Posted on 02/04/2009 6:44:03 AM PST by TexasCajun
A seemingly innocuous letter sent to the Clerk of the House of Representatives last Thursday by President Obama's Secretary of Labor nominee Hilda Solis raises serious and troubling legal questions about her nomination and apparent violation of House ethics rules. Not only was she involved with a private organization that was lobbying her fellow legislators on a bill that she has cosponsored, but she apparently kept her involvement secret and failed to reveal a clear conflict of interest.
Solis was a co-sponsor in 2007 of the so-called "Employee Free Choice Act," the card check legislation that would effectively eliminate the secret ballot and destroy the ability of employees to make an anonymous decision (without fear of retribution) on whether they want to join a union. She was also a co-sponsor of the Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act, legislation that would force states to allow public safety officers to form unions. At the same time, however, Solis was a board member of a pro-union organization, American Rights at Work, that has been lobbying Congress on both of these bills. According to a letter filed by Solis with the House Clerk on January 29, 2009, she was not just a director of the ARW, along with fellow travelers like David Bonior, Julian Bond, and John Sweeney, she was actually the treasurer. In other words, she is the official legally charged with the fiduciary duty of approving and signing off on all spending by the organization. And to make matters worse, she did not reveal to her colleagues in the House of Representatives that membership on her financial disclosure forms, which may constitute a separate ethical violation
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Wonder if she is any relation to the hack that ran Hillary’s campaign.
Not Guilty by reason of insanity.
Don’t know about any of you, but we are running out of popcorn here in Southern Ohio right now.
Easily the worst week in President Obama’s last two years, folks, by miles and miles and miles.
Can’t wait to see what ‘breaks’ tomorrow....
I think the motto of the Obama administration should be: And Another One Hits the Deck
Is this what happens when the dim’s and their MSM cheerleaders don’t police themselves? This is becoming ridiculous. Are we at critical mass yet?
Zero is running out of RATS that can pass the public sniff test. He will start installing them anyway.
She may get it, may not. I think he’s reaching a “saturation point” with questionable nominees.
Bush looks like an honest genius after only two weeks of observing this bunch of tax cheating liars.
He looks much more ethical, and much more the CEO, no denying it.
I mean this congresswoman was on the board of a Union Lobbying firm as its Treasurer, approving expenditures.
Then she approves lobbying funds to lobby her own sponsored house bills aimed at benefiting the unions.
This one is right up there with a tax-cheat in charge of the IRS.
It's going to be a long, long four years.
And strong on national defense where Obama has already wiped out that perception abroad with his interviews and phone calls. Israel is very afraid and that is never a good thing.
Oh...I dunno, at this pace the 2010 mid terms are looking better and better for us conservatives with each passing day.
‘Israel is very afraid and that is never a good thing.’
Full agreement.
Granted, but the 2 years AFTER that are what’s going to be a hoot. When OBummer has to run on his record, it won’t be much of a race.
Deception is key to liberal policy makers.
Oops, another “screw up?”
She’s got that ‘big mouth’ look that Bill Clinton always liked. Wonder if she . . . ne’er mind, don’t wanna get myself in trouble.
Democrat Corruption bump
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