Posted on 10/16/2008 4:18:03 PM PDT by Tree of Liberty
Read this…
1. The Secretary of State of Ohio Jennifer Brunner filed a request in the Supreme Court relating to the underlying claim in her state that there has been voter registration fraud…with ties to the work of ACORN in registering voters.
2. A group — the Service Employees International Union [SEIU] — filed an amicus brief in the United States Supreme Court asking the Supreme Court to rule with the Secretary of State of Ohio (and essentially asking for a ruling that would be favorable to ACORN in that it would “call off the dogs.”)
3. I thought it curious that SEIU would file an amicus brief for Brunner and did some quick research …and now I need more indepth research (which is where YOU come in.) According to my quick research..the same person who started ACORN, started SIEU. His name is Wade Rathke. So then I wondered, who is Wade Rathke?
4. I did some really quick research and learned that Rathke was a member of the anti war group SDS. This is where YOU come in again. If you know 60’s history, you know that the Weather Underground was an offshoot of SDS. There was some disagreement in the late 60’s and members of the SDS - Bill Ayers and his wife - left and formed/ joined the Weather Underground.
So now I am wondering: do Rathke and Ayers know each other (from SDS / Weather Underground days)? what is the connection now, if any, between them? between ACORN and SEIU? between them and Senator Obama?
(Excerpt) Read more at gretawire.foxnews.com ...
In 1970, one of George Wiley’s protégés, Wade Rathke — like Bill Ayers, a member of the radical Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) — was sent to found the Arkansas Community Organizations for Reform Now. While NWRO had made a good start, it alone couldn’t accomplish the Cloward-Piven goals. Rathke’s group broadened the offensive to include a wide array of low income “rights.” Shortly thereafter they changed “Arkansas” to “Association of” and ACORN went nationwide.
ACORN is at the forefront of this movement as well, and was a leading organization among a broad coalition of radical groups, including Soros’ Open Society Institute, the Service Employees International Union (ACORN founder Wade Rathke also runs a SEIU chapter), and others, that became the Coalition for Comprehensive Immigration Reform.
Wade Rathke runs a Tides subsidiary, the Tides Center.
The President of his Open Society Institute is Aryeh Neier, founder of the radical Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). As mentioned above, three other former SDS members had extensive contact with Obama: Bill Ayers, Carl Davidson and Wade Rathke.
At the center of this storm are ACORN co-founder and chief organizer Wade Rathke and his brother, Dale. Wade Rathke is an almost legendary figure in progressive Left circles. Beginning in the Sixties as an SDS activist, he would go on to apply his talents to the National Welfare Rights Organization, whose principle legacy during its years of existence was a large expansion of welfare eligibility and dependency. Out of this experience came ACORN in 1970. Initially based in Little Rock and eventually in New Orleans, ACORN has become a giant oak tree. The group’s early agitprop rhetoric, as expressed in its People’s Platform, made clear its intent for the years ahead:
I was referencing the current threat posed by Bill Ayers. Not to blow things up with bombs but to take over this country from within the system and install radical socialism like Chavez in Venezuela. And to do it through Barack Obama.
The SEIU is supposed to be representing their rank-and-file. The upper ranks of the union have sold-out their members and have become lackeys for the DNC. Union members should rise up and tell their Union to stop squandering their dues subsidizing the crack-pots scams of their delusional Union Heads, or better yet, they should withhold their dues until they get some action.
Wade Rathke is the Chief Organizer of ACORN International, Founder and Chief Organizer of ACORN (1970-2008), and Founder and Chief Organizer of Local 100, Service Employees International Union. The views expressed on this website are his own.http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2107475/posts?page=1
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Greta has asked: "So then I wondered, who is Wade Rathke?"
Oh... oh...
Expect David Axelrod to now be looking into whatever scandals he can find/create about Greta and her husband.
Soooeyu! is the name of the government union that runs most of the blue states. They are paid volunteers that populate the campaign staffs of democrat state legislative candidates.
I believe the leftist rathole was an issue with an article from the far-left “Social Policy” that was discussed the other day — I’m trying to find that thread. The original article had been deep-sixed from “Social Policy” but a FReeper found it on the Wayback Machine, IIRC.
In other words, McCain doesn’t really believe that about Ayers, but he said it to throw Obama of?
There are other ways to throw Obama off without saying something you don’t believe.
In some ways McCain is terribly naive. I have no trouble believing that it will come as big news to him if and when he finds out what Ayers has been up to since his bombing days and until today.
Hmmm, Greta’s husband a big Hillary supporter moves to McCain. Hillary is defeated due to voter fraud and flim-flam in the caucuses. This ACORN stuff has the Clinton’s fingerprints all over it.
His name is not in this file...but lots of other names that have cropped up of late...so some of his associations might be in here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20011126032456/foia.fbi.gov/weather/weath2c.pdf
For what it is worth. Very interesting read too. Lots of the WU and SDS folks traveling to CUBA and North Vietnam to give aid and comfort to our enemies back then....funny...they haven’t changed ONE BIT!!
Great (sic) Van Susteren.
[article excerpt]:
The extent of Obama’s ties to Acorn has not been recognized. We find some important details in an article in the journal Social Policy entitled, “Case Study: Chicago — The Barack Obama Campaign,” by Toni Foulkes, a Chicago Acorn leader and a member of Acorn’s National Association Board. The odd thing about this article is that Foulkes is forced to protect the technically “non-partisan” status of Acorn’s get-out-the-vote campaigns, even as he does everything in his power to give Acorn credit for helping its favorite son win the critical 2004 primary that secured Obama the Democratic nomination to the U.S. Senate.
Before giving us a tour of Acorn’s pro-Obama but somehow “non-partisan” election activities, Foulks treats us to a brief history of Obama’s ties to Acorn. While most press accounts imply that Obama just happened to be at the sort of public-interest law firm that would take Acorn’s “motor voter” case, Foulkes claims that Acorn specifically sought out Obama’s representation in the motor voter case, remembering Obama from the days when he worked with Talbot. And while many reports speak of Obama’s post-law school role organizing “Project VOTE” in 1992, Foulkes makes it clear that this project was undertaken in direct partnership with Acorn. Foulkes then stresses Obama’s yearly service as a key figure in Acorn’s leadership-training seminars.
At least a few news reports have briefly mentioned Obama’s role in training Acorn’s leaders, but none that I know of have said what Foulkes reports next: that Obama’s long service with Acorn led many members to serve as the volunteer shock troops of Obama’s early political campaigns — his initial 1996 State Senate campaign, and his failed bid for Congress in 2000 (Foulkes confuses the dates of these two campaigns.) With Obama having personally helped train a new cadre of Chicago Acorn leaders, by the time of Obama’s 2004 U.S. Senate campaign, Obama and Acorn were “old friends,” says Foulkes.
So along with the reservoir of political support that came to Obama through his close ties with Jeremiah Wright, Father Michael Pfleger, and other Chicago black churches, Chicago Acorn appears to have played a major role in Obama’s political advance. Sure enough, a bit of digging into Obama’s years in the Illinois State Senate indicates strong concern with Acorn’s signature issues, as well as meetings with Acorn and the introduction by Obama of Acorn-friendly legislation on the living wage and banking practices. You begin to wonder whether, in his Springfield days, Obama might have best been characterized as “the Senator from Acorn.”
Liberals don’t do much but they sure like boards and panels.
Isn’t ACORN essentially outing themselves?
They became too visible, too above the radar, too overwhelming.
Inviting, yea, demanding investigation.
The Clintons need only to marginally nudge here or there, if they wish.
The voters themselves are getting very vocal and very angry about ACORN attempts to destroy the electoral system.
It is totally shocking that the citizens of this country would even consider Obama as a candidate for POTUS, it's bizarre, twilight zoneish
Don’t ya just love it?
Just out of curiousity, why must VanSustern get others to do her research? Doens’t she have a staff or get paid to do it herself?
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