Sessions Ends Obama's DOJ Handouts to Leftist Groups

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Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a new policy on Wednesday that prohibits payouts to third parties in settlements reached by the Justice Department.

 

 

For decades, through a variety of initiatives, the DOJ has insisted on donations to third parties as part of the settlements it reaches with defendants, especially corporations. In the Obama administration, this practice took on the character of a “slush fund,” which funneled hundreds of millions of dollars from these corporate defendants and put it into the hands of non-government organizations.

Recipients have included left-wing “community organizer” groups such as the National Council of La Raza, or “The Race,” a Latino racial advocacy group that supports mass illegal immigration. Other recipients include the National Urban League, the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, and NeighborWorks America, which is a congressionally chartered mortgage aid group that itself has come under widespread criticism.

As Breitbart News has reported, this practice requires no direct authorization by Congress.

Begun in the 1970s with the Community Reinvestment Act, the practice of requiring banks and financial institutions to fund “community organizations” in settlements to offset supposed wrongdoing exploded in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. The Obama-era Department of Justice came to massive settlements with big banks over a multitude of alleged unfair lending practices. Part of the Obama DOJ’s remedy was for millions of dollars to be transferred to these often left-wing groups that, among other things, provide mortgage assistance. This policy was the subject of a scathing 2016 report by the independent Government Accountability Institute.

 

 

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/06/07/sessions-ends-doj-handouts-leftist-groups/

 

Looks like lefty slush fund recipients are going to lose their free money gravy train. Racism! 

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Yay, it is about time that we stop funding people that actively promote hating anything to do with the USA. All the while knowing that they would not be able to do what they do in other countries because of the freedoms that we have.

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3 minutes ago, cyberfx1024 said:

Yay, it is about time that we stop funding people that actively promote hating anything to do with the USA. All the while knowing that they would not be able to do what they do in other countries because of the freedoms that we have.

Pretty much.

 

/inb4 those groups protest about losing their free ride. 

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15 minutes ago, IAMX said:

Pretty much.

 

/inb4 those groups protest about losing their free ride. 

I know right, it's time for them to actually earn their money if they want to be relevant instead of sucking of the government #######.

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35 minutes ago, cyberfx1024 said:

I know right, it's time for them to actually earn their money if they want to be relevant instead of sucking of the government #######.

Problem is, they can just switch to states like California, who will then in turn demand federal funding for this stupidity.

 

Or wait for the next Democrat President.

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30 minutes ago, IAMX said:

Problem is, they can just switch to states like California, who will then in turn demand federal funding for this stupidity.

Or wait for the next Democrat President.

That is so very true, and groups like BLM and La Raza play very good here in California. 

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3 hours ago, IAMX said:

For decades, through a variety of initiatives, the DOJ has insisted on donations to third parties as part of the settlements it reaches with defendants, especially corporations. In the Obama administration, this practice took on the character of a “slush fund,” which funneled hundreds of millions of dollars from these corporate defendants and put it into the hands of non-government organizations.

 

Recipients have included left-wing “community organizer” groups such as the National Council of La Raza, or “The Race,” a Latino racial advocacy group that supports mass illegal immigration. Other recipients include the National Urban League, the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, and NeighborWorks America, which is a congressionally chartered mortgage aid group that itself has come under widespread criticism.

As Breitbart News has reported, this practice requires no direct authorization by Congress.

Begun in the 1970s with the Community Reinvestment Act, the practice of requiring banks and financial institutions to fund “community organizations” in settlements to offset supposed wrongdoing exploded in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. The Obama-era Department of Justice came to massive settlements with big banks over a multitude of alleged unfair lending practices. Part of the Obama DOJ’s remedy was for millions of dollars to be transferred to these often left-wing groups that, among other things, provide mortgage assistance. This policy was the subject of a scathing 2016 report by the independent Government Accountability Institute.

 

The article is being too politically correct. La Raza is a Latino supremist group similar to the KKK. Their motto is "For the race everything. For everyone else nothing." They are an incredibly racist hate group who shouldn't get a penny of government money. But this is the Obama administration we are talking about so that type of thing is par for the course.

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1 hour ago, jg121783 said:

The article is being too politically correct. La Raza is a Latino supremist group similar to the KKK. Their motto is "For the race everything. For everyone else nothing." They are an incredibly racist hate group who shouldn't get a penny of government money. But this is the Obama administration we are talking about so that type of thing is par for the course.

Can you imagine the media going to whoever is the head of the KKK as a subject matter expert on anything?  Yet they constantly bring out La Raza representatives.

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meh, why not. i'll take the bait.

 

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And conservative media outlets quickly jumped on Curiel's membership in the San Diego La Raza Lawyers Association, essentially the Latino attorneys group for the region. Trump called the group "very strongly pro-Mexican."* Invoking a Ku Klux Klan term, the right-wing website Infowars called Curiel a "Hispanic Grand Dragon." La raza, literally translated, means "the race." But it doesn't mean the master race. 

Luis O. Osuna, president of the San Diego La Raza Lawyers Association, explained that la raza "translates to the people and the power of people banding together for justice."

Indeed, it's not uncommon to hear a Mexican say mi raza, as in mi gente or "my people." While you could argue that this proves the conservatives' point, please note that Mexican is not a race, and that Mexico has demographic influences ranging from African to Lebanese, Austrian to Chinese. There's more on the word Mexican below.

The term la raza has roots in the 1925 essay La Raza Cósmica, by onetime Mexican presidential candidate José Vasconcelos. 

His work referred to the many so-called races of Latin America — European, African, Asian, indigenous — which helped this crossroads of Earth transcend the old world and create a new cosmic hybrid for humanity. 

In no way has the word been understood to refer to racial purity, superiority or homogeneity. 

"During the civil rights movement, this was adopted by Chicano and Mexican-American political activists," said Christopher Arriola, secretary of the California La Raza Lawyers Association, a statewide umbrella group.

"La raza is a phrase that connotes pride and ethnic solidarity among Mexican-Americans," said Laura E. Gómez, a professor at UCLA School of Law. "It became popular in the 1970s, with the rise of the Mexican American civil rights movement, which in many ways was inspired by the African-American civil rights movement of the 1960s but which had many other catalysts as well.

http://www.laweekly.com/news/dear-trump-fans-la-raza-is-not-a-racist-term-7003572

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Ok that's a good reply.  I am sure that they will be prouder now that they get the opportunity to work hard and earn their own money.