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A Further Perspective
ACORN Visits Obama White House
New evidence also reveals that it lobbies the Justice Department to prevent voter fraud enforcement.
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In a 1983 article titled “Toward a Class-Based Realignment of American Politics: A Movement Strategy,” that ran in ACORN’s magazine, Social Policy, the Marxist duo said “massive numbers of new voters” had to be registered in order to bring “fundamental change” to the nation.
Meanwhile, in addition to collaborating with DOJ officials, Rogers also visited the White House on March 2, 2011, according to the White House visitors database. During that visit she met with Shasti Conrad, a senior aide to Obama uber-adviser Valerie Jarrett, and Jon Carson, director of the White House Office of Public Engagement. Carson was previously chief of staff at the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) serving under Van Jones, the self-described communist who was known as Obama’s green jobs czar.
Separately, a group of seven individuals visited the White House on March 22, 2011, meeting with White House policy assistant David Pope. They are Brian Kettenring, Darlene D. Battle, Steven Fletcher, Leigh Dingerson, Charese Jordan Moore, Aaron Brown, and Darren Browning.
At press time the professional and political affiliations of Brown and Browning were unclear.
However, Kettenring was deputy director of national operations for ACORN, working for the group from 1995 to 2009.
Battle was head organizer for ACORN in Philadelphia. She is now executive director of Delawareans for Social and Economic Justice (DSEJ), one of two dozen new ACORN front groups that have sprung up around the nation. ACORN, the shell corporation that ran ACORN’s network of 370 affiliated groups, filed bankruptcy in November 2010 after ordering its state chapters to incorporate themselves separately in order to carry on ACORN’s work. Two of ACORN’s new front groups, Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, and New York Communities for Change, have been deeply involved in organizing and financing the radical Occupy Wall Street movement.
White House visitor Fletcher is the former head organizer for ACORN in Minnesota. He is now executive director of Minnesota Neighborhoods Organizing for Change (MNNOC), another new ACORN front group. MNNOC denies any connection to ACORN but the facts suggest otherwise.
According to Judicial Watch research, MNNOC’s chairman of the board is Sunday Alabi. Alabi, who has been involved with ACORN since at least 2000, was also a member of the board of directors of ACORN-affiliated Citizens Services Inc., the company the Obama campaign paid $832,598 to 2008 to work against then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
Billie Jean Campbell, who was co-chairman of East St. Paul ACORN, and Steve Nelson, who was the Minneapolis northside ACORN chapter leader, are members of MNNOC’s board. Peter Molenaar, who was Minnesota ACORN chairman, and Sherman Wilburn, who was Minnesota ACORN board chairman, are MNNOC officers.
White House visitor Dingerson worked as a community organizer with ACORN between 1978 and 1982.
White House visitor Moore, who is director of Communities for Excellent Public Schools, does not appear to be affiliated with ACORN. She was, however, deputy director at Interfaith Worker Justice (IWJ), a network of Saul Alinsky-inspired activist groups. When IWJ was created in 1996, Roman Catholic Monsignor John J. “Jack” Egan was on the founding board of directors. The socialist priest, who died in 2001, worked closely with Rules for Radicals author Alinsky, who died in 1972. IWJ founder Kim Bobo was a trainer for the Midwest Academy, a school for training radical community organizers. IWF has close ties to the AFL-CIO. Arlene Holt-Baker, executive vice president of AFL-CIO, is on the IWF board.
It is unclear what the seven visitors discussed with Pope, but it seems a safe bet that the Motor-Voter law came up.
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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Brian Mc| 12.8.11 @ 7:17AM
A quick fix to this issue would be rather than a voter registration card, all those wishing to cast a vote must provide a copy of the previous year's 1040. I tend to be rather cruel in such matters. If I fail to buy stock in a given corporation what right would I have to show up and demand a vote at the next board meeting?
George S| 12.8.11 @ 4:58PM
Why go through all that trouble? Just bring to the voting booth the same ID they use to cash their SSI checks.
bill| 12.8.11 @ 8:16AM
De-fund ACORN, and indict people who worked for ACORN, and committed waste, fraud, abuse of taxpayers money.
jan| 12.8.11 @ 5:48PM
Amen Bill, that also includes the muslim usurper liar in chief.
PR| 12.9.11 @ 4:20PM
Hahaha...they tried that didnt they? Said they did...hmmmm....what have i missed here? SSDD...biz as usual. They have no greater calling than to rig the upcoming election once again.
We were supposed to have stopped funding them..they changed their name..imagine that.
Planned Parenthood...same ol same ol...
Is there nothing or anyone who can stop this madness? It does no good to yell and scream about it.....how in the heck are we gonna kick this vermin out of OUR house in the next election?
Timothy L. Pennell| 12.8.11 @ 9:13AM
Everything they're doing is Cloward and Piven. They are OVERWHELMING THE SYSTEM. That IS Cloward and Piven.
The Justice department is CORRUPTED. It doesn't serve the People. And, unless you're Black, it does not Administer Justice.
There is an ENEMY OF THE STATE in the Oval Office. i wonder what it's gonna take, for the Secret Service to PUT AN END to all of this? One City in Flames? Two? Three? How many DEAD, from the inevitable RIOTS that will come Next Year, when the Domestic Enemy's "ARMY" takes to the Streets, is it gonna take, before the Secret Service HONOURS ITS' OATH to the Constitution?
I guess the answer is: We shall see.
CrackerHound| 12.8.11 @ 12:25PM
Matthew Vadum:"Leaders of the resurrected radical group ACORN are lobbying the Obama administration in what appears to be a concerted effort to game the electoral system to help Democrats, new evidence suggests."
Nothing to see here, move along.
Our democracy is not under attack by radical communist/marxists who seek to do away with the electoral process and submerge the nation into chaos and then totalitarian enslavement.....yea right.
SUBVET| 12.9.11 @ 11:52AM
Where's the closest FEMA CAMP.
Anthony| 12.8.11 @ 9:40AM
The Justice Department under Holder is the most corrupt in American history.
Holder and his cronies will insure that the 2012 election is stolen for Obozo because it is clear Obozo will lose to any R.
Obozo gave up the ghost when he and his campaign goons wrote off the white working class.
Holder's charge is to replace those lost votes by any means possible.
Besides, Holder has his own ass to save. If the Rs do win the presidency, I hope Holder will be indicted as an assessory to murder for the death of the border agent as a result of Fast & Furious.
Of course, if Obozo does lose, watch what presidential pardons the Muslim Marxist hands out, including one for himself.
Things are going to get real messy after Nov. 6th.
pineapple| 12.8.11 @ 10:14AM
Not to worry. On Jan 13 2013 a "real American President" will be inaugurated.
TrueBlue| 12.9.11 @ 11:23AM
Assuming we don't have pre-staged riots and martial law...
Ken (Old Texican)| 12.8.11 @ 10:58AM
Ladies and gentlemen,
The thing that irks me most is the number of “good Americans” who sat out the last Presidential election. You sat on your fat butts and allowed these communists to take over our government!
That brings me to today.
Every time I read one of your posts about who you will NOT vote for, either sitting this next election out…or writing in…or throwing your vote away in a third party…I get very ill.
Then I get very angry all over again. We non-communists must have ONE goal. Out-vote the communists and fraudulent votes in a landslide.
I don’t give a damn if the last Republican standing is an idiot. He or she will at least be an innocent idiot, and we won’t have another chance to replace the growing power of our communists.
Speaking of the “last Republican standing”, we had better go back to Reagan’s ELEVENTH COMMANDMENT and Quit killing off our candidates.
Look, knot-heads, support who-ever you respect the most during the primaries, but commit here and now to vote ANYBODY BUT OBAMA! Next November.
We still outnumber the communists and the “takers” by a pretty good margin.
The future of our country will be decided with ballots next fall…or bullets. Bullets fly in both directions.
Please!
Get your heads out of your butts.
Look…even if Ron Paul out of some cosmic irony becomes our nominee, I will get off my butt and vote for the dumb sonofabitch. He is as dumb as dirt, but he ain’t a communist!
Best regards
bobmontgomery| 12.8.11 @ 12:09PM
On TV these days, where there is mass viewership and drama and visuals, this gets no coverage these days, because Beck and Breitbart have been dissed by the center-right (what little there is) media, and because Newscorp has been threatened by Eric Holder.
TrueBlue| 12.9.11 @ 11:25AM
Irony of the Dems going after Newscorp... if you look at the financial records of the parent company and all of their subsidieries you'll notice they have given around twice as much to various liberal causes and Democrat campaign funds as they have to the other side.
Owen K.| 12.8.11 @ 1:19PM
How appropriate that the adopted colors for ACORN are red.
Anthony| 12.8.11 @ 2:17PM
Fast and Furious has heated up folks. Apparently CBS News, (who would have guessed) has revealed memos that Obozo and Holder intended F &F to become an assault on the 2nd Amendment, (as many of us had opined in the past), by putting a policy into effect that would result in guns being obtained & used by the cartels to cause death and injury.
Rep. Sensenbrenner has involked the "I" word for the 1st time during Holder's hearings, that being Impeachment.
We need to nudge our timid R leaders and Radio Talk Show hosts into involking the other "I" word. Indictment.
I'll make it simple for them to make the case. Obozo & Holder are guilty as accessories to murder. What they did, by putting into place a scheme that would allow Mexican drug lords to gain access to American weapons, is no different than a person handing over the keys to a car to an intoxicated person and allowing that person to drive off.
It is forseeable, indeed in Obozo's & Holder's case, an intended forseeability, that these weapons in the hands of drug lords would result in human deaths.
One does not need to have a specific person in mind to suffer the consequences in order to be an assessory to that death as a result of setting the wheels into motion.
If the drunk driver kills a person, the person who handed over the keys, knowing the possibility of this happening, is culpable.
Same with Obozo and Holder; by setting this program into place, they knew these weapons would end up in the hands of killers and cause deaths, including that of an American Border Patrol Agent.
Obozo and Holder must be indicted NOW.
Mike Hawk| 12.8.11 @ 2:43PM
Once again, Rush was right. Soooo right.
Sterling Abernathy| 12.8.11 @ 2:56PM
Why fight so hard to ward off efforts to stem voter fraud, if the intention isn't fraud, hmmm??? I say run the RICO act up their keisters sometime after 6 Nov. 2012!!!
David| 12.8.11 @ 3:09PM
This people were exposed as criminals a couple of years ago and no one cared enough then to do anything about it. ACORN should have been run out of town. Had it been a Republican-sided group it would have.
Nite| 12.8.11 @ 8:05PM
This is the most corrupt White House and his minions EVER! It is clear they are prepared to engage in voter fraud again this election cycle unless they are somehow stopped. Voter ID will help. They will also prevent the Military from getting ballots on time as usual.
POST American| 12.8.11 @ 9:58PM
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Al Barrs | 12.9.11 @ 7:50AM
Nothing has changed ACORN's chief Community Organizer will pull out all the unconstitutional and illegal stops to win the 2012 election. This campaign period, once a Republican candidate is elected, will get even dirtier than it is now. Already ObamaACORN operatives are attempting to manage the Republican nomination process so Obama will have the weakest Republican candidate in the 2012 general election. They should be put on notice that attempting to seal or derail an election in the U.S.A. will be arrested, put on trial and if found guilty by the people, put in prison for a very long time. This is the only way to prevent an armed revolt in the U.S. If our election process fails there will be nothing left for the people to claim justice was done.
irish19| 12.9.11 @ 10:16AM
"This campaign period, once a Republican candidate is elected, will get even dirtier than it is now."
All the more reason to hope the nomination is decided at the convention and not before.
PR| 12.9.11 @ 4:27PM
Yup...and with one goal in mind. KEEP the doors open honey!! We the people need to take our country back. Im afraid that any manufactured crisis will result in Martial Law...what else has he got? He knows he is hated...his administration is hated...everyone knows he is a liar and a cheat...Holder is a joke. Lets his Panther buddies go while killing an innocent border agent...now thats what i call class..really. They should be shown the same contempt!