Oops, O Did It Again

When will it end? Yet another Onomination is facing problems. This time, PBO has nominated a congresswoman for Secretary of Labor. Now it comes out that she sponsored two bills to destroy secret ballots when voting for unionization. You understand the Democrats on this issue, don’t you? They want unions to be able to come into a workplace and use peer pressure and any other type of pressure to force workers to vote to unionize. Okay, off the soapbox. She sponsored these two bills while she was secretly working for the lobbying group supporting the bills. Plus, she was the Treasurer, in charge of spending the lobbying money. Has there ever been a more blatant show of conflict of interest? Well, okay, maybe the David Obey case, but that’s another story.

So, does this Democrat congresswoman from CA reveal her conflicts? Nope. She does not mention them on House financial disclosure forms. She’s kept the whole thing secret…until now.