ACORN Cracks Wide Open - (Apologies for Deja Vu) - 2008 Article

Townhall.com ^ | 8-12-08 | Carl. F. Horowitz

[Jo Nuvark]

The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, is a network of nonprofit community groups formed nearly 40 years ago on the premise that banks, corporations and insurance companies, immersed in greed, have kept poor and predominantly minority neighborhoods desperate. Within the past couple months, however, its leaders have been engaged in the more mundane task of spinning a scandal that already has claimed its most visible leader. To longtime ACORN critics, it’s a case of belated just deserts. ***** At the center of this storm are ACORN co-founder and chief organizer Wade Rathke and his brother, Dale.

[Jo Nuvark]

Rathke Brothers ... ACORN SLAVE TRAITORS! http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/post_article

[Jo Nuvark]

[... The group in 2001 had obtained an enforceable restitution agreement by which the Rathke family would replenish the missing funds in $30,000 annual installments. When news of the scandal broke, seven payments totaling $210,000 had been made. An unnamed donor then stepped in, offering to pay the remaining balance of around $740,000... ]

George Soros comes to mind.

[Jo Nuvark]

A Little ACORN refresher course.

Rathke Brothers ... ACORN SLAVE TRAITORS!

http://townhall.com/Columnists/CarlHorowitz/2008/08/09/acorn_cracks_wide_open?page=full&comments=true

[FromLori]

They should have shown the videos

http://www.fireandreamitchell.com/2009/09/10/acorn-now-into-pimpin-and-prostitution-and-lieing-to-the-irs/

[Jo Nuvark]

The COMRADES might be interested in an
ACORN/Rathke Brothers refresher course.

[Jo Nuvark]

Thanks Lori. This is a Townhall article from 2008.
No one paid attention because it was overshadowed by
the Enron / Halliburton / WorldCom / Countrywide /
Home Mortgate meltdown.

[Kimberly GG]

40 years in the making....IMO, the organization is like al qaeda....chop off a few heads and they just replace them. Probably impossible to get rid of ... they are “domestic terrorists”.

[OneWingedShark]

>ACORN SLAVE TRAITORS!

Or is it “ACORN SLAVE TRADERS!”?

[Jo Nuvark]

The Rathke Brothers are traitors to African Americans
because they have made a business of keeping them in
bondage.

Slave Traitors is exactly what I meant.

[Jo Nuvark]

Where is Elliot Ness when you need him?

[OneWingedShark]

I’m fairly sure that FMJs or HPs applied to them, by The People, consistently [and without remorse or “mercy”] would clear the problem in no time.

Unfortunately, the country it seems has lost the will and the capability to bring people [especially rich and/or well-connected people] to justice.

[FreeKeys]

In addition to vote fraud, ACORN has displayed a penchant for treating its workers poorly, despite the group’s close ties to Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Locals 100 and 880 (Rathke is chief organizer for Local 100, representing several thousand workers in Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas). It’s more than a little ironic that ACORN for nearly 15 years has been leading heavily union-backed campaigns to force private- as well as public-sector employers in cities and counties across the nation to pay workers a “living” wage, while severely underpaying and otherwise exploiting its own community foot soldiers. Indeed, ACORN for years had blocked attempts by employees to unionize until the National Labor Relations Board told them otherwise. In March 2003, the nonprofit group lost its final appeal of an NLRB ruling holding that ACORN had violated its employees’ rights.

ACORN doesn’t even like paying the minimum wage, let alone a “living” one set several dollars an hour higher. In 1995, ACORN’s California chapter went to court seeking an exemption from having to pay its workers the state minimum, at the time $4.25 an hour. The group lost. In its unsuccessful appeal, ACORN argued that being forced to pay its workers the minimum wage would violate its First Amendment rights. The presiding judge termed the argument “absurd.” Welcome to the real world of employment.