Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies (60 page)

74
Reverend C. J. Hawking, “Student Occupation, Highway Sit-Down, and Hunger Strike at University of Miami Janitors’ Strike,”
Labor Notes
; available online at:
http://labornotes.org/node/223
[accessed April 7, 2009]. See also: “Award Winning Actor and Activist Ed Asner; SEIU President Andy Stern to Meet with Striking Janitors as National Focus on Shalala Intensifies,” PR Newswire, April 21, 2006; available online at:
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/04-21-2006/0004344595&EDATE=
[accessed April 7, 2009].

75
“When Voting Isn’t Private,” Center for Union Facts (2007), 35.

76
“The hunger strikers’ families need your help!” Picketline, April 18, 2006; available online at:
http://picketline.blogspot.com/2006/04/hunger-strikers-families-need-your.html
[accessed April 7, 2009].

77
Paul Donahue letter to the editor of the
Miami Herald
, April 27, 2006; available online at:
http://www.wsihq.com/PR20060427.asp
[accessed April 7, 2009].

78
“In largest single-day filing ever in California healthcare, caregivers flock to new union and show SEIU the door,” National Union of Health-care workers, February 2, 2009; available online at:
http://www.nuhw.org/media/2009/2/2/in-largest-single-day-filing-ever-in-california-healthcare-c.html
[accessed April 7, 2009].

79
Juan Gonzalez, “Service Employees International Union president goes to the extreme,”
New York Daily News
, March 25, 2009; available online at:
http://www.nydailynews.com/money/2009/03/25/2009-03-25_service_employees_international_union_pr.html
[accessed April 9, 2009].

80
“SEIU Union Must Abandon ‘Card Check’ Union Organizing Drives in Pacific Northwest After Finding of Rampant Abuse of Employees’ R,” National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation Inc., April 24, 2007; available online at:
http://www.nrtw.org/en/press/2007/04/seiuunion-must-abandon-card-check-union-organizing-drives-pacific-northwest-after-fin
[accessed April 7, 2009].

81
“Karen Mayhew—Taking the Lead Against ‘Card Check’ Coercion,” National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation Inc.; available online at:
http://www.nrtw.org/profiles/mayhew/index.htm
[accessed April 7, 2009].

82
Conn Caroll, “Morning Bell: Workers Deserve Better Than a Big Labor Lackey,”
The Foundry
, January 9, 2009; available online at:
http://blog.heritage.org/2009/01/09/morning-bell-workers-deserve-better-than-a-big-labor-lackey/
[accessed April 7, 2009].

83
Todd Beeton, “SEIU Convention: Anna Burger on the Employee Free Choice Act,” MyDD, June 3, 2008; available online at:
http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/6/3/123839/5749
[accessed April 7, 2009].

84
Michelle Malkin, “Michelle Obama’s Anti-Obesity Campaign is Just Empty Calories,”
Front Page Magazine
, February 4, 2010; available online at:
http://www.opposingviews.com/i/michelle-obama-s-anti-obesity-campaign-is-just-empty-calories
[accessed May 17, 2010].

85
Michelle Malkin, “SEIU exploiting swine flu risk in Chicago schools,”
michellemalkin.com
, September 8, 2009; available online at:
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/09/08/seiu-exploiting-swine-flu-risk-in-chicago-schools/
[accessed May 17, 2010].

86
Michelle Malkin, “SEIU Fat Cats Are Behind First Lady’s Anti-Obesity Campaign,”
CNSNews.com
, February 3, 2010; available online at:
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/60889
[accessed May 17, 2010].

87
Mike Link, “Service Workers Unions Call for Stronger ‘Nutrition Safety Net’ for America’s Children,” Campaign for Quality Services, December 11, 2008; available online at:
http://campaignforqualityservices.org/2008/12/service-workers-unions-call-for-stronger-nutrition-safety-net-for-americas-children. html
[accessed May 17, 2010].

CHAPTER 8

1
Bertha Lewis, “We Are Willing To Go To Any Means Necessary,”
Huffington Post
, February 20, 2009; available online at:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bertha-lewis/we-are-willing-to-go-to-a_b_168742.html
[accessed April 22, 2009].

2
Derek Valcourt, “ACORN Trains Citizens To Protest Home Foreclosures,”
WJZ.com
, February 19, 2009; available online at:
http://wjz.com/local/acorn.foreclosure.2.939119.html
[accessed April 22, 2009].

3
Sam Graham-Felsen, “ACORN Political Action Committee Endorses Obama,”
mybarackobama.com
, February 21, 2008; available online at:
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/samgrahamfelsen/gGC7zm
[accessed April 22, 2009].

4
“Obama caught saying ACORN and friends will shape his presidential agenda,”
YouTube.com
, October 11, 2008; available online at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vJcVgJhNaU&e
[accessed April 22, 2009].

5
Michelle Malkin, “Document drop: The truth about ACORN’s foreclosure poster child,”
michellemalkin.com
, February 23, 2009; available online at:
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/02/23/document-drop-the-truth-about-acorns-foreclosure-poster-child/
[accessed April 22, 2009].

6
Ibid.

7
David Montgomery, “The Foreclosees Protest An American Dream Turned Nightmare,”
Washington Post
, October 2, 2008; available online at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/01/AR2008100103112_pf.html
[accessed April 22, 2009].

8
Edward Ericson Jr., “Victim Mentality,”
Baltimore City Paper
, July 30, 2008; available online at:
http://www.citypaper.com/
digest.asp?id= 16077 [accessed April 22, 2009].

9
“Perpetrator or victim?” Northern Virginia Housing Bubble Fall-out, February 11, 2009; available online at:
http://novabubblefallout.blogspot.com/2009/02/perpetrator-or-victim-propaganda-or.html
[accessed April 22, 2009].

10
Edward Ericson Jr., “Victim Mentality.”

11
John Fund,
Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy
(San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2004).

12
“Barack Obama Never Organized with ACORN,” fightthesmears. com; available online at:
http://fightthesmears.com/articles/20/acornrumor
[accessed April 22, 2009].

13
Stanley Kurtz, “Obama Acorn Cover-up?,” The Corner, October 8, 2008; available online at:
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MTNiN2YwMmQ4Njc2MzE4ZDUxYWVlYTA1NzZlMmY3YmM=
[accessed April 22, 2009].

14
Sam Graham-Felsen, “ACORN Political Action Committee Endorses Obama,”
mybarackobama.com
, February 21, 2008; available online at:
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/samgrahamfelsen/gGC7zm
[accessed April 22, 2009].

15
Michelle Malkin, “The left-wing mortgage counseling racket,”
michellemalkin.com
, April 3, 2008; available online at:
http://michelle-malkin.com/2008/04/03/the-left-wing-mortgage-counseling-racket/
[accessed April 22, 2009].

16
“ACORNS’s hypocritical house of cards,” Consumer Rights League; available online at:
http://www.consumersrightsleague.org/UploadedFiles/ACORN_AHC_Report.pdf
[accessed April 22, 2009].

17
Ibid.

18
Christina Corbin, “ACORN to Play Role in 2010 Census,”
foxnews.com
, March 18, 2009; available online at:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/03/17/lawmakers-concerned-role-acorn-census/
[accessed April 22, 2009].

19
Judicial Watch Obtains Obama Commerce Department Documents Detailing ACORN Partnership for 2010 Census,
JudicialWatch.org
, May 28, 2009; available online at:
http://www.judicialwatch.org/news/2009/may/judicial-watch-obtains-obama-commerce-department-documents-detailing-acorn-partnership
[accessed May 31, 2009].

20
Wade Rathke full biography; available online at:
http://waderathke.com/index.php?id=76
[accessed April 22, 2009].

21
Richard Danielson, “Vote drives defended, despite fake names,”
St. Petersburg Times
, October 14, 2008; available online at:
http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/elections/article852295.ece
[accessed April 22, 2009].

22
Stephanie Strom, “Funds Misappropriated at 2 Nonprofit Groups,”
New York Times
, July 9, 2008; available online at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/09/us/09embezzle.html
[accessed April 22, 2009].

23
Stephanie Strom, “Head of Foundation Bailed Out Nonprofit Group After Its Funds Were Embezzled,”
New York Times
, August 17, 2008; available online at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/us/17acorn.html
[accessed April 22, 2009].

24
Stephanie Strom, “Lawsuit Adds to Turmoil for Community Group,”
New York Times
, September 10, 2008; available online at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/10/us/10acorn.html
[accessed April 22, 2009].

25
“ACORN can’t escape Wade Rathke,”
The Union News
, October 15, 2008; available online at:
http://theunionnews.blogspot.com/2008/10/acorn-cant-escape-wade-rathke.html
[accessed April 22, 2009].

26
David M. Brown, “Obama to amend report on $800,000 in spending,”
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
, August 22, 2008; available online at:
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/election/s_584284.html
[accessed April 22, 2008].

27
Ibid.

28
Kevin Agnese, “Wynn files FEC complaint against Edwards,” Politicker. com, January 29, 2008; available online at:
http://www.politicker.com/maryland/9087/wynn-files-fec-complaint-against-edwards
[accessed April 22, 2009].

29
Lori Sherwood complaint to Federal Election Commission, January 29, 2008; available online at:
http://www.mydd.com/images/admin/edwards.complain_6_.pdf
[accessed April 22, 2009].

30
Ibid.

31
See
http://eqs.nictusa.com/eqsdocs/29044222943.pdf
[accessed May 25, 2009].

32
Paul Ryder, “Should we go to the ballot? Some considerations,” Ohio Citizen Action, February 17, 2009; available online at:
http://www.ohiocitizen.org/about/training/ballotconsiderations.html
[accessed April 22, 2009].

33
“Barack Obama Never Organized with ACORN,” fightthesmears. com, op cit.

34
Stephanie Strom, “Acorn Report Raises Issues of Legality,”
New York Times
, October 22, 2008; available online at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/22/us/22acorn.html
[accessed April 22, 2009].

35
David M. Brown, “Obama to amend report on $800,000 in spending,” op cit.

36
Matthew Vadum. “Cracking ACORN,”
National Review
Online, November 3, 2008; available online at:
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MDY2ZWFjNTk4ZDdiZmFjYmY5YjQwMzhmMjM1YmNmOTA=
[accessed April 22, 2009].

37
Ibid.

38
“Anita MonCrief,” Ballotpedia; available online at:
http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/Anita_MonCrief
[accessed April 22, 2009].