emptywheel.firedoglake.com - 12/9/2008
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I gotta disagree, politely, with Ian's statement that the SEIU statement is "rather uninformative." Here's the statement again, from Communications Director Ramona Oliver:
We have no reason to believe that SEIU or any SEIU official was involved in any wrongdoing.
In keeping with ...
politico.com - 12/9/2008
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politico.com —
A Democratic source confirms that SEIU President Andy
Stern is the "SEIU official" referred to in the...
federal complaint against Rod Blagojevich. There's no allegation that the SEIU official did anything wrong, and what appears to be a ...
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Source: 'SEIU official' was Stern
emptywheel.firedoglake.com - 12/11/2008
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emptywheel.firedoglake.com —
Not This Man My NPR station reported earlier
today that the SEIU contact that Blagojevich spoke with--referenced...
in the complaint --was not Andy Stern. NPR said it was Tom Balinoff, President of SEIU Local 1. A senior advisor to the SEIU has ...
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Blagojevich’s SEIU Contact NOT Andy Stern
sweetness-light.com - 12/13/2008
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sweetness-light.com —
From the Service Employees International Union Local 100’s
own website : Notice the New Orleans address: 1024...
Elysian Fields. It should be quite familiar to regular readers. As we have noted oft before , that is also the address that ACORN and their ...
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Obama, ACORN/Project Vote And SEIU | Sweetness & Light
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FDL Blagojevich Coverage
Firedoglake —
For those who haven't been able to surf while working, here's a roundup of some of FDL's Blagojevich coverage:
Who are some of the officials named in the indictment? Liveblog of the Fitzgerald Press Conference How Rove Almost Saved Blagojevich SEIU Statement Suggests Rove Talked to SEIU Blagojevich Impeachment Hearings To Start Blagojevich: Oh My, He's So Gangster
Progressive Breakfast: $900 Billion for Main Street
LiberalOasis : The Blog —
... involvement, but Marcy Wheeler discerns that the SEIU likely will not be implicated in wrongdoing: "I would imagine that Fitzgerald has heard SEIU's side of any conversations with Blago, and found nothing much there to be interested in." ...
Blagojevich’s SEIU Contact NOT Andy Stern
Firedoglake —
... The SEIU advisor also told me that SEIU proactively contacted Fitzgerald's office. I guess that was the same conversation when, according to SEIU's earlier statement, Fitz asked SEIU not to share any information at that time. ...
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An Obama-Blagojevich-SEIU Link?
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SEIU - heh, 12 whole people showed up!
granitegrok.com 3/23/2009 — UPDATE: Welcome Instapundit Readers! And thanks to Glenn!We're not too high on the SEIU and the faux outrage - again, the MSM shows where its heart lives by reporting on this and not on the Tea Parties. Oh yes, NH...
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