Major ACORN Victory In New York Thanks In Part To Van Jones
by Andrew MarcusACORN’s New York operations are looking forward to a potential new flow of federal dollars, thanks to the New York State Senate and New York Governor Paterson.
Together they applied the Van Jones’ Apollo doctrine to tap into federal stimulus money allocated to New York.
Governor Paterson recently signed into law something called the “Green Jobs – Green New York Act of 2009″. The new law provides for the creation of a massive slush fund of federal stimulus dollars to be set aside for “green jobs”.
Those green jobs include but will not be limited to “Energy Auditors”, certified green contractors, green financing services to help pay for property upgrades, and more.
There are a number of places in the legislation where ACORN, SEIU, and their affiliates stand to gain access to this new green slush fund. Below is but one excerpt which must make them very happy:
How much money are we talking about? Hundreds of millions of dollars. From the legislation:
*Provides $112 million of capital funding from the Regional Greenhouse
Gas Initiative (RGGI), $70 million of which will be for a Green
Jobs-Green New York revolving loan fund designed to commit resources
fully during this phase with no less than 50 percent of capital monies
going to residential retrofits.*Provides $2-4 million of RGGI funds to be used to establish green job
training throughout the state to establish a green workforce for the
2151 century and requires the NYS Department of Labor to work with
NYSERDA to development additional training resources.
Don’t worry, because the legislation calls for an advisory board to monitor all of the projects and how the cash is being distributed. That shouldn’t pose much of a threat to ACORN’s access to the cash though, because, almost every sponsor of the legislation just signed into law are card carrying members of President Obama’s Working Families Party, aka ACORN.
Their names are listed below, WFP members are in red:
Introduced by Sens. AUBERTINE, BRESLIN, FOLEY, HUNTLEY, C. JOHNSON, LAVALLE, MAZIARZ, MONSERRATE, MORAHAN, ONORATO, OPPENHEIMER, PARKER, PERKINS, SAMPSON, SAVINO, SCHNEIDERMAN, SERRANO, STACHOWSKI, STEWART-COUSINS, THOMPSON, VALESKY, VOLKER, WINNER
One concerned lawmaker tried to force the ACORN issue when the bill was being debated:
A group calling itself Lawyers 4 Green Jobs authored the legislation with help from the following:
Lawyers for Green Jobs was formed in 2008 by a group of young environmental attorneys who met while attending the New York City Environmental Law Leadership Institute (NYCELLI) and shared a strong passion for the economic implications of environmental and social issues. Their idea to propose green jobs legislation for New York State grew in part from their coursework in NYCELLI and in part due to the fact that there currently exists no such law. Since that time, L4GJ has been engaging national and New York-based green jobs advocacy organizations, such as Green For All, the New York Apollo Alliance, and several environmental justice groups, to foster a statewide policy for green jobs in New York.
Green For All was founded by Van Jones. Now we all know what green he was talking about. Yours and mine.
Working Families Party Director Dan Cantor is crowing about this victory:
Together with Governor Paterson and legislative leaders (both Democrats and Republicans), that coalition helped put together innovative legislation that we hope will be a model for other states.
It’s funny to see Dan Cantor praising Governor Paterson, since it wasn’t that long ago the Working Families Party was slamming Governor Paterson, and his “Right-wing allies in the senate”
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Well…if your McCarthyism hadn't caused Van Jones to quit, you might have been able to hold him accountable. Oh well. ACORN Derangement Syndrome caught on edited, doctored tape!!!
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The more I learn, the more my head wants to explode.
It was predicted by Big Government, Beck, and others, that the funds to ACORN would magically reappear and the media would not follow the story. Depressing, but predicted.
Anyone who thinks that sleazy operation will just disappear, is dreaming. That might mean ACORN scuzzballs may have to get a job? Why work when you can pilfer.
Yeah blame someone else of course. I wonder if Bush had something to do with that?
For once McCarthyism is used properly in a sentence, as Jones was indeed a communist. The point is that he was unaccountable when he was working for the White House. Please consult your talking point handlers for details.
I am pissed about our FEDERAL dollars being given to STATE concerns almost more than ACORN. Why the hell do I give one bit of rat crap about grren jobs in NY? As the story says, it will be a slush fund to pay off campaign contributors (i.e. ACORN) for all of their hard work fixing more elections for the Dems. This type of government waste makes me so angry. Only in liberal NY I guess.
Somebody needs to step up and be a leader and cut them off at the knees. Federal dollars to support and anti-American agency is beyond logic.
And someone please send Jones back to where his ancestors came from, wherever that was.
Was that "Big Berta" in that WFP video?
Phil is right, McCarthyism is actually the search for communist agents within our government. If they profess to be communists, speak out about their respect for communists, and hang out with known communists, then they are suspect ,as they were in the twilight of WWII and the birth of the atomic bomb.
It's called defending your country. Frankly, it's becoming a badge of courage rather than some snarky Woody Allenesque snipe. Keep the commies, they're murdering SOBs and nothing to associate with, ask any Eastern European. Don't be a useful idiot syntax game, if that is your real name…………
"Green jobs are critical to a revitalized New York State economy," said Jeff Jones, Director of New York State Apollo Alliance.
Jeff Jones is one of Bill Ayer's Weathermen pals. Another communist (little c, of course). He and Van Jones are buddies, too.
There is a bigger picture than ACORN, here. Van Jones, Cantor, Jones, et al have been waiting for the day that they could implement their social and justice agenda, and they're doing it through "green jobs." They see a windfall in federal and state funds going into the green energy markets, and they are standing there with their hands out so that they can grab as much as possible to spread the wealth and effect social justice through environmental justice programs. Their main objective is NOT environmentalism, it is social and economic justice. They are just using the green movement to facilitate that.
I see their plot thickens; increase unemployment then offer jobs to these unsuspecting people under the ploy of helping working families, then in turn they will be working for those who created the debacle in the first place.
These people are brilliant, corrupt to the core, but still brilliant. The question is do we have anyone capable of beating them at their own game, since exposing them is not enough, we must get down and dirty with our methods.
Wow! It just keeps getting better and better.
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Appalling!
Sure looked like her to me too.
Hurray! Why? Because the communist left has already destroyed what is left of the democrat party. There is a tsunami a mile high that they cant even see. Pass another stimulous, Obama Care, support ACORN… it is just another nail in the coffin. No worries conservative Americans! Let's party like it's 1979!!!
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ACORN will never have funds cut off. Congress doesn't have the stones
Van Jones gave Nancy Pelosi the idea for the original, national 2007 Green Jobs Act at a global warming roundtable that took place in Oakland, CA, in early 2007. He promised Pelosi that if she said 4 words, she would have a 20-year Democrat majority in the House. At the press conference following the event, Pelosi and Jones said the 4 words: "Clean Energy Jobs Bill." Jones testified before Congress in May 2007 in support of legislation that became the 2007 Green Jobs Act. The bill was introduced to Congress by Hilda Solis (D-CA), John Tierney (D-MA) and to the Senate by Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Hillary Clinton (D-NY). It was signed into law by George W. Bush. see "Green Energy Meets Jobs" by Derrick Z. Jackson of The Boston Globe, September 29, 2007.
Why do I get the feeling non-unionized contractors will get frozen out of the work, which will wind up costing twice as much as otherwise?
Bad enough such work will not "pay for itself" (when individuals buy it) for 10 to 30 years, or at least it does if you don't have to redo it at least once. And that's without the "union premium."
Ah, I see our auto-notified ACORN obfuscater jumped right on this one.
Now if only you would take the time to read the article first so your comment is actually relevant…
Acorn is like a bad zombie movie, every time you kill the monster it somehow sub-divides into a fresh baker's dozen.
So the poster boy for communism got ACORN some money, eh?
Sounds like the CORRUPT GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS in New York need to have their employment terminated.
I’ve had it! What’s going on in Washington is nothing more than money laundering with taxpayer dollars, and last I checked that’s a felony in all 50 states.
Chuckle Chuckle Chuckle … All you can do is laugh, protest, call, and then vote them out (all who are in office who voted for all of these programs aimed at taking away our freedoms. God bless the USA and what it stands for>
"Those green jobs include but will not be limited to “Energy Auditors”, certified green contractors, green financing services to help pay for property upgrades, and more."
Yeah, "GREEN" as in tax payer money green. Isn't there an H1N1 illness this asshole should be contracting somewhere?
You're correct. I recently saw an ad where the United Steelworkers Union was backing Cap and Trade.
I was told by an attorney familiar with the matter that they had been promised that green jobs would be
union jobs only. I realize we're not talking about cap and trade in this thread, but I'm sure they (the unions)
are getting the same deal.
http://api.ning.com/files/2MYG7jUpuskon2W8OgUTTaT...
We all saw how incompetent the ACORN people were
on the films O'Keefe recorded. They can't even give out
advice on housing. Now green technolog, wow! I suppose
next they'll get a grant to perform medical services.
I went to http://www.workingfamilesparty.org, and low and behold they have NO comments on any of their blogs…I guess working families aren't buying it…
what right did that governer have to make that decision with out consulting the tax payers of the federal government i think that this governer should be made to pay every cent of the money that ACORN/SEIU/AFL-CIO/ACLU/OR THE TEAMSTER’S get out of this deal out of his own pockett this governer was wrong for signing this bill with out consulting the tax payer’s.
I would rather we show what we believe in, choice for people, we could offer him a free ticket to the communist country of his choice. He could be happy not having to fight capitalism on a daily basis and we would be happy not having to support this guy. Win win.
it's time to put a stop to all of this wastfull government spending and free handout's i say that we the american citizen taxpayer's should band together and demand that all of these ear mark's and all of this other wastfull spending be stopped we are the only ones that can make this happen so we all must wake up and do something about it if we want our country to seurvive then we must take a stand right now. and with the help of JESUS CHRIST we can take our country back
Green jobs is a scam. ACORN, Van Jones, Cantor, etc are w%*&#s and Obama is their street hustler pimp.
Hahah you are so right–love the analogy!
Just wait until those "Energy Auditors" come to your door to audit your energy use!
Probably will scope your home out for everything else while they're at it!
Who do you think all our "doctors" are going to be after they ram ObaMaoCare up our a$$es? (I wish I could say LOL, but there's that haunting irony that it just may not be too far from the truth…)
So the First Amendment means nothing to you?
The Dims are desperate. Watch for "green energy" job money to suddenly appear in whatever state is having elections this year. The Dim Party has basically become a national crime syndicate and they need ACORN to help stuff the ballot boxes.
During the presidential campaign, it was ACORN that somehow miraculously turned the tide in the 14 swing states where McCain was leading and put them in Obama's column. ACORN is now under investigation for voter registration fraud in those 14 states. Anyone surprised by this?
Well, then don't drive on federally-funded highways, then, if you're concerned about the federal government concerning itself with state issues.
I can see it now. Long unemployment lines in the street while on the roofs above are hundreds of ACORN greenies loafing around, trying to figure out which direction to face the solar collectors.
Not so. The ACORN employees are quite competent. Their problem is that they are immoral and criminal. Just the ticket for advancement in the Obama administration!
No Shawn….please can you look it up and quote it for me? I would really like for you to do that. Instead of copying and pasting it, you should type it as you read for much better clarity. That would be such a neat trick.
Joe, people like yourself and your ilk hawkishly supported and defended the largest government expansion in history. You and your ilk hawkishly supported and defended the largest attack on our American freedoms in our country's history (Patriot Act, Patriot Act II, Terry's Bill, warrantless surveillance), You and your ilk hawkishly supported and defended widespread corruption, tax-payer fraud and blatant violations of the law up to and including murder of US Soldiers and underage sex trafficking and prostitution (Halliburton, KBR, Blackwater, DynaCorp, Titan, Wackenhut). You and your ilk hawkishly supported and defended a president administration that borrowed more money than all 42 previous presidents combined. You and your ilk hawkishly supported and defended a president who gave us the largest wasteful spending and the largest deficit in history and brought us the worst financial crisis in over 6 decades. You and your ilk hawkishly supported and defended a bogus war that killed more Americans than 9/11.
Chuckle chuckle chuckle all you want as the majority of America through you out of office and want to make sure you never touch anything important again. Especially since only 10 little months ago did you SUDDENLY decide to be a Conservative and actually care about the freedoms YOU stripped from the rest of us
Communism does NOT wolrk and McCarthy was right……………..stinking Commies do NOT belong anywhere near government positions in this nation, let alone having one.
Since you love MARXISM/COMMUNISM, why not go live where it is actually that nation's form of government?
Well this is a truly great thing for America because the majority of people McCarthy accused of being Communists were in fact, NOT Communists. This lets the majority of America see you in an accurate manner and properly give you the lack of credibility you so richly deserve.
I bet that you believe that Alger Hiss wasn't a a card carrying, stinking Commie tool, even though the now published KGM files have proved that he was.
McCarthy was correct about the then government being stuffed full of Commies. Back then, they used to try to hide where their real sympathies were. Today, many are rfather fcorthright and open about being stinking Commies/ Marxists/ Socialists.
But then, you are, at the least, a FELLOW TRAVELER, so why should anyone care what you have to say…………………unless they too are stinking MARXISTS/COMMIES/SOCIALISTS too?
Changing the subject, but has anyone seen or read the article re: an ex-military man suing Obama for treason???
What the hell do you base all this B.S. on? The reason you question and resent all that the Bush administration did to try to protect Americans is very simply two-fold. For one, you don't trust anybody in authority, or if you do, they are just as extreme as you are. But secondly, you reject the natural order and understanding of things. You don't care about true facts and statistics because, after all, they only get in your way. Things are what they are because you say they are. That's all the validation you need. You are so blindly prejudiced in your thinking that you don't really have the capacity to get at what is really true and right. The very premise you lay out on all the things you mentioned above reveals that. You seem to me to be self-centered and driven completely by ideology.
You are not alone. But the more you learn, the more valuable you are to yourself, your family, and your country. ; )
Stjoeseph,
Yes. I have. I would be interested to know your thoughts and opinion. What do you know about it?
The tape makes three things obvious:
The ACORN employee lied when she said neither of them was dresses in an unusual fashion.
LIed when she said she immediately showed them the door
and lied when she said she was not told Hannah was a prostittute.
The tape has not been doctored. It has simply had the ACORN employees audio deleted. She could change that by giving them permission to play it.
Amen
I'll add those two to the list.
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trea·son
NOUN:
Violation of allegiance toward one's country or sovereign, especially the betrayal of one's country by waging war against it or by consciously and purposely acting to aid its enemies.
A betrayal of trust or confidence.
So since the ACORN employee's audio was deleted, we don't know if she asked them to leave or not do we? Needing permission to play it is a cop-out especially if the "truth" is on their side, is it not? They didn't bother to get permission to play the Maryland tapes and that was a crime. They didn't get permission to play the California tapes and those were a crime as well so what difference does playing the Philly tape matter if the truth is on their side? They're going to get sued anyways so they have nothing to lose do they not?
When asked on numerous occasions "was any ACORN office you went to not complacent with your plan", Giles and O'Keefe responded "No". We now know that was a lie. The Philly office wasn't complacent and the police report proves that beyond a shadow of a doubt. Sorry, I'm believing the Philly PD over these two hacks feeding ACORN Derangement Syndrome to the 694 people who actually care. The L.A. office wasn't complacent and that tape is never going to see the light of day (gee, I wonder why). The San Bernadino office punk'd them with the murdered husband and according to the transcript posted on this website by O'Keefe, the ACORN employee on a few occasions stated "you know ACORN will never let you do this". Statements that were conveniently edited out of the video after Giles and O'Keefe lied and stated they never edited the videos and then posted proof that they DID edit the videos on this website. Duh! The San Diego office wasn't complacent as the National City PD confirmed that the ACORN office employee did contact the police about Giles and O'Keefe and the information was forwarded to a human trafficking task force. Needing ACORN's permission was never a factor in these cases where they lied and continue to lie to this day. If the lie is on their side and they broadcast the videos then having the truth on their side should be a no-brainer.
So this ACORN Derangement Syndrome managed to get a few low-level employees fired who quite honestly, should have been fired. Proud of ya!
Look under your bed!!! The bogeyman is there and there are monsters in your closet. McCarthy was a paranoid idiot.
You have to keep in mind what obama means by green jobs, code word for "you want a dime bag ?"
Growing grass and he made if more possible for all his drug pushers to sell it legally now.
Sorry Mr. Anders but you may be able to re-write history in 10 months but to the majority of America, not gonna happen. It is what it is.
I question authority but am not paranoid of authority. I'm not losing sight of the fact that many of Bush's despotic policies are still in place under Obama's rule.
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It is time for a tax revolt people. If they think we will just keep giving them money to throw down the shitter on their stupid redistributive plans they are WRONG!
I'm not saying don't pay, just pay it slower! Give them some time to wonder if we are going to pay.
Just opt out of the weekly deduction from your paycheck and pay it yourself. Give them a quarter with NO or limited tax dollers coming in and they will start to see things our way!