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Political Opposites Tom Coburn, Andrew Stern Apply 'Sharp Knives' to Defense Budget
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyConservative Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma and liberal labor leader Andrew Stern don't come to mind as natural partners. But they are on a joint mission to trim the nation's $625 billion defense budget. Former Sen. Alan Simpson of Wyoming, co-chair of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, dropped word of the unusual pairing at a recent presentation to governors in Boston. "Two very good men with sharp minds and sharp knives," he said, their goal to excise the fat "without hurting our troops or our mission." The Pentagon budget is much in the news these days, what with ...
Andrew Stern Makes it Official: He's Stepping Down as Head of SEIU
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyAndrew Stern confirmed Wednesday that he's stepping down as president of the 2.2-million-member Service Employees International Union. "With the strength and power of SEIU members voices we have accomplished what once seemed unimaginable," Stern said in a statement released by the union. "And, I can imagine no greater honor than these hard-working Americans entrusting me to represent them and their voice." No reason was given for his resignation but a labor official said Tuesday that Stern "always supported term limits in the labor movement" and that he thought it was time to move ...
SEIU President Andrew Stern To Step Down; Spent $60 Million to Elect Obama
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyAndrew Stern plans to announce this week that he's stepping down as president of the 2.2-million-member Service Employees International Union. "He's always supported term limits in the labor movement" and believes it's time for him to move on, said a former labor official familiar with Stern's thinking. Stern joined SEIU in 1973, when he was a social worker, and has been president of the union since 1996. His life as president has been tumultuous, encompassing the death of his 13-year-old daughter, a divorce, and SEIU's secession from the AFL-CIO in 2005. At that time, Stern and other union ...
On Obama White House Visitor Log: Lobbyists, Movie Stars and Bailed Out CEOs
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyThe White House released a visitor's log late Friday that revealed many of DC's biggest Democratic lobbyists have made frequent visits, despite President Obama's stringent new lobbying rules. The record of visitors also looks like a red carpet list of celebrities and Hollywood movie stars. And CEOs of all those Wall Street banks the government bailed out earlier this year came calling frequently, too. Many of the Democratic lobbyists who frequented the White House this year are also among the highest earning lobbying firms in 2009, including power player Steve Elmendorf of Elmendorf Strategies ...
ACORN Getting Adult Supervision
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyIn 1970, when Students for a Democratic Society was organizing draft resistance to protest the Vietnam War, Wade Rathke, a SDS worker, founded the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, made up of lefties committed to social justice, anti-poverty and community activism. ...
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