By Rick Manning –
Richard Griffin, Jr. has had a rough 2012, and 2013 doesn’t look much better. For Griffin, 2012 started brightly as he was given a recess appointment to the National Labor Relations Board and was sworn in as a Board Member on January 9, 2012. Now, just a little more than a year later, he is fighting for his political life.
His appointment has been invalidated by the U.S. District Court of Appeals which ruled it to be illegal due to the President’s failure to follow the constitutional requirement that the U.S. Senate confirm his appointments to bodies like the NLRB.
The Senate confirmation process is designed to determine if appointees might have skeletons in their closet or other reasons that make them unfit to serve. By short-circuiting it, Obama effectively tried to tell the American people to simply trust him that the people he was appointing met the highest ethical standards.
In the case of Griffin, it is likely that the background check and vetting process a nominee has to undergo when they face Senate confirmation would have revealed a brewing embezzlement scandal involving the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 501. Internal local union investigations revealed that a union official allegedly embezzled money to pay for breast implants for his mistress among other seedy items……To Read More…..
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