{"id":17954,"date":"2013-05-16T20:05:13","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T00:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=17954"},"modified":"2013-05-16T20:05:13","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T00:05:13","slug":"sebelius%e2%80%99s-obamacare-lobbying-funds-liberal-political-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/17954\/sebelius%e2%80%99s-obamacare-lobbying-funds-liberal-political-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Sebelius\u2019s ObamaCare Lobbying Funds Liberal Political Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I discuss in my column this week, the <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/56-health-care\/1844-sebeliuss-obamacare-fundraising-an-abuse-of-power\" target=\"_blank\">primary beneficiary of HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius\u2019s legally suspect lobbying<\/a> of private health companies is the non-profit community organizing outfit Enroll America.<\/p>\n<p>The group\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enrollamerica.org\/about-us\/who-we-are\/advisory-council\" target=\"_blank\">Advisory Council<\/a> includes several members of the liberal establishment such as NAACP, La Raza, Planned Parenthood, and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).<\/p>\n<p>But wait, <a href=\"http:\/\/bostonherald.com\/news_opinion\/opinion\/op_ed\/2013\/05\/obamacare_aids_nonprofits_with_political_links\" target=\"_blank\">there\u2019s more<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Enroll America\u2019s board of directors is made up of insurers and hospital organizations that will benefit from enrolling millions of people in Obamacare. But its management is 100 percent political. Its president is Anne Filipic, formerly deputy director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, where she networked with community organizers. Before that, she had a top job at the Democratic National Committee, and before that she managed Obama\u2019s victorious 2008 Iowa Caucus bid,&#8221; according to the Boston Herald.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To design a media campaign, Enroll America hired Lake Research, which also manages messaging for ACORN, MoveOn.org, LaRaza and 39 members of Congress, all Democrats&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At least now we know how Sebelius is feathering her post-HHS nest \u2013 by funneling money to just about every radical liberal group in America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I discuss in my column this week, the primary beneficiary of HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius\u2019s legally suspect lobbying of private health companies is the non-profit community organizing outfit Enroll America. The group\u2019s Advisory Council includes several members of the liberal establishment such as NAACP, La Raza, Planned Parenthood, and the Service Employees International Union [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3179,4136,3308,186,476,739,35],"class_list":["post-17954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-crony","tag-enroll-america","tag-health","tag-hhs","tag-kathleen-sebelius","tag-liberal","tag-obamacare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17954"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17958,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17954\/revisions\/17958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}