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Obama's 'Razist' Lobbyist Moves Up
· Friday, January 13, 2012
With public attention focused on the GOP primaries, the White House quietly promoted another self-dealing lobbyist to serve as President Obama's top domestic policy adviser. Promises? What broken promises?
Cecilia Munoz, the current director of intergovernmental affairs at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., will now serve as head of the Domestic Policy Council. She'll wield heightened influence at Obama's daily morning briefings and expand her reach from immigration issues to education, health care and beyond.
Gushing headlines heralded the advancement of Obama's top Hispanic civil rights "advocate" as a win for the "middle class." But Munoz is a veteran member of the Beltway lobbyist class whose former organization is reaping a taxpayer-funded windfall as she climbs the government ladder.
Before joining Team Obama, Munoz spent two decades as chief registered lobbyist for the National Council of La Raza ("The Race"). Whose "middle class" does The Race represent? I've tracked the radical identity politics-driven group for years as it promoted drivers' licenses and in-state college tuition breaks for illegal aliens; opposed cooperative immigration enforcement efforts between local, state and federal authorities; and opposed a secure fence along the southern border.
Under Munoz, The Race advised the Mexican government on how to lobby for illegal alien amnesty in the United States. Mexico's Institute for Mexicans Residing Abroad rewarded her with its Ohtli Prize for her service to the country. Their country, not ours.
The Race vehemently protested post-9/11 homeland security measures and joined a failed lawsuit to block immigration information-sharing between the feds and local police. The group also has called for TV and cable news networks to keep immigration enforcement proponents (including yours truly) off the airwaves, in addition to pushing for Fairness Doctrine policies to shut up their foes.
Most recently, The Race and other open-borders groups pressured the White House to deliver the DREAM Act illegal alien student bailout by executive fiat -- after it was defeated repeatedly by bipartisan majorities on Capitol Hill. Obama started issuing the amnesty waivers last August. This week, the White House announced an even wider expansion of waiver status to illegal aliens claiming "hardship."
Who has benefited from Munoz's Beltway lobbying? No, not the American middle class. The biggest beneficiary has been La Raza's coffers. According to analysts at nonpartisan Judicial Watch in Washington, The Race raked in $4.1 million in federal subsidies in 2009 and more than $11 million in 2010. Much of that money came straight from the Obama stimulus boondoggle, and much of it went to mortgage counseling.
As a result of "strategic partnerships" with Wachovia and Bank of America, The Race has succeeded in lowering mortgage application requirements and watering down documentation standards. Illegal aliens have secured countless federal and private home loans over the past decade thanks to the lending industry's version of "don't ask, don't tell."
In addition, Munoz's group collected a $1 million Democratic earmark that funded "community development" projects. And the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services kicked in $25,000 to co-sponsor the group's annual conference in 2010.
Munoz's multi-culti armor has shielded her radical lobbying from scrutiny. You'll recall that the Obama administration made a lofty vow to end lobbyist conflicts-of-interest as we know them. The declaration was crystal-clear: "No political appointees in an Obama-Biden administration will be permitted to work on regulations or contracts directly and substantially related to their prior employer for two years. And no political appointee will be able to lobby the executive branch after leaving government service during the remainder of the administration."
But something got lost in translation when the White House brought registered lobbyist Munoz aboard -- to work on the very open-borders agenda she pushed at The Race. Team Obama invoked a shady "public interest" exemption to waive the lobbyist ban because, it determined, "Ms. Munoz's knowledge and expertise are vital to the functioning of the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs."
Has Munoz recused herself on any of the myriad public policy issues she has advised the president on over the past two years? Who knows? The most transparent administration ever refuses to disclose recusal orders involving the nearly 100 lobbyists and ex-lobbyists on its payroll. Obama's "Razist" revolving door isn't a victory for "civil rights" or the 99 percent. It's a triumph of politically correct business as usual.
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mmccrindle
We can only expect Obama-Soetoro to make daily assaults on all of our liberties as he wraps more enemies of our nation around himself.
There has GOT to be some republicans with some cojones to bring on impeachment proceedings. That would be the only way to force the MSM to bring to light his crimes. I don't care if they go through or not. The list of his impeachable crimes and oath breaking is too long to ignore.
Posted January 13, 2012 at 9:36:13 AM
mmccrindle
BTW - Cecilia Munoz knows all about cojones.
Posted January 13, 2012 at 9:37:35 AM
wjmccrindle
More treason from Chairman Obamao. How many enemies of the state does it take before this criminal is Impeached? Beohner the crybaby needs to grow a pair of cojones.
Posted January 13, 2012 at 10:57:23 AM
Holmes Simons
Thanks, Michelle, for staying on top of the daily misdeeds of the black, communist administration and its pathetic attempt to elevate the "rights" of the illegal Hispanic community above those of equality under which the "white" racist population must abide. Obama's promise of transparency is unnecessary with you on the job. I wonder if there are any gay members of La Raza, because what America really needs at this moment is more advocates for illegal, illiterate, murderous Hispanic transvestites with no ID, who Obama wants so desperately to be able to vote in our fair democracy. What a GREAT AMERICAN!!! If only I had a big, black fist, I could give him a brotherly salute.
@mmccrindle: Obama has somehow stuffed the cojones of all Congress members and judges into his skid-marked skivvies. Every one of these despicable derelicts has committed impeachable offenses.
Orkin cannot rid us of these vermin. We must abolish the Federal government and return to the States their usurped powers.
Posted January 13, 2012 at 11:09:38 AM
Jonathan Sipe
I reckon Munoz will be driving the bus hauling Mexicans across the border to vote for Obumo on election day. Will she sign them up for Social Security before or after they vote? This is the most dispicable administration America has ever seen. Unfortunately, too many people are blind to what he is doing.
Posted January 13, 2012 at 1:52:17 PM
PDK
Thanks Michelle.
It is a shame, that one of the most precious gifts ever given to a civilization from its founding fathers is so easily corrupted. That gift Americas founding fathers gave, that was so corrupted, was liberty.
Under the original spirit of our FFs, liberty created a positive feedback loop. As the individual had the freedom to pursue what was best for himself, he inadvertently pursued what was best for his country. This was a win win situation.
Not so anymore. Unbelievable as it may seem, since the beginning of Americas guilded age, circa 1880, people, natural or immigrant, have pursued what is best for them, but some pursuits, capitalism, helped America while other pursuits, anarchy, socialism, hurt America.
Americans today, legal or illegal, do the same thing,some pursuits help, some pursuits hurt, America.
La Raza is one of those pursuits that hurt America. Hispanics are not Americans first, they are Hispanics first, worse still, they are Hispanics at Americas expense.
La Raza should be outlawed as a hate group, they hate America, our English heritage and whitey.
Obama was preconcieved in his mothers mind and then after birth was raised, reared and socially bred to be the anti American, pro socialist, pro Islamic Messiah. What more fertile ground could any parasitic group, pursuing their happiness to further themselves at their host countries expense find than an Obama Presidency.
For Obama, Munoz not only furthers his agenda to destroy America, she will help pull in Hispanic votes.
It is the biggest of shames that America extends liberty to all within Americas borders, those who help America, and those who hurt America.
I lived in Phoenix from `89 to `09, I wittness this reality first hand. It is out of controll there. When it is as bad in your state as it is in Arizona it will be to late, they will be more powerful at the ballot box.
Nobama 2012, vote republican. Thank you.
Posted January 13, 2012 at 3:37:54 PM
Honest Abe
If Mr. Obama is not a socialist, why is he constantly acting like one?
Posted January 13, 2012 at 10:20:23 PM
CaseAce
Holmes, the problem is, at every given opportunity the States themselves have freely given away their Constitutionally authorized authority to the point we are at now. Where those formerly empowered States are now beholden to the Federal leviathon.
Posted January 14, 2012 at 1:52:50 PM
mmccrindle
BTW- La Raza is a community organization consisting of liberal hispanics, presumably here legally.
Here in Arizona, specifically the Tuscon area which I normally refer as north Nogalas, they are very big proponants of Eric Holder and his assault on this states SB1070 bill which protects us from illegals.
In Tucson, La Raza was instumental in implementing hispanic studies which were finally outlawed because of the content-much of which was hate whitey tripe that is much of what La Raza stands for...the overthrow of whites and takeing back this corner of the US.
They hate America so much that were it up to them there would be no border.
Never mind the fact that Mexicans that steal over the fence come for "De free stuff". They are not interested in becoming citizens, learning the language or being mindful of laws, such as having drivers insurance.
If your involved in a traffic accident here with a mexican- they'll take off!
If you were in Mexico and get dinged and you don't have mexican insurance-you go to jail until the damage,fine,graft and bribes are all paid off. Doesn't matter how long it takes.
So- long story shorter-La Raza el sucko's. they're a bunch of liberal idiots.
Posted January 14, 2012 at 5:51:31 PM
Holmes Simons
@CaseAce: You may be right that the States have implicitly abdicated some rights, but that does not preclude the People from remedy, one that certainly can be created if the allocation of taxpayer funds can be extinguished for all government agencies and pet projects that are unconstitutional. Perhaps abolition is a radical concept, but at least the People should demand a deconstruction of the Federal Government down to its Constitutional foundation.
With instant communications provided by modern technologies, a groundswell movement to accomplish this can be instigated. The present legal system depends almost entirely on previous "interpretations", with questionable constitutional legitimacy, which have clearly been made by pseudo-intellectuals serving political agendas.
The simple, fundamental principle of individual freedom is explicit in the founding documents, but it has essentially been legislated out of existence and replaced with special treatments and funding for protected classes and political cronies. One has to look for proof no further than the socialist maze of regulatory burdens currently being implemented by the Obama administration with full complicity of the elected legislators who, under our perversely evolved democracy, are charged with representing the interests of their constituents without fear of legal penalty if they fail to do so. It’s un-American, that’s what it is.
Posted January 15, 2012 at 3:19:08 PM
Rgue4you
Holmes Simons is absolutely correct. Absent a quantum return to the constitutional d3 branch division PC the feds with only those constitutionally delineated powers we guarantee the continuing loss of our individual liberties and states rights. An excellent book "América - An Illusion Of Freedom" recites the path the Supreme Court took granting itself the power of judicial review granting the court supremacy over the legislative and executive branches, then interpreted "necessary and proper" to read "convenient or appropriate" giving us the unlimited federal entity the founders feared. The áttorney author Richard A. Nixon (no joke) is at pres37th@aol.com. I highly reccomend this eye-opening read.
Posted January 16, 2012 at 12:46:49 PM
El Rodriguez
Aw, come on, Michelle, what did you expect from a professional Mexican? Those of us whose parents came to this country to be Americans aren't the only "monopatriots", I'm sure there are others. It's just that those of Munoz' ilk don't understand that, if they bring Mexico with them, they're right back in the country they fled.
Posted January 16, 2012 at 1:00:27 PM
El Rodriguez
And, while I'm on this rant, what's with them claiming we "stole" the Southwest? I wonder what the Aztecs, Mayans, and other indigenous tribal nations would say about that---if they hadn't been wiped out. I assume Cortez, DeSoto, and the others came over with large bags of gold to pay for the land they wanted to invest in? Anybody with a last name that ends in a vowel, or ez? Go home to Spain, you invaders, you land-grabbers, you evil colonists (or is land-grabbing restricted to los Anglos?) Oops. sorry for the non-PC outburst. No mas.
Posted January 16, 2012 at 1:10:58 PM