[So Cal Rocket]

From what I can tell, there are NO ties (other than they MIGHT have been co-presenters at some conferences in the past) between the two organizations.

I find it difficult to get excited about the claim that they are using taxpayer money to fund Anti-Recall seminars until someone can show a monetary link between the State Funding (which went to ILE) and the Anti-Recall Seminar (which is being sponsored by SB&CTC).

I doubt any serious media will pursue this until you can show a money trail.

[comwatch]

Hey So Cal Rocket and all you FReepers who jumped on this with the media:

IT WORKED... the evidence follows. But we need to keep the pressure on!  As to the challenge"

SoCalRocket said: "From what I can tell, there are NO ties (other than they MIGHT have been co-presenters at some conferences in the past) between the two organizations. ... I find it difficult to get excited about the claim that they are using taxpayer money to fund Anti-Recall seminars until someone can show a monetary link between the State Funding (which went to ILE) and the Anti-Recall Seminar (which is being sponsored by SB&CTC)."

Patriotwatch members pride themselves in double checking even friendly sources. The reason you (and others) couldn't find the nexus is because SB&CTC removed it from the WAR seminars information page AFTER being found out. WHY would they do that?  Here's the PDF file captured before they engaged in the cover-up. (I've attached a copy below too)  Is that the smell of a gun smoking? Enough for anyone else? Or do we just let them rip us for another $4 million let alone the $17 million over the past three years?  This memo bears Kaloogian's signature and a demand the Governor line item veto the item for the Institute for Labor and Employment is identified in the budget as the U.C. Berkeley/UCLA Multi-Campus Research Unit for Labor Studies.  It is on page 477, lines 18-21 of the budget bill passed by the Senate, AB 1765.
 

Kaloogian's office issued the Press Release today along with the evidence. CONTACT: Teri O'Rourke (916) 441-6197 should anyone still need convincing union thugs and democrats have a history of covering up their lies. In part, from that release is this statement:

"When the Recall Gray Davis Committee began a public information campaign to alert supporters to the use of taxpayer funding to defeat the recall, the website that listed information on the workshops removed all references to the Institute for Labor and Employment. Caught red-handed using taxpayer funding to fight the recall, they further tried to conceal their illegal activities by moving the location of the anti-recall workshops from the ILE’s UCLA Labor Center to the United Teachers of Los Angeles offices."