This past Tuesday, February 2, the Labor Committee held another confirmation hearing. As before, the nominee's answers raised questions. At one point, McCain asked Becker: "Do you perform work for and provide advice to ACORN or ACORN-affiliated groups while employed by your current employers on a volunteer basis?" The nominee's response: "Senator McCain, I have never done so."Yet evidence indicates Becker has counseled SEIU Local 880, the roughly 80,000-member Chicago-based home and health care workers union which last spring merged with another union bargaining unit, SEIU Healthcare Illinois and Indiana. The local was founded as an ACORN project some 30 years ago and affiliated with the SEIU during the mid Eighties. The address listed on its most recent U.S. Labor Department annual financial disclosure form is 209 West Jackson Avenue, Suite 200, Chicago, Illinois. That's the same building as the national headquarters of ACORN Housing Corporation, an ACORN affiliate. Rep. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., among other members of Congress, last year presented extensive evidence that Local 880 for years has functioned as what amounts to a money-laundering operation for ACORN funds.
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