President Obama has thrown Van Jones, his czar in charge of creating inner-city green jobs, under the bus. This, after the public got wind of Jones’s revolutionary designs and radical deeds, including his stint building the Apollo Alliance, on whose board he served until he was raised to White House czardom.

According to Phil Kerpen, a director at Americans for Prosperity:

Apollo unifies the three most powerful elements of the political left — environmental groups, labor unions and street organizers like ACORN — and points them toward a common goal that enriches all of them under the banner of “green jobs.”

Enter the even more leftist Jeff Jones (unrelated to Van Jones), who is directing Apollo’s taxpayer-funded New York State affiliate. Jeff Jones, a domestic terrorist in the late ’60s and a fugitive from justice for 11 years, is also a consultant to the national organization, which has been credited with contributing to the writing of the stimulus bill.

The act’s ”green jobs” provisions, points out Kerpen, channel federal tax dollars to the very groups that make up Apollo. Moreover, there is abundant evidence that each green job created cancels out more than two other jobs elsewhere in the economy.

What do campuses have to do with Apollo and the Joneses? Among Jeff Jones’s clients is

the Workforce Development Institute (WDI), a union-controlled organization . . .
that works with state and local government and universities.
WDI’s mission is to support union influence on state and local governments. It gets state tax dollars to do it — to the tune of $4.8 million in this year’s Education, Labor and Family Assistance budget bill.
As a consultant to WDI, Jones is helping write the grant proposals for federal stimulus funds — funds authorized in the bill Apollo helped write, presumably ensuring that taxpayer dollars end up in the hands of groups that share Apollo’s political agenda.

Kerpen correctly concludes that citizens have the right to spend their own money on political organizing. Apollo and WDI, however, are spending taxpayer dollars to organize a vast coalition of extreme environmentalists — evidently including those on campuses.

This bag of worms invites more digging into.