Liberal, Union, Character, Fraud, Protest, Lie

A secretive Seattle arm of the powerful Service Employees International Union paid protesters to picket fast-food restaurants for higher pay. The Freedom Foundation reports that Working Washington, an “alternative labor” group pushing for a $15 minimum wage, gave a $75 check to a striking Subway employee for their participation in protests against the sandwich chain in Seattle.

Democrat, Liberal, Government, Incompetence, Obama, Funny, Oops, Press, Socialism, Healthcare, Law, Regulation

Families USA (FUSA) — an organization that describes itself as a “national nonprofit, non-partisan organization dedicated to the achievement of high-quality, affordable health care for all Americans” — was given a $1.1 million grant by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation on October 4, 2013, to gather “success stories” of Americans dealing with Obamacare and distribute them to the media who often refer to them as an “independent” group.

Democrat, Liberal, Obama, Funny, Lie, Hoax

Nearly 2 million of First Lady Michelle Obama’s Twitter followers are not real. According to the Twitter analytics application Status People, 37 percent of Michelle Obama’s 5,290,506 Twitter followers — or approximately 1,957,487 followers — are considered fake. Thirty-five percent of her followers are inactive, and 28 percent are considered “good,” or real. Michelle Obama’s account is run by Organizing for Action, and sent its last Tweet on March 4.

Democrat, Liberal, Fraud, Lie

Anthony Weiner is having such a hard time generating support for his limp campaign that he has resorted to paying a rent-a-crowd firm to provide “supporters” for his events, The Post has learned. Some of the gung-ho Weiner crowds, including at the Aug. 11 Dominican Day Parade in Manhattan, were really actors who were paid $15 an hour by the California firm Crowds on Demand, according to a source with direct knowledge of the deal.

Democrat, Liberal, Obama, Fraud, Lie

Stockman said that in response to Obama's call for people to tweet their congressman in support of gun control legislation, he received just 16 tweets. But he said all of these messages were identical, and that a closer look at them revealed that only six were from real people. "The other 10 are fake, computer-generated spambots," his office said in a press release... "But the vast majority of the president's supporters have no feelings because they fake profiles from spammers." Stockman said Obama's anti-gun activists "are trying to defraud Congress using the same scam that sells 'male enhancement pills.'"

Democrat, Liberal, Election, Union, Character, Scandal, Fraud, Fascism, Video, Corruption

The cameraman asks the union member if he was at an earlier debate between Warren and her Republican opponent, Senator Scott Brown. "Uh-huh," the union member says, nodding. "Did you guys get fined if you weren't there?" the cameraman asks. "Yeah," the union member replies. "How much did you get fined?" the cameraman asks. "A hundred and fifty," the man says, although he later adds, "It's two-fifty if you don't go."

Hypocrisy, Union, Character, Financial, Fraud, Protest

Mid-Atlantic Regional Council of Carpenters is seeking paid demonstrators to march and chant in its current picket line outside the McPherson Building, an office complex here where the council says work is being done with nonunion labor. "For a lot of our members, it's really difficult to have them come out, either because of parking or something else," explains Vincente Garcia, a union representative who is supervising the picketing.

Liberal, Union, Fraud, Greed

Obama Protesters at Romney Rally admit that they are from SEIU and Paid by SEIU at $11.00/hour.

Democrat, Election, Funny, Oops

College students from across North Carolina will arrive in Charlotte by the busload. Same with members of predominantly black churches in neighboring South Carolina. Their goal: help fill a 74,000-seat outdoor stadium to capacity when President Obama accepts the Democratic nomination Thursday night.

Democrat, Liberal, Character, Fraud

Documents and a whistle-blower affidavit obtained by The Daily Caller charge that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Illinois Democratic Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., and Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., participated in an unethical — and possibly illegal — effort to force 76 employees of an Illinois state agency to engage in political activity on the taxpayers’ dime.

Hypocrisy, Liberal, Fraud, Protest, Greed, Jobs

DeWitt, Mich. — The protesters popping up at Mitt Romney's rallies throughout Michigan Tuesday look like run-of-the-mill grassroots liberals — they wave signs about "the 99 percent," they chant about the Republican's greed, and they describe themselves as a loosely organized coalition of "concerned citizens." They're also getting paid, two of the protesters and an Obama campaign official told BuzzFeed.

Democrat, Liberal, Obama, Fraud, Socialism, Healthcare

WASHINGTON, DC – The House Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today released a memo and supporting documents that outline the White House’s involvement in the creation and operations of third-party advertising groups funded by special interests in an effort to secure public support for health care legislation.

Hypocrisy, Liberal, Union, Character, Funny, Protest

A labor union with strong ties to President Obama is helping make the Occupy Wall Street movement a more permanent fixture in the nation's capital, moving Occupy DC into office space the group can use to organize and grow through the presidential election. The Service Employees International Union, one of Obama's most vocal supporters among labor groups, is paying $4,000 a month for three offices the Occupy protesters will use for at least the next six months to plan future demonstrations, organize and host workshops.

Liberal, Character, Fraud, Protest, Greed

I asked one protester what her sign meant, and she said, “I don’t know.” She told me she didn’t speak English, but there was another girl (who I have seen around many Chicago protests) there who spoke Spanish, so I asked her to ask the woman in Spanish what her sign meant. Sadly the woman holding the sign still did not have an answer. After questioning another protester who also did not know why she was there, I asked if they were being paid to be at the protest.

Hypocrisy, Liberal, Protest, Greed

“No, no we don’t, we can go to Union Station, we can eat anywhere and then we will all leave out together, that’s what they gave us that 20 dollars for, to spend.” “Oh, I didn’t know that was what it’s for.” “Yes, twenty dollars.” “Twenty dollars?” “They gave you 20 dollars in the brown envelope!”

Hypocrisy, Liberal, Greed

The Occupy Wall Street movement claims to represent the 99 percent, but it appears to have some recruiting problems. The Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment has been an outspoken ally of the Occupy movement. It is now looking for part-time workers willing to take its message to the public for $12 per hour.

Hypocrisy, Liberal, Protest, Greed, Lie

A liberal organizer told the Daily Caller on Thursday afternoon that he paid some Hispanics to attend “Occupy DC” protests happening in the nation’s capital. TheDC attended the protest event, an expansion of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement that began in New York City. Some aspects of the protest, it turned out, are more Astroturf than grassroots.

Hypocrisy, Liberal, Fraud, Greed, Lie

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka denied that his union pays protesters to attend their protests, despite video footage captured by The Daily Caller that proves otherwise. TheDC asked Trumka about the video of ”Occupy CPAC” protesters who told theDC that the unions had paid the protesters $60 to attend. The protest was organized by AFL-CIO, but Trumka refused to believe that a protester had admitted to being paid.

Hypocrisy, Liberal, Fraud, Protest, Greed, Lie

Protesters at Friday’s “Occupy CPAC” event, organized by AFL-CIO and the Occupy DC movement, told The Daily Caller that they were paid “sixty bucks a head” to protest outside the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C. One protester told TheDC that all the “Occupy” activists were being paid to protest, and that his union, Sheet Metal Workers Local 100, approached him about the money-making opportunity.

Liberal, Fraud, Politics, Lie

The plan to create the impression of widespread public support for campaign finance reform was one cog in an innovative and aggressive "directed funding" campaign by Pew designed, according to Treglia, to "take the Ford Foundation's approach to affecting public policy and go one step forward, to bring in the pros to say now to spend the money, set the goals, hire the people to make these things happen." The aim of directed funding, Treglia said, is "to drive public policy by strategically placing your money." He estimated the campaign finance reform effort included as much as $39 million in such funding.

Liberal, Fraud, Lie

The secondary boycott of Rush Limbaugh advertisers is portrayed in the media as a reaction to a groundswell of public outrage. In fact, the secondary boycott was initiated by and driven by Media Matters, which had a “Stop Limbaugh” campaign on the shelf waiting to be used, and was executed by Angelo Carusone, Director of Online Strategy for Media Matters.

Liberal, Fascism, Protest, Academia

Some students at UW-Oshkosh say they felt forced to show up at a rally at UW-Oshkosh. Some claimed they felt pressure from most of their professors to participate in campus rallies against the budget bill. Some students who don't agree with the protest also were upset their classes were canceled - a move against university policy.

Liberal, Union, Fraud, Lie

The AFL-CIO, whose president Richard Trumpka speaks to the White House everyday, is working hard to keep the Wisconsin protests going. The New York AFL-CIO unions have been busing in reinforcements to Madison. Unfortunately, not all of the reinforcements brought shoes.

Democrat, Union, Fraud, Protest, Lie

The Democratic National Committee's Organizing for America arm -- the remnant of the 2008 Obama campaign -- is playing an active role in organizing protests against Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's attempt to strip most public employees of collective bargaining rights.

Hypocrisy, Liberal, Protest, Greed

Protesters at Friday’s “Occupy CPAC” event, organized by AFL-CIO and the Occupy DC movement, told The Daily Caller that they were paid “sixty bucks a head” to protest outside the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C.

Hypocrisy, Union, Fraud, Greed

They're hired feet, or, as the union calls them, temporary workers, paid $8 an hour to picket. Many were recruited from homeless shelters or transitional houses. Several have recently been released from prison. Others are between jobs. "It's about the cash," said Tina Shaw, 44, who lives in a House of Ruth women's shelter and has walked the line at various sites. "We're against low wages, but I'm here for the cash."

Democrat, Crime

WASHINGTON — Saddam Hussein’s intelligence agency secretly financed a trip to Iraq for three U.S. lawmakers during the run-up to the U.S.-led invasion, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

Hypocrisy, Liberal, Protest, Greed, Lie

Sources said NYCC has hired about 100 former ACORN-affiliated staff members from other cities – paying some of them $100 a day - to attend and support Occupy Wall Street. Dozens of New York homeless people recruited from shelters are also being paid to support the protests, at the rate of $10 an hour, the sources said... Sources said staff members also collected door-to-door for NYCC’s PCB campaign — which aims to test schools for deadly toxins —but then pooled that money together with cash raised for the teachers union and other campaigns to fund Occupy Wall Street.

Hypocrisy, Liberal, Protest, Greed

The SEIU-funded Working Families Party, a front group for ACORN, placed a want ad on Craigslist dated Sept. 26. The ad indicates that WFP was recruiting activists to carry out “direct action,” leftist argot for a variety of activities aimed at forcing sociopolitical change... For those candidates that qualify WFP offers substantial paid-training provided by senior leadership, on varied issues such as: advocacy, public speaking, mobilizing, fundraising, networking and organizing.

Hypocrisy, Liberal, Protest, Greed, Lie

A liberal organizer told the Daily Caller on Thursday afternoon that he paid some Hispanics to attend “Occupy DC” protests happening in the nation’s capital.

Hypocrisy, Liberal, Protest, Greed, Lie

Sources said NYCC has hired about 100 former ACORN-affiliated staff members from other cities – paying some of them $100 a day - to attend and support Occupy Wall Street. Dozens of New York homeless people recruited from shelters are also being paid to support the protests, at the rate of $10 an hour, the sources said.

Hypocrisy, Liberal, Protest, Greed

And the WFP is also hiring people to work at the protests on Wall Street. The ad also states that pay is between $350-$650 per week.

Liberal, Fraud, Politics, Lie

Canadian news channel Sun News uncovered of a PowerPoint presentation from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund detailing its work with other groups to derail the Keystone XL pipeline and other similar projects it deemed parts of “a globally significant threat.” The presentation, written in 2008, describes the allocation of $7 million to environmental non-profits for tactics that include the use of the legislative and legal systems to delay or derail energy production in the United States and Canada, and to “raise the costs” of energy in both nations.

Democrat, Character, Fraud, Oops, Lie, Gay

The national gay marriage lobby group behind Standing Up for New Hampshire Families has privately used New Hampshire Democrats to volunteer and staff their activities despite posing for months as a Republican-friendly organization. Standing Up for New Hampshire Families, which NH Journal has identified as an organization actually run out of New York and Washington, DC, has spent a tremendous amount of national money running ads designed to brand it as a Republican-leaning, pro-gay marriage organization. They have even appropriated the iconic red, white and blue Republican elephant in their advertising.