ACORN’s Seeds Sprout Up Across the Country

The Daily Beast ^ | January 13, 2014 | David Freedlander

[2ndDivisionVet]

The left-wing group crushed by the right is gone, but its members never stopped working. After four years of anonymity, the liberal veterans want conservatives to know they’re back.

In 2010, ACORN, the grassroots organizing group, was reeling from a series of scandals, and with most of its funding pulled, shuttered the last of its remaining offices around the country.

For conservatives, it was a triumph. The newly ascendant right-wing blogosphere caught ACORN reps on tape giving their low-income clients advice on how to engage in tax evasion, human smuggling, and child prostitution (the tapes, it was revealed later were heavily and selectively edited). What’s more, the right shut down an organization that was responsible for one quarter of all new voter registrations around the country, and had pushed for low-income housing and living-wage jobs over the past four decades.

Four years later, it appears as if those shouts of celebration from the likes of Sarah Palin, Andrew Breitbart, and Rush Limbaugh may have been premature. That’s because from Florida to California, dozens of entities have sprung up in the wake of ACORN, many of them with the same leadershipand doing the same work that the group did for 40 years.

“These guys created a bunch of organizing Frankensteins around the country,” said Bertha Lewis, who was the ACORN CEO when the organization folded and who now leads The Black Institute, a think tank dedicated to African-American issues. “I had to dismantle ACORN, but nature abhors a vacuum. What were those former ACORN members to do? They were so angry at what they thought was so bogus and unfair that they said we are not going to go away. We have to reorganize.”(continued)

[Jane Long]

Prolly working with that Battleground Texas group. I see their *news report* ads every time I watch utube vid.

Not surprised they're in San Antonio...home of the La Raza raised Castro bros.

[dalereed]

Since they are into schools is why I’ve never heard of them.

The last contact i had with any school is when I graduated from college 55 years ago.

If they are in the San Diego area they are very quiet about it.

[stevie_d_64]

Yep...

[MeshugeMikey]

all member of Hussein's civilian army will not necessarily be decked out in the official uniform and may be seen wearing everything from hoodies to Red Plaid Pajamas

they will all be recognizable by their SWAGGER!

Thank you!

[cripplecreek]

“You fill the gap, a unique need that no one else can meet… You are part of a grand experiment that I think is going to change education in this country forever.”

— U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to City Year.

They use teens and children to do things like pimp immigration reform, wage reform, civil rights for transgender lesbian midgets etc.

[dragonblustar]

They are gearing up for the next presidential election.

[Jane Long]

Ah...the old, recycled Stalin/Hitler (choose your fave dictator) tricks. Got it. Thanks.

We were out one eve in Houston and I saw that a new (expanded) rail system is going in downtown. I said..."Look! It's the Agenda 21 Railway coming to bring all the peeps into centralized, multi-family housing!".

[EQAndyBuzz]

One of those Castro brothers will be Hillary’s VP choice.

[cripplecreek]

City year recruits in formation. )Probably chanting "mmm mmm mmm Barack Husein Obama"

[Jane Long]

No doubt. This *team* gives us so much rich material to work with, but the RNC won’t play to win :-(

[jonrick46]

If you think the weed of Communism was eradicated with the end of the Cold War, take a close look at the ACORN menace. ACORN is a neo-Communist revolutionary organisation founded by Communist Cult Leader Wade Rathke using subversive tactics dedicated to the overthrowing of our country.

[KGeorge]

My second thought. My first was ‘well, why not? November is only ~10 months away’. They’ll be ready to work their “magic”. Will we? (Be ready, I mean)

[dalereed]

Not seen anywhere around here.

[Buckeye McFrog]

There was an initiative during the second term of the Reagan Administration called “Defunding the Left”.

It had to do with ferreting out all of these hidden programs that shuttled taxpayer money to groups like ACORN and shutting off the spigot.

An essential task for the future of the Republic. Unfortunately with a Democrat House, and the intervention of Iran-Contra, it never went anywhere.

[cripplecreek]

Rathke’s brother embezzled a million dollars from ACORN and no charges were ever filed and somebody quietly paid the money back to keep the spotlight off ACORN.

[dennisw]

This is the shadow government. They receive their wages from the government, whether it is as a public employee, a grant of some sort, or a welfare recipient.

Exactly!!
It's all about getting paid....by the man!!...by gov't in one way or another. Meaning taxpayers are paying you
Especially all the Federal and state grants for Acorn type organizations and tons of other minority and female NGOs. The NGO and charity sector is run by liberal women. They love sitting in those offices ____getting paid_____ while doing nothing that really helps anyone

Remember Obama said to a Hispanic group----- Reward your friends and punish your enemies"

Also translating into-- pay your friends with money you take from your enemies
Fund your friends by defunding your enemies