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Posted on 10/03/2009 12:52:50 PM PDT by smokingfrog
ACORN spokesman Brian Kettenring told the Washington Post that ACORN’s annual budget is $25 million.
This cannot possibly be true.
As I reported, ACORN had an budget annual of $50 million as of just last year. The budget figure is quoted in the ACORN entry in a helpful reference book on left-leaning activist groups called The Practical Progressive by Erica Payne.
Based on all I’ve learned about the group over a prolonged period of intensive study and despite ACORN losing several funding sources recently I simply cannot believe it. Besides, there is all sorts of ACORN money floating around out there that is unaccounted for, as ACORN lawyer Elizabeth Kingsley told her client last year.
No one outside ACORN management knows how much the ACORN network takes in from various activities including but not limited to its protest-for-hire services, corporate shakedowns, and Lord knows what else.
For all we know ACORN has money tucked away in Swiss bank accounts. The sooner the authorities raid ACORN offices and get forensic accountants to work on making sense of ACORN’s intentionally convoluted finances the better.
I personally suspect the budget is much higher than $50 million annually but I can’t prove it so I’m content to stick with the $50 million figure for now.
Posted in ACORN, Brian Kettenring, Elizabeth Kingsley, Kingsley Memo, Washington Post
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C'mon, lying is what Obama does best.
Criminal organization backed by corrupt and criminal politicians.
COngress can investigate the use of steroids in Major League Baseball but can’t investigate a criminal organization. How schweeeeet it is..../s
ACORN has numerous affiliates, divisions and allied groups. It’s well known they routinely play shell games to launder their money.
Depending on how you figure it, the annual budget number might be $25M, $50M, $100M or some larger number.
In fact, I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if the ACORN home office is a little vague on the number themselves.
It turned out he was in bankruptcy a few years later because HE didn't know what was going on either.
Might be applicable to ACORN.
Speaking of ACORN funding...
The California Endowment says it’s on the verge of approving a new $500,000 grant to ACORN to help low-income families access health care and other benefits.
“We feel pretty solid in our relationship with them, for one really specific reason — which is the standards that we’ve held all of our grantees to, ACORN has met,” says Robert Phillips, the endowment’s director of health and human services.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2352847/posts
According to documents ACORN insiders Anita MonCrief and Marcel Reid produced to this Committee, ACORN engaged in unreported transactions between its affiliates. According to an email by Steve Bachmann, SEIU Local 100, ACORN Institute (a 501(c)(3)), ACORN Community Labor Organizing Center (“ACLOC”),206 ACORN International,207 Affiliated Media Foundation Movement (“AMFM”), the Association for the Rights of Citizens, Inc. (“ARC”),208 the Elysian Fields Corporation, and Citizens Consulting Inc. (“CCI”), are interchangeably controlled by ACORN:
U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
July 2009
http://republicans.oversight.house.gov/media/pdfs/20090723ACORNReport.pdf
Exactly my point. Thanks.
Pleasure’s mine.
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