Matthew Vadum writes:
President Obama’s new “green jobs” czar Van Jones, an avowed
militant communist, had been on the board of the pressure group Apollo
Alliance, which aspires to flatten the U.S. economy by having government fund
“green jobs” scams, according to the “Glenn Beck Program” earlier this week.
Even worse, the group, which has ties to ACORN, SEIU, and Center for
American Progress president John Podesta, has significant pull in Congress and
helped to write the stimulus bill.
The Apollo Alliance “is designed to bring together the elements of
organized labor with the community organizers with the green groups, the
environmental groups, and to access all of the big foundation money that’s been
supportive of those causes in the past,” explained Phil Kerpen,
director of policy for Americans for Prosperity.
Jones described the group’s “mission as sort of a grand unified field theory
for progressive left causes; it ties all these things together,” Kerpen said.
He added:
“They really admire the Apollo mission, the moon-shot mission, and they
think that we need a
similar centrally-planned, organized massive mobilization to reorder society
and take control of energy
and their various other objectives. They admire that and they want it like a
moon shot.”
Apollo Alliance was co-founded by Campaign for
Beck asked if Wade Rathke, the disgraced founder of ACORN who was expelled
by the radical left-wing group last year for covering up his brother’s
embezzlement of nearly $1 million in ACORN funds, had been a member of the
Apollo Alliance’s board.
Kerpen responded, “Yes. He’s on — he was until this year on the board of the
Tides Foundation and the