ms. Munoz's knowledge and expertise are vital to the functioning of the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs," Eisen wrote. As director of intergovernmental affairs in the Executive Office of the President, Muñoz is chief liaison to the Latino community, in addition to coordinating with state and local governments. signed by Norm Eisen, the special counsel to the President and designate agency ethics official, states that it's "in the public interest to grant the waiver because Ms. Fry's expertise in the areas in which she acted as a registered lobbyist is essential to her service to the Office of the First Lady."
"We took the rare step of granting the waivers to Ms. Frye and Ms. Muñoz because of the importance of their respective positions and because of each woman’s unequalled qualifications for her job," Eisen said. "Each is a leading substantive expert on the relevant issue areas and each also has long-standing relationships with constituencies important to their respective offices."
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Worth repeating...
"Most Ethical Administration in History I"
"Most Ethical Administration in History II"
I would think this was a joke, but this is our nightmare.
If I decide to rob a bank and get caught I'll just ask the judge for an ethic waiver.
Dishonesty, lies, contempt for the American people. The legacy of the Obama presidency has been established in it’s first six weeks.
PLEASE use it!
Obama is a bold faced liar!
He also isn’t transparent about anything. Surprise, surprise! /s
I’m going to look for a bumper sticker tomorrow that says “I MISS BILL!” I never thought I would say that!!!
What has this country gotten itself in to?! I don’t even want to think about the mess Obama is going to leave!
Cecilia Munoz - Formerly of the 'Tan Klan'
Now works in Intra-government Affairs for the White House
Cecilia Munoz, a vice president for policy at the National Council of La Raza [aka the Tan Klan], a Hispanic civil rights organization, described the national anti-immigration groups as "hate groups."
Party members, move along, nothing to see here. Pashli, nikulturnie.
Wait until Michelle Malkin unloads on this one. From her May 6, 2008 blog:
10. La Raza supports driver’s licenses for illegal aliens.
9. La Raza supports in-state tuition discounts for illegal alien students that are not available to law-abiding US citizens and law-abiding legal immigrants.
8. La Raza opposes cooperative immigration enforcement efforts between local, state, and federal authorities.
7. La Raza sponsors militant ethnic nationalist charter schools subsidized by your public tax dollars, including the “Aztlan Academy” in Tucson, AZ, the Mexicayotl Academy in Nogales, AZ, and Academia Cesar Chavez Charter School in St. Paul, Minn.
6. La Raza gives mainstream cover to a poisonous subset of ideological satellites, led by Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan, or Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan (MEChA), which the late GOP Rep. Charlie Norwood rightly characterized as “a radical racist group…[and] one of the most anti-American groups in the country, which has permeated U.S. campuses since the 1960s, and continues its push to carve a racist nation out of the American West.”
5. La Raza opposes a secure fence on the southern border.
4. Former La Raza president Raul Yzaguirre, Hillary Clinton’s Hispanic outreach advisor said this:
“US English is to Hispanics as the Ku Klux Klan is to blacks.” He was referring to US English the nation’s oldest, largest citizens’ action group dedicated to preserving the unifying role of the English language in the United States.
La Raza also pioneered Orwellian open-borders Newspeak and advised the Mexican government on how to lobby for illegal alien amnesty while avoiding the terms “illegal” and “amnesty.”
3. La Raza is currently leading a smear campaign against staunch immigration enforcement leaders and has called for TV and cable TV networks to keep immigration enforcement proponents off the airwaves–in addition to pushing for Fairness Doctrine policies to shut up their foes.
2. La Raza has consistently opposed post-9/11 national security measures at every turn.
1. The National Council of La Raza means The National Council of “The Race,” for God’s sake.
Their signature slogan, chanted at pro-illegal alien rallies from coast to coast, is “La raza unida nunca sera vencida.”
“A united [Hispanic] race will never be defeated.”
it’s “in the public interest to grant the waiver because Ms. Fry’s expertise in the areas in which she acted as a registered lobbyist is essential to her service to the Office of the First Lady.”
My my, I didn’t realize that was an elected position.
How times do change.
Jocelyn Frye is General Counsel at the National Partnership for Women & Families in Washington, DC. She directs the National Partnership's Workplace Fairness Program and, in that capacity, focuses primarily on a wide range of employment and gender discrimination issues, with a particular emphasis on employment barriers facing women of color and low-income women. She participates in a number of civil rights and women's coalitions and serves as the co-chair of the employment task force and the economic security task force for the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights.
Her work includes monitoring and analyzing the effectiveness of federal equal employment enforcement efforts, and she has participated in numerous briefings, panels, workshops, and trainings discussing employment discrimination law.
Ms. Frye's areas of expertise include affirmative action, welfare reform, access to education and training, and employment barriers affecting low-income women.
Frye's Federal lobbying activities in 2008 included:
Bankruptcy, Civil Rights / Civil Liberties, Family Issues / Abortion / Adoption, Government Issues, Health Issues, Medicare / Medicaid
The rise in complaints stems from a new generation of women who are better paid and educated and are aware of their rights to sue employers, she said. Jocelyn Frye, director of legal and public policy at the National Partnership for Women & Families, said that the rise in formal complaints against employers is “probably the tip of the iceberg” because many workers have learned to keep silent to avert expenses and cases that are difficult to prove
Cecilia Munoz, Vice President, National Council of La Raza (NCLR): “The extraordinary growth of our community, which is emerging as a force throughout the U.S., demonstrates the power of the immigration phenomenon and the ways in which the classic American story is being repeated all over the country,” said Munoz. (At this point Senator Brownback broke in and said, “Yes, it is beautiful and the numbers are astounding.) However, she continued there are anti-immigrant organizations and movements working today to raise concerns about current waves of immigration. “At their best, these organized movements provoke discussion and debate; at their worst, they promote hatred and bigotry.”
Other amnesty supporters have gone farther, challenging the very concept of amnesty and seeking to legitimize illegal immigration. Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D., Ill.), for instance, rejects the concept altogether: “Amnesty - there’s an implication that somehow you did something wrong and you need to be forgiven.” Cecilia Munoz of the National Council of La Raza makes the same point in a more sophisticated fashion; the word “conveys a sense of forgiving someone for a crime,” she says, when in fact, crossing the border illegally is a civil offense, not a criminal one.
what a joke. This just isn’t funny anymore....
I always wondered if someone really did this or if this is a photo-shop.
Do as we say, not as we do, as in pay your taxes, no lobbiests, blah, blah
How many does this make?
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