Obama Administration Moves to Shutdown Disclosure of Big Labor-ACORN Connections

We are trying to figure out when they are going to try to hide the connections between Wayne Rathke, ACORN, and SEIU since he was co-founder of ACORN, founder of SEIU, friend of Obama and looks to be a friend and benefactor for his organizations from Soros and his network. Finally a group of enterprising journalists have decided to investigate ACORN and its ties. With Andrew Breitbart, BigGovernment.com founder, being sued by ACORN, this should open up a lot more records.

Long past due for an ACORN investigation -- we would like to know why it wasn't done sooner? It took two young people willing to go under cover to do investigative journalism to blow the lid off. To this day, we hear crickets chirping from a lot of the MIA media who decided to take time off from investigative journalism when Obama decided to run for President. Instead they preferred to be cheerleaders for his campaign and now wonder why the former MSM is having financial problems?

Thanks to people like Andrew Breitbart and others, the information is seeing the light of day.

Obama Administration Moves to Shutdown Disclosure of Big Labor-ACORN Connections
biggovernment.com
Sept. 24, 2009
Don Loos

Even before U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis was sworn in, Big Labor insiders like AFL-CIO lawyer and Obama appointee Deborah Greenfield were busily dismantling useful union financial disclosures produced by former Labor Secretary Elaine Chao. It’s another Big Government – Big Labor partnership aimed at keeping individual workers, whom they claim to represent, in the dark.

Why the hurry? Perhaps Union Bosses wanted to prevent the Virginia GOP and inquisitive people like Patrick Semmens from visiting DOL’s UnionReports.gov website that clearly reveals the Big Labor-ACORN collusion. Semmens discovered that teachers’ union bosses gave about $500,000 to the same Brooklyn ACORN office exposed on BigGovernment.com. Both the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) awarded ACORN service contracts.

That’s right; union bosses gave teachers’ forced union dues to the same ACORN that appeared to have no problem facilitating child prostitution. No wonder Solis’ Big Labor friends want to shutdown financial disclosure!
In fact, UnionReports.gov provides detailed union financial reports and is a primary source for many union members, reporters, columnists, bloggers, and researchers. But, the days of disclosure are numbered. Big Labor has commanded Labor Secretary Solis to shut it all down.

Will Big Labor’s ties with ACORN be hidden again?
In 2003, some sunlight began to shine on union financial disclosure revealing payments to groups like ACORN.

Itemized ACORN payments were previously hidden somewhere in reports like the 2004 NEA LM-2 report below. A quick comparison of NEA financial disclosure reports appears below illustrating the value of the reformed 2008 report verses the 2004 pre-reform disclosure. (For the entire reports, please click the following links: 2004 and 2008 NEA LM-2 reports.)

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