“Muscle for Money”: ACORN at Work

Economic Policy Journal ^ | 7/7/09

[FromLori]

The Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now (ACORN), the organization where Barack Obama taught leadership conferences, is the noisemaker/ activist group behind a new organization.

It’s officially called the “Muscle for Money” program within the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) where it was started, and unofficially by the same name among activists of ACORN.

Muscle for Money includes multiple techniques for creating highly aggressive, organized efforts both to pressure businesses and officials to support the activists’ agenda or to discredit and intimidate opponents of their agenda, according to present and former ACORN members, according to the San Francisco Examiner.

Some of the more prominent Muscle for Money targets to date have included the Carlyle Group, Sherwin-Williams, H&R Block, Jackson Hewitt, Liberty Tax and Money Mart, according to Anita Moncrief, a former ACORN employee and now an ACORN 8 member.

“The idea is to go to private homes where wives and children are present and stand outside so the family members of a company official could be harassed and subjected to intimidation,” said MonCrief. “Protestors would also go to company functions like banquets where they would be as disruptive as possible.”

ACORN actually had a contract with SEIU to target the Caryle Group, MonCrief told the Examiner.

[Frantzie]

ACORN and SEIU are the same organization and founded by the same marxist. SEIU is also the illegal alien union.

[GraceG]

How can we setup and stage counter protests against these yahoos?

I would love nothing more than to see a couple hundred freepers show up in front of a private citizen’s house they are protesting at and drive them away with real actual pitchforks and torches.

I have access to some tiki torches and plenty of tiki torch fuel!! HEH.

[fortunecookie]

Muscle for Money includes multiple techniques for creating highly aggressive, organized efforts both to pressure businesses and officials to support the activists’ agenda or to discredit and intimidate opponents of their agenda, according to present and former ACORN members, according to the San Francisco Examiner.

And we fund this with our tax dollars.

“The idea is to go to private homes where wives and children are present and stand outside so the family members of a company official could be harassed and subjected to intimidation,” said MonCrief. “Protestors would also go to company functions like banquets where they would be as disruptive as possible.”

This is leadership? Sounds more like ELF tactics. Shades of Code Pink.