Posted on 10/08/2008 6:08:21 AM PDT by NoobRep
FNC now saying investigations in 10 states. FBI now getting involved. ACORN says they are the victim because they can't control their workers.
90% of my well educated friend’s don’t know what ACORN is.
We need to get their name up in public and have people understand just exactly what this organization is, does, done and how it is funded by US taxpayer.
Background on ACORN excerpted from a post by Freeper Fred Nerks:
ACORN - ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS FOR REFORM NOW
ACORN is the largest radical group in America, with 175,000 dues-paying member families, and more than 850 chapters in 70 US cities Implicated in numerous reports of fraudulent voter registration, vote-rigging, voter intimidation, and vote-for-pay scams during the 2004 election. They maintain close ties to organized labor unions.
ACORN is a grassroots political organization that grew out of George Wiley’s National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO). Their members in the late 60s and early 70s invaded welfare offices across the U.S. — often violently — bullying social workers and loudly demanding every penny to which the law “entitled” them. In the late 60s, ACORN co-founder Wade Rathke was a NWRO organizer and a protegé of Wiley. Rathke also organized draft resistance for the militant group Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) during the same period.
In 1970 Rathke — along with the aforementioned Wiley (best known for his effective use of the so-called “Cloward-Piven strategy,” which called for swamping the welfare rolls with new applicants and thereby creating an economic crisis) and Gary Delgado (a lead organizer for Wiley’s NWRO) — formed a new entity called Arkansas Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). The group’s name was later changed to Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, but the acronym ACORN remained. Instead of focusing only on welfare recipients, ACORN’s mandate included all issues touching low-income and working-class people.
Rathke and his ACORN co-founders enlisted civil rights workers and trained them in a program (at Syracuse University) patterned after Saul Alinsky’s activist tactics.
Today ACORN claims 175,000 dues-paying member families, and more than 850 chapters in 70 U.S. cities in 38 states. ACORN owns two radio stations, a housing corporation, and a law office, and maintains affiliate relationships with a host of trade-union locals. ACORN also runs schools where children are trained in class consciousness; a network of “boot camps” for training street activists; and operations that extort contributions from banks and other businesses under threat of racial violence and trumped-up civil rights charges.
In 1998, ACORN founded the Working Families Party in New York, which endorses candidates for political office. The Working Families Party endorsed Hillary Clinton in her 2000 Senate race. Canvassers from ACORN and its sister groups launched a statewide voter-mobilization drive that proved influential in Clinton’s victory. In November 2001, a coalition of radical politicians led by ACORN-sponsored candidates running on the Working Families Party ticket won a veto-proof majority on the New York City Council, giving ACORN de facto control of the New York City government.
Looks like Warren Rudman and John Danforth are doing their jobs.
1960's
Say it isn’t so (// sarcasm off)
I think it’s more along the line of an abusive spouse. You know, “See what you made me do?”
ACORN = organized crime = The Democrat Party = Obama
I would add a bit to your comment.
A Pittsburgh, Pa. man called in to the Quinn & Rose morning show and said he got a call from Allegheny county. They wanted to verify that he was changing his party from Republican to Democrat. They said the signatures didn’t match. He said he had no intention of changing.
These ACORN shenanigans of busing winos to voter sites and dumping 3 foot high stacks of faux registrations on small county officials- - on live TV no less - make New Orleans looter guy look like an honest consumer
The Bush administration at least owe the taxpayers, honest voters and GI’s dying in war for our democracy ... a stab at an honest election
IF our Justice department and AG can tear themselves away the vital mission of testifying to Congress about why they fired 9 partisan AG’s 4 years ago
Has Fox mentioned to which party these bogus registrations belong to?
50% of ACORN's applications are obviously fraudulent.
Shout it to the treetops!
plus ACORNS ties to obama
therem is so much on this connection along with the birth certificate and the Kenya connection
no the media are more interested in a baby named Trig
Obama trained a lot of these people. Didn't he train them well?
..........or did he train them very well?
Sometime later today all this will be called an attack on minorities by racist Republicans. 12 Hours tops...
Looks like the FBI is up from its nap.
DONT FORGET
ACORN owns PROJECT VOTE!
PROJECT VOTE HAD OBAMA AS THEIR LAWYER!!!!!
Which Lake City? Thanks.
I am not going to stand for a stolen national election and I suspect millions like me will rise up. If our national elections are fraudulent, all bets are off.
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