Report: Taxpayer Funds for La Raza ‘Skyrocket’ After Leader Secures White House Job

The progressive politically-connected National Council of La Raza has been a staple (illegal) immigration advocacy group on the left and has long benefited from the generous support of government financial grants. But according to an investigation by Judicial Watch, federal funding of the group “skyrocketed” shortly after one of its top officials got a job in the Obama White House.

Cecilia Munoz, La Raza’s senior vice president and lobbyist, joined the Obama administration as director of intergovernmental affairs in 2009. Since then, Judicial Watch reports, federal funding being poured into the organization has more than doubled: At the pro illegal immigration NCLR, Muñoz supervised all legislative and advocacy activities on the state and local levels and she was heavily involved in the congressional immigration battles that took place in the George W. Bush Administration.

She also brought in a steady flow of government cash that’s allowed the Washington D.C.-based group to expand nationwide and promote its leftist, open-borders agenda via a network of community organizations dedicated to serving Latinos.Among them are a variety of local groups that provide social services, housing counseling and farm worker assistance as well as publicly-funded charter schools that promote radical Chicano curriculums. Judicial Watch published a special report on this a few years ago.

This week a JW probe has uncovered details of the alarming increase in federal funding that these NCLR groups have received since Muñoz joined the Obama Administration. In fact, the government cash more than doubled the year Muñoz joined the White House, from $4.1 million to $11 million. Not surprisingly, a big chunk of the money (60%) came from the Department of Labor, which is headed by a former California congresswoman (Hilda Solis) with close ties to the La Raza movement.

Stunning...no, not really.

“La Raza” is an antiquated California student leftist organization from the 1960s, which appears to be the era with which Bambi’s flickering brain cells connect.

Assuming he was born in the 60s, he would have been too young to know much about them... and in any case, even by his own admission, he was living outside of the US at the time.

But his mentors (Ayers and the gang, who are slightly older than he is) were living their glory days in the 1960s and early 70s, and this is the time period that spawned “La Raza.”

They were a pack of loser affirmative-action academics (like Obama) with no popular support until the Dems resurrected them and annointed them as the spokesmen for California and Western states Latinos.

The source of the article is: Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles - NCLR Funding Skyrockets After Obama Hires Its VP

A Judicial Watch investigation reveals that federal funding for a Mexican La Raza group that for years has raked in millions of taxpayer dollars has skyrocketed since one of its top officials got a job in the Obama White House. The influential and politically-connected National Council of La Raza (NCLR) has long benefitted from Uncle Sam’s largess but the group has made a killing since Obama hired its senior vice president (Cecilia Muñoz) in 2009 to be his director of intergovernmental affairs.

Cecilia Muñoz - US Director of Intergovernmental Affairs

Ignored by the mainstream media, Judicial Watch covered the appointment because the president issued a special “ethics waiver” to bring Muñoz aboard since it violated his own lobbyist ban. At the pro illegal immigration NCLR, Muñoz supervised all legislative and advocacy activities on the state and local levels and she was heavily involved in the congressional immigration battles that took place in the George W. Bush Administration.

Not surprisingly, a big chunk of the money (60%) came from the Department of Labor, which is headed by a former California congresswoman (Hilda Solis) with close ties to the La Raza movement. Since Obama named her Labor Secretary, Solis has launched a nationwide campaign to protect illegal immigrant workers in the U.S. Just this week Solis penned declarations with Guatemala and Nicaragua to preserve the rights of their migrants.

Hilda Solis - US Secretary of Labor

The NCLR also received additional taxpayer dollars from other federal agencies in 2010, the JW probe found. The Department of Housing and Urban Development doled out $2.5 million for housing counseling, the Department of Education contributed nearly $800,000 and the Centers for Disease Control a quarter of a million.

Additionally, NCLR affiliates nationwide raked in tens of millions of government grant and recovery dollars last year thanks to the Muñoz factor. An offshoot called Chicanos Por La Causa (CPLC) saw its federal funding nearly double to $18.3 million following Muñoz’ appointment.

The reason tax money is going to fund enemies of Liberty? Treason within the Republican party at every level, and at the grass roots. I could blame the Democrats, the Socialists, Communists, Anarchists, racists and haters. That would be too easy. The fault lies within those that espouse the "Rule of Law". They who make public calls for smaller limited govt, and a return to basic American principles, but will not act. Those who easily see what is happening, but ignore and play politics. THEY are the most dangerous, for they only seek to play a delay game, to keep us living within the hope of another outcome. They use our fear and Righteous anger as a way to achieve power for themselves, AND to give THEMSELVES SAFE HAVEN. While we "the grunts", citizens working to reverse the decline, are drowning in the sea of immorality and truly treasonous behavior emitted from the State legislatures, the Congress of the USA, and the White House and its minions.

I blame those that are charged with safeguarding our Liberties. Those that claim to be the fiscally responsible "adults" in govt, The Republicans. When you hire a babysitter to watch over your rowdy pre-teens, if you come home and find chaos, you blame the sitters. They knew the circumstance, and took money to control the situation. When they do not, you fire them, and never hire them back. You do not give them a stipend, you do not allow them to keep their reputations. You clearly address their shortfalls to your neighbors, and move on. This is what people need to do with the Republican party.

It is way past time for a completely new party. One without the baggage of the past. Without the worn out slogans and lies. A party that will live with its promises, or step aside. A TEA Party for our Liberty, our Freedom, and for our country.

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