Monday, September 07, 2009

Jim DeFede takes on U.S. Senator's Law Firm. By Geniusofdespair

DeFede says that Florida Senator George LeMieux's law firm, Gunster Yoakley, arranged for visa's for foreign sheet metal workers to work in Sunny Isles because they possessed "special skills". Not so say construction workers on the job site. See the video which includeds a room full of angry out of work construction workers. George can't say he didn't know what his law firm was doing, he is on the Corporate papers as a director. That shoots Rep. Illeanna Ros-Lehtinen's defense of him full of holes.

17 comments:

Anonymous said...

I hope this story doesn't disappear from the news.

Keep reporting it!

Anonymous said...

Big surprise, you report nothing about Van Jones?

youbetcha' said...

Van Jones? I looked for substantial information on his resignation as soon as I heard about it because one of my friends was ranting about him being a communist.

Today has been the first day that I have seen any information on it and that turned out to be a PR spin.

If he is a bad person and I wanted to write about him, I wouldn't care that he belonged to the White House. Bad guys don't have a political party in my book. It makes no difference.

Anonymous said...

Be sure and read:
http://www.miamiherald.com/516/story/1221247.html
Work by incoming Sen. George LeMieux, his law firm draws scrutiny. Florida's new senator, transformed from little-known insider to major political figure, is facing scrutiny of his dealings at his law firm.

Anonymous said...

WHY SITE THE HERALD? SAME STORY.

Geniusofdespair said...

I don't care about Van Jones...this is Eye on Miami...

youbetcha' said...

hmmm. GoD ... maybe some folks want it to be Republican Eye on Miami? :)

Geniusofdespair said...

Now I am ready to discuss Van Morrison or Vin Diesel, even Van Heflin and Van Johnson, but that is it...

youbetcha' said...

LOL...

Anonymous said...

maybe it should just be "left eye on Miami"

m

Anonymous said...

Van Jones resigned. He is no longer involved with the Obama administration, so, unless he broke or bent some laws, he is no longer a problem.
Le Mieux is about to become 50% of our senate representation. His lawfirm was involved with bending laws for personal gain. So far he is not backing out of this senate position, and that's a problem. If he is, in fact, involved with bending laws for personal gain, he must not be allowed access to a job where laws are made. His respect for laws and who these laws are made for is clear.
Le Mieux will be holding this seat until the next election, but will be voting on key legislation. This person has ties to breaking laws for personal gain. Is there any question that his votes in the Senate will reflect his ties to big business? If his past role as a facilitator to help his buddies hire lower priced immigrants while our US workers remained idle, is there any question how his vote will go in the Senate over present issues that pit big business over the needs of the Florida citizens he is supposed to represent?
He should resign.

The other m

Geniusofdespair said...

The war of the M's....it was bound to happen.

Anonymous said...

DUH! Ted Kennedy killed somebody, did you ask him to resign?

not a M said...

Was Ted K thing an accident or on purpose?

Anonymous said...

He left the scene at gunpoint?

Anonymous said...

Usual right wing tactics: redirection of topic off the main issue to another topic that has nothing to do with what the discussion is about. If you don't have an intelligent comment on the discussion at hand, your change of topic shows a lack of thoughtful response. If you have a good reason that Lemieux should not resign, state it. Please don't hide behind Ted Kennedy to make your point. Sorry if we left wingers try to stick to topic.

The other M

Anonymous said...

Van Jones: By Goodman

Edited:
Van Jones was named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people in the world for 2009. His book, "The Green Collar Economy," was a national best-seller. A Yale Law School graduate, Jones didn't go after the lucrative jobs that were available to him, but moved to San Francisco, where he founded Bay Area PoliceWatch, a hot line for victims of alleged police brutality. He then founded the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, based in Oakland, Calif., "a strategy and action center working for justice, opportunity and peace in urban America." The center thrived, growing to a staff of more than 20 and building a solid record of fighting police violence and youth incarceration, along with spearheading green-job initiatives. The fusion of racial justice and economic and environmental sustainability is at the core of Jones' work.

Jones told me last October: "The clean-energy revolution ... would put literally millions of people to work, putting up solar panels all across the United States, weatherizing buildings so they don't leak so much energy ... you could put Detroit back to work not making SUVs to destroy the world, but making wind turbines. We think that you can fight pollution and poverty at the same time."

Beck alleged Jones was a former black nationalist and communist, that he signed a petition calling for a congressional investigation into the events of 9/11, and that Jones referred to Republicans as "a*#holes" in a February 2009 talk. (Beck failed to note that Jones referred to himself in the talk with the same term.) Jones apologized for the remark, which is more than George W. Bush did when recorded referring to New York Times reporter Adam Clymer with the same term in 2000.

Jones said Beck's attacks were a "vicious smear campaign ... using lies and distortions to distract and divide." Ben Jealous, president and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said, "The only thing more outrageous than Mr. Beck's attack on Van Jones is the fact that there are sponsors that continue to pay him to provide this type of offensive commentary." He recalled Beck's 2006 radio attack on a 7-year-old African-American girl, when Beck, responding to her poem about her heritage, said: "You want to go to Africa? I will personally purchase your airfare. I'll do it. It's one-way."

Glenn Beck may claim a notch in his belt, but he's also helped push Van Jones back into an arena where he can be much more effective, as a grass-roots organizer working for progressive change from outside the administration. And with groups like the NAACP paying more attention to Beck, the advertiser boycott of his show is unlikely to just go away.