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| Dave Regan and Debbie Schneider |
Information supplied by these sources links Regan and Schneider to
the Chow scandal and also implicates them in even more
serious law-breaking.
Who’s
Debbie Schneider? She’s a member of SEIU’s International Executive Board, is a
longtime ally of Andy Stern and Mary Kay Henry, and worked
alongside Dave Regan as a “Deputy Trustee” at SEIU-UHW.
Beginning
in the summer of 2008, Regan and Schneider led a team of SEIU staffers who
spent six months planning the trusteeship of SEIU-UHW, which ultimately took
place in January of 2009. Inside the Purple Palace, their secret planning
project was codenamed “TRUHW” for “Trustee UHW.”
As
part of this effort, Regan and Schneider employed investigators to try to dig up dirt
on SEIU-UHW’s then-leaders. SEIU’s investigators left no stone unturned,
examining each person’s legal records, romantic relationships, property
records, divorces, savings accounts and, yes… their voting records!
That’s
how Regan and Schneider -- in 2008 -- first discovered Chow’s election fraud.
They learned that Chow, from 2004 to 2008, had registered and voted illegally
from the offices of the Chinese
Progressive Association in
San Francisco even though he lived in different county. Of course, this is the
same apparently criminal violation that the San Francisco Appeal unearthed just
two weeks ago.
So
did Regan and Schneider hand over this information to law enforcement officials when they discovered it back in 2008?
Nope! And this is where our story gets even more interesting.
Nope! And this is where our story gets even more interesting.
Less
than 24 hours after SEIU imposed its trusteeship on SEIU-UHW in January of 2009, Leon Chow resigned his membership in SEIU and joined NUHW… as did every
other member of SEIU-UHW’s 100-member Executive Board. Then, several days
later, Regan and Schneider contacted Chow and reportedly threatened to turn him
in to law-enforcement officials unless he quit NUHW and worked for the trustees! Chow complied. Various sources corroborate this series of events.
Why
is this important? Simple. It would implicate Regan and Schneider in multiple
criminal violations, including extortion. Plus, Regan and Schneider became aware of a felony violation of the state's election laws, but reportedly failed to report it to police.
Both of these violations carry serious criminal penalties.
And
there’s more!
In 2012, Regan -- knowing that Chow had violated the state’s election laws -- nonetheless
selected and sponsored Chow as a candidate for San Francisco’s Board of
Supervisors. Regan even spent lots of SEIU-UHW’s resources to promote Chow’s campaign.
Furthermore, sources tell Tasty that Regan was fully aware of Chow’s more recent violations of
election laws, including the fact that Chow claimed to reside in San Francisco
while actually living in his Walnut Creek condominium. Regan, believing this information would never become public, deliberately foisted a fraudulent candidate on voters.
Tasty expects that law-enforcement officials will soon be posing questions about these interesting issues to Leon Chow and others... while they're under penalty of perjury!!
PS. A note to SEIU staffers. It is illegal to destroy records that are the subject of a criminal investigation.
