Obama's girl 'Ellie' revealed

American Thinker.com
Phil Boehmke

Thanks to The Cleveland Plain Dealer we now know who Ellie Light really is. It turns out that a fifty-one year old health care worker from Frazier Park California named Winston Steward has confessed to writing the now infamous Ellie Light letters.

"I am Winston Steward and have been sending the letters from Ellie Light," he told The Plain Dealer in an email late Tuesday, following a phone interview in which he said the same. "I hope this ends any confusion and sets the record straight."

Mr. Steward was compelled to write on behalf of the President out of concern for Mr. Obama's dwindling support. This seems rather ironic given the ease with which such a large number of newspaper editors were willing to forego any basic journalistic integrity in order to print the pro-Obama letters. Perhaps Winston was worried about Mr. Obama's flagging support at the grassroots level.

Mr. Obama's overzealous comrade chose to use a pen name because according to Barbara Brooks (who claims to be Steward's wife) "he was afraid he might be attacked by right-wing crazies." A valid point as just last summer there were numerous incidents of intimidation and outright violence during the town hall meetings and Obamacare protests. Ordinary citizens who were exercising their first amendment rights were threatened, roughed up, assaulted and on one occasion a senior citizen in California (Steward's home state) had one of his fingers bitten off. Of course the violent incidents to which I refer were committed by Obama supporters and on numerous occasions they were perpretated by S.E.I.U. thugs.

While it appears as though Mr. Steward had engaged in his Obamaganda efforts on his own initiative, we should be mindful of the many print media professionals who enabled his campaign either through their negligence or pro-Obama editorial agenda.

Just an observation here; Winston Steward is a health care worker (a heavily unionized occupation) in California. The odds are excellent that Mr. Steward is a member of the S.E.I.U (which boasts some 700,000 members in California)., but that's just speculation on my part.

Phil Boehmke/philbepreston@yahoo.com

SEIU behind anti-tea party website

Rick Moran

We received numerous complaints yesterday from AT readers who were concerned about a Google Ad that bashed the tea party movement. It turns out, that the website the ad was linked to was created with funds contributed at least partly by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).

It should be noted that the ad itself was placed by Google and in no way reflected our views. But, as our Editor in Chief Thomas Lifson pointed out, the editorial and advertising functions of the website are completely separate entities - for obvious reasons. Our opinions are not for sale and keeping a wall between these functions is necessary to ensure that. The ad has since been taken down.

But the question of who sponsored it in the first place wasn't answered until Lee Doren did a little digging:

I just came across a new website titled: http://www.TheTeaPartyIsOver.org

It is paid for by the American Public Policy Committee. Well, according to opensecrets.org, the two donors for American Public Policy Committee this year are Patriot Majority and Patriot Majority West.

However, according to opensecrets.org, the 2nd largest contributor in 2008 to Patriot Majority was SEIU and other top Unions around America. I imagine the diversion of Union money gets much deeper than this. Please spread the word before they start getting their message out now. Thanks. (H/T: Jim Hoft )

Good to know where your enemies are coming from.

Hat Tip: Ed Lasky