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| Dave Kieffer |
As Tasty predicted, Dave
Kieffer -- who was recently fired
from his job as the Executive Director of the SEIU California State Council --
has re-surfaced alongside Dave Regan.
Earlier this month, Regan granted Kieffer the title of “Director of
Governmental Relations” at SEIU-UHW. Which is not to be confused with Rebecca Miller’s title of “Political Director” or Leon Chow’s designation as “Director of
External Affairs."
So what do these people actually do... since, uhh, their jobs kinda sound like the exact same thing, right? Well, it’s all part of
Regan’s scheme to hand out fat paychecks and big titles in order to purchase the
loyalty of staffers.
Here's an excerpt from a page on SEIU-UHW's website identifying Kieffer's new position:
With the addition of Kieffer, SEIU-UHW now has the
distinction of employing the largest collection of Purple Palace officials who
are directly implicated in Tyrone
Freeman’s multi-million-dollar crime spree, which last month resulted in 14
criminal convictions by a federal jury.
Kieffer
and SEIU-UHW’s Steve
Trossman famously engineered a cover-up that hid Freeman’s crimes from
SEIU members and law enforcement for seven long years, according to the Los
Angeles Times and sworn testimony by Jim
Philliou.
And in 2008, Dave Regan was reportedly a key player in a
scheme by which SEIU officials steered large monetary kickbacks to Tyrone
Freeman even as Freeman intensified his theft of money from low-wage healthcare
workers.
These ethically compromised officials -- who now pocket
hundreds of thousands of dollars in salaries from their perch atop SEIU-UHW --
speak volumes about the sick values that now govern the union.
