A dubious grant for a dubious outfit: James Varney  Creole
Creamery Tchoupitoulas Challenge The Restaurant Opportunities
Center's New Orleans branch recently got $200,000 in public
money to talk with restaurant owners about "creating healthy
menu options" for their Asian-American and Pacific Islander
workers. (David Grunfeld / The Times-Picayune) Email the author
| Follow on Twitter on June 16, 2013 at 8:49 AM, updated June
17, 2013 at 7:07 AM  There has been much talk and congressional
attention lately over the IRS gumming up the works of tax-exempt
applications from conservative groups. Perhaps more of that
should be directed toward the groups that are already exempt.
One that might deserve some scrutiny is the Restaurant
Opportunity Center, a hard-left union front that models itself
as a warm-hearted community group and is recognized, despite
some of its overtly political work, as a 501c(3) non-profit by
the IRS.  ROC has been quite successful at this game. In the
last few months, it's had a seat at a pri