My take on ACORN - another stupid program designed by overeducated stupid people.
Lets do a little connect the dots . . .
WADE RATHKE
Leader and founder of the radical cult ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) - a nationwide activist network engaged in "community organizing" and in voter mobilization drives for George Soros' Shadow Party
Former draft-resistance activist for the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Former activist in the National Welfare Reform Organization (NWRO) and protegé of its founder George A. Wiley Co-founder of the Tides Foundation, along with Drummond Pike.
Currently serves as Board Chairman of the Tides Center and member of the Tides Foundation Board of Directors
Founded Local 100 of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) in New Orleans and heads it to this day.
Rathke is president and co-founder of SEIU's Southern Conference and a member of SEIU's national executive board. He also helped launch the United Labor Union (ULU), which organizes low-skill service workers.
Rathke chairs the AFL-CIO's Organizers Forum and formerly served as Secretary-Treasurer of the Greater New Orleans AFL-CIO.
Wade Rathke is one of the most powerful - yet least known - of America's hard-Left activists. As leader and founder of America's largest radical group, ACORN; co-founder and chairman of the Tides Center; board member of the Tides Foundation; executive board member of SEIU and chairman of the AFL-CIO's Organizers Forum, Rathke exerts influence over three major chokepoints of leftist power: radical foundations; radical public-sector unions; and activist foot-soldiers in the streets.
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This website is a very valuable resource for how all the left over communists of the 60's have engrained themselves into labor, academia, government and charitable organizations. And I believe they have found a candidate who encompasses all their values and who they are pushing for with every dollar and connection they can. I think it is a diabolical plan.
Pan_Yan,
I loved your erudite and appropriate use of Saul Alinsky’s quote. That’s why I looked up and countered with one my own.
But, my friend, you are giving this 60s types too much credit. And, if you are looking for former radicals, please check out the roots of the Neo-conservative movement.