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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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Please note that any hope of financial recovery is under attack by ACORN. IT IS TIME for LOUISIANA to investigate this CONSPIRACY TO OVERTHROW OUR GOVERNMENT BY CRASHING THE FINANCIAL SYSTEMS, as ACORN claimes it has ability to do.

The Attorney General of Louisiana has the right to investigate this CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION for CONSPIRACY against the American People, now that their leaders have made that claim. The NON PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS (over 200 in one old funeral parlor, NOLA) THAT ARE INCORPORATED IN LOUISIANA are under REPUBLICAN GOV BOBBY JINDAL (a Rhodes Scholar), and approved by the office of SECR of STATE. NOW in Gov Jindal's defense ACORN started in 1970, and long before he was Gov.

There are over 200 ORGANIZATIONS with ACORN, UNDER ONE ROOF AT A OLD FUNERAL PARLOR IN NEW ORLEANS, LA....SO where are the authorities on this, and why haven't they been audited, and their records checked for using TAXPAYER GRANTS inappropriately?? The voting fraud indictments in other states is enough to evoke a LA investigation...why hasn't it happened?

NOW, if Jindal wants to help America he will ask his Attorney General to start an investigation of the COMMENTS OF ACORN LEADERS we have read on ECONOMICPOLICYJOURNAL.com at a meeting last weekend.

Please read the above website's article "The Radical Left Plans to Shut Down the Financial System in October", if you haven't already (another thread). SCROLL down by date until you reach SUNDAY, AUGUST 9, 2009 for that article by Robert Wenzel, author and publisher.

PLEASE NOTE: NO non profit incorporated organization gets a Federal non profit incorporation 501 (c) (3) or (4) without going through the SECRETARY OF STATE, where they are located in LOUISIANA.

If the STATE of Louisiana should find criminal activity, then they have the right TO REVOKE that NON-Profit INCORPORATION, and that would disqualify them on the FEDERAL LEVEL..and THAT WOULD MEAN NO MORE TAXPAYER DOLLARS IN the FORM OF MILLIONS/BILLIONS IN GRANTS to use against Americans; AS ACORN HAS DONE.

TREASON is War against Americans, and to me that war does not have to be with guns, if they are using the Financial System and our Mortgage System as a weapon, then they are guilty.

In Criminal Justice, if a man uses his car or his briefcase to intentially kill a man, it is murder nonetheless... Please write Gov Jindal, The AG of LA and the SECR of STATE of LA to investigate, prosecute, revoke non profit status incorporation of ACORN for statements and acts against the American people.

THIS is an opportunity for Gov Jindal to prove he is one of us, and if JINDAL doesn't handle the corruption in his own state, then how could we trust him to handle corruption nationally??

I'll post some email addresses within the thread, when I find them...or if you have some handy PLEASE post for Louisiana.

EVERYONE WHO WRITES the GOV, AG AND SECR OF STATE REQUESTING IMMEDIATE ACTION FROM GOV AND AG IS A PATRIOT.

1 posted on 08/13/2009 4:45:13 PM PDT by Kackikat
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To: Kackikat

http://www.gov.louisiana.gov/index.cfm?md=form&tmp=email_governor


2 posted on 08/13/2009 4:52:50 PM PDT by Kackikat (There is no such thing as a free lunch, because someone paid, somewhere.)
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3 posted on 08/13/2009 4:55:23 PM PDT by Iron Munro (You can't kill the beast while sucking at its teat - Claire Wolfe)
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To: Kackikat

Contact Elected Officials

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4 posted on 08/13/2009 4:55:23 PM PDT by Son House (President Øbama Turns His Back On The Oppressed During Their Darkest Hours)
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To: Kackikat

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


5 posted on 08/13/2009 4:57:13 PM PDT by Kackikat (There is no such thing as a free lunch, because someone paid, somewhere.)
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To: IndianPrincessOK; AmericanGirlRising

ping to get busy!


6 posted on 08/13/2009 4:58:45 PM PDT by sarasota
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7 posted on 08/13/2009 5:00:01 PM PDT by mojitojoe (All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for the people to remain silent.)
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To: Son House

THANKS FOR INFO...I have posted both Gov and AG links for EMAILS ON THREAD NOW, TO MYSELF....before anyone else seemed listed.
We have to go to source of their incorporation/non profit origination by STATE and that is LA...is Gov Jindal with us?? The AG needs to act now on those statements Wenzel heard at that meeting over last weekend from leaders of ACORN.


8 posted on 08/13/2009 5:00:00 PM PDT by Kackikat (There is no such thing as a free lunch, because someone paid, somewhere.)
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To: Kackikat
The voting fraud indictments in other states is enough to evoke a LA investigation...why hasn't it happened?

Democrats - Republicans - Maybe a Dime's Bit Of Difference

~ Larry Elder, The Ten Things You Can't Say In America

I firmly believe this is why there is no thunder from the Right. Because the Left has the goods on them.

9 posted on 08/13/2009 5:00:17 PM PDT by Old Sarge (Marking Time On The Government's Dime)
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To: Kackikat

Link isn’t working. I hope you got a screen shot.


10 posted on 08/13/2009 5:01:32 PM PDT by mojitojoe (All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for the people to remain silent.)
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To: STARWISE; maggief; SE Mom; Miss Didi; hoosiermama

Please ping your lists so we can get busy writing Jindal. We have to do everything in our power to stop this marxist takeover of our country and bring these criminals to justice.


11 posted on 08/13/2009 5:06:19 PM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: mojitojoe

Here is BLOG ARTICLE;
Act Now to Really Enforce The CRA
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.”

Amen!! This is a big fight worth our time and energy even in these days and times when we are pushed between pillar and post fighting other big-ticket issues.

In New Orleans in the post-Katrina we learned a lot about house gutting. We ran crews of workers and volunteers into homes to pull out all of the guts of the house down to the studs so that it could be rebuild. From the outside it looked like a house. From the inside it looked like a house skeleton.

The banks and other financial fast dealers are already acting like house gutters around CRA and the new CFPA. House Financial Services Committee Chair Barney Frank (D-Mass) actually introduced the bill about a month ago without moving CRA under the new regime instead leaving it at the mercy of the current procedures. This won’t work. We have endured decades of dilution and watched one tooth after another being pulled from the CRA protections to the point CRA was often simply gumming banks while 70% of home mortgages before the crises were being loaned outside of CRA regulations.

There are some peoples’ heroes on that Committee like Maxine Waters (D-CA) and Al Green, our friend from Houston. These committees are huge so there are a lot of friends and some folks who boycotting the census, so a little of everything.

We need to reach out for them now while it is on our minds and demand that they stand up to the big money lobbyists and put CRA in the Consumer Financial Protection Agency where it belongs and can finally do its job again. When this financial catastrophe eases up, our people are going to need houses and be hard pressed to buy them without a CRA with real teeth and muscle.

Reach out to these folks now and put CRA under the CFPA where it can do some good:

Majority Members

Barney Frank, Chairman, Massachusetts
Paul E. Kanjorski, Pennsylvania
Maxine Waters, California
Carolyn B. Maloney, New York
Luis Gutierrez, Illinois
Nydia Velázquez, New York
Mel Watt, North Carolina
Gary Ackerman, New York
Brad Sherman, California
Gregory W. Meeks, New York
Dennis Moore, Kansas
Michael Capuano, Massachusetts
Ruben Hinojosa, Texas
William Clay, Jr., Missouri
Carolyn McCarthy, New York
Joe Baca, California
Stephen Lynch, Massachusetts
Brad Miller, North Carolina
David Scott, Georgia
Al Green, Texas
Emanuel Cleaver, Missouri
Melissa Bean, Illinois
Gwen Moore, Wisconsin
Paul Hodes, New Hampshire
Keith Ellison, Minnesota
Ron Klein, Florida
Charlie Wilson, Ohio
Ed Perlmutter, Colorado
Joe Donnelly, Indiana
Bill Foster, Illinois
André Carson, Indiana
Jackie Speier, California
Travis Childers, Mississippi
Walt Minnick, Idaho
John Adler, New Jersey
Mary Jo Kilroy, Ohio
Steve Driehaus, Ohio
Suzanne Kosmas, Florida
Alan Grayson, Florida
Jim Himes, Connecticut
Gary Peters, Michigan
Dan Maffei, New York
Minority Members

Spencer Bachus, Ranking Member, Alabama
Michael N. Castle, Delaware
Peter T. King, New York
Ed Royce, California
Frank Lucas, Oklahoma
Ron Paul, Texas
Steve LaTourette, Ohio
Donald A. Manzullo, Illinois
Walter B. Jones, North Carolina
Judy Biggert, Illinois
Gary Miller, California
Shelley Moore Capito, West Virginia
Jeb Hensarling, Texas
Scott Garrett, New Jersey
J. Gresham Barrett, South Carolina
Jim Gerlach, Pennsylvania
Randy Neugebauer, Texas
Tom Price, Georgia
Patrick McHenry, North Carolina
John Campbell, California
Adam Putnam, Florida
Michele Bachmann, Minnesota
Kenny Marchant, Texas
Thaddeus McCotter, Michigan
Kevin McCarthy, California
Bill Posey, Florida
Lynn Jenkins, Kansas
Christopher Lee, New York
Erik Paulsen, Minnesota
Leonard Lance, New Jersey
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August 12th, 2009 | Tags: Barney Frank, CFPA, Citizens Action, Consumer Protection, CRA, Home Ownership | Category: Citizen Wealth, Community Organizing, Financial Justice, Foreclosure, Organizing
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12 posted on 08/13/2009 5:15:28 PM PDT by Kackikat (There is no such thing as a free lunch, because someone paid, somewhere.)
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To: Kackikat

13 posted on 08/13/2009 5:18:49 PM PDT by maggief
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To: penelopesire; Jeff Head; MeekOneGOP; Arthur Wildfire! March; Travis McGee

Thanks for using your ping lists....please bump this post tomorrow ...let’s fill up Louisiana’s mailboxes.


14 posted on 08/13/2009 5:19:57 PM PDT by Kackikat (There is no such thing as a free lunch, because someone paid, somewhere.)
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To: Old Sarge

“I firmly believe this is why there is no thunder from the Right. Because the Left has the goods on them. “

That’s why we have to make our own thunder.


15 posted on 08/13/2009 5:21:38 PM PDT by Let's Roll (Stop paying ACORN to destroy America! Cut off their government funding!)
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To: maggief

Thanks,,,I copied on 12.....it is under BLOG

RATHKE IS ALSO SDS (marxist org Students for Democratic Society) FROM 1960S JUST LIKE BILL AYERS;

http://dianej.wordpress.com/2008/10/17/acorn-founder-wade-rathke-former-member-of-sds-just-like-ayers/


16 posted on 08/13/2009 5:26:07 PM PDT by Kackikat (There is no such thing as a free lunch, because someone paid, somewhere.)
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To: Let's Roll

Check out who attends those Conspiracy Theory meetings, and you will find it’s no theory.


17 posted on 08/13/2009 5:27:26 PM PDT by Kackikat (There is no such thing as a free lunch, because someone paid, somewhere.)
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To: Old Sarge

It’s time to find out who GOV BOBBY JINDAL really is, and if his ATTORNEY GENERAL really cares about the law, or is LA just another Obama state.


18 posted on 08/13/2009 5:32:43 PM PDT by Kackikat (There is no such thing as a free lunch, because someone paid, somewhere.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Time to hold ACORN accountable.


19 posted on 08/13/2009 5:34:15 PM PDT by Kackikat (There is no such thing as a free lunch, because someone paid, somewhere.)
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To: maggief

Have you read the ACORN leaders comments from this article:
http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/
Scroll down to SUN August 9, 2009, to read article I noted in my comments section??
Also do you know how to BUMP this article?


20 posted on 08/13/2009 5:48:01 PM PDT by Kackikat (There is no such thing as a free lunch, because someone paid, somewhere.)
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