Trevor Loudon
Big Government
1/13/2012
There has been some speculation that Heather Higginbottom, Deputy Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, may get the top job, as her boss, Jack Lew leaves to become President Obama’s chief of staff.
Before Ms. Higginbottom is considered for one of the key posts in the U.S. government, maybe she should be asked to explain this photo from October 30, 2001.
Heather Higginbottom, William Julius Wilson, Dottie Stevens, Jack Clark and Robert J. Haynes
The photo depicts Heather Higginbottom, then working for Massachusetts Senator John Kerry addressing a Boston Democratic Socialists of America organized forum “Welfare, Children and Families: The Impact of Welfare Reform”, with panelists William Julius Wilson, Dottie Stevens, Jack Clark and Bob Haynes.
Jack Clark , at the time, was was Boston D.S.A. Chair, William Julius Wilson was a long time D.SA. member and Bob Haynes was President of the Massachusetts AFL-CIO, with which D.S.A worked “frequently”.
The Boston D.S.A. logo can be seen on the wall in the center right of the picture.
Despite its relatively innocuous name, Democratic Socialists of America is a radical Marxist organization that believes, according to Democratic Left, Spring 2007, page 9
Our goal as socialists is to abolish private ownership of the means of production…
…Since entering office President Obama has appointed several D.S.A. connected individuals to influential positions in his administration, including ;
- Ron Bloom , former Manufacturing Czar.
- David Bonior, member of the Obama Economic Transition Team
- Rosa Brooks, senior advisor to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Michele Flournoy.
- Carol Browner, former Energy Czar/Director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy
- Eliseo Medina, served on Obama’s Latino Advisory Council
- Hilda Solis, Secretary of Labor.
- Cornel West, served on Obama’s National Black Advisory Council.
If Heather Higgingbottom is indeed promoted, will it be another hat tip to Obama’s Marxist D.S.A. comrades? Will it be yet another case of the socialist nepotism, so rife in the Obama Administration?…
The complete article is at Big Government.
