ACORN Oklahoma Document Dump: ACORN’s Doorknocking Basics
by PubliusGive credit where its due, ACORN builds its organization from the ground up, with old-school hard work and shoe leather. Its organizers are instructed to spend at least three hours a day going door-to-door in neighborhoods, recruiting members and–importantly member dues. ACORN even provides its organizers with a very illuminating and well-though-out manual on “doorknocking basics.” The document is below
The whole thing is definitely worth a read. We draw your attention, though, to two sections. The first explains what the organizer should do once a person is interested in ACORN:
3. POLARIZE: DIRECT THEIR ANGER AT A TARGET
This is where you politicize the issue. As Saul Alinsky wrote, it is every organizer’s duty to “rub raw the sores of discontent.” Questions can include:
- Don’t you think you pay enough taxes to get the lot cleaned?
- Does the mayor have vacant lots in his/her neighborhood?
- Why do you think they don’t care about this problem?
- Would rich folks put up with this in their neighborhood?
- What’s it gonna take to get the city to treat you with the dignity and respect you deserve?
Well, isn’t that charming? Just a few minutes into their introduction to ACORN and they’re already being radicalized. ACORN has probably found this is an effective way to get the person to sign up for membership and regular membership dues. The manual spends considerable time discussing how to get a commitment for dues. It even role-plays some scenarios:
Organizer: “So, our members pay their dues through the bank. Some pay $20 a month, some pay more, and some pay less. What can you do?”
Contact: “I don’t like to mess with my bank account.”
Organizer: “Yeah, I can understand that. Actually, it works really easy. You just fill this out, and the money is sent on the 5th of every month—and it shows up on your statement. Our members think it is very convenient.”
Contact: “No, I really don’t want to touch my bank account.”
Organizer: “Okay, no problem. So I’m sure you’d like to see the streets fixed in the neighborhood, right?”
Contact: “Yes!
Organizer: “Then there’s the $120 option. That’s a year in dues.”
Contact: “I couldn’t do it all at once. Maybe after I get paid.”
Organizer: “No problem. You can postdate the check!”
Contact: “No, I couldn’t do that.”
Organizer: “Well, I know you want to start your membership today, so you could do $60 for 6 months.”
Contact: “Yeah, could you come back at the end of the month?”
Organizer: “We’re going up against the city and it takes money to win. How about $30 for 3 months and we’ll start your membership right now.”
Contact: “Okay, I can do that.”
ACORN should train door-to-door salesmen.
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"ACORN should train door-to-door salesmen."
Andrew is on a roll today.
Just for shits and giggles, someone outta try this in an upscale neighborhood, especially in a city with a non white mayor……
3. POLARIZE: DIRECT THEIR ANGER AT A TARGET
This is where you politicize the issue. As Saul Alinsky wrote, it is every organizer’s duty to “rub raw the sores of discontent.” Questions can include:
Don’t you think you pay enough taxes to get the lot cleaned?
Does the mayor have vacant lots in his/her neighborhood?
Why do you think they don’t care about this problem?
Would rich folks put up with this in their neighborhood?
What’s it gonna take to get the city to treat you with the dignity and respect you deserve?
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Big time…
Or should I say Big Government time?
Take away the Alinsky and Cloward-Piven stuff from Liberals and they would NEVER win another election for an anything.
Isn't it long past time, people, to rise up against these damned MARXISTS, use their own tactics against them, and then return to being civil, once they're all taken care of ?
This all should have been nipped in the bud 40+ years ago !
You rare right.
Paybacks need to be slow, and painful…………
We have come within aa hairs breadth of loosing OUR Country permanently. The jury is still out on what will happen, but over the course of the last several weeks, I have felt a stirring of change in America. People are aware, and awake, and they are beginning to ask questions.
Hopefully, the day will fast approach, that ACORN will be relegated to the dustbin of history, along with Senator Robert Byrd and his Klansman Kostume……….
has a reporter tryed to get the whitehouse to respond to the latest dumpster diving present?
"to organize to hold corporations and the government accountable to low & moderate income people"
"to bring in extra revenue to the organization"
What idiot put those two goals next to each other? It amounts to …
Step 7: convince them they're owed government money
Step 8: milk them for as much money as you can get from them
looks like he is rolling all the way to the white house, doesn't get much better.
The insistence on the bank draft is telling. Yeah, it's easy for the dupe….uhhhh, new member to set up, but it also falls quickly out of mind. It wouldn't surprise me if at least half of their new members get disillusioned and stop coming to meetings within a few months. But most of those dropouts will probably forget to cancel the bank draft.
Ongoing income to ACORN baby!
amazing……they want to force their way in to someone's home, gain their confidence, and then foerce them to sign up for 30 dollars a month dues??? intimidation??? extortion??? RICO??????????
and for what?? what do you get for this strong arm tactical maneuvering in your neighborhood????
and Congress was going to allow ACORN to conduct the Census all around America??? Can you imagine the double dipping that was about to occur???They would fill out this Census… filling in the blanks…..and then they force many residents to sign up with ACORN and pay their monthly $30 dues??? all this cash going into the ACORN checking accounts to buy future politicians and more favors for ACORN?????? what a well thought out strategy and tactics…..they almost pulled it off!!! Thanks Brietbart, you saved us all….you rock.
Some, sadly, will NEVER awake, but a whole lot of people have begun to bestir themselves.
Rasmussen has Barry's numbers lower than at ANY previous time, today !
Print out articles, e-mail them, memorize the facts, gird your loins, and get out there, people and tell EVERYONE you know, even slightly, what's what. If not us, then who? The MSM isn't going to tell the populace what's going on.
I just fear that with 3 more years, Barry is going to utterly destroy this once glorious nation and turn us all into something far worse than serfs; even when the GOP takes over both Houses, in 2013.
But we MUST all band together and get rid of the majority of Dems and Socialists in Congress; THE TIME TO BEGIN IS NOW !
The last section entitled "some more on financial self-sufficiency" really takes the cake. "Clean money"….they don't have a clue what the word "clean" even means. The entire organization is filthy dirty. Keep it up Andrew.
I COULDN'T GET PAST NUMBER 1 !!!!! I'm serious !!!!
"TO HELP PEOPLE STEAR ANGER TOWARDS THE SYSTEM"
We conservatives need to hire these people !!!!!! We do pay better wages !!!!!
WOW !!! What did that lady named AMY say yesterday? "Most of it was junk we threw out"
Dam Amy, never listen to Bertha for advice …
I hope your lawyers are lined up !!!!
also they shoud sell AMWAY !!!!!They could make a killing !!!!
I can't join ACORN. I am thankful for my health, home clothes and food. I am thankfull for friends. I am thankful for good schools, job and transportation. If I don't like my neighbors weeds, I can help him mow them.
To get a hook into an ACORN prospect, you have to start the seeds of unthankfullness and hate. Then build it to a point of demanding social justice.
Since I have taught entrepreneurship at a University, I found in research a black immigrant to the US was many times more likely to start a business here than someone born here and taught ungratefullness from childhood.
PAGE 3 !!!! They use Saul Alinsky as an example !!!! OMG !!!!! Get this to Glenn Beck now !!! Who is an insider…. amazing !!!!
WOW!!! mmm mmm mmm Barack Hussain Obama mmm mmm mmm
LOL, there u go! Then they might even be contributing citizens.
"Don’t you think you pay enough taxes to get the lot cleaned?"
Where is the alternate script for their "average client" who doesn't (directly) pay taxes?
Why don't they "community organize" some volunteers to clean up the lot?
Oh that's right, that "takes jobs away" from unionized city employees. And ACORN sure ain't a bunch of Boy Scouts.
Pretty outrageous… Hmmm… Wonder what docs are dumped behind the IRS & FCC buildings??? Or the White House? Justice Dept.? Pentagon? DOES ANYBODY SHOW ANY COMMON SENSE & DISCRETION ANY MORE??
"does ACORN consider itself a radicial group?" Coming up next on the Glenn beck show ……
ah prision workers in chains sounds good to me
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I can't wait to use these same tactics against them
So, during their Rap the "organizer is the organization". Says so right there in the Overview. That means Bertha was wrong when she said that those "bad apples" weren't representing the organization. Liar.
Lol…there's a reason the OK office shut down – because most people here would either start cleaning a shot gun or just slam the door in their faces. I'd love to take on one of these "organizers" – funny, they never knocked on my door!
Oh yeah, probably because I'm a white person in a non-ghetto neighborhood. Dang.
Instead of sending 50 people to the mayor’s office demanding someone else clean up the lot do community organizing and actually clean up the lot. Acorn is preaching dependance, cleaning up the lot themselves is teaching self sufficency. It is also a whole lot faster.
I think I'm going to be sick! If there has ever been a great reason for a TAX REVOLT, Acorn is it. To think it is we who have been supporting this sickening monstrosity with our hard earned money. This is what we get for not demanding that the govt be accountable to us for how they spend our money. Acorn is a propaganda and community enforcement arm for fascists in this country and we have been funding it – funding our own demise. This organization must be destroyed! NO TAXPAYER DOLLARS FOR FASCIST/SOCIALIST/COMMUNIST THUGS!
So if I start using this manual to organize Conservative groups in my community, would I still be allowed to criticize ACORN? It's a dad-gum catch 22! Why reinvent the wheel? ACORN obviously knows how to extort, err.., persuade unwilling people to further their cause. It's genius.
Who in the hell would let these people in their house? Seriously?!
Then they try to get $20 a month from poor people!
I sure am learning alot about community organizing – can't wait to use my new skills this summer AGAINST them.
When I read Saul Alinsky I thought I was being punked by Andrew! I laughed my azz off!!!! Is that not the funniest f-ing thing you ever read!!!
So basically, this is a government–sponsored shakedown of poor, urban residents to coerce them into giving money (much of which they probably receive from state or fereral assistance) to ACORN for "representation." Why is it I get the feeling that if you don't "join" bad things might "accidentally" happen to you or your property or person?
The poor that who … the new SLAVE Plantation !!!!
When I read Saul Alinsky I thought I was being punked by Andrew! I laughed my azz off!!!! Is that not the funniest f-ing thing you ever read!!! ACORN has a document that quotes Saul Alinsky!!! OMG. I can't get past that quote.
Beck has been vindicated.
And, Andrew, stop posting these documents today!!!! I need to spend some time with my family and you are not letting me!!! I had to grab a beer so my head does not explode from this document-fest you got going on…STOP IT!!
I'm in the same boat. My family wants to know whats for dinner. "Take out menus are in the drawer – order what you want." Really keep it coming, Andrew!
Is this not the most insane information that you have ever read. I've read some crazy stuff..but nothing like this. I did not get anything done today. I started reading this stuff in the morning and I was mesmerized. My wife would kill me if she knew this is what I was doing all day. I just can't get enough of it. That credit card bill from the SD office was just crazy. I went to that guys facebook and found so many crazy connections to SEIU and Acorn…to the lady who ran the Obama campaign in Mich….I forwarded it on to these guys. This stuff just make me want to do research on these clowns all day long. I can't wait to see how they are going to get out of this. And those emails from the "experts" on global warming just threw me into another world. It's a bonanza. My head is spinning.
I hope Beck, Hannity, O Riley, Rush, and all America can see this.
God bless you, Freddie. It sounds trite, but I say it with all sincerity and respect. God bless you and yours and Happy Thanksgiving.
So this is where Obama cut his teeth? Looking for angry people to organize against the government. I wonder how BO will feel when an angry electorate sends him back to Chicago on January 23, 2012?
People have come to my door with these strategies and it's totally transparent, like they are scripted. I send them on their way.
Maybe things have changed since I last cancelled a bank draft. My bank informed me that I/They couldn't cancel a draft as the drafting institution had my authorization to the funds. They said that they would get involved if the drafting institution didn't honor my request to cease. Fortunately, I was dealing with an honorable company. I wonder how ACORN responded to such requests. Probably lost in the 20,000 plus document off-site filing cabinet.
Kind of reminds me of the Orkin commercial and the Giant Termite. Definite need for some pest control here.
David vs. Goliath:
Breitbart's http://biggovernment.com/ vs. 0bama's big gov't…
This Thanksgiving week, let's count the Breitbart Team as one of America's blessings!
I am going to enjoy Thanksgiving a lot more than last year. . .our collective family gatherings are mixed politically.
I won't have to say a word. . .as all the Nov 2008 oBOWma-bots will be less likely to mention politics/gloat and wonder if the rest of us will speak up. . .However, I might slip in, while passing the turkey, if they would like to eat some crow. . .
Thank you Breitbart, Giles, O'Keefe, and Roach. . .for even more on which give thanks AND the early Christmas presents you have provided.
I know it – that 's the first thing I though of door to door Encyclopedia sales. Wow. I guess we'll have to start doing that right back at them now.
Tax exempt no doubt.
So ACORN uses indentured servants/pawns to OBNOXIOULSY BLAST their way into people's homes even when they are busy in order to sit their a$$es down on their couch, make them shut off the TV, give them their BANK INFORMATION, and sign up to become an indentured servant/pawn…comes full circle.
PROOF that ACORN are taking advantage and USING the poor and disenfranchised to keep them poor and disenfranchised…HELLO when you aren't telling them what you're really about or what social and economic justice actually is, you are further disenfranchising them! EW!
LOL I know its crazy! As soon as one document sinks in and you get your head around it, another one pops up!!! It's like a sugar high! Yea and then ClimateGate happens, it's so typical that all this evidence is coming out and the LSM has said NOTHING! Amazing, simply amazing!
Why don't they sell something normal and earn an honest living?
Know your ACORN! From the ACORN web site:'
"The Advisory Committee looks forward to supporting the process of accountability and organizational improvement that ACORN is undertaking."
"ACORN's Advisory Committee comprises the following individuals:
* John Banks, Vice President of Government Relations Con Ed
* Dave Beckwith, Executive Director, Needmor Fund
* Henry Cisneros, Executive Chairman, Cityview
* Eric Eve, Senior VP of Global Consumer Group, Community Relations, Citigroup
* Harvey Hirschfeld, President, Lawcash
* Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Board Member, RFK Foundation, former MD Lt. Governor
* John Podesta, President and CEO, Center for American Progress
* Andrew Stern, International President, Service Employees International Union
"About Scott Harshbarger:
"Scott Harshbarger served two terms as Massachusetts Attorney General and as President of the National Association of Attorneys General and was the Democratic candidate for Governor of Massachusetts in 1998.
Organizer: “No problem. You can postdate the check!”
Um, isn't that illegal? Or at the very least, unethical on the part of the organizer to even ask?
Nice job, Breitbart and all who contributed their skills, talents and time to exposing this corruption. I thank God for all of you for the sake of my children. We are busy organizing to help parents in our low income area get involved in their children’s education simply for the sake of their children’s future and their family pride, not a vote. God bless you all. Thank you… from an American family.
OK I want to see more! This is getting to be a lot of FUN!
Go ge em Andrew!
The high pressure sales tactics are being used on the poor and disadvantaged to sign up for ten to thirty dollars every month!? That is alot for most people in low income neighborhoods on fixed incomes. I think it's disgraceful, but not suprising coming from this lowlife organization. They go after the ones who can least afford it and these victims get nothing in return. Shameful.
I still think we can take them Cowboy!!
How is it that 'low income ' people have $30 a month to pay union dues?????
Beck is already on that train!!
Go for it! See how far you get being a Conservative…I'm just sayin'….I really think you should try it's a great idea!
That's a scary list!!
It's so much easier and more fun to con people out of their money!!
Disgraceful!!! It takes a true POS to harass poor people to give up money they don't have..Is this the reason they have to sell drugs on the side to get by??
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Extortion is a crime! This is a crimianl enterprise! arrest them all jail them all and throw away the keys! don't let the Rathke's get away! If Obama pardons them, arrest him and put his ass in jail! He's hip deep in it with them! wake Up america! Acorn is organized criminal at its worst! Shut down Acorn, SEIU and every afilliate they've got! Wake up America before Obama and Acorn steal every last bit of it or Obama sells it to the Muslim oil dealers!
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I wondered that myself. The sad fact of the matter is that the "prospect" might be using public assistance money
to pay the dues. Meaning that the taxpayers are double dipped by the welfare system.
It's clear who the enemy is, it's Acorn and most lawyers!