NEW
YORK – Perkins Coie, the Seattle-based law firm that has defended
Barack Obama in lawsuits challenging the authenticity of his birth
records, has emerged as the muscle for Federal Communications
Commission threats against media that run advertising critical of
Obamacare and of Democrats running for election in November 2012.
A letter on Perkins Coie stationery has surfaced addressed to an
unnamed television “Station Manager” suggesting “for the sake of both
FCC licensing requirements and the public interest,” an advertisement
sponsored by the conservative Americans for Prosperity attacking
Obamacare may be detrimental to the Senate campaign of Detroit Rep.
Gary Peters, D-Mich., and should be checked to determine if factual
documentation can be provided for its claims, according to a report by
Communities Digital News.
The advertisement shows a woman identified as Julie Boonstra of Dexter,
Mich., who claims to be a cancer patient diagnosed five years ago with
leukemia and has a 20 percent chance of surviving. She cannot afford to
pay for the needed medications and medical treatment because her
insurance was canceled because of Obamacare, the ad says.
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Judith Corley, a partner in the Perkins Coie political law practice
then assigned to handle President Obama’s personal legal matters, was
the Washington, D.C., attorney assigned by the law firm to fly to
Honolulu to pick up from Hawaii Department of Health Director Loretta
Fuddy the long-form birth certificate that President Obama released to
the public in a White House press conference on April 27, 2011.
WND reported Fuddy was the only fatality among nine people aboard a
plane that went down shortly after takeoff from the Hawaiian island of
Molokai in December.
Robert Bauer, a senior partner in Perkins Coie, resigned suddenly as
White House counsel on June 2, 2011. WND reported the move may have
been designed to deflect attention away from the role he had played in
defending Obama in eligibility legal challenges. He represented Obama
in the cases both when he served as counsel to the Obama 2008
presidential campaign and as White House special counsel during Obama’s
first term.
WND also reported Bauer was married to Anita Dunn, the White House
communications director who came under attack after she charged Fox
News was a propaganda arm of the Republican Party, “opinion journalism
masquerading as news,” not a legitimate news agency.
Glenn Beck, on his Fox News show, showed video of Dunn telling
high-school students in June 2009 that her two “favorite political
philosophers” included communist Chinese leader Mao Zedong, whose
draconian policies are blamed for the deaths of tens of millions of
people.
See the video of Dunn:
Andrea Tantaros of Fox News
reported Dunn resigned her position as White House communications
director in an article that said though her title was communications
director, “at times, ‘Fox News Basher’ seemed more appropriate as she
seemingly and bizarrely began to publicly wage war on the network
roughly a month ago.”
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