All this business about Patrick Gaspard, White House Political Director (the Karl Rove of the Obama White House), not having any affiliation with ACORN is absolutely absurd. Have this administration and its state-run media outlets actually convinced themselves that the American people are really that stupid and ignorant?
I won’t even spend a lot of time on this one, because I’ve already covered it in older posts…as have many others, and it’s simply not worth spending much time on it since others are also covering it. Just take the evidence and encourage the media to set the record straight. Start with Ben Smith at POLITICO, who apparently settled for the usual ACORN semantic antics.
Hint to media: just because it doesn’t say “This is ACORN” in giant letters on the front cover doesn’t mean it’s not ACORN. Go to the 527 registrations, IRS records, FEC records and financial reports. I know, it takes a little bit of extra time and work…maybe another 15 minutes extra…but that’s what journalists are supposed to be doing, isn’t it?
Before the White House, Gaspard was National Field Director for America Coming Together (ACT), one of 33 groups that made up the coalition of America Votes (ACT is now defunct due to FEC violations and the use of convicted felons as door-to-door voter registration canvassers for the organization…but you can still view their cached site using the handy WayBackMachine from Alexa).
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“America Coming Together”, one of 33 members of the America Votes coalition:
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America Votes coalition partner, ACORN:
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And then of course, Gaspard was also executive vice president of politics and legislation for Local 1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East. I wrote about this in a prior post, where I discuss all of the internal SEIU connections inside the White House that are in effect lobbying for government run health care, which incidentally would benefit SEIU by expanding its membership pool of health care workers from 2 Million to an exponential number of millions! But that’s a whole other post altogether, and I’d recommend you give it a good read. Not only does it include Gaspard, but how about former SEIU Counsel and ACT/America Votes director John Sullivan, who Obama appointed to the Federal Election Commission? And National Labor Relations Board Appointee Craig Becker, another former SEIU Legal Counsel? Read the full post and look at the big picture – it’s bigger than just Patrick Gaspard. (I’m beginning to think the White House is Purple inside).
Anyway, back to Gaspard… If you also look at SEIU’s and Change to Win’s various filings with the Dept. of Labor and other agencies that detail their expenses, ACORN has been a recipient of payments in return for various organizing activities, including election related work. I hardly think that Gaspard would have no knowledge of such, given that he was running SEIU’s political unit during the same timeframes. SEIU, while an extension of ACORN, also utilizes ACORN as a vendor for GOTV and other political activity services, and Gaspard would have been top of that list as a client at the very least.
You may not find current references of SEIU on ACORN’s website and vice-versa, because they’ve scrubbed them due to negative press. But once again, a quick search using the WayBackMachine will refresh one’s memory.
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And then there’s also the Working Families Party, which is an ACORN political unit that endorses candidates that represent its values and those of its alliance partners. If you don’t quite make the connection, you’ll see they share the same offices and address, as well as the same staff.
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Also, as recently as 2007, Gaspard served on the advisory board of the Center for Working Families, the political and policy strategy umbrella of the Working Families Party / ACORN. In fact, Gaspard sits on the board with Jon Kest, director of national campaigns for ACORN (also known for his entanglement in the ACORN / New York Times / Forest City Ratner / Atlantic Yards scandal and brother of Steve Kest, ACORN National Executive Director).
Just to make sure you see it, here are their names together on the Center for Working Families letterhead, sharing the ACORN address in Brooklyn:
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There’s plenty more to help illustrate the connection between Patrick Gaspard and ACORN and SEIU (and America Votes and America Coming Together and the Working Families Party…) but is it really necessary to pull out every paper connection one can find? There’s enough out there to chew on. And if that’s still not enough, then simply ask anyone who worked for ACORN before Gaspard made the move to the White House. Those in his geographic circle especially – both in ACORN and in SEIU – will tell you he had plenty of connections with ACORN.
You can review some of the ACORN and SEIU financial trails on my “ACORN Money Trail” page. View federal grants to ACORN, government grants to the Tides Foundation that were then donated to ACORN, SEIU expenses on the 2008 Presidential election, campaign donations from ACORN, Working Families Party, and SEIU to middle-man 527 organizations to Barack Obama, and a library of ACORN legal documents and letters.
The Internal Revenue Service has now severed ties with ACORN, stating it would no longer include ACORN in its volunteer tax assistance program, which offered free tax advice to about 3 million low- and moderate-income tax filers this spring. “It is absolutely critical that taxpayers have trust in our Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program partners,” the IRS said in a statement obtained by The Hill. “In light of recent events, the IRS has decided to terminate its relationship with ACORN.” Interestingly, ACORN’s Bertha Lewis insists that it was ACORN who severed the ties, and not the IRS, despite today’s press release from the IRS which states the opposite.
ACORN & Project Vote share this address at 739 8th St SE, Washington, DC
The Director of the U.S Census Bureau has sent a letter to the national headquarters of ACORN, notifying the organization that the census bureau has decided to sever all ties with ACORN. The group will not be permitted to participate in the 2010 census activities.
A copy of the letter has also been delivered to the US Congress. News outlets are awaiting a copy of the letter, and I will post it as soon as it’s available.
This news comes after the breaking stories and videos yesterday and today from James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles, posing as a prostitute and her boyfriend running for Congress, exposing ACORN’s practices of willingly counseling people on how to break the law and cheat the system to obtain housing loans and tax credits.
Employees from ACORN were ultimately fired in both the Baltimore and now the Washington DC offices over the incidents.
Additionally, 11 more workers were arrested this week by the FBI and Florida Police, after being accused of falsifying almost 900 voter registration cards in Miami-Dade County last year. This was just the latest in a string of incidents and filings. It’s still not even the tip of the iceberg in comparison to the shell game ACORN has been playing with taxpayer dollars through “donations” to 527 organizations. Donating or spending funds for partisan causes is illegal for groups like ACORN, which are restricted to non-partisan activities under IRS regulations for groups receiving federal funds and grants. But ACORN seems to have been skirting those rules by apparently funneling those funds instead through 527s organizations, a practice which Congress and the Justice Department have to date refused to investigate. But any average citizen looking at publicly available financial reports would easily draw the conclusion themselves…
Let’s see what Congress does now. Probably nothing. If so, it’s again time for our voices (and votes) to be heard.
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Download PDF of the letter from the Director of the U.S. Census Bureau to ACORN
Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, obtained yesterday a collection of documents and emails – 126 pages worth – detailing exactly what level of involvement ACORN will have in the 2010 Census, and what role a “Partner” for the US Census Bureau plays. It was obtained under threat of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. (Yeah, you go Judicial Watch!!!)
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126-pg document
After I read through all of the documents, I was left more confused than anything. And probably more disturbed than before. The majority of the emails between the Census Bureau employees and other internal agencies indicate that most seem to be less interested in getting to the truth, and far more concerned about
“the need to be able to counter the chorus of critics trying to allege that there is widespread likelihood that census takers could breach the public trust.” (pg 111, Jeri Green, Chief, Census Advisory Committee Office)
Another email, from Kevin Griffis, even seems to imply that there may be some political pressure being placed on Congress members who dare to voice their concerns. In response to the letter that Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama wrote to President Obama on March 20, 2009, Mr. Griffis advised staffers this:
“Seems like there needs to be some political outreach to Shelby’s office. Who does that? Also, let’s make sure to monitor this paper this weekend.”
(The paper referenced is the Huntsville Times of Alabama, which had published a story referencing Shelby’s letter and his concerns).
And then, there’s this email that seems more concerned with perpetuating the myth that any concerns over ACORN are just manufactured by Rush Limbaugh and the Republicans:
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The end result of all this back and forth between staffers and agencies is a single message at which they arrived to provide their employees receiving incoming calls “from angry callers” and for the media (specifically for Fox News, according to their rather biased written gripes, if you asked me). That set of talking points, addressing who’s eligible and who’s not for Census Partners:
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And then, they refer to the points that are provided with the program materials for Census Partners, indicating what roles a partner may play in the US Census. Here is ACORN’s application, indicating the role they will play in the Census:
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The Census Bureau’s official statement on ACORN’s role in the Census:
“Any charge or claim that a Census Bureau partner could influence or have direct input into census operations is baseless and inaccurate. The sole entity that will be conducting the 2010 Census is the U.S. Census Bureau, along with its hundreds of thousands of dedicated workers. Period.
“Further, the Census Bureau has strict quality assurance prcedures in every operation to prevent the introduction of errors and/or fraudulent information into the national count.
The Census Bureau remains committed to producing an accurate 2010 census count–counting everyone once, only once, and in the right place.”
Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid.
(No, I mean it…consider ACORN a group to be fearful of, and they can’t be eligible as a Census Partner)
Well, here are my own personal follow-ups on this:
After reading the documents and seeing the manner in which internal Census Bureau and other agency employees interact with each other in response to a mere Fox News story, I am not encouraged that even the Census employees really understand what the ACORN concerns are all about, nor do they seem to care in the slightest about restoring the confidence of the American people. It’s easily discernable simply from the tone of their official statement above. Any public figure who ends a statement by spelling out the word “period” is being nothing but defensive. Last I checked, the claims were against ACORN, not them. (However, now I wonder…)
While the Census Bureau repeatedly insists that ACORN will have no ability to influence ANYTHING in the Census, the claim seems a bit disingenuous. Any partner, according to their own materials, is asked to, among other things “Encourage employees and constituents to complete and mail their questionnaire…send an endorsement to members, chapters or affiliates…volunteer or participate in Census sponsored events.” By their very nature, these activities put ACORN members and volunteers in contact with those who will be receiving and completing census questionnaires. It gives ACORN the opportunity to speak to those recipients, verbally or in writing. It gives ACORN the opportunity to try and influence the way that recipients should answer their questions. Given that ACORN is publicly running several campaigns to influence the redistricting of several congressional districts in an effort to better influence the outcome of federal funding awards and policy decisions in their favor.
Given that its own employees speak about enforcing “some political outreach” to members of Congress who try to speak out about their concerns with ACORN, I doubt that Congress will make any headway with any investigation of ACORN, whether it’s related to the census or not. So much for the will of The People.
The Census Bureau defines a partner ineligible to participate if it is “a hate group…or if it is a law enforcement, anti-immigration group, or any group that might make people fearful of participating in the census.”
Regarding #4:
First, I’d call ACORN a hate group. Their good intentions have far been overshadowed by the forceful, mob tactics used in programs like “Muscle for the Money” and by the reverse racist rhetoric against any person who is not a minority and questions in any way their fundraising and bookeeping practices.
But more importantly, I will be fearful of participating in the census if any person from ACORN comes to my door, even if only for pre-census counting activities, as the bureau claims. I do not want ACORN at my door, ever. Therefore, I will not participate in the census if ACORN is involved. If that means I’ll need a lawyer, then so be it. Now, to whom must I write my letter???
A library of all supporting documents, plus other records and reports, can be found at: The ACORN Money Trail (also includes records for SEIU, America Votes, Tides Foundation and more)
First, Some Introductory References on Wade Rathke:
What is the structural connection between ACORN, SEIU and the Tides Foundation? And what does it have to do with Barack Obama? First, it appears there’s somehow a *real* connection between organizations, if you start just by looking at Rathke’s own website:
And Now, Let’s Begin the Story
In 2000, Dale Rathke, brother of ACORN founder Wade Rathke, allegedly embezzled $1 million dollars from the ACORN organization. In an effort to help Wade Rathke hide his brother’s crime and keep the scandal a secret, Tides Foundation founder and Rathke’s fellow board member, Drummond Pike, is alleged to have funneled nearly $1 million dollars to ACORN through a front/subsidiary that was titled “Citizens Consulting Inc.” (which is also commonly known as “Citizens Services Inc.”). Pike later admitted to reporters that he was in fact the secret donor, indicating he did so to try and protect the integrity of the organization.
It is interesting to note here that Citizens Consulting Inc., (aka Citizens Services Inc. – CSI) will become headlines again during the 2008 Presidential election for Obama and the subject of a Congressional hearing.
Read the 118 page package of court documents filed in “ACORN vs. Rathke”, which includes the ensuing battle between Marcel Reid, Karen Inman, two members attempting the protect and preserve the financial records so they could be openly audited, and the other ACORN board members, whose interest lies solely with keeping said financial records closed, which to most would imply a potential cover-up. The complaint deals specifically with the legal request for the books of Citizens Consulting Inc. (CCI) to be made publicly available to assigned auditors, to review an unauthorized payment schedule for Dale Rathke, and an “anonymous” donor payment made to CCI / ACORN for about $800,000 of the remaining embezzlement debt. Marcel Reid, Karen Inman, and an additional insider, Anita MonCrief (later in this post) continue to fight to this day to try and have these books opened and the organization investigated once and for all, so that perhaps it can start anew someday without the corruption that they believe has poisoned its true mission.
Below are some of the connections that help visually tie some of the money, the power, and the “fronts” together. Larger maps are available by clicking on the images; interactive maps are available from muckety.com.
Check out the bonus association maps at the end of this post. This is turning into “Six Degrees of Separation for Socialists”.
**Go to www.muckety.com to create your own interactive association maps.**
The New York Times had then reported that the Tides Foundation has provided more than $400 million dollars since 2000 to various far left outlets, a good portion of that to ACORN affiliates alone. The Tides funds come partially from federal grants, as well as elite donors like George Soros, Theresa Heinz Kerry, and The New World Foundation. At that time, Tides stated that Drummond Pike was on a “leave of absence” from their board; but shortly thereafter, they established an office in CA at The Presidio with George Soros’ friends, Democracy Alliance – Drummond Pike, Treasurer and Anna Burger, Vice-Chair. The Tides Foundation had also insisted that none of their money ever went to ACORN.
However, those claims of not having ever provided any money to ACORN aren’t exactly true, even if you exclude the Drummond Pike “donation”. Right in plain sight on the Tides Foundation website are some of their prior Grantee lists. These are grants made up of primarily federal government dollars, some of which are then given to ACORN affiliates. Here is just a sampling of some of the ACORN grants indicated in those very lists from the Tides Foundation:
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE MONEY TRAIL – FINANCIAL RECORDS, REPORTS, COURT FILINGS
Fast forward a few years and there had been reports in 2008 that Obama himself had paid a very large sum of money to Citizens Services Inc. during his campaign. It was brought to light when an expenditure of nearly $900,000 by Barack Obama was reported to the Federal Elections Committee (FEC) for “sound & lighting equipment”, but was later officially amended after public attention and scrutiny was called to the expense and Obama had initially indicated it was recorded that way “in error”.
Despite the story having broken the news on a few occasions (originally researched by a blogger, msplaceddemocrat.com), including on Greta Van Susteren at Fox News, and in the Pittsburgh Tribune and The New York Times, it has always seemed to quiet down as quickly as it appeared.
Things seemed to get even odder the more that researchers, bloggers, reporters, and even just general American citizens started to try and make their own sense out of the connections. The twists and turns and number of names involved was just overwhelming and confusing. But one thing always stuck out like a sore thumb. One address:
1024 Elysian Fields Ave
New Orleans, LA
70117-8402
Phone: 504-943-5954
Noticeably, these are some of the other companies registered at the same address; some even sharing the same staff names, all registered under Wade Rathke or some other known ACORN affiliation:
A. Corn
Acorn Community Labor Organizing Center
Acorn Community Land Association
Acorn Housing Corp Of Illinois
Acorn in New Orleans
Acorn Institute
Acorn National Broadcasting Network
ACORN NATIONAL CALL
Acorn Tenants Union
Action Research
Affiliated Media Foundation
AFFILIATED MEDIA FOUNDATION MOVEMENT
American Environmental Justice Project Inc
American Home Day Care Workers Association
AMFM, T
Arkansas Institute for Social Justice
Citizens Consulting Inc.
Citizens Services Inc.
Dale Rathke
Gregory Fitch
Institute for Social Justice Inc.
JOANNE ACORN
Labor Link
LEE, MARIE A
LITTLE, ROCK NEW
Missouri, Tax J
PERC Express Reserve
Phoenix Organizing and Support Center, Inc.
Project Vote
PUGH, LITTLE ROC
Service Employees Intl Union
STREET, F
TAX J MISSOURI
Voting for America
Wal-Mart (yes, really…)
Wal-Mart Organizing Project
WHIPPLE, WILLIAM
^ Not exactly a HUGE office park type of building that would house dozens of different companies…
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE MONEY TRAIL – FINANCIAL RECORDS, REPORTS, COURT FILINGS
But by March of 2009 if would finally begin to make a little bit of sense, as hushed chatter of the New York Times burying a big ACORN-Obama story during the election became, well, not so hushed anymore. Much of this is sort of “old news” now, but someone still needs to go back and and tie up the old connections & money trail with the new ones. Stimulus cash is going to many of these ACORN affiliates. And since there are legal investigations underway in several states, like the one that follows here, the cash doesn’t usually go directly to ACORN. In fact, ACORN will repeatedly insist they are getting no cash directly from the Obama administration. And so they wouldn’t be lying, not quite.
One needs to go back to 2000 and earlier to tie together the money trails of past and present.
Up On Capitol Hill
Then, there was public testimony on the complaint filed by HEATHER S. HEIDELBAUGH, ESQUIRE, who on October 29, 2008, had “represented a candidate, voters and the Republican State Committee of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in a preliminary injunction before the Commonwealth Court in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania against ACORN and The Secretary of the Commonwealth. The Complaint alleged violations of the Pennsylvania Election code, Fraud and Misrepresentation and Violation of Equal Protection and Due Process.”
On March 19, 2009, Ms. Heidelbaugh testified on Capitol Hill to members of the House Judiciary sub-committee about the complaint and her concerns regarding ACORN, as well as concerns relating to a potential cover-up by some of the media.
Ms. Heidelbaugh testified that she’d worked with an informant/witness by the name of Ms. Anita Moncrief ,who apparently came forward with pertinent information related to the Obama Presidential campaign and its practices, primarily through its connections to ACORN and some of its subsidiaries. It has been publicly acknowledged by Ms. Heidelbaugh that Ms. Moncrief was fired from ACORN for charging some of her personal moving expenses to her company credit card; Ms. Heidelbaugh and others still found her to be credible and without prejudice.
Ms. Heidelbaugh’s testimony included the following:
“…she [Ms. Moncrief] informed me that she had been a confidential informant for several months to the New York Times Reporter, Stephanie Strom, who had been writing articles about ACORN based on the information that she had provided.[page 81, lines 18-25] [Ms. Strom wrote the following articles about Acorn from July 9, 2008 to October 21, 2008: 1.) ‘Funds Misappropriated at 2 Nonprofit Groups’ July 9, 2008; 2.) ‘Head of Foundation Bailed Out Nonprofit Group After Is Funds Were Embezzled’ August 16, 2008; 3.)’Lawsuit Add to Turmoil for Community Group’ September 9, 2008; 4.) ‘On Obama, ACORN and Voter Registration’ October 10, 2008; 5.) ‘ACORN Working on Deal to Sever Ties with Founder’ October 15, 2008; and 6.) ‘ACORN Report Raises Issues of Legality’ October 21, 2008.] The New York Times articles stopped when Ms. Moncrief, who is a Democrat and a supporter of the President, revealed that the Obama Presidential Campaign had sent its maxed out donor list to Karen Gillette of the Washington, DC ACORN office and asked Gillette and Ms. Moncrief to reach out to the maxed out donors and solicit donations from them for Get Out the Vote efforts to be run by ACORN. Upon learning this information and receiving the list of donors from the Obama Campaign, Ms. Strom reported to Ms. Moncrief that her editors at the New York Times wanted her to kill the story because, and I quote, “it was a game changer”. That’s when Ms. Moncrief telephoned me on October 21, 2008. Ms. Strom never wrote another article about ACORN for the New York Times for the remainder of the period before Election Day, i.e. November 4, 2008.”
Ms. Moncrief further provided written testimony stating that
“There was active cooperation between ACORN’s political wing and Project Vote…[They] basically had the same staff. Nathan Henderson James was the strategic writing and research department…director of ACORN and he was the research director of Project Vote. Zach [Polett] was the executive director of Project Vote and the executive director of ACORN political. All of the organizations and the entities worked together. We shared the same space.” Further, Ms. Moncrief testified: “…there’s no real separation between the organizations for real. So when you have the same people that are working, that are—like, I was getting paid through Project Vote’s checkbook, but I was working on ACORN stuff. I even did PowerPoints during the midterm elections for Jeffrey Robinson where they were like, okay, don’t vote for Albert Win (ph) or vote for this person. And they had doorknob – door hangers that they would go and put on people’s doors, and we turned this into a PowerPoint presentation. So there was never any division between the staff where you would say, okay, this is (2)(3) stuff and this (c)(4) stuff. It was just—I don’t want to say business as usual, but it was a lot of collaboration between the organizations.” [page 89, lines 21-25, page 90 1-25, page 91, lines 1-3].
Ms. Moncrief also continued in written testimony, [page 25, line 10 et seq.]
“…ACORN is a member organization. It has…the national branch. But…the local offices…try to be self sustaining…when I was working in the DC office, I would hear all the time, if we don’t increase our membership, we won’t meet payroll…[The] money in the accounts for the local offices was determined by how many members they had on bank drafts or that they were going out in the community and collecting money from.” ACORN, however, also has many affiliate organizations with whom it associates and for which the legal relationship to is unclear. Ms. Moncrief testified [page 26, line 4] “the number [of affiliates] changes all the time. To the best of my knowledge, it’s got to be at least over 170. The last number I heard was 176, but its constantly changing.” ACORN refers to its affiliates as “the council of organizations.” [page 26, line 10-11]. In addition to the affiliates, there are state ACORN’s and city branches of ACORN. Ms Moncrief testified [page 26, line 17-23]: “Well, often they say ‘state ACORN,’ its more like we’re represented in let’s say Pennsylvania and then they’ll have three or four off-shoot offices, depending on the counties or where there’s the most population.”
‘ACORN and Project Vote targeted particular individuals and entities to solicit donations. [page 58, line 20]. These included: 1.) maxed out presidential donors; 2.) the billionaires club i.e. Herb Sandler, the Rockefellers; and 3.) the millionaires club i.e. Patricia Bowman, the Bowman Foundation, Wellspring, and Sykes. The donor list from the Obama Campaign that was provided to ACORN/Project Vote was admitted into evidence during the Injunction hearing.’
On March 13th, 2009, Anita MonCrief herself authored a very interesting blog post, which discusses her inside experiences with what she perceived to be as blatant manipulation of the system. She discusses issues regarding ACORN’s role in the sub-prime mortgage crisis, and the tactics used by the organization to shake down lenders and other financial institutions. Also discussed are the organization’s strategic goals to place ACORN at the center of driving major social change in the United States through citizen participation. Not only are these objectives clearly outlined in documents that Ms. Moncrief has seen herself, but there are a multitude of sources available online in public records and search engines that confirm Ms. Moncrief’s claims. Presentations given by union organizations like AFL-CIO and SEIU, as well as union activist groups like “Jobs with Justice”, consistently push talking points that promote socializing America by way of organizing unions, low-income and minority groups into big political buying power brokers.
“By growing the number of people who can join or form unions (over 60 million workers say they would join a union if they could), workers will be able to organize politically in drastically larger numbers…” –Jobs with Justice “People’s Bailout” Organizing ToolKit
ACORN & Project Vote share this address
739 8th Street, SE Suite 202, washington dc
At union conventions, leaders like Anna Burger and Andy Stern frequently discuss their plans to significantly increase union membership and to work with ACORN and other partners to create a sheer force of political power large enough to influence the political leaders elected to office. They teach members to despise the term “free markets” – a founding principle of this nation’s very fiber and our Constitution. They discuss plans to “squeeze the corporate elite”, to “kill capitalism” and to “turn America back over to its rightful owners: our hard working union employees”. They also mention popular political platforms through which to leverage a chance to change their job market and unionizing opportunities, such as their plan to create green certification programs through which only union workers would get certified, thereby taking over those job opportunities and forcing corporations to either hire certified green union workers, or allow existing employees to unionize so they can become certified.
And ACORN executives are frequently all over the Internet and out in our own communities acknowledging their plans to work with America’s largest donors – the same donors on their “Obama donors list” – to change the face of America as history has known it.
After posting some interesting internal ACORN memos from Zach Polett and other ACORN executives, Anita Moncrief has been accused by Project Vote and ACORN of falsifying such information. But really, there is so much out there in the realm of public records and diligent research to prove such claims – with or without Ms. Moncrief’s memos. So I don’t think Project Vote and ACORN can really blame this entirely on her. You can find the same evidence in transcripts and videos of SEIU conventions, old ACORN end of year reports, and presentations given at annual meetings.
Interestingly, after Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) publicly called for an investigation into ACORN, he quickly backed off after Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY), in a snippy tone, said he would do so only “if I ever hear ANY credible allegations”. Credible allegations? You’re kidding me, right? What else does this man need? Do we need to truck in some Teamsters union members, who are carrying in their arms some SEIU workers, who live in ACORN homes furnished by their $0 down payment “grant program” courtesy of Congress, that were financed through Fannie Mae? Oh wait, that’s right, Anna Burger is President Obama’s econmic adviser now. So none of them has to answer to anything, ever again, it would seem.
Also view the ACORN MONEY TRAIL– FINANCIAL RECORDS, REPORTS, COURT FILINGS, CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION REPORTS that are supporting documents for these posts.
ACORN
ACORN Whistleblower
dale rathke
wade rathke
SEIU
tides foundation
Drummond Pike
Heather Heidelbaugh
Anita Moncrief
Stephanie Strom
Citizens Services Inc
Citizens Consulting Inc
FEC
1024 Elysian Fields
Affiliated Media Foundation
American Environmental Justice Project
American Home Day Care Workers Association
Institute for Social Justice
Labor Link
Muscle for the Money
Project Vote
Get Out the Vote
Karen Gillette
nathan henderson james
zach polett
health care for america now
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