Bio of Van Os (Burkett's chad counting Lawyer) & DNC Connections

Van Os website ^ | 2004 | Rod M

[Rodm]

David Van Os

Summarized Biography

 

Born:   February 19, 1950, Kilgore, Texas

 

Age:    54

 

Personal

• Son of Seymour and Francene Van Os, of Tyler, Texas

• Married to Rachel Barrios-Van Os, a native of San Antonio

• Four children, B.J., son, age 20; Kay, daughter, age 19, freshman at UTSA; Maya, daughter, age 7, second grade; Leya, daughter, age 6, first grade

• Family resides in San Antonio

Educational Background

• National Merit Finalist

• Graduated Kilgore High School, May 1968

• Awarded General Motors Scholarship (competitive) to attend University of Texas at Austin

• Entered U.T. Austin September 1968, in Plan II, interdisciplinary honors degree program

• Selected Junior Fellow, UT- Austin, 1970

• Graduated U.T. Austin in Plan II, Cum Laude, May 1972

• Entered U.T. Law School, August 1973

• Received Human Rights Research Council Distinguished Research & Writing Award, 1974

• Graduated U.T. Law School, August 1976

Employment and Professional Background

 

1976-78:	Associate Counsel, National Treasury Employees Union
1978-81:	Associate, Law Office of David R. Richards
1981-83:	In-house counsel for District 12, Texas, Communications Workers of America
1983-1989:	General Counsel, Texas AFL-CIO
1984-present:	Member and managing shareholder of law firm concentrating in Union-side labor law, representation of workers, and civil rights and human rights issues - David Van Os & Associates, P.C., composed of six lawyers, located in San Antonio, with regional practice from Texas to Missouri

 

Professional Honors

 

Ø       AV-Rated Attorney, Martindale-Hubbell peer rating system, highest rating for legal ability and ethics

 

Ø       Listed in Best Lawyers in America, Woodward & White, by peer review, Labor & Employment Law, since 1986

 

Ø       Fellow, Texas Bar Foundation, by invitation

 

Ø       Member, College of the State Bar of Texas

 

Ø       Listed in Texas Monthly’s “Super Lawyers 2003”

 

 

 

Political & Community Activities, Positions, & Honors

 

Ø       Life Member, NAACP

 

Ø       1985-1995 – Member, Board of Directors, Texas Equal Access to

Justice Foundation, by appointment of Texas Supreme Court

 

Ø       1990 – President’s Citation for Achievement in Civil Rights, Austin NAACP

 

Ø       1990 – Civil Libertarian of the Year Award, Central Texas Chapter, ACLU

 

Ø       2002 – Texas Women’s Political Caucus “Good Guy” Award

 

Ø       Attended every Texas Democratic State Convention since 1974

 

Ø       Block-walked for Democratic Party general election tickets in 1972, 1974, 1976, 1978, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, and 2002

 

Ø       President, Northeast Austin Democrats, 1978-1980

 

Ø       Democratic Precinct Chairman, Travis County, 1981-88

 

Ø       Travis County Democratic Party Chairman, 1996-98

 

Ø       Ran in statewide General Election as Democrat for Texas Supreme Court, 1998

 

Ø       2000-2003 – Chairman, North East Bexar County Democrats

 

Ø       2001-03 – Democratic Precinct Chairman, Bexar County

 

Ø       Represented Austin NAACP in federal voting rights suit over Austin City Council elections

 

Ø       Represented LULAC in federal voting rights suit over Austin School Board elections

 

Ø       Represented Central Texas ACLU in federal suit over re-segregation of Austin AISD elementary schools

 

Ø       Traveled to Palm Beach, Florida, November-December 2000, to assist Democratic Party in vote recount efforts

 

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[Rodm]

Photos of Van Os connection to DNC

http://www.vanosforsupremecourt.com/dvo_photo_album_campaign.htm

[Tom_Busch]

Burkett's attorney David Van Os and Bill Clinton



Burkett's attorney David Van Os and James Carville

[marty60]

Now that's Skerry

[bushfamfan]

He and that Secretary have partisan motivations. I love how CBS is going to push Killian's secretary's story but you can be sure they won't mention her statement how Bush "was selected, not elected". It's all hearsay and we're not supposed to challenge them! We are just supposed to take what they say, their producing fraudulant documents and say everything is ok and we can believe them. Not going to happen. Killian's widow and son need to be heard from again because the media will attempt to push this secretary's story as well as Maurice Udell and others who contradict these vicious people.

[Willie Green]

I wonder what kind of deferrment he had during Vietnam, 2-S or 4-F?

[San Jacinto]

Gee, I wonder where Burkett ever found this laywer. Burkett only lives about 265 miles away from his law office. I guess they just happened to bump into one another.

[snooker]

Now ain't that just special. Burkett goes to the phone book to get a lawyer and who would have thunk it. He chose one with these credentials.

[pepperdog]

That would be interesting to know, wouldn't it? Mrs PD

[Willie Green]

Hey, as long as they want to make an issue out of it, let's get it ALL out in the open.

[Savage Rider]

So Burkett, living near Amarillo, just happens to find a Democrat union activist lawyer, based in San Antonio, to represent him. I smell a DNC introduction and pro bono work here. And for those who don't know, any Democrats left in Texas are committed dead enders. Democrats seldom win any statewide offices. Republicans control almost everything in Texas. There aren't any conservatives left in the Democrat party in Texas.