La Raza Benefits

[Annie]

from Obama appointment. Of course he had to waive 'ethics' of his own making. Sigh for 'hope' and 'change' once again:

NCLR Funding Skyrockets After Obama Hires Its VP | Judicial Watch

NCLR Funding Skyrockets After Obama Hires Its VP

Last Updated: Fri, 06/17/2011 - 2:48pm

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...

...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.

 

[percysunshine]

Now we know where all the stimulus money went.

Are we shovel ready yet?

 

[Trajan]

theres an election coming.

 

[California Girl]

Let's dump party politics and vote for people whose only special interest group is 'we, the People'. Radical idea, I know.

 

[Sunni Man]

There isn't a nickel's worth of difference between La Raza and the KKK

 

[Trajan]

There isn't a nickel's worth of difference between La Raza and the KKK

there is when it comes to gov. financing.

 

[bripat9643]

There isn't a nickel's worth of difference between La Raza and the KKK

The main difference is that members of the KKK were patriotic Americans. La Raza is composed of illegal aliens who want to destroy America.