Posted on 09/26/2009 11:30:06 AM PDT by STARWISE
John Ellis O’Neill, is a partner at the Houston law firm of Clements, O’Neill, Pierce, Wilson & Fulkerson and has spearheaded the anti-Kerry 527 committee
January 14, 2009
CCI (Citizens Consulting Inc.) has one client, or (in other words) a series of clients...ACORN and all its affiliates. Whenever ACORN receives any money, whether from the federal governmnent or other resources, it first goes to CCI. Then, CCI filters that money to anyone of ACORN’s affiliates.
If the government were to give money to say Health Care for America Now to provide health care services in poor neighborhoods, that money will first wind up at CCI. Where that money ends up is anyone’s guess. Why? That’s because CCI is a private company and so getting a look at its books is no easy task. In fact, I doubt more than a handful of politicians even know the relationship between ACORN and CCI.
In fact, ACORN is such a sophisticated organization that often politicians will get on the floor of the legislature to rail against ACORN and then turn around and meet with one of their affiliates and authorize funding. That’s because more times than not a politician has no idea that they are dealing with an ACORN affiliate.
The structure of ACORN is also rather sophisticated. ACORN has a board of directors but these folks have largely ceremonial titles. Most of the board are zealots of the cause. They rose through the ranks of ACORN often starting as foot soldiers fighting for causes near and dear to them. Since ACORN is often associated with causes for poor, most of the board are themselves poor. As such, they are often rather unsophisticated and thus will be overwhelmed by the sophisticated nature of the organization itself. In fact, the real power at ACORN lies in it executive committee. The executive committee is currently made up of Maude Hurd, Alton Bennett, Maxine Nelson, Carol Hemmingway, Alicia Russell, Pedra Reavis, and Marie Pierre.
There is no question that ACORN is ideological, however in reality ACORN is really driven by something much different than ideology. That drive is greed. ACORN’s real goals aren’t necessarily any sort of change but rather to create a plethora of constant campaigns. The work on such campaigns as living wage, universal health care, and providing housing for the poor. As such, whatever accomplishments like the Community Reinvestment Act had in influencing society, what they really did was provide ACORN with a nearly never ending platform.
http://theeprovocateur.blogspot.com/2009/01/inside-story-of-acorn.html
Heads up
“Sen Grassley’s documents indicate that ACORN’s tax-exempt groups——along with its tangled web of allied organizations—— used more than half their charitable and public money in 2006 to pay other ACORN affiliates.”
Wow!
My guess is that it will be even worse than that when the books are finally gone over with a fine tooth comb. ACORN(acting as the democrats personal honey pot) took millions of dollars out of the hands of the poor and deserving non-profits that were competing for federal funds. If this is not enough to bring down the democrats and ACORN, our country is in real trouble.
“NOTE: in the 2nd diagram ... the Chicago law firm of former employees, Valerie Jarrett, Michelle Obama and Barack Obama: SIDLEY, AUSTIN”
What a nest of vipers!! They are basically ‘stealing from the poor’ to feather their own nests and political ambitions.
Also note that ACORN, through its Democracy Alliance arm. is still in the Whitehouse as an adviser on the Presidents Economic Recorvery Advisory Board.
Would you like to ask Trevor Loudon a question?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2350063/posts
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