Posted on 07/07/2009 5:55:06 AM PDT by Shellybenoit
Testifying before a Pennsylvania court in October, former ACORN employee provided some of the inner workings of the often indicted "community organizing" group and its bully tactics:
"Forty percent was OK," said Anita Moncrief, referring to the number of bona fide registrations that officials at the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now believed was acceptable...
...Moncrief also testified about an effort she called "muscle for the money" in which ACORN would, for a price, organize protests against corporations on behalf of clients such as unions.
H&R Block, Jackson Hewitt and Sherwin Williams were among the companies targeted for protest in recent years, she said. Some of the corporations, she added, wound up donating money to the sponsoring groups to end the protests. She said some in the Project Vote office in Washington sarcastically referred to such payments as "protection" money.
ACORN's works these "shake down" campaigns along with long time partner the Service Employees Union International (SEIU). The two groups have a long history, ACORN and the SEIU partnered with other leftist groups to help form the Socialist oriented "New" Party.
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And the White House is providing cover by firing any Inspector General who dares shines any light on illegal activities going on.
“And the White House is providing cover by firing any Inspector General who dares shines any light on illegal activities going on.”
But hey, no corruption going on here and there is absolutely no reason for the media, with all their journalistic integrity to investigate this. /sarcasm
Acorn is recruiting groups to follow Sarah Palin all across the country, to harass and heckle her at any public speaking.
You can take every major scandal from the Bush adminstration which received hundreds of front pages stories for months on end, and it pales in comparison to this scandal. This scandal has Obama's fingerprints directly on it. This scandal involves a clear breaking of the law, a law that Obama even sponsored. This scandal potentially involves the spending of billion of dollars being funneled to Democratic operatives/Obama buddies. Nothing Bush did even comes close to this.
Yep, those are the jobs that Obama's stimulus package is creating. Unfortunately, we are losing 500,000 jobs more substainable real jobs than these phony temp jobs we are creating.
I just had a flash that will probably get me flamed, but seriously in conjunction with the ACORN/Obama issue...
I think ACORN will go down in history as an acronym as widely recognized in corruption as NAZI. Maybe not with the death toll, but with the political corruption and fascism.
ACORN MAFIA.......Plus Obama’s Chicago style gangster ties don’t look like much of future for the USA. And by the way what does you think a union is?
in Iran, the people have been engaging in an activity that has come to be known as Basij Hunting. Watch and learn...
ACORN and the Mafia are criminal organizations. Are we going to start funding the Mafia next?
They have taken the model of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson’s shake down operation and made it huge in organization and political protection.
Their targets - limo liberal CEOs - have made the mistake of paying off these shake down artists and their organizations. They are never satisfied. Hate only grows when fed by targets.
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