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February 08, 2009
Obama's Labor Nominee Hilda Solis, Faces Tax Questions
Solis, a Democrat from El Monte, is at least the fourth Obama nominee whose confirmation has been complicated by tax troubles.
Obama Labor Nominee's Family Business is a Tax-Evader and Blew Off Requirements Under Health and Safety Regs
Here at National Right to Work, we've kept a close watch on Hilda Solis, the union-activist California Congresswoman nominated by President Obama to serve as Secretary of Labor.
We've told you about Solis' hypocrisy on the secret ballot issue, her admission that she is not "qualified" to discuss Right to Work, her refusal to answer basic questions on key labor issues, and her position as treasurer (which she failed to disclose to Congress) with a Big Labor lobbying group.
Now USA Today reports that Hilda Solis is the fourth major Obama nominee to be faced with a tax scandal:
"The husband of President Obama's Labor secretary nominee paid about $6,400 Wednesday to settle tax liens that had been outstanding for as long as 16 years against his business, the Obama administration told USA TODAY this afternoon...
Personal tax problems have tripped up three of President Obama's nominees for top administration jobs. Two nominees withdrew on Tuesday over tax issues, including Tom Daschle, Obama's choice head the Health and Human Services Department. The other withdrawal was chief performance officer nominee Nancy Killefer, who had a $947 tax lien filed against her in Washington four years ago for not paying unemployment compensation taxes for a household employee. She paid the debt less than six months later, District of Columbia records show."
But there's more. According to the report, some of the tax liens resulted from "unpaid county health and safety permit fees." And Solis has the gall to seek a position that enforces health and safety laws against workplaces across America?
Maybe Solis' cozy relationship with Big Labor's high command over the years has given her the false impression shared by so many union bosses that they are above the law. With all those special privileges such as immunity from federal prosecution for union violence and exemption from anti-monopoly laws, union bosses actually are above the law in many respects. And with Solis running the Department of Labor, union chiefs would expect Solis -- who voted with the AFL-CIO 100% of the time -- to cut funding to the agency which investigates union boss corruption.
Solis' indiscretions are even more disturbing in light of President Obama's recent executive orders which would give the Secretary of Labor unprecedented authority to fire federal contractors who don't grease the rails for coervice card check organizing.
This hypocrite aspiring to be Labor Secretary is poised to receive virtually unchecked power
over which contractors get to do work funded by the nearly trillion dollar "stimulus" plan. Perhaps Hilda Solis should withdraw herself from consideration and get her own house in order.
Wild Thing's comment.........
There seems to be a pattern of Democratic tax cheats! Well I get it now, Democrats like high taxes, because they don’t pay them.
Craig Ferguson of CBS’s Late Late Show was discussing Obama coming down on Corporate executives.
“Finally some accountability in Washington.....But I’m thinkin’ if they’re going to introduce accountability, shouldn’t Obama start with making his own people pay their taxes?"
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at February 8, 2009 05:44 AM
Comments
If Obama nominates enough high level Democrats to his administration, we'll have the national debt paid off soon as they rush to pay their back taxes.
Posted by: BobF at February 8, 2009 09:13 AM
Corruption Junction, what's your function? Picking out nominees with bones in their closets. Corruption Junction, what's your function? Ignoring the red flags and ignoring the rules!
Now, if it had been a Republican President with nominees like this, all Hell would have broke loose. The media would be all over it like bees to nectar!
Posted by: Lynn at February 8, 2009 10:11 AM
I heard someine saying that if just 1% of actual taxpayers didn't pay just one time, the fed would be out $300 Billion I think.
I just saw 2 really good documentaries, Indoctrinate-U is about the political left and how they run our Nation's higher education, and The World Without US, an in-depth look at what if America were to become an isolationist country, and the outlook isn't good; the documentary is stating that the U.S. must remain a Military Superpower.
Posted by: JohnE PFC U.S. Army at February 8, 2009 10:14 AM
Food & Drunk Czar Ted Kennedy?
- Beware Of The Baracksheviks 2009
Posted by: darthcrUSAderworldtour07 at February 8, 2009 10:29 AM
Trying to find an honest person from the unions is like trying to find a hen with fangs. Union officers are just sanctioned crooks.
Posted by: TomR at February 8, 2009 10:31 AM
It was said of Diogenes that throughout his life he "searched with a lantern in the daylight for an honest man." And though Diogenes apparently did not find an honest man, he had, in the process, "exposed the vanity and selfishness of man." So what did he find, Diogenes discovered the Democrat party.
Wow, what could he do in Washington DC. He'd probably kill himself out of frustration.
Posted by: Mark at February 8, 2009 11:46 AM
It is obvious that Barck Obama is following the Leona Helmsley playbook for choosing his high level appointments when she said, "We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes."
Posted by: Les at February 8, 2009 07:25 PM
Aw,c'mon...the Dems don't have to play by the rules!
Socialists and Communists never did, so there you have it.
They come from on high in their self-appointed self-righteousness, everyone else is stupid except us belief system. Which is why one cannot reason with these people or expect them to play by the rules.
Gee, I keep seeing more and more similarities between our enemy without and our enemy within.
Funny that...
Posted by: yankeemom at February 9, 2009 06:57 AM
