EXCLUSIVE: ACORN Playing Behind Scenes Role in 'Occupy' Movement

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[Sub-Driver]

EXCLUSIVE: ACORN Playing Behind Scenes Role in 'Occupy' Movement

By Jana Winter

Published October 26, 2011 | FoxNews.com

The former New York office for ACORN, the disbanded community activist group, is playing a key role in the self-proclaimed “leaderless” Occupy Wall Street movement, organizing “guerrilla” protest events and hiring door-to-door canvassers to collect money under the banner of various causes while spending it on protest-related activities, sources tell FoxNews.com.

The former director of New York ACORN, Jon Kest, and his top aides are now busy working at protest events for New York Communities for Change (NYCC). That organization was created in late 2009 when some ACORN offices disbanded and reorganized under new names after undercover video exposes prompted Congress to cut off federal funds.

NYCC’s connection to ACORN isn’t a tenuous one: It works from the former ACORN offices in Brooklyn, uses old ACORN office stationery, employs much of the old ACORN staff and, according to several sources, engages in some of the old organization’s controversial techniques to raise money, interest and awareness for the protests.

Sources said NYCC has hired about 100 former ACORN-affiliated staff members from other cities – paying some of them $100 a day - to attend and support Occupy Wall Street. Dozens of New York homeless people recruited from shelters are also being paid to support the protests, at the rate of $10 an hour, the sources said.

[Eleutheria5]

Sure. They’re leaderless. So are the Israeli tent city protests, which aren’t political at all at all at all. It’s all just spontaneous and grassy-rootsy-tootsy, unlike those TEA parties that came before them.

[newzjunkey]

Unexpected! /s

[kevinm13]

The ACORN and the OWS crowds (pretty much the same people) should be tossed in jail for fraud, theft and just plain stupidity.

[Chode]

do I really have to say it???

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Sub-Driver.

[Lets Roll NOW]

‘Dozens of New York homeless people recruited from shelters are also being paid to support the protests, at the rate of $10 an hour...’

Finally, Obama’s economic job policies are starting to kick in!

Is this “Trickle Down Your Leg” economics.

[Allegra]

Sources said NYCC has hired about 100 former ACORN-affiliated staff members from other cities – paying some of them $100 a day - to attend and support Occupy Wall Street. Dozens of New York homeless people recruited from shelters are also being paid to support the protests, at the rate of $10 an hour, the sources said.

And the Starbucks and McDonald's across from Zuccotti Park are doing a booming business.

Great economic strategy, Obie! < /s>

[nascarnation]

The term “homeless problem” disappeared from the MSM in Jan 09.

That’s when the rise of the oceans began to slow and the earth began to heal......

[NewinTexsas]

The Craigslist.org ad was ONLY $8.50 an hour ...

[nascarnation]

Maybe that didn’t include tips.

I’m sure the happy residents of adjacent housing are more than happy to slip a fiver to them occasionally. /S

[RandallFlagg]

ACORN just morphed into AHCOA.

They’re still out there.

[Drango]

Wonder if NYSlimes and NPR will report it...

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

So , since they are out there , wearing another ‘sheeps’ clothing’ and there is money that has been ordered to be repaid to the government , I am assuming that since the organizational name change (with the same exact structure and officers) , cant they go after themfor the repayment ?

Or would it be Holders job ?

[LomanBill]

 

 

" Uhhhh, that's not ours either! "

---Weiner, Obama, Pelosi, Frank, Pritzker and Associates, LLLP.

 

 

Follow the....

http://www.campaignmoney.com/finance.asp?type=in&cycle=08&criteria=pritzker&fname=penny

 

Billionaire business mogul Penny Pritzker is a member of one of America’s richest families and was the Finance Chair for the presidential campaign of Barack Obama.  It was Pritzker that led the prolific, and illegal, fundraising that helped power Barack Obama’s presidential campaign.  She was the chair of Chicago-based Superior Bank’s board for five years.  Pritzker was into subprime lending before it became all the rage starting in around 2000.  Prtizker's chairmanship was to concentrate on sub prime lending, principally on home mortgages, but for a while in subprime auto lending, too, after the Pritzkers' bank acquired its wholesale mortgage organization division, Alliance Funding, in December 1992. Back then they called it "predatory lending." Superior Bank went belly up in 2001 with over $1 billion in insured and uninsured deposits; 1,406 depositors lost much of their life savings.  This collapse came amid harsh criticism of how Superior’s owners promoted sub-prime home mortgages. On Nov. 1 [2002] the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. pointed the finger at Ernst & Young, Superior’s auditor, in a fraud suit filed in federal court here.  But that action came two months after a group of Superior depositors accused the bank’s owners and directors, including two members of the Pritzker family, of racketeering....

[snip]

...Pritzker is chairman of Classic Residence by Hyatt, luxury senior living communities in 11 states; chairman of The Parking Spot, which owns and operates off-airport parking facilities in nine cities; chairman of the credit data company TransUnion and chairman of Pritzker Realty.  She also sits on the board of Global Hyatt and plays a role in numerous non-profit groups, including serving as chairman of the Olympic village portion of Chicago’s bid to win the 2016 Summer Games. 

 

http://www.theobamafile.com/_associates/PennyPritzker.htm

 

 

 

Nudge nudge nudge...

 

[haroldeveryman]

This is getting interesting. One can imagine this taking the form of an “Occupy the Polling Places” movement a year from now, if it becomes apparent that Obama’s fat cat money can’t buy him enough votes.

[Howie]

Oldie come true

[John123]

NYCC has hired about 100 former ACORN-affiliated staff members from other cities – paying some of them $100 a day - to attend and support Occupy Wall Street. Dozens of New York homeless people recruited from shelters are also being paid to support the protests, at the rate of $10 an hour

Obamanomics created these jobs.

[uptoolate]

$100/day, $10/hr???

Why isn’t it $200/day, $20/hr???

Hypocrites.

[jurroppi1]

They morphed into a ton of different things. I had thought COIE was one of them, but I can’t find the info right now (perhaps the wrong acronym).

Anyway, there is some really good info here: http://theeprovocateur.blogspot.com/2010/04/issa-report-acorn-rebranding.html

Open the first link in that entry and you’ll see the report: http://republicans.oversight.house.gov/images/stories/Reports/20100401ACORNreport.pdf

There are tables that show what each acorn chapter that re-branded has morphed into by state.

[jurroppi1]

Here it is: ACORN is now COI...
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=32409