Unusual $5 Million Grant from Tax-Exempt ACORN Affiliate to ACORN Central Organization

Capital Research Center ^ | October 21, 2008 | Matthew Vadum

[vadum]

We're not sure if this is improper but thought it unusual enough to get it out there in the blogosphere.

First, some background.

ACORN, that is, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, is a nonprofit Arkansas corporation that is not tax-exempt. ACORN likes not being tax-exempt because that means it doesn't have to give much in the way of public disclosure. It carries out its activities largely through its affiliates. One of its affiliated organizations is the American Institute for Social Justice Inc. The Institute is tax-exempt so it is required by federal law to disclose a great deal of important financial information in its annual tax return which is called an IRS Form 990.

The Institute disclosed at Statement 3 on page 20 of its 2006_990 form that it provided a $4,952,288 grant to ACORN, the non-tax-exempt Arkansas nonprofit corporation for “community reinvestment.”

It might not be illegal but it is certainly unusual for a tax-exempt entity to provide a grant to its non-tax-exempt parent organization.

ACORN is a strange organization.

[Hildy]

Yes, I will. It has to do now with my sanity. Talk about hitting your head against a rock. When we started here during Clinton's reign, I really thought we could do something. And we did. But they were strong, more organized and were backed by big money. AND WE KNEW IT WAS HAPPENING. SOROS...MOVEON.ORG.

You know what the definition of insanity is, right? Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. That's what it feels like. It'll good to know its here, but it will have to make do without me.

[April Lexington]

“I’m as mad as hell, (putting it mildly) and there is nothing that I can do about it.”

The Left has been plotting this revolution since the 1960’s it has begun and there is nothing much we can do about it at the moment. We have to rely on the dwindling common sense of a public school indoctrinated populace to vote against it. Big possibility the Left will control the mighty USA after November 4th unless we work like crazy to defeat Obama at the polls and then, if McCain has the guts to order his Justice Department to prosecute these people as urban terrorists.

[Irish Eyes]

.............Don't you think the Rev. Wright revelation now would have been awesome? ................

Greta played some tape of Rev Wright tonight on her show.

[April Lexington]

It is really too bad that nobody bothered to believe Tailgunner Joe McCarthy. He was destroyed by the communists because he was exposing them. America drank the Kool-aide and crucified the guy.

Now we are witnessing the start of the next Leftist revolution right here at home and nobody has the intellectual tools to understand the scope or figure out how to stop it. Just as they have been planning since the 1960’s.

[April Lexington]

“It is absolutely criminal what is going on and I for one cannot understand why the republicans aren’'t in an uproar over ACORN”

People who spend their lives consuming the American Dream have no intellectual capacity to understand the horrific implications of a leftist takeover of a country. So many people I talk to think November 5th will just be an ordinary day. “It''s all politics” they say. They don't understand that their rights and freedoms will be gone within a few years and their American Dream quality of life will be gone too. The Left is serious about busting up the wealthy and the middle class and making everyone “equal.”

Kiss the Gucci's goodbye, darling!

[mazda77]

I came to the conclusion that a position in politics has grown into nothing more than a “Good Ole Boys Club” for attorneys who could not make a living in a court room. They (speaking generally) are in colusion with each other to keep we the people in each other’s faces while telling us that each side has the answers.

It is nothing more than a larger elaborate scheme that matches what goes on in a divorce. At the start of most divorces, both parties are more apt to come to a collaborative agreement that is eventually blown apart when the first attorney gets involved.

We learned from 1994 onward to 2006 just how conservatives were thrown under the bus one little step at a time. They told us that government was going to get smaller and all it did was get bigger under the watch of those same people. So no matter what politician gets into office, they are there to execise their ability to amass power over us and then find new and different ways to get their hands into our pockets. Just like most divorces end up with the only winner being the only person who is transcribed in a courtroom and is not under oath, the attorneys.

[April Lexington]

Wow! From the rants and panic on this thread, it looks like folks are finally waking up to the fact that we are in the midst of a communist revolution. The left has been orgainizing since the 1960’s. We have two weeks to organize a defense. Our country is at stake. We should have learned from the Kerry campaign 4 years ago.

Interesting how Kerry was second most liberal member of the Senate. Obama is first and Biden is third! What is this all about????

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

I understand...

I’ll never give up. It may be fruitless, but, I’ll never give up.

Call me foolish....

Gotta go...Looking for a job.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

“public school indoctrinated populace”

There, you’ve put your finger on the big problem.

[CPT Clay]

Whose job is it to prosecute. I’m sure awhole lot of illegal activty would be discovered under rico.

[CPT Clay]

I’m with you.

How about your 2nd amendment rights?

The tree of liberty...

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

“How about your 2nd amendment rights?”

Mine? Carried out daily.

Molon Labe.

[Canedawg]

Suddenly, there is concern about their illegal vote rigging in THIS election. They have been hidden, coddled and protected by the left since their inception and it is now well too late to do anything in this election cycle to counteract their criminal activities.

Of course that's not true. There are mechanisms in place that can be utilized, but the bigger problem is I dont see anyone with the cajones to stand up and do it. Wimpy judges, partisan DOJ attorneys, weak-willed Congressman who caved on the bailout bill, and failed to set the record straight on just exactly who was at fault for the F&F crisis, a lame duck POTUS who rushes out of the WH to give a presser and runs back inside. Prosecutors and police are told not to stay by polling places because it might intimidate voters and so they back off??! Wimps. It will take more than that to stand up to the Acorn thugs, the amoral secular dems, the loudmouth nazi pelosi, a corrupt Ohio SOS. Everyone in govt. is just too darn complicit!

[Canedawg]

Suddenly, there is concern about their illegal vote rigging in THIS election. They have been hidden, coddled and protected by the left since their inception and it is now well too late to do anything in this election cycle to counteract their criminal activities.

Of course that's not true. There are mechanisms in place that can be utilized, but the bigger problem is I dont see anyone with the cajones to stand up and do it. Wimpy judges, partisan DOJ attorneys, weak-willed Congressman who caved on the bailout bill, and failed to set the record straight on just exactly who was at fault for the F&F crisis, a lame duck POTUS who rushes out of the WH to give a presser and runs back inside. Prosecutors and police are told not to stay by polling places because it might intimidate voters and so they back off??! Wimps. It will take more than that to stand up to the Acorn thugs, the amoral secular dems, the loudmouth nazi pelosi, a corrupt Ohio SOS. Everyone in govt. is just too darn complicit!

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

So, as I stated......

It’s too late, for this cycle....

[Canedawg]

You think it is going to get any easier after this cycle, when the Acorn thugs are even more entrenched, the judges are even more liberal, the executive branch is run by a pathological liar?

They have a better chance to stand up to it now than they will in 2 or 4 years.

[Robert DeLong]

Bush needs to suspend this election, declare an emergency if he has to, and no fooling around.

Imagine the rioting that would result from that maneuver, but I say go for it.

[Fresh Wind]

I think now how Rush thought Obama was unelectable...

Baloney. All the FReepers who bashed Rush at the time thought that. How wrong they all were, and how right Rush was.

[CanadianMusherinMI]

rioting if we take action for a fair election, rioting if obama loses, rioting if he wins. hell lets do what is BEST for the Country. we get rioting no matter what, might as well make it worth it!

[igoramus08]

I think now how Rush thought Obama was unelectable and how we meddled in that primary. Don't you think the Rev. Wright revelation now would have been awesome? I know hindsight is 20/20. And I never, ever thought I'd say this, but I'd kill for Hillary to be our next President.

Wright still hasnt been played out, because what Wright said is Obama's religion. Most voters think Obama is a traditional Christian. If James Cone's quotes and videos are aired it is over for Obama.