We’ve already noted how two HuffPo reporters ran defense for SEIU: First there was Erica Payne, HuffPo blogger, lover of all things Media Matters, who appeared on Fox News to try to shift blame of SEIU antics onto the tea party.

We’ve also read how HuffPo blogger Arthur Delaney was embedded with SEIU to cover their home invasion of Bank of America employee Greg Baer which terrified Baer’s young son who hid in the bathroom (we’re still waiting for the Carnahan Coffin-Gate drama queens to repeat their hysterics over this but so far, nothing); Delaney became the first to parrot SEIU’s baseless accusation of “conflict of interest” at Fortune columnist Nina Easton after she published her firsthand account, as Baer’s neighbor, of the same protest. Monday we exposed Huffington Post’s own conflict of interest when we discovered that SEIU had paid the site $15,000 categorized as “political activities and lobbying.”

Is this what SEIU money is buying? Two HuffPo bloggers running their media defense? Of course, this could be a routine advertising expense. But, Big Government has learned that the Huffington Post has inserted themselves into SEIU’s most notorious violent incident: the Kenneth Gladney beating of last August.

Earlier this month at rally was staged on behalf of the men accused of assaulting Gladney. Defendant Elston McCowan spoke, along with others who are pressuring the county prosecutor’s office to drop the charges against the men. We know that SEIU took care of Perry Molens and McCowan criminal legal expenses despite their claim of having sent no staff to the townhall. This information came directly from McCowan writing in an email that “[SEIU] is paying for my legal fees in defending myself and any others charged with assault associated with the Union.” That’s exactly the kind of thing you want to get a handle on before it’s repeated in the mainstream press.

During this rally, a woman named Jeanine Molloff identified herself as being with Huffington Post and took to the megaphone to apparently speak on behalf of the website declaring: “We will be following this and we will make it a civil rights issue.” She even joined in the chant popularized by Jesse Jackson and Maxine Waters in the wake of the Los Angeles riots: “No justice! No peace!”

It’s interesting to note that there exists a Jeanine Molloff who signed a 9/11 Truther petition:

Like HuffPo’s Jeanine Molloff who describes herself as “a veteran urban educator,” the signer on the truther site describes herself as an “Educator & Online Journalist” and writes:

“I do not profess to possess technical expertise, but as an online Journalist, I support the work of those professionals who have such degrees. I volunteer my services to help disseminate the story. God bless all of you who seek the truth.”

Unlike certain media outlets, Big Government won’t assume, without 100% certainty, that these two same-named, same-profession, same city women are the same person; we merely think that the similarity is interesting. What’s more fascinating than a possible 9-11 Truther and HuffPo journalist threatening political pressure to influence a county prosecutor to drop criminal charges against the staff of SEIU?

Is Huffington Post running defense for SEIU? SEIU’s insurance carrier is allegedly paying workmen’s comp for McCowan, which, for that to be possible, means that McCowan was considered a working staffer the night that Gladney was beaten, there for the townhall as part of his job. It would look horrible for an SEIU worker to be convicted of assault while on the clock at the direction of SEIU. And then to have OFA, the campaign arm of the White House ordered for a push back at townhalls (more) – it’s no wonder that Huffington Post and Media Matters want these charges dropped before the trial. The question is whether or not the aforementioned $15,000 paid to Huffington Post under the category of “political activities and lobbying” was for such a purpose.

Due to the above mentioned precedence that the Huffington Post has with the Baer incident, I’m curious as to whether or not the Huffington Post blogger’s speech on behalf of the website and her energetically supportive presence at the rally signifies that HuffPo has a working relationship with SEIU.

If true, it would seem that $15k goes a long way in new media lobbying (or advertising).