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ACORN Exposed
Just the latest in a long series of indecencies.
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After Reid was booted out, Katzenberg became head organizer for Maryland and D.C. He was a key campaign official for Rep. Donna Edwards (D-Maryland) and ACORN Maryland went all-out last year to get Edwards elected.
It is also unclear why national ACORN officials such as chief organizer and CEO Bertha Lewis have gotten involved in spin-doctoring this latest corruption crisis. ACORN frequently likes to point out that ACORN Housing, which has taken in tens of millions of dollars in government grants, is a separate and distinct legal entity.
But that wasn't the end of ACORN's worst public relations week ever.
In addition to ACORN's underage illegal alien sex slave scandals, the U.S. Census Bureau announced Friday it was severing ties with ACORN regarding next year's decennial census. Census Director Robert M. Groves sent a letter to ACORN national president Maude Hurd explaining that "ACORN's affiliation with 2010 Census promotion has caused sufficient concern in the general public, has indeed become a distraction from our mission, and may even become a discouragement to public cooperation, negatively impacting 2010 Census efforts."
Employing polite euphemism, Groves wrote that "recent events concerning several local offices of ACORN have added to the worsening negative perceptions of ACORN and its affiliation with our partnership efforts." Officials at the Census Bureau "no longer have confidence that our national partnership agreement is being effectively managed through your many local offices."
Just months earlier former ACORN organizer Gregory Hall warned of the dangers of allowing the group to be involved in the upcoming census while the Obama administration lied about the extent of ACORN's involvement in next year's national head count.
The administration had said the idea ACORN would be involved in any Census count was "baseless." A response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed by Judicial Watch revealed that ACORN was given the opportunity to "recruit Census workers" to participate in the count and "organize and/or serve as a member on a Complete Count Committee," which, according to Census documents, helps "develop and implement locally based outreach and recruitment campaigns."
Next it was revealed that ACORN founder Wade Rathke didn't have a problem with domestic terrorists trying to kill delegates at the Republican Party's national convention in 2008, according to former radical community organizer Brandon Darby.
After Darby worked with the FBI to stop a left-wing terrorist bomb plot at the RNC convention in Minnesota, Rathke denounced him for breaking the radicals' code of silence. In January Rathke suggested on his blog that it's better to let innocents die than squeal on your comrades in the struggle. It's "one thing to disagree, but it's a whole different thing to rat on folks," wrote the former organizer for the ultra-left Students for a Democratic Society, the same group that gave birth to Bill Ayers's Weather Underground.
This is the same Wade Rathke who orchestrated an eight-year coverup of his brother's nearly $1 million embezzlement of ACORN funds. When that conspiracy was unearthed last summer, Rathke was given the bum's rush from the organization he founded in 1970. He remains unapologetic about the scandal, claiming that if it had been disclosed when it happened the "right wing" would have used it to discredit ACORN.
As an added bonus, ACORN's name was thrown about as an epithet by speakers and other participants at the 9/12 national tea party rally outside the U.S. Capitol on Saturday.
Who knows what the coming weeks will bring.
About the Author
Matthew Vadum is an award-winning investigative journalist at a conservative watchdog group in Washington, D.C. Vadum is also author of Subversion Inc: How Obama's ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers.
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melvin| 9.14.09 @ 7:48AM
"Employing polite euphemism, Groves wrote that "recent events concerning several local offices of ACORN have added to the worsening negative perceptions of ACORN."
Ever since this organizations inception, there has never been a positive.
ACORN in-itself is not designed to be positive but to disrupt and attack how can you ever have a positive from guerrilla political warfare?
Deborah D| 9.14.09 @ 7:54AM
God bless those two brave young people. They show the guts "normal" journalists do not in taking on an Obama organization. Let's hope their work will embarrass the "mainstream" media into doing something to help rather than hinder the country (okay, stop laughing).
Thanks for your continued attention to this disgusting criminal organization that seems to thrive on the chaos they intentionally create. (Hmmm...sounds like Cloward-Piven, doesn't it?)
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Uh-oh, this morning they've added New York to their Baltimore and DC exposes.
http://biggovernment.com/2009/.....w-york-ny/
Great work, Hannah Giles and James O’Keefe. And thanks to Glenn Beck and Andrew Breitbart for trumpeting these successes.
GringoBob| 9.14.09 @ 8:35AM
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Charles Hendrix| 9.14.09 @ 8:39AM
Acorn should be infiltrated by the FBI like the KKK was and either cleared or convicted of illegal activity.
GA Charles | 9.14.09 @ 8:40AM
Acorn should be infiltrated by the FBI like the KKK was and either cleared or convicted of illegal activity.
William| 9.14.09 @ 8:44AM
Three time with the same sting.
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Smart people. A vital organization. No wonder billions of tax dollars are awarded to such a sterling intellectual and civic minded powerhouse.
Ken (Old Texican)| 9.14.09 @ 8:59AM
UH, Charles, The FBI won't get involved as long as Attorney General Holder is their boss....and Obama is HIS boss. Duh!
Look, ACORN is a classic "communist cell" set-up.
The will blow off any cells that get caught and move right on...get it........... moveon.
In today's "liberals' "America, the "proletariat" is defined as "people of color"...as in "dictatorship of the proletariat".
I am very sad for the wonderful people of color who are splashed with this dung.
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stephanie| 9.14.09 @ 9:02AM
WHERE ARE THE INVESTIGATIONS!
WHERE ARE THE HEARINGS!
WERE ARE THE PROCSECUTIONS!
AND WHERE IS THE MSM REPORTING THIS!
they can ignore we that marched on DC on Saturday, but how can they ignore this? will barry be lost without his thug org. to get his illegal votes? One termer barry, one termer
Louis Jenkins| 9.14.09 @ 9:06AM
"When ACORN learned of the video Thursday it fired the workers, called Fox News racist for airing the footage, and threatened a lawsuit."
The new Left Wing Political Slogan: "Racist!" The truth is supposed to cower in fear, make the sign of the Cross, and beg forgiveness? The stigmata of being branded a Racist will soon be a badge of honor at this rate, or the term will become meaningless, which it already may be.
William| 9.14.09 @ 9:55AM
"I am very sad for the wonderful people of color who are splashed with this dung."
The 3% who did not vote for BHO?
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Ken (Old Texican)| 9.14.09 @ 11:29AM
Yeah, William, I must forgive any person of color who voted for him. Heck, if I were black and did not recognize him as a RED, I might have voted for him too. (sigh)
tj| 9.14.09 @ 12:15PM
We need to picket the
offices of the commie media and demand they tell the truth.... Acorn did it to the bank so lets us Alinsky rules against them and bring them down... they are already tanking... so maybe a "Nudge" in right direction!!!
metakid| 9.14.09 @ 12:26PM
I agree with Stephanie. Where are the prosecutions? Shouldn't something be done about this if ACORN is truly wrong - and I think they are. An audit or a suspension maybe? Or maybe a cut to federal funding. http://www.newsy.com/videos/backed_into_acorner. The film makers gathered enough for a trilogy. Twice might be a coincidence, but thrice?
Adam Smith| 9.14.09 @ 1:07PM
Too bad they were not members of The Black Panther hate group. They would be given a Presidential Medal of Freedom if this was some sleazy scam by the Republicans to throw elections & change the nations demographics (stacked with illegals) to increase Republican voter roles.
Dixie Pixie| 9.14.09 @ 1:11PM
Have you considered that the MSM does not consider criminal activity by any liberal organization as “News” as the MSM knows the “Activist Groups” are thinly disguised criminal gangs. The Robin Hood mystic is alive and well in the MSM. So to be loved by the MSM all a organization needs to do is claim to give to the poor. No MSM personal will have the bad taste to look at the books to find out if the poor receive anything. The Liberalism does not care about criminal activity as long as the public front looks good.
Angel| 9.14.09 @ 1:35PM
"Who knows what the coming weeks will bring." Nice cliffhanger, Matt.
You know something we don't?
S.L. Toddard| 9.14.09 @ 1:40PM
I pray that Barry HUSSEIN Obama, the Kenyan Marxist Manchurian Nazi From Kenya, doesn't put ACORN in charge of the death panels or he may sentence our grandparents to death-by-prostitution.
In all seriousness, that is a very, very likely outcome. You may find that one day Grandma goes into the hospital with a cough, and some ACORN flunkie sentences her to Life At The Bunny Ranch. It is almost guaranteed to happen, actually. Unless we TAKE BACK OUR FREEDOMS by watching and listening to Talk Shows Of Freedom and then shrieking the things we're told to shriek, loudly and hysterically.
And if we don't? Well, if we don't then Grandma will end up in fishnets and blue-eye-shadow, like DeeDee McCall on Hunter, when she used to go undercover. Except this time it will be a communist ACORN brothel, and the Madame will be - you guessed it! - Michelle STALIN Obamitler.
Oldefarte| 9.14.09 @ 1:56PM
Regardless of what this corrupt organization has done, the federal government's funding [$millions] of this highly partisan, thuggish/mafiosoish collection of welfare recipients should be stopped immediately!!!!!
S.L. Toddard| 9.14.09 @ 2:00PM
"Regardless of what this corrupt organization has done, the federal government's funding [$millions] of this highly partisan, thuggish/mafiosoish collection of welfare recipients should be stopped immediately!!!!!"
Exactly!!! Oldefarte - how old are you? Are you a grand-dad? If so, get ready for ACORN-powered death-panels to send you to some Turkish Bath House in San Fransisco to get dressed up in leather and earn your keep. This WILL happen - GUARANTEED or at least it WILL happen if we don't TAKE BACK OUR FREEDOMS from Bar-rick Springfield Obamengele!!!
Marc Jeric| 9.14.09 @ 2:34PM
Community organizations in the defunct USSR were known as local soviets; they got organized into city-wide soviets, then county, state, and finally onto the Central Committee of the Communist Party. ACORN brown shirts are getting $8.5 billion from the Obama's stimulus bill - well, he is after all our Community Organizer-in-Chief. We have living in this country literally millions of refugees from the communist hell - why don't the Americans ask them about what exactly ACORN is doing?
Doorgunner| 9.14.09 @ 2:36PM
You are so right, Slimy Loon Toadard. Any investigationion of repeatedly demonstrated corrupt organization is just like questioning Our Dear Leader's Altruistic-On-High Health-Care Motives. I'm with you my pasty, little white brother! Do these fools not comprehend their Afro-Orientalist transgressions!! We must SMASH them with MOCKERY.
Because, even though "we have the numbers", we're still pussies.
Nobama| 9.14.09 @ 4:00PM
Hmmmm. SLTurddard smells just like LibReader/Jeremiah. Could the little fascist liberal troll be posting under different handles?
Both support sex slavery trafficking of 13 year old girls.
Does anyone else find it ironic that liberal black women from ACORN are shown actively aiding and abetting sexual SLAVERY? Man, how the worm turns. You'd think those women would be the first to object to SLAVERY.
Guess not; now they're slaves to money and power--like all liberals.
And just think; these people are running our government, including our national security right now.
Don't you feel safe from terrorism?
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T.W.| 9.14.09 @ 5:46PM
It's my understanding that ACORN HOUSING management is telling their employees that the recent events is not hurting their funding and that HUD, NEIGHBORWORKS, CITI, BANK OF AMERICA AND OTHER FUNDING SOURCES FULLY SUPPORT THEM! WHEN IS SOMEONE GOING TO INVESTIGATE THEIR PRACTICE OF ALLOWING UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS TO USE SOCIAL'S THAT DO NOT BELONG TO THEM STATING THEY JUST WORK UNDER THAT SOCIAL. IT'S APPAULING THAT THESE PEOPLE CONTINUE TO GET OUR TAX DOLLARS!
Michael Tomlinson| 9.14.09 @ 6:16PM
Ken is right ACORN smells of dung. One wonders how soon the stench will cling to its favorite son and community organizer - Barack Hussein Obama? Of course, a corrupt Chicago Democrat politician Obama may really be the Teflon President, but we can hope otherwise.
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