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Friday, February 26, 2010
The Administrative Option - Deja Vu All Over Again and The MSM Catches Up
within the past three years, been convicted of any felonies (or has any felony indictment currently pending against them) arising from any Federal tax, labor and employment, environmental, antitrust, or consumer protection laws, had any adverse court judgments in civil cases against them arising from any Federal tax, labor and employment, environmental, antitrust, or consumer protection laws in which the United States brought the action, or been found by a Federal Administrative Law Judge, agency, board or commission to have violated any Federal tax, labor and employment, environmental, antitrust, or consumer protection law. If the respondent has answered ``has'' to the above question, please explain the nature of the violation and whether any fines, penalties, or damages were assessed. No doubt that battle is about to resume in the very near future. The "MSM Catches Up" in the title is just a little brag (as recognized by Greenhouse in his article) that an online publication, Tucker Carlson's Daily Caller was first out with the story on February 4th, White House considers pro-labor policy for government contractors, which I picked up in my post on February 9th. Gautham Nagesh, who used to cover government contracting at the Government Executive magazine, has followed up with additional stories: Backdoor card check: GOP slams pro-union contracting policy, February 11; and Documents confirm White House pushing pro-union contracting policies, February 23and of course, because it's the way the blogosphere works, hat tip to my friends at Workplace Prof blog, Federal Contractors and Wages and Benefits, which alerted me to Steve Greenhouse's article. All snarkiness aside, this is is going to be a major story and there will be plenty to cover for both the MSM and those of us in whatever we are. Last time around, the story didn't play out because of the election of 2000. This time, it's a long time until 2012. Labels: political
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