There were radical groups back in the 60s who began using the Alinski Rules to attack elected officials by disrupting meetings and accusing them of all sorts of things, no matter how fanciful or false.
Being from S. Texas, I watched the radical Mexican nationalist group Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán (MEChA) and La Raza and some local MA organizationa as they used the Alinkski tactics in S. Texas cities with some success.
Yes. Here’s a profile of La Raza I wrote mentioning Alinskyite Cesar Chavez’ involvement with them:
La Raza Unida aka La Raza Unida Party, Raza Unida Party (RUP), Southwest Council of La Raza (SWCLR), National Council of La Raza (NCLR): Chicano nationalist party founded in 1970. RUP emerged from the Crusade for Justice (CFJ, aka La Crusada Por Justicia), a Chicano organizing group founded in 1966 by Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzalez. Gonzalez’ father had served in the army of Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa. After unsuccessfully attempting to pull the Denver Democratic Party’s welfare policies further left through its Neighborhood Youth Corp (NYC), Gonzalez split with conventional politics over the course of 1966-1967 to start a Chicano-oriented branch of the civil rights movement, joining the antiwar movement in the process and attracting FBI surveillance. Inspired by the example of the Black Panther Party, he formed the CFJ to promote Chicano nationalism and socio-political participation. La Raza Unida emerged as CPJ’s political arm in Colorado, and similar parties formed in other Southwestern states, leading to the formation of the Southwest Council of La Raza (SWCLR) in 1968 and a national convention in 1972 wherein SWCLR became the National Council of La Raza (NCLR). During the 1968-1972 period Communist-linked organizer Cesar Chavez became active in the La Raza Unida movement, and SWCLR began to receive funding from some of the same left-wing sources funding Chavez, such as United Auto Workers, the National Council of Churches, and the Ford Foundation. At the time of Dewey Canyon III in spring 1971 the Colorado CFJ and La Raza Unida participated in antiwar events with the Colorado Peace Coalition (CPC), a SWP-led coalition which included the Colorado VVAW.