More payola? What’s SEIU’s retiree, Andy Stern’s, new job in the Obama WH?

I’m not sure if I’m surprised or not to read that SEIU’s Andy Stern decided to resign his lofy power post today. After all, it’s been well publicized that Andy Stern is the guy who tops the list for visits to the Obama WH in the official log. And we can only guess what the unofficial log is since Norm Eisen, a special counsel to the president, declares that the log is incomplete, and adds a few “false positives” on a WH blog.

A lot of people visit the White House, up to 100,000 each month, with many of those folks coming to tour the buildings. Given this large amount of data, the records we are publishing today include a few “false positives” – names that make you think of a well-known person, but are actually someone else. In September, requests were submitted for the names of some famous or controversial figures (for example Michael Jordan, William Ayers, Michael Moore, Jeremiah Wright, Robert Kelly (“R. Kelly”), and Malik Shabazz). The well-known individuals with those names never actually came to the White House. Nevertheless, we were asked for those names and so we have included records for those individuals who were here and share the same names.

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There’s an important lesson here as well. This unprecedented level of transparency can sometimes be confusing rather than providing clear information.

uh huh… lot’s of “William Ayers, Michael Moore’s, Jeremiah Wrights’s” with the “confusing” same names with access to the WH. But I digress…. Just how often was Andy Stern there, and why is a 59 year old retiring from a serious powerhouse position this early with a friendly WH admin in power?

Call me suspect….. I smell payola. So my first question is, what’ Andy’s new job in the sundry new government agencies created with O’healthcare to be?

On his “retirement”, Stern is touting the achievement of a lifetime. Per The Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder, Stern “….feels that he’s outlived his usefulness and would rather turn his union over to younger folks with new ideas…” But of course, that’s all per the “associates”. Ambinder also pulls another heart tugging reason… he “…never got over the death of his young daughter, Cassie, in 2002.”

Okay…..

But a man, used to power and influence, is just going to retire from all of at age 59? Despite what is probably a kick arse pension plan, call me skeptical. I’ll have to go thru the 2000 pages plus to find the likely landing site for a union honcho to guess. But all I can say is this.

So what’s Andy’s new position? Gee… can’t wait to find out….