Wade Rathke
Dale Rathke and friends
Hmmmm skankalicious?
Posted on 05/15/2009 3:29:24 AM PDT by Man50D
Fox News' Glenn Beck may have uncovered another twist to a series of ACORN's alleged scandals when he revealed on his show that the group's main affiliate is operating out of a former New Orleans funeral home and bringing in millions of taxpayer dollars.
The Service Employees International Union's New Orleans headquarters location that also houses ACORN is supposed to be home to more than 270 related corporations and non-profits.
"Does that former funeral home look big enough to you to house 270 organizations?" Beck asked. "The owner of the building is a company whose partners are – oh my gosh! – Wade and Dale Rathke."
Wade Rathke, a New Orleans resident, is founder of ACORN and also founder and chief organizer of Service Employees International Union, which donated $33 million to President Obama's campaign last year.The online OpenSecrets.org estimates Obama's entire campaign spending at about $640 million.
According to the New York Times, he failed to notify police in 2000 when he learned that his brother Dale, ACORN's chief financial officer , had embezzled $948,600 from Citizens Consulting Inc., the ACORN affiliate that handles its financial affairs.
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Well, former funeral home.
If it were still a funeral home, it would be a logical place to recruit the dead to vote.
Nothing surprises me any more.
Pictures of Wade are available at http://www.spock.com/Wade-Rathke ...
Wade Rathke
Dale Rathke and friends
Hmmmm skankalicious?
This whole ACORN thing is far bigger and far more dangerous than even most FReepers realize and Now ACORN is going global.
Sadly, no one is doing anything about this...nobody seems to care.
0bama is knee-deep in this cesspool of influence peddling and criminal activity.
The Rathke’s should be in prison. But, under the watchful eye of the anointed one, that’s not likely to happen anytime soon.
The media is just as corrupt...
I smell a tea party!! It would be nice to split up into three groups and protest at acorn, the Fed, the White house. It would be a fun convoy for everyone. Let them all know we are watching.
THIS IS NO A STORY THAT SHOULD BE LAUGHED OFF, THIS STORY SHOULD BE VIRAL
Glen: You MUST stay on this and expose it for what it is. . . .
Here's another idea: Closely monitor ACORN’s payment requisitions to the United States Government and then use “qui tam” to put ACORN on the run and hopefully out of business. (”Qui tam” basically gives citizen taxpayers the right to sue contractors on behalf of the United States Government to recover funds that have been fraudulently obtained in the performance of federal contracts. If the government fails to commence legal action within a certain time after receiving notice of the fraud from the citizen taxpayer, then the taxpayer can commence a lawsuit on the government's behalf and keep part of the recovery, which may includes attorneys fees, as a bounty.)
Here's a third idea: Compete against ACORN for public contracts and then challenge every contract that is awarded to ACORN on the ground that ACORN is not a “qualified contractor” because it has repeatedly engaged in fraud at the management level.
It is old style, get out the vote politics. Nothing old Boston’s Mayor Curley, or previous to him Tammany Hall, or even Andrew Jackson wouldn’t recognize.
It’s just that the GOP is, and has been for generations, in the hands of trust fund elites, who wouldn’t know a price scanner if their lives depended upon it.
We need street Republicans. We have them. They are called Conservatives. I was at the Florida Chad rallies with Freeper AAABest and others. It was physical, and we were getting and ready to street fight right there.
There were reps from the GOP. Sort of. In a large mobile home. They looked like uber clean cut, frat boy fags, complete with pleated pants and penny loafers. Wimps. They wouldn’t even talk to us. Since that event was ten years ago, I imagine they have coatholded they way up into that dead, loser, inbreed organization known as the RNC.
Frankly. I don’t think the RNC/GOP can fight. I think us conservative are just political cannon fodder for losers. Dole, the Bush’s, McCain, Romney and countless others.
That pizza event in Alexandria Virgina with Cantor, Mitt the Dip was pathetic.
Why don’t these guys have a live call in for an couple of hours? You know why. They’d get their butts reamed and they know it, because they know they don’t represent, fight, respect the base. If your a liberal, they are licking your boot soles. But conservative? Fugehaboutit.
I’m really looking forward to Palin. However if you read on of the greatest books of the last twenty years, Prince of Darkness by Novak, you will see that Reagan only had, and he knew it, a handful of true conservatives and had to fill 15,000 positions with RINO, Reagan hating, liberal Republicans. This will happen to Palin, if she gets in.
I especially like the Qui Tam and the direct competition suggestions.
“We need street Republicans...... They are called Conservatives.”
AMEN....
“I don’t think the RNC/GOP can fight”
They won’t fight because they are too busy try to protect what little power and influence they have left.
Kind of reminds me of the Movie Braveheart where the Mel Gibson group fought the English while the Scottish Nobles held out for crumbs of power.
Looks fine... 
to me.
Which they can't.
They want to manage their way out of, or at least along until ‘something’ happens, when we need leaders and fighters.
( I like to rag on Mitt. Supposedly he is a master of finance. He never really owns anything, he has been a consultant and a deal maker. Anyways, what is going on now, with the Fed, debt, taxes should be his political playpen. Yet, save for a few old hoary cliche's, he's been silent. I really think it is because of fear. Fear of losing what money he made. Fear of taking a stand, but we know that. Fear of risking his life long, but ultimately purposeless goal of the White House.
That's why I voted for McCain after Hunter and Thompson dropped out. I felt that in some crazy organic way, that McCain would get mad, disgusted and fight. I never felt that way about Mitt. Matter of fact, none of his family males, ever, since they came to this country before the Civil War, have ever worn a uniform. Romneys don't fight. They are trimmers, marginalist, managers, incrementalists, risk adverse. )
I don't think/feel that we are any more in a time in which we can make decisions based upon metrics of the last fifty years. It is all falling apart and none of the tools, and techniques are producing the expected results. It's like being at Chernobyl and trying to throw the right switches and yet still the reactor goes critical.
I don't think we are in anything like the 20 and 30’s and I don't think Bernanke and Timmy The Tax Cheat with their delusional view of these events being the 1930 redux will not only not work, but will make things worse.
After that, the deluge, the flood, script printing for liquidity. They'll do it, they already are, they will do it because of immediate need of citizens to be able to script purchase foods and fuels.
I'm hearing of a strong need for working people to grow dope, make alcohol, smuggle cigarettes. The tax level her in Massachusetts on cigarettes is so high, that it pays well to take 2 grand, go to N. Carolina, fill a 20' cardboard box full of cartons of cigarettes, place it in your trunk, drive back, pay gas, tolls, a room for the night, meals, be back the next day, and make a thousand dollars profit, for two days driving and supplying cigarettes at near half cost. I know car mechanics, good ones, that work out of industrial bays, for cash only. Hows a legit guy supposed to pay taxes and compete? Ditto house painters, landscapers, carpenters, masons, lawyers taking cash, women accountants selling their female(ness) to road tar companies as 'female owned' even though they haven't been to the company in years. (Heck we just had a 10-40 million dollar Boston Trolley accident where the driver was a woman that became a 'man', that got the job as a minority because it was a he/she...er...what ever) So, you got the welfare class that don't pay taxes and the elderly that are hooked on the government tit, they are the reserve army of Democrats serfs. You got the rich like Mitt and the GOP who are like you said the Nobles who are on the wings, ready to swoop in to leadership and wealth after the unwashed conservatives do the work, and you have a the 20% of Americans that work directly for the government. In a amoral way, you can see why the managerial class of the the GOP is so gutless. And, yet they want the titles of political leadership with none of the fight, none of the risk to THEM personally( that's why after every election they run over to the Democrats, grovel, and make public displays of political submissiveness. All that 'my good friend/bipartisain BS crap)
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