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ACORN'S RATHKE TELLS MEMBERS TO ACT NOW TO REALLY ENFORCE THE COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT ACT
Chief Organizer ^ | 08/13/09 | Kackikat

Posted on 08/13/2009 4:45:11 PM PDT by Kackikat

Dauphine Island The Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) passed in 1977 occupies a lot of space in my book, Citizen Wealth, because it is both arguably the single largest legislative victory achieved by community organizations over the last generation and because it has helped millions purchase homes, one of the most dramatic creators of citizen wealth for lower income and working families, especially in minority communities. The Obama Administration has proposed a super-cop, the Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA), to ensure that CRA and other consumer protections are fully followed and enforced across the gamut of financial institutions.

Yippee, yi-ky-yay! Thank god!

As Phyllis Salowe-Kaye, Executive Director, New Jersey Citizen Action recently wrote in the Star-Ledger:

“The CFPA proposed by the president would have broad institutional oversight of enforcement responsibilities for the wide range of financial consumer protection laws already in place, including CRA, and bolsters the chances of passage of the Community Reinvestment Modernization Act of 2009…This law would strengthen CRA as it is applied to banks and expand CRA’s reach to non-bank financial institutions. There is a critical need to have independent mortgage companies and other non-bank lenders subject to the same rules as banks. Quite simply, if you are doing the same business, you should be subject to the same rules.”

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21 posted on 08/13/2009 5:52:35 PM PDT by Islander7 (If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
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To: Islander7

Absolutely, and do NOT GO ALONE...these are UNION SEIU members and communists ACORN...but together as groups they will know that WE THE PEOPLE are still in charge.


22 posted on 08/13/2009 6:04:19 PM PDT by Kackikat (There is no such thing as a free lunch, because someone paid, somewhere.)
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To: Kackikat

This post???

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/

Sunday, August 9, 2009
Radical Left Plans to Shut Down Financial System in October

The radical left is about to crank things up. Militant action is on their agenda.

I just attended a panel discussion at the American Sociological Association conference to see what they were up to. It doesn’t sound pretty.

The panel included top left wing rabble rousers. Steve Kest, executive director of ACORN, was there. As well as an up and coming rabble rouser, George Goehl of the National People’s Action Network. Also on the panel Gabe Gonzales of the Center for Community Change and Matt Hammer of the People Acting in Community Together-San Francisco.

Each participant was given five minutes for an opening statement followed by discussion and audience participation.

Goehl was the first to speak. He called for challenging people on the streets. “We need to put feet on the ground,” he said. He then said that big ideas need to be promoted. What is his big idea? To my amazement, he said the Federal Reserve should be the target.

Goehl’s organization is the group that recently protested in front of Bernanke’s house.

Don’t take his anti-Federal Reserve stance as an anti-big government stance, though. He is a big supporter of government nationalized healthcare, intervention to stop mortgage foreclosures and governmet heavy handed control interest rates. He is protesting the Fed becasue he wants more representation “by the people” at the Fed. His people, of course

On another point, he said his organization has friends in the White House and in HUD.

When it was ACORN Executive Director Kest’s turn to speak, he also said that more militant actions are going to occur. He went even more radical than Goel, he specifically referred to people soon who will refuse to leave their houses upon foreclosure and community organization members who will stand alongside those who refuse to leave the foreclosed homes. He said that HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan was on ACORN’s side and that they can discuss countermeasures with the HUD Secretary that he can use against Treasury Secretary Geithner and Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke. He said they are not discussing their more militant plans with Donovan so that he has “deniability.”

Kest said that if the Employee Free Choice Act passes it will not only be a great recruiting tool for unions but also for ACORN. He said more and more they hope to do joint programs with unions.

Glenn Beck’s attacks on ACORN seem to be making an impact. Kest said, twice, that Beck’s attack were a big problem. “I don’t know how to deal with him. The best we can do is have Rachel Madow cover us once a month.”

Kest reported that he has organizations in 100 cities, that he has 100 paid organizers and over 1,000 community groups that are part of ACORN. He said total membership is 500,000 people. He said that pre-the election, ACORN had 13,000 people out on the street registering voters.

He said, “Rham Emanuel told our friends that he needs ACORN to pressure against the Treasury.”

Overall, from Kest and Goehl, the message was that more militant acts were coming.

Gonzales talked about the new poor that were being created by the recession. After asking the audience what the French word for poor was, he called those impacted by a lower standard of living the “noveaux pauvre.” He said that they were available for recruitment into their organizations, if done properly.

Hammer gave some detailed organizing specifics including how his organization goes into churches and other organizations looking for natural leaders that have followers.

In a private conversation, I asked Goehl what he thought of Ron Paul’s bill to audit the Fed. Without hesitating he said, “I think it’s great”. Goehl seems to be influenced by William Grieder. He told me they are planning a mass rally in Chicago for October where they hope to “shut down the financial system.”

As a result of Goehl’s protest in front of Bernanke’s house, Bernanke agreed to send top Fed officials to meet with community members in 9 cities. The meetings are going on now. Goehl told me, “We know just how much to push. We cause them a lot of problems, but not so much that they won’t show up at the next meeting.” Goehl told me that once this round of meetings is over, he is going to sit down with Bernanke for their next demands.

Goehl said that he expects that in two years some action they do will “piss off a lot people” and that National People’s Action will have the same problems that ACORN is having, i.e., identified as a very radical movement. I think Goehl is shooting for that kind of notoriety. His organization is running “war games,” he said, in anticipation of eventual ACORN type problems. The impression I got is that he is sharp enough and determined enough that he will become a major, if not the major player on the radical left, in time.


23 posted on 08/13/2009 6:04:35 PM PDT by maggief
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To: Kackikat
 
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24 posted on 08/13/2009 6:14:19 PM PDT by LomanBill (Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
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To: LomanBill

We have to get Louisiana to start investigating that 200 non profit incorporated groups, that got their nonprofit status at STATE level before applying for 501 (c) (3) or (4) at Federal Level...STop stealing of Taxpayer dollars by getting millions/billions in GRANTS, and get them off streets doing voter fraud in 2010.


25 posted on 08/13/2009 6:42:41 PM PDT by Kackikat (There is no such thing as a free lunch, because someone paid, somewhere.)
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To: penelopesire; seekthetruth; television is just wrong; jcsjcm; BP2; Pablo Mac; April Lexington; ...

BUMP FOR ACTION!

http://www.ag.state.la.us/Article.aspx?articleID=28&catID=12


26 posted on 08/13/2009 7:19:54 PM PDT by STARWISE (The Art & Science Institute of Chicago Politics NE Div: now open at the White House)
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To: Kackikat
S.E.
I.U.

The whole world's watching YOU

27 posted on 08/13/2009 7:23:59 PM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 204 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: Kackikat; 7.62mm; ABG(anybody but Gore); alligator; AmericanMom1; Askel5; Aurelius; ...

Dusting off my old Louisiana Ping List for this one.
And Pingin’ my General Interest List as well.

Ping! Ping! Ping!


28 posted on 08/13/2009 8:06:35 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP (2008: The year the Media died. --Sean Hannity, regarding Barack HUSSEIN ObaMao's treatment ...)
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To: Kackikat

http://michellemalkin.com/2009/08/06/acorn-watch-louisiana-investigates/

The Louisiana Attorney General has opened an investigation into the community-organizing organization ACORN.

“All we can say is we are investigating,” wrote Tammi Arender, a spokeswoman for Attorney General Buddy Caldwell’s office. “We can’t say much else since it’s open.”

She encouraged anyone with credible information about ACORN to call investigators at (225) 326-6120.


29 posted on 08/13/2009 8:39:58 PM PDT by MestaMachine (One if by land, 2 if by sea, 3 if by Air Force 1.)
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To: MeekOneGOP

Thanks for the ping!


30 posted on 08/13/2009 9:22:15 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: Kackikat

bump


31 posted on 08/13/2009 9:25:42 PM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: WashingtonSource

Thanks.


32 posted on 08/14/2009 7:36:41 AM PDT by Kackikat (There is no such thing as a free lunch, because someone paid, somewhere.)
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To: WashingtonSource

Thanks, and I don’t believe the CRA is what the ACORN/RADICAL LEFT is planning as a financial crisis for October.

It is my belief that they have insiders in department that sends SOCIAL SECURITY/DISABILITY checks, and that the check/deposit system is going to be sabatoged. That will be a repayment to Seniors for going to TownHall Meetings, and it will be a way of stopping immediately money going into economy. Think about that, and how many ACORN people are working for gov’t.

Now, this group is NOT composed of wealthy, so their actual withdrawals would not comprise enough for a collapse. HOWEVER, in conjunction with that type of sinister act, these people could remove from all their accounts smaller amounts that would pose some effect on financial system.
I could be wrong about my “beliefs”, however October isn’t that far away, so if you are a Senior/disabled prepare for that possibility in October.


33 posted on 08/14/2009 7:41:22 AM PDT by Kackikat (There is no such thing as a free lunch, because someone paid, somewhere.)
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