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George Soros gives $5 million to push Obamacare (HCAN, NCLR, ACORN, SEIU, etc...) - 8/11/2009

... County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) * Campaign for Americas Future * Center for American Progress Action Fund * Campaign for Community Change (part of Center for Community Change) * MoveOn.org * NAACP * National Council of La Raza * National Education Association * Service Employees International Union * United Food and Commercial Workers(UFCW) Other members include: League of United Latin Am...

Obama budget ends SCAAP, just like Bush did (reimburses states for illegal alien incarceration) - 5/08/2009

... described here (from March 2008). The AFSCME wasn't happy when Bush tried this last year (link), and past quotes in opposition to that Bush attempt from Janet Napolitano and Reps. John Spratt and Gabrielle Giffords (all Democrats) are here. Back to Obama's attempt to do the same thing, this quotes Sen. John Cornyn: "Forcing state governments to pick up the tab for federal governmen...

NCLR, LULAC, MALDEF, SEIU, LNHI: universal healthcare for illegal aliens (Latino Agenda for Healthcare Reform) - 12/23/2008

On December 12, the group Latinos for National Health Insurance (LNHI, president Jaime Torres) convened a meeting in Washington DC where they and a host of other groups created a coalition called the Latino Agenda for Healthcare Reform. They called for an end to a supposed disparity in healthcare coverage between Hispanics and other groups. And, they also demanded "access to high quality, ...

Coalition vows to defeat harsh immigration bill [HR 4437] - 1/20/2006

From this: A U.S. coalition of business, labor unions and religious groups launched a campaign on Thursday to defeat a bill backed by Republicans that would turn some 11 million illegal immigrants into felons. The coalition of 24 organizations, many of which rarely agree on politics or economics, denounced the bill passed by the House of Representatives last month and called on the Senate to e...

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