◼ Part 1 Secretive nationwide network gives SEIU new organizing muscle - Daily Caller
The politically aggressive Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has quietly created a national network of at least eight community-organizing groups, some of which function alongside the Occupy Wall Street movement, a Daily Caller investigation shows.
Incorporated by the SEIU as local non-profits, the groups are waging concerted local political campaigns to publicly attack conservative political figures, banks, energy companies and other corporations.
The individual activist groups use benign-sounding names including This Is Our DC; Good Jobs, Great Houston; Good Jobs, Better Baltimore; Good Jobs Now in Detroit; Fight for Philly; One Pittsburgh; Good Jobs LA; and Minnesotans for a Fair Economy.
In reality, they are creations of the wealthy and influential labor union, amounting to a secret network of new SEIU front groups.
◼ Part 2 of Daily Caller’s Occupy/SEIU investigation - Michelle Malkin's Twitchy.com
◼ Part 2: Secretive SEIU network partners with Occupy movement, raises nationwide hell - Daily Caller
The organizations — including This Is Our DC; Good Jobs, Great Houston; Good Jobs, Better Baltimore; Detroit’s Good Jobs Now; Fight for Philly; One Pittsburgh; Good Jobs LA; and Minnesotans for a Fair Economy — employ “flash demonstrations” and other tactics to deluge their political targets with protesters, sometimes numbering in the hundreds.
TheDC first reported Monday on the secretive ties between these organizations and the SEIU. Their elaborate and sometimes lavish protests, some with expensive-looking production values, advance the giant labor union’s interests without exposing the SEIU directly to criticism from the public.
Since Monday, TheDC has identified another organization in this network: “Working Washington,” whose Seattle-based website mentions nothing about its SEIU ties. That site, however — like those of the other front groups — is hosted on a server that TheDC traced back to the SEIU.
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We've been seeing this for YEARS - the creation of these phony groups, the same small group of people behind it, using the "grassroots" groups as a cloak - they propagate, and they cross-pollinate, endorsing each other, and calling it a growing coalition... and they use it to skirt laws, and even if they're caught, it's the boiler-room model, they shut down and re-open across the street under a new name...
This time they're gone too far - and finally, there are people who are going to expose it for what it is - and hopefully prosecute wherever possible.
Liars, cheats and thieves...
