According to Dept of Labor statistics, ACORN has received approximately $4 million from the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) as well as local affiliates.....Illinois Homecare Workers and HomeChildcare Providers, a local Chicago SEIU union, which was formed through ACORNs efforts, which pays rent to ACORN as well as contributing through the SEIU. According to a recent NPR investigation, ACORN also receives funding from the Change to Win labor federation, the Food and Commercial Workers Union and the United Federation of Teachers.
REFERENCE (NPR: ACORN's Money Tree HasMany Branches, October 15, 2008)
ACORN receives funding from a variety of private charitable organizations that are widely recognized as “liberal” ........The Bauman Family Foundation, George Soros' Open Society Institute, and the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.
REFERENCE (NPR: ACORN's Money Tree Has Many Branches, October 15, 2008).
ACORN and its affiliates also receive funding from more traditional sources, such as corporate foundations, including the JP Morgan Chase Foundation, Ben & Jerry's foundation, the Bank of America Charitable Foundation, and Citigroup, as well as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and foundations affiliated with the founder of United Parcel Service (UPS). A full list of ACORN and ACORN affiliate donors is available from the Capital Research Center, a non-profitorganization which studies political advocacy groups.
REFERENCE (Foundation Watch, 2008: Capital Research Center Cracks the ACORN). ACORN and its affiliated entities make up a network that has drawn criticism for its complexity and internal relationships.
Elizabeth Kingsley, an ACORN attorney, wrote a devastating 2008 report expressing concerns that ACORN and Project Vote may have violated federal laws because of how they interacted.
(1) ACORN's man in the Obama White House is longtime ACORN operative Patrick Gaspard. He holds the title of White House political affairs director, the same title Karl Rove held in President Bush's White House. He's the President’s fixer and the man who gets ACORN projects and money. Gaspard once worked for ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis.
(2) Patrick Gaspard’s brother Michael Gaspard works for The Advance Group. Michael Gaspard works for ACORN’s registered lobbying organization and with ACORN’s national spokesman Bertha Lewis. Michael apparently keeps a lower profile than his brother. He does not appear on lobbyist disclosures for The Advance Group NY State. Nonetheless, he works there. Ms. Lewis’s contacts list confirms Michael Gaspard’s employment there.
(3) ACORN Shaun Donovan. Mr. Donovan is HUD Secy. Before that, Mr. Donovan was NYC Commissioner of Dept of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD)---where Donovan worked on affordable housing initiatives----projects right up ACORN’s alley.
(4) ACORN Karine Jean-Pierre is WH liaison for Dept of Labor (headed by latino agitator Hilda Solis). Karine once worked for John Edwards (vertical or horizontal?). She left there to work for Cong Anthony Weiner, then became Barack Obama’s regional political director.
The web of connections from ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis straight into the White House, out the other door into HUD and the Dept of Labor (headed by latino agitator Hilda Solis), then circle back to ACORN’s lobbying operation.
ACORNS EVERYWHERE Senate Finance Committee Study
ACORN comprises a mind-boggling 94 different affiliates, that amounts to "a big shell game," a biting Senate Finance Committee study shows. The study, by the staff of Iowa Republican Charles Grassley, reveals four ACORN charity groups give more than half their revenue to taxable entities that engage in "impermissible lobbying and political activity." ACORN and it’s subsidiaries for decades have moved taxpayer money into their own pockets and into the left-wing Marxist machine.
Sen Charles Grassley's documents show leaders of ACORN community groups transferred several million dollars in charitable and government money-----meant for the poor---- to parts of the group that have political (and sometimes profit-making) missions.
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.
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