Left-wing Service Employees International boss Andy Stern was identified earlier this year as the most frequent visitor (22 visits!) to the White House since Barack Hussein Obama’s election. He is also strongly connected to ACORN, the extreme left-wing Obama-supporting “community organizing” group currently under a massive criminal fraud investigation in many states. They even share an office address.
“There are a lot of terrorists in the Senate who think we are supposed to negotiate with them when they have their particular needs that they want met,” the Obama confidant and union boss Andy Stern said in a Business Week magazine interview yesterday.
The SEIU is also the group whom Barack Obama told, during the campaign and since being elected, that he wouldn’t do anything without consulting them first.
Andy Stern sounds very much like a communist to me. Here’s some key points in Wikipedia, which even Wikipedia didn’t alter.
• Stern is intent upon influencing federal legislation that helps revitalize the labor movement through universal health care, expanding union ranks via the Employee Free Choice Act (commonly known as “card check”) [6], stronger regulations on business, profit sharing for employees, and higher taxes, efforts consistent with a new global economic model that moves American businesses away from traditional, free-market capitalism [7].
• Stern has been a contributing blogger at The Huffington Post[18] and actively uses Twitter.[19]
• Stern has been a key figure in financing the online grassroots community Netroots, along with Dean, George Soros, Simon Rosenberg, and Andrew S. Rappaport, to funnel a progressive agenda to liberal bloggers[20].
• Through Stern’s leadership, the SEIU has funneled vast amounts of financing to the Democratic Party and its candidates,
• SEIU contributed $65 million to the 2004 campaign[26] by Sen. John Kerry to oust former President George W. Bush[27]. The union spent another $85 million on Democratic candidates in 2008, at least $60 million going toward the election of President Barack Obama[28].
• Stern was an ardent supporter of the $787 billion stimulus bill, known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009[29], and the majority ownership of Chyrsler and General Motors by the United States Treasury[30].
• Stern has been a frequent visitor to the White House since Obama’s election[31] . Between Inaguration Day and July 31, 2009, Stern visited the White House 22 times, meeting with the president seven times[32].
• Under Stern, the SEIU has poured millions into a group called Health Care for America NOW!, which set up pavillions at nearly every major health care protest in 2009, and has given the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) nearly $6 million since 2006 – including $250,000 in 2009 – according to U.S. Department of Labor disclosure and the union’s own statements[33].
• The SEIU and ACORN have had joint bank acounts with Wells Fargo bank. Copies of their bank statements were retrieved in documents thought to be lost in Hurricane Katrina.
• After graduation, he spent time traveling in Europe and trained in the tactics of radical activism at the Midwest Academy[14], an educational institute formed by former Students for a Democratic Society member Paul and Heather Booth to teach leftist community organizers how to promote social change and infiltrate the labor movement[15].
On another video:
OBAMA: “Before debating health care, I talked to Andy Stern and SEIU members.”
OBAMA: “I’ve spent my entire adult life working with SEIU. I’m not a newcomer to this.”
From the L.A. Times, June 2009:
The SEIU spent $60 million to help elect Obama, according to the union. Stern said the group deployed 100,000 volunteers during the campaign, including 3,000 who worked on the election full time.
Now in the White House, Obama has continued to derive political benefits from the union. It was the SEIU’s health chief, Dennis Rivera, who helped bring industry to the table to start talks on a healthcare overhaul.
With nearly 2 million members, the SEIU says it has people in 13 states whose senators are considered important targets in the lobbying effort behind the emerging Democratic healthcare bill. The union wants to coax those senators into voting for the bill.
Stern can boast that union officials are scattered throughout the Obama administration. White House political director Patrick Gaspard is a former executive at an SEIU local based in New York. No other union has placed anyone at such a high level in the White House.
Anna Burger, SEIU secretary-treasurer, was appointed to Obama’s economic recovery board. And union associate counsel John Sullivan was named to the six-member Federal Election Commission. …
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