NCLR Funding Skyrockets After Obama Hires Its VP (La Raza)

Judicial Watch ^ | June 17, 2011

[jazusamo]

A Judicial Watch investigation reveals that federal funding for a Mexican La Raza group that for years has raked in millions of taxpayer dollars has skyrocketed since one of its top officials got a job in the Obama White House.

The influential and politically-connected National Council of La Raza (NCLR) has long benefitted from Uncle Sam’s largess but the group has made a killing since Obama hired its senior vice president (Cecilia Muñoz) in 2009 to be his director of intergovernmental affairs.

Ignored by the mainstream media, Judicial Watch covered the appointment because the president issued a special “ethics waiver” to bring Muñoz aboard since it violated his own lobbyist ban. At the pro illegal immigration NCLR, Muñoz supervised all legislative and advocacy activities on the state and local levels and she was heavily involved in the congressional immigration battles that took place in the George W. Bush Administration.

She also brought in a steady flow of government cash that’s allowed the Washington D.C.-based group to expand nationwide and promote its leftist, open-borders agenda via a network of community organizations dedicated to serving Latinos.Among them are a variety of local groups that provide social services, housing counseling and farm worker assistance as well as publicly-funded charter schools that promote radical Chicano curriculums. Judicial Watch published a special report on this a few years ago.

This week a JW probe has uncovered details of the alarming increase in federal funding that these NCLR groups have received since Muñoz joined the Obama Administration. In fact, the government cash more than doubled the year Muñoz joined the White House, from $4.1 million to $11 million.

Not surprisingly, a big chunk of the money (60%) came from the Department of Labor, which is headed by a former California congresswoman (Hilda Solis) with close ties to the La Raza movement. Since Obama named her Labor Secretary, Solis has launched a nationwide campaign to protect illegal immigrant workers in the U.S. Just this week Solis penned declarations with Guatemala and Nicaragua to preserve the rights of their migrants.

The NCLR also received additional taxpayer dollars from other federal agencies in 2010, the JW probe found. The Department of Housing and Urban Development doled out $2.5 million for housing counseling, the Department of Education contributed nearly $800,000 and the Centers for Disease Control a quarter of a million.

Additionally, NCLR affiliates nationwide raked in tens of millions of government grant and recovery dollars last year thanks to the Muñoz factor. An offshoot called Chicanos Por La Causa (CPLC) saw its federal funding nearly double to $18.3 million following Muñoz’ appointment.

A social service and legal assistance organization (Ayuda Inc.) that didn’t receive any federal funding between 2005 and 2008 got $600,000 in 2009 and $548,000 in 2010 from the Department of Justice. The group provides immigration law services and guarantees confidentiality to assure illegal aliens that they won’t be reported to authorities.

[jazusamo]

Another outrage due to our Liar-In-Chief.

[ThePatriotsFlag]

So when are the hearings going to start. We keep finding out about this (and it’s a LONG list!) ... but the Republicans don’t seem to know what to do next.

[Mr. Wright]

If the “R”’s blow this Presidential Election, we are in the proverbial s * * * house.
The “R”s have so much stuff in their files to defeat this guy it is pathetic. From stupied gaffs, to bowing to foreign leaders, to Czar appointments, to outrageous spending.

[Nachum]

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[jazusamo]

You couldn’t be more correct. In the GOP primary every Republican should be focused on the crime and corruption of Zer0 and his thugs. It would win the primary for the one that’s done the best job and also beat Zer0 in the general.

[ripley]

La Raza, pushing for the return of the American Southwest to Mexico: Coming soon, Gringo illegals in Texico.

IMHO

[Drill Thrawl]

Why is the gubment giving money to a racist organization?

[Aria]

Someday the money will dry up, these parasites will run like the cockroaches they are and the rest of us will be left to rebuild our country.

[Venturer]

That’s funny. We are supporting Treason in our own country.

Might as well laugh, there isn’t anything going to be done about it.

Another funny thing is here in maryland wwe are giving money to Casa De Maryland, an offshoot of La Raza.

Liberals will give money to a monkey if can vote and have that vote owned by the Democrats.

[Liz]

Cecilia Muñoz (b. July 27, 1962) has served as the Director of Intergovernmental Affairs at the White House since January 21, 2009. A longtime civil rights advocate, she worked as Senior Vice President for the Office of Research, Advocacy and Legislation at the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), a nonprofit organization established to improve opportunities for Hispanic Americans, overseeing advocacy activities that cover issues of importance to immigrants and minorities.

In 2000, she was named a MacArthur Fellow for her work on civil rights and immigration. Muñoz was featured in several films in the documentary series How Democracy Works Now: Twelve Stories. Muñoz was born in Detroit, Michigan the youngest of four children. Her parents had moved to the United States from La Paz, Bolivia, so that her father, an automotive engineer, could go to the University of Michigan. When she was three, the family moved to Livonia, a middle-class, predominantly white Detroit suburb.

Muñoz attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. As a volunteer, she worked as a tutor to Hispanic American inmates at the state prison in nearby Jackson. She earned undergraduate degrees in English and Latin American studies in 1984.

Following graduation, Muñoz continued her education at the University of California at Berkeley, where she earned a master's degree. Muñoz is married to Amit Pandya, a human rights lawyer; they have two daughters.

[GlockThe Vote]

Bump.

[Argus]

La Raza is the brown Nazi Party the same way that Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam and the New Black Panthers are the black Nazi Party. Obama’s stormtroopers.

[jazusamo]

I’m looking forward to that day with great anticipation.

[jazusamo]

It figures, she’s a Bezerkleyite. Thanks for you post.

[GlockThe Vote]

We have got to get this communist marxist dedstroyer out of office. 2012 cant come soon enough.

[FlingWingFlyer]

The American taxpayers are being forced to fund our enemies like La Raza who are out to destroy America. Unbelievable. It’s time for Americans to start putting these damn politicians in jail while we still can. Obviously, it’s going to be them or us.

[Liz]

Doesn’t Ohaha know how ridiculous he looks?

It’s unsightly to see a president on all fours sucking up latinos for votes.

[wafflehouse]

what the hell is an "ethics waiver"??
and how does that fly with ANYONE?



only in politics. just when you think it couldnt get any more outrageous. Ethics Waiver, whiskey tango foxtrot

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks jazusamo.

National Council of La Raza (NCLR) has long benefitted from Uncle Sam's largess but the group has made a killing since Obama hired its senior vice president (Cecilia Muñoz) in 2009 to be his director of intergovernmental affairs. Ignored by the mainstream media...

[jazusamo]

Yep, “ethics waiver” jumped out at me too. I’ve never heard of such a thing but leave it to the Liar-In-Chief to justify the unjustifiable in some way.

I pray our country can survive the turkey until January of 2013.