Thread: GOP Congress Earmarks $4 Million for Leftist Pro-Illegal Ali

I don't know if this has been posted before but here it is again.
Amanda B. Carpenter
Human Events
Posted Dec 2, 2005
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/Artic ... marks.html

Thanks to a congressional earmark, an open-borders advocacy group that pushes for driver’s licenses, free in-state tuition and healthcare for illegal aliens and bilingual requirements for state agencies and ballots is slated to get $4 million in new taxpayer money to add to the more than $30 million it has received from various federal agencies since 1996.

The National Council of La Raza (NCLR), Spanish for “the race,” will get its latest grant through an appropriations bill passed by Congress on November 18. The Joint Explanatory Statement of HR 3058, available on the House’s Rules Committee website lists 1,100 plus earmarks in the bill, including La Raza’s grant under the Housing and Urban Development Department’s Self-Help and Assisted Ownership Programs. Under this account La Raza will receive four times as much as the Special Olympics, which won a $1-million earmark.

La Raza is the nation’s largest Hispanic advocacy organization. It was adamantly opposed to the REAL ID Act, which will prevent states from issuing driver’s licenses to illegal aliens if they want them to be usable for federal purposes. It is also opposed to the CLEAR Act, which would grant state and local law enforcement agencies that wish to do so the authority to enforce federal immigration laws.

Spontaneous Spending

The Capital Research Center (CRC), which rates public interest groups on a scale of 1 to 8, with 1 equaling “radical left” and 8 equaling “free market right,” gave La Raza a rating of 2, the same rating it gave People for the American Way and NARAL Pro-Choice America. CRC reports that La Raza’s net assets totaled nearly $52 million in 2003.

La Raza Senior Vice President Charles Kamasaki explained in an e-mail that his group typically gets government grants three different ways: The largest awards probably come from competitive bidding processes for grants and contracts said Kamasaki. But other grants include congressional earmarks—such as the one in this year’s Housing appropriation—and discretionary funds allocated from agencies such as the Department of Health and Human Services, the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, which have all provided tax dollars to NCLR.

NCLR also employs an appropriations lobbyist who works to secure federal earmarks for the group. Tax forms available from CRC also reveal that La Raza spends about $1 million per year on lobbyists, fundraising and web design.

The $4-million grant in this year’s housing bill, which is the fifth in a series of similar congressional earmarks, wasn’t expected, Kamaski said. “This was a somewhat unusual year in that this earmark was not specifically requested,” he explained. He also said the funding is targeted primarily toward a La Raza subsidiary that has made over $40 million in loans to NCLR affiliates and other community based groups such as charter school facilities, heath clinics, day-care centers and affordable housing developments.

One person who would like to know how La Raza’s $4-million earmark got into the bill is Rep. Charlie Norwood (R.-Ga.) who, with Rep. Pete Sessions (R.-Tex.), sponsors the CLEAR Act. Jennifer Hing, communication director for Rep. Joe Knollenberg (R.-Mich.) who is chairman of the House Appropriations subcommittee that handled the bill, said the Senate inserted the earmark.

Norwood said he was told the money was stricken from the House version of the bill because NCLR has not used the money for housing they received last year. “But no matter what they did or didn’t do last year, we ought not to send taxpayer’s money to people who absolutely advocate perhaps using that money for this country not to follow the law of the land and not to secure our country’s borders,” he said. Said Norwood: “It sounds like they have a sugar-daddy in the Senate.”

One possible culprit is Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D.-Nev.) who sits on the Senate Appropriations subcommittee that handled the bill carrying the earmark. In 2001, Reid sent a letter to the Senate Appropriations Committee requesting $5 million for La Raza’s housing programs. That same year Reid also received NCLR’s Capital Award for “his commitment to advance legislation priorities of the Latino Community.” In gratitude, Reid told NCLR, “La Raza is like the biblical David, fighting all these Goliaths.”

Reid’s office did not respond to calls asking whether he inserted or even supported the earmark.

Despite the significant federal assistance La Raza has received, Cecilia Munoz, the group’s vice president for policy, has rebuked the Bush Administration for not catering to the needs of immigrants. “We all know there is a wing of the Republican Party that will never like anything that treats immigrants well,” she said in June. “Any attempt by the President to move in the direction of those folks is going to be viewed as hostile to the Latino community.”

Commenting on the irony that a Republican-controlled Congress would send to a Republican President a spending bill that included a multi-million-dollar subsidy for a left-wing group, a GOP aide told Human Events: “We Republicans excel at funding or otherwise supporting our political adversaries.”

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For these reasons, the Committee has included $2,000,000 to begin a Latino youth initiative in the District.
Strengthening Latino Youth Programs
http://icreport.loc.gov/cgi-bin/cpquery ... bname=109&
The Committee is providing $1,250,000 to The National Council of La Raza [NCLR] to improve health and educational outcomes of Latino children and promote violence prevention among Latino youth in the District. Working in partnership with its community-based affiliates in the Metropolitan area, NCLR will establish a multi-faceted demonstration project focused on health, education, and violence prevention among Latino children and youth in the region. This initiative will build on and be integrated into existing, successful NCLR programs that serve and collaborate with low-income Latino children and youth.


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U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 109th Congress - 1st Session

as compiled through Senate LIS by the Senate Bill Clerk under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/r ... vote=00264
Grouped By Vote Position YEAs ---93
Akaka (D-HI)
Alexander (R-TN)
Allard (R-CO)
Allen (R-VA)
Bennett (R-UT)
Biden (D-DE)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Bond (R-MO)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burns (R-MT)
Burr (R-NC)
Byrd (D-WV)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Carper (D-DE)
Chafee (R-RI)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Clinton (D-NY)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Coleman (R-MN)
Collins (R-ME)
Conrad (D-ND)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Craig (R-ID)
Crapo (R-ID)
Dayton (D-MN)
DeMint (R-SC)
DeWine (R-OH)
Dodd (D-CT)
Dole (R-NC)
Domenici (R-NM)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Durbin (D-IL)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Frist (R-TN)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hagel (R-NE)
Harkin (D-IA)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Jeffords (I-VT)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Kohl (D-WI)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (D-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Lott (R-MS)
Lugar (R-IN)
Martinez (R-FL)
McConnell (R-KY)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Nelson (D-NE)
Obama (D-IL)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Roberts (R-KS)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Salazar (D-CO)
Santorum (R-PA)
Sarbanes (D-MD)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Smith (R-OR)
Snowe (R-ME)
Specter (R-PA)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Stevens (R-AK)
Talent (R-MO)
Thomas (R-WY)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Warner (R-VA)
Wyden (D-OR)

NAYs ---1
Bayh (D-IN)

Not Voting - 6
Baucus (D-MT)
Corzine (D-NJ)
Inouye (D-HI)
McCain (R-AZ)
Schumer (D-NY)
Sununu (R-NH)

Can we fund an advocacy group for the citizens of the USA? and then get our own taxpayer money to fund it? there must be a legal way to do this... someone must know how we could organize it???

“It sounds like they have a sugar-daddy in the Senate.”

One possible culprit is Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D.-Nev.) who sits on the Senate Appropriations subcommittee that handled the bill carrying the earmark. In 2001, Reid sent a letter to the Senate Appropriations Committee requesting $5 million for La Raza’s housing programs. That same year Reid also received NCLR’s Capital Award for “his commitment to advance legislation priorities of the Latino Community.” In gratitude, Reid told NCLR, “La Raza is like the biblical David, fighting all these Goliaths.”

That right there says a lot. Does La Raza contribute to political campaings or does it encourage it's member to support certin candidates? How can we flush them out. I know you have to list the contributions but is it hidden in PAC money? If we can find out candidates who LULAC AND LA Raza think are in their hip pocket, we can root them out by exposure.

Dixie

There must be 62 of them, I think we have a pretty good idea who they are.

NCLR HONORS SENATOR TOM HARKIN AND REPRESENTATIVE JOHN BOEHNER AT 2006 NCLR CAPITAL AWARDS GALA

Washington, DC – House Majority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) and Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) will be the honorees at the National Council of La Raza’s (NCLR) 2006 Capital Awards. NCLR, the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the U.S., will hold its 2006 gala at the National Building Museum, 401 F Street, NW in Washington, DC on Tuesday, March 7 beginning at 5:30 p.m.

NCLR is honoring Senator Harkin and Majority Leader Boehner for their leadership on issues of concern to the Hispanic community. NCLR will also present the Public Service Award to Ernesto Schweikert of Radio Tropical (KGLA-1540 AM) for his extraordinary work assisting New Orleans’ Spanish-speaking community during Hurricane Katrina and in the weeks and months following the disaster.

“Senator Harkin is one of the most committed supporters of the Latino community,” said Janet Murguía, NCLR President and CEO. “He has worked tirelessly to enact legislation that expands access to food stamps and child nutrition programs to ensure that children do not go hungry and that the most vulnerable immigrant families are able to put food on the table.”

Murguía continued, “NCLR is also pleased to honor Majority Leader Boehner who, in his former role as Chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce, demonstrated strong and courageous leadership in addressing key issues affecting Latino children. His successful fight to increase access to the school lunch program for farmworker and limited-English-proficient children has benefited thousands of hardworking Latino families.”

Radio Tropical owner Ernesto Schweikert and his colleagues worked around the clock during Hurricane Katrina to keep the station on the air broadcasting vital information to listeners. “As the only Spanish media outlet in the area at that time, Radio Tropical played a life-saving role in helping to reunite families, find work for those who lost jobs due to the storm, and protect the rights of Hispanic workers,” said Murguía.

Citigroup is serving as Chair of the event, and the Fannie Mae Foundation, PepsiCo/Frito-Lay, Inc., and Sprint-Nextel are the Co-Chairs. The opening reception is sponsored by Bank of America, Comcast Corporation, and Ford Motor Company. Denisse Oller, Univision’s Noticias 41 anchor, will be the Mistress of Ceremonies. To reserve a ticket or table sponsorship for the 2006 NCLR Capital Awards gala, please call (800) 311-NCLR or send email to sponsorships@nclr.org. News media should contact Diana Tejada at (202) 785-1670 or dtejada@nclr.org.

http://www.nclr.org/content/news/detail/36840
THE NEXT STEP: NCLR TO LAUNCH VOTER MOBILIZATION PROJECT FOCUSED ON 2006 ELECTION AND BEYOND

Washington, DC – The National Council of La Raza (NCLR), the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the U.S., will hold a telephonic news briefing to discuss “LEAP to Action,” its new voter mobilization initiative for the 2006 election and beyond. The briefing will be held Wednesday, April 26 at 1:00 p.m. EST [see call-in information below].

A surge of interest in voting and citizenship among millions of Latinos has followed the recent community mobilization in support of comprehensive immigration reform. NCLR’s Latino Empowerment and Advocacy Project (LEAP) is launching “LEAP to Action,” a partnership with Latino community-based organizations (CBOs) throughout the country in support of local activities to promote citizenship and voting and connect voters to broader civic work and advocacy.

Also attending the news briefing will be representatives from several of these Latino-serving CBOs, including Elvira Diaz of the MAAC Project who is spearheading a Latino community-based initiative to conduct voter registration and education in San Diego, California, and David Lubell, State Director of the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition (TIRRC), who will be discussing how TIRRC is fostering youth leadership and registering young voters for the 2006 election.

CALL-IN INFORMATION WHAT: Telephonic news briefing
WHEN: Wednesday, April 26, 1:00 p.m. EST
HOW: 1-866-837-9779, Conference ID number 895847


National Sign-on Letter to Senate Sponsors of the “DREAM Act”
Author: DREAM Coalition
Contact: Melissa Lazarin
Date: Apr 10, 2003
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Topics: Education, Immigration
Policy: DREAM Act
Summary
A letter dated April 10, 2003, from over 400 national, state, and local groups to Senators Orrin Hatch and Richard Durbin in support of the “DREAM Act.”

SESSIONS - CORNYN

Yup, they sure care that we've been drained by ILLEGALS. Voted yes.
Double talk.....all double talk.

List of Government La Raza Contributors:

U.S. Department of Commerce

Secretary of Commerce Donald L. Evans
Department of Commerce
1401 Constitution Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20230
Phone: (202) 482-2000
Fax: (202) 482-2741



U.S. Department of Education

Education Secretary Rod
400 Maryland Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20202
Telephone 1-800-USA-LEARN
Fax (202) 401-0689



U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Chief of Staff, Scott Whitaker
200 Independence Avenue, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20201
Phone: 202-690-8157
Fax: 202-690-7595
Toll Free: 1-877-696-6775


U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Director/Secretary Mel Martinez
451 7th Street S.W., Washington, DC 20410
Telephone: (202) 708-1112
Fax 202-708-0299
Voice mail 202-708-0417
Switchboard 202-708-1112


U.S. Department of Labor

Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao
Frances Perkins Building
200 Constitution Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20210
Phone: 202-693-6000
Fax: 202-219-5721
Toll Free: 866-487-2365

Well how about that. There's Mitch McConnell's wife Elaine Chao La Raza contributor.
Definitely time to form El Grande Gringo to get some tax dollars to lobby Congress.

THANK YOU FOR THIS POST


I have been fighting Harkin for years NOW I have the proof. I am going to find my research on NCLR and this information to our local paper. I already fired my insurance company (of 30 years) for contributing to the main socialists groups of this batch of invaders.

I wonder if this "conspiracy" and (yes it is one within our own government) can even begin to be sorted out.