Meet ‘Bon Bon’ Hurd: Protester Who Admitted ACORN Raw Political Agenda Exposed
by Larry O'ConnorRegular readers of Big Government should remember the woman pictured below as the delightfully forthcoming ACORN protestor from the fateful day Andrew Breitbart staged his one-man tea party in the midst of scores of “community organizers” who mistakenly protested in front of LA’s KTTV Fox 11 TV station thinking they were intimidating Fox News. Do you remember the delightful little nuggets of information we caught on taped on our handy-dandy recorder?
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
“We never declared because we have to be non-partisan – our national organization. But, it was sort of like under the grapevine we knew we were going to put in Obama.”
When asked if she worked for ACORN, our ever loquacious friend said “No, I am just a member, I am ACORN… No, I don’t work. I’m an organizer.” This suggests that she was just one of those “Rent-a-protestor” who ACORN famously pays less than minimum age for (often, ironically to protest in favor of a living wage). We captioned her picture at Big Government with the amusing phrase: “Have You Seen This Organizer?”
Well, we now know who she is. And we have a clearer understanding of her role with ACORN. And the truth is startling and disturbing, especially in light of her infamous boast: “We never declared because we have to be non-partisan – our national organization. But, it was sort of like under the grapevine we knew we were going to put in Obama.”
This memorable community organizer is named Alvivon Hurd, but she goes by the delightful nickname: “Bon Bon”. Ms. Hurd has been identified over the years as an ACORN Board Member, Chairwoman of ACORN’s Housing Commission, Head of ACORN’s Los Angeles Chapter, ACORN Volunteer, Wal-Mart Opponent.. you get the picture. But, that first title, ACORN Board Member raises some serious questions.
It’s one thing when a volunteer and random protestor says the odd and revealing things that Ms. Hurd said to us on November 12th, it’s another when it is a former Board Member. How much weight should be given to Ms. Hurd’s boast: “we didn’t never say who we were going to run for but it sort of undercover that we were going to put Obama in.”? A lot more, now that we know she has held various positions of influence at the troubled organization.
It seems Ms. Hurd is nothing if not active and influential in California. She has been at the table with the Mayor of Los Angeles when discussing plans for public housing projects. She has been in the forefront of protests in Sacramento blocking a housing auction of foreclosed properties. She has been quoted in major publications about affordable housing and zoning issues. She has been seen on Los Angeles Television protesting the Federal Bail-out bill. She was even honored by a Los Angeles charity with something called the “Faith Award”. “Bon Bon” gets around all right. And she is not short on opinions.
Ms. Hurd also has a disturbing tendency to make racially charged statements in the press, like this quote from the LA Weekly:
Hurd said outside a housing summit at UCLA. “Suddenly, everyone wants to live downtown. All these young white people want to be there instead of in the suburbs. They’re building all these new places, Medici, Orsini. Do you think any of us can afford to live there? These people” — she pointed to her companions in the yellow shirts — “they clean up after these rich people, they wash their cars and take care of their children. But when they go home, they don’t want us around. Now what would you call that? I don’t want to call it racist. But what would you call it?”
Then there is this little beauty:
Alvivon Hurd remembers when no one with means lived in downtown Los Angeles. Especially not white people. “For 30 years you only saw [white people] during the day in the week,” says the life-long L.A. resident, who can see downtown from her apartment.
Every time the subject seems to be about affordable housing she finds the need to take note of her opponents’ skin pigment. Interesting.
Alvivon Hurd lives in LA’s Pico Aliso housing project. One of the most gang-infested projects In LA. Yet I find nothing about her organizing or protesting the real plague of her neighborhood: the horrific and violent crime terrorizing the low-income families she purports to champion. No, it is all about the rich white real estate investors.
But as we know, housing is only part of ACORN’s mission. Remember, they also champion voter registration efforts. How does “Bon Bon” fit into that picture. You’ll be surprised.. maybe even shocked. “Bon Bon” told Big Government that “it was sort of like under the grapevine we knew we were going to put in Obama.” Remember, in that statement, “we” refers to ACORN. But that is just a silly meaningless boast, right. I mean ACORN is only responsible for voter registration efforts; they have no influence over actual voting practices and aren’t in any position to actually handle ballots or communicate with voters at the polling place, right?
Ladies and gentlemen, meet Alvivon “Bon Bon” Hurd, Precinct Inspector for the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder’s office:
The Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder describes a Precinct Inspector as: “supervising poll workers in charge at each voting location”. In various polling procedures detailed by the city and county, these inspectors are responsible for delivering ballot boxes to Central Precinct Inspectors, depositing voters’ ballots into ballot boxes, setting up polling locations, supervising the voting process including verifying each voter and their legitimate registration status. Yes, that was “Bon Bon’s” job on Election Day. Feel better now?
And, when Ms. Hurd is not protesting or organizing or receiving awards or serving on the Housing Trust Fund Advisory Committee or getting a “shout-out” from former Mayor of Los Angeles Jim Hahn during his State of the City Address in 2003, she has another impressive hobby: She wrote an op-ed piece for the LA Times with none other than ACORN apologist oops, Professor of Politics at Occidental College, Peter Dreier. Peter Dreier is the oft-cited, “objective” political analyst who has lately been critical of the news coverage of ACORN scandals. You might remember him best from his op-ed piece that the LA Times was forced to issue a correction and update for thanks to the tireless efforts of LA Times watchdog Patrick Frye (Patterico). How interesting to see “Bon Bon’s” name alongside “Objective Political Observer” Dreier’s right there in the LA Times. Our “Bon Bon” really gets around.
Who knew that auspicious day when Andrew Breitbart ventured into the thicket of that ACORN protest in West Los Angeles we’d be rubbing elbows and interviewing one of ACORNS real movers and shakers? That’s what we love about Los Angeles, there are important celebrities everywhere. And you never know what you’re going to hear on the street. Maybe even a tacit admission of misuse of Federal Funds or Federal Election Commission violations? I love this town.
Email this to a friend | Print |
Share on Facebook
| Tweet this
| 
Follow Us on Twitter
Subscribe via RSS
Got a Tip?
88 Comments
Assume! The mountain of evidence continues to grow.
I would like to pretend to be surprised, but I am not sure that is possible in regards to ACORN.
I think they should change their name to HYDRA, much more approrpiate and visually accurate.
RICO, will have to wait until 2012 I suspect, but Bon Bon you and Bertha are one day going to be sharing more than the profits you make off the backs of the poor, your going to be sharing a cell.
I can't say I'm surprised at all. Except perhaps at her audacity.
that strange ,i hand aunts and uncles living in compton and surrounding areas.sum of a beachies it was middle class and retieries. so hurd stop your poo poo i's is suuupresed crap, stop raping America you welfarerat.
Not surprising at all. This should be getting much more media attention. Even Fox doesn't seem to be running too hard with this one! Why??? Come on, Fox News!!
Wow….simply amazing….you couldn't script the amount of stupidness that ACORN has running around….the difference between genius and ignorance? Genius has its limit! Give them enough rope, and they'll surely hang themselves….if only the right people would listen…unfortunately, the people responsible for prosecuting these thieves are in bed with them….BHO is the PRIME EXAMPLE of what a true "Community Organizer" is…he gets his power, then you never see him….he's out of the country or playing golf or hoops with his buddies….ITS A LARGER PONZI SCHEME THAN MR. MADOFF…..WAKE UP AMERICA…..
HMMMM how can she be on this many volunteer payroles and stilllive in the projects? Someone needs to see if she actually lives there. Im guessing she is to valuable to actully risk the violence.
Holy crap, Batman!
She has been at the table with the Mayor of Los Angeles when discussing plans for public housing projects. (Courtesy of Stage Right)
Antonio R. Villaraigosa, Now there is another story. He was a former Union Organizer for the SEIU!
Bon Bon …. The name fit her! LMAO
The link to the "mayor's shout out" on his website has been removed. Do you have a cache of it??
http://www.lacity.org/done/articles2003/ND10394.p...
I said on the first thread on this woman, put her in jail and she will talk and lead to more evidence and thus more arrests. This is elementary. Childs play for any motivated investigator.
Call your representatives and demand investigation and prosecution under RICO. ACORN threatens your liberty! Your rights!
At the third link where you say "…ACORN famously pays less than minimum age…", does that qualify as a typo or a Freudian slip?
Ah, leave it in. Given the videos that started this site, it seems completely appropriate.
Oh and happy Thanksgiving citizens!
Ok Andrew now do we make these people go away for a long time in a nice cell. None of them need to be able to have that freedom that we have since they are taking it from a lot of other people that need to be helped.
Try this: http://tinyurl.com/yglmm28
Interesting that it is not there anymore….
According to an interview with Roseanne Barr by Huffington Post's Kathleen Wells, Roseanne too claims that ACORN was responsible for obama's election. . .
Wells asked Roseanne:
"Elaborate on some of the things you've seen working with ACORN?"
Roseanne responded in part:
"But, the most impressive thing is that they elected Barack H. Obama through their fantastic organizing skills and knowledge."
Interview found here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kathleen-wells/rose...
Even Hollywood now claims that ACORN got obama elected!
Ol Bon Bon doesn’t think she has to keep ACORN’s tactics secret because after all the MSM is on her side. She’s right about that, but she forgot about the new media of which BG is one. Not since Kennedy was elected in 1960 has there been such a corrupt and suspect election in this country’s history as 2008’s was. No longer can we expect open and fair elections in this country until and unless organizations such as ACORN get their dirty little hands out of the process. I think that one of the first things the new Republican majority needs to do when they win in a landslide next year is to enact legislation that you cannot vote if you cannot produce id. That should eliminate all the illegal aliens, dead folks, multiple votes,etc in other words the majority of Democratic votes in this country. Having ol Bon Bon work as a Precinct Inspector is like the fox guarding the hen house. It’s like the more that gets uncovered about ACORN the more is found. It’s a giant game of whack-a-mole!
Boy, the mayor is on it fast! He jerked that link right down!
From Bon Bon's lunatic quotes: “they clean up after these rich people, they wash their cars and take care of their children. But when they go home, they don’t want us around. Now what would you call that? I don’t want to call it racist. But what would you call it?”
With that being said I ask you. Would you be racist if you didn't bring your auto mechanic home? The grocery store clerk? What the hell is wrong with this "entitlement" protard (professional retard)? Is she trying to say that the new standard for not being a racist is that you have to invite all your service workers home to your house at some given point? At this point I personally don't care if someone calls me racist because the term has been bastardized beyond recognition.
I can't buy a damn beer in my state without ID.
http://tinyurl.com/yglmm28
Try that one.
There is a local radio talk show host on KTLA 8.70 AM in the evening, I forget his name. He's also a lawyer and he's been all over Villaraigosa for months. Calls him stupid and a crook.
ooooo baby!
Bon Bon?
Mmm, mmm, mmm! Yummy and loquacious!
If this weren't sooo sickening and revolting, it would be hilarious. The cast of characters is more entertaining than the old sitcom "Soap".
What ACORN, the DNC and the Obama Administration are just beginning to realize, is that US po' folks aint having Thanksgiving Turkey this year. Nor at Christmas either. I think it is gonna be goose, and ACORN's goose is cooked!
Signing off for the weekend – pormised the misses I will be with family and not the internet for Thanksgiving… Thanks Andrew for the site … Everyone set your DVR's for the new Christmas special coming soon !!!
http://www.thrfeed.com/2009/11/abc-announces-opra...
ah … a job?
" Mushroom " may describe this organization much better than ACORN. The actual main body of this fungus lies hidden safely underground until favorable conditions give forth rapid growth of the visable fruits of the vast underground mycelium. They come in hundreds of varied forms, some advantageous but others hazardous to your health.
Is it just me or are there no pictures of her with her eyes open? Does she just have awful vision, or is she high?
It seems to me that without the requirement to produce some sort of ID when voting, one might as well put a sign out in front of each polling place stating "Voter Fraud Welcome Here!"
ABC announces Oprah-Obama Christmas special – DRUDGE !!!
Run the dam country sir … people are poor and no work!!!!
From the Mayo Clinic for your sir …
Narcissistic personality disorder is a mental disorder in which people have an inflated sense of their own importance and a deep need for admiration. Those with narcissistic personality disorder believe that they're superior to others and have little regard for other people's feelings. But behind this mask of ultra-confidence lies a fragile self-esteem, vulnerable to the slightest criticism.
Our taxpayer dollars at work.
Nope, It's all about his image BTW, where is his Birth Certificate?
[...] http://biggovernment.com/2009/11/25/meet-bon-bon-hurd-chatty-acorn-protestor-has-deep-roots-in-organ…That’s what we love about Los Angeles, there are important celebrities everywhere. And you never know what you’re going to hear on the street. Maybe even a tacit admission of misuse of Federal Funds or Federal Election Commission … 36926 32 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/2009/11/25/meet-bon-bon-hurd-chatty-acorn-protestor-has-deep-roots-in-organization/Meet+%27Bon+Bon%27+Hurd%3A+Protester+Who+Admitted+ACORN+Raw+Political+Agenda+Exposed2009-11-25+18%3A33%3A53Stage+Right … [...]
Does Moonbeam know about all of these Bon Bon doings?
Psychedelic bro.
Was in Morehead and speaking with a coworker. He goes to Poppy Mountain every year. He thinks he has met you. Wants me to ask you if you know an artist known as Sam. He is the one that introduced the two of you.
shout out to bon bon, you justed been ACORNeD.
Funny.
It is a small world, and getting smaller.
Yes. Sam is a pretty famous artist.
The most disturbing nugget about all this for me is the work done by ACORN (via Bon Bon and who knows how many other nuts) as Precinct Inspector. Think they had any problem pitching particular ballots if given the opportunity? The battle line is now at the polling places. (It has been for awhile, but we've been slow to the ramparts) I believe that ACORN election fraud, undetected, unproven, has been decisive in many close races. They certainly should not be involved at the polls during elections. We should take steps to assure they are not.
But the real problem is no one is even investigating this whole thing, except for Andrew BB. Holder is busy trying to free Gitmo Terrorist, Jerry Brown thinks the couple posing as the prositute and pimp are the problem. Bon Bon is free to eat all the Bon Bon's she wants for now. The military is being forced to try the Seals that caught the last terrorist. To say that the DOJ is out of control is an understatement.
I am really amazed that no one is talking RICO. Then they can apply the RICO to Al Gore too, if they ever get around to real problems.
turn over a few rocks and you would be surprised what you might find…
ACORN is, and always has been a quasi-criminal organization. Here in Chicago Jesse Jacksnon's Operation PUSH is a similar, if not nationwide racket. Intimidation is the main tactic.
Last we checked intimidating anyone is illegal.
Then you have demonstrations and sit ins and the like. Intimidation at a higher level if you will. Either way, they play on class conciousness and guilt.
White guilt,of course. Without it they would be dead in the water. Unless, of course, they receive hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars.
Wait- isn't THAT's what is happening right in front of our eyes?
I just e-mailed him your response. We'll have to try to meet up sometime.
The great thing about a leftie is their love for attention. They are always going to get caught because they have never learned the art of discretion. It's like fishing, give them the right and they will just run with it.
That's what I'd like to know, too!
Does Bon Bon work, have a job? Is she getting money from the government so she can protest with Acorn and write editorials in her spare time?
This is one huge criminal network !
18 more illegals die because on no helath insurance … send this to your congressmen …. once obamacare passes would these people pay too? HELL NO !!!! Who covers this cost Pelosi ?????
http://www.kiiitv.com/news/local/73174077.html
For the last 8 years the most dangerous man for us here in the US has been Bin Laden. Now its another Hussein. This includes his army of organizers and pathetic WH advisers and employees. The balance of power in the world has shifted. Now the most dangerous man for us here In the US is BHO. BHO will make it far easier for Bin Laden to kill thousands of us while BHO works to destroy us from within.
Really to bad we have no one with the Nads to begin impeachment proceedings. The man BHO seems derelict in almost every segment of administration. Whats a guy supposed to do? Its just a sad state of affairs.
You nailed it!
The far too overused pejorative, "RACISTS", has now been rendered meaningless; sort of like the "N" word.
And someone should ask Bon Bon how many WHITE friends she has.
There already are some states that require a photo ID to vote; that should become the uniform rule nationwide, with much stricter rules for absentee ballots as well !
More like an octopus.
thinking man I am afraid they will never see a cell. But it really burns me to think that they probably falsified the election, that O got elected on this charade and he is destroying this country and I can't do a thing to stop it, and that 2010 election will only slow it down a bit but not stop it. The weasels will do what they do best weasel out and O and his DOJ will ignore it.
the woodworks keeps letting the rats out and we are seeing them every where
If the likes of Bon Bon, Wade Rathke, Andy Stern, etc. had put their hands to doing GOOD, imagine what wonderful, instead of evil, things they could have accomplished!
“we didn’t never say who we were going to run for but it sort of undercover that we were going to put Obama in.”
Does the 'Double Negative' Defense count? Since I'm just one law degree short of practicing law perhaps proffering this legal strategy to ACORN publicity defense team in a public forum shields me from liability.
I think you have described every liberal I've ever known.
Amazing who you meet walking down the street. one loud mouth liar ( she lied when she said she was simply a volunteer) and it turns out she is all over the map… fact is stranger than fiction
Joe Wilson's son is running for AG in SC, if he wins look for the Election in 2012 to be a contentious one with C AG REQUIRING Candidates PROVE their eligibility in accordance with state and constitutional law.
Amazing! You have to know that with the amount of wrong doing that has been uncovered, there is a ton more we don’t know about. Yet.
Occidental College…you mean the Occidental College Pres. Obama attended?
Ladies and Gentlemen, please take your cameras with you when you leave the house. You never know what you’ll catch.
I was going to say the same thing. What an asinine comment that was. When I worked as a waitress I sure didn't expect everyone I waited on to take me home, far from it. Oh but wait, I continued my education and found a better job. ummm, I must be a racist.
[...] then fail to adhere to themselves, it brings me great pleasure to back-up today’s post about “Bon Bon” Hurd with a second source: None other than Roseanne [...]
Hey OBI – Get out of the White House!! The presidential election was rigged!! You and your ACORN/SEIU supporters aided and abetted the process!! Take Rahm, Holder, Pelosi, Frank, Reid, and all your commrades with you. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WANT THEIR HOUSE BACK!!
Tks. Already aware that some states do require ID to vote. BUT in California, where I live, with its huge voter block, another attempt to require voter ID was recently soundly defeated. Hence my lament.
In my state you must provide an ID just for local elections — DEFINITELY NEEDS TO BE MADE MANDATORY.
JimC: Thanks for the tip, my friend. We took it and ran with it because… well… that's what we do!
Yes in a time where every tax dollar really does count beceause of reckless spending habits of the American government, I sure am glad that no money was wasted here. What the eff !!!
Ms. Bon-Bon lives in Government Projects, works for the Government, and advocates through ACORN that people receive Government Benefits — General Welfare Payments, Section 8 Housing, Food Stamps, MEDICAL, Healthy Families, SSI, and a myriad of other programs. She is the very definition of Big Government. She probably sent her kids to the Government Schools.
I say this with sadness as she does not seem like a malicious person, but she is a creation of Big Government. Big Government provided for her, and she will fight like hell to keep her "benefits". Alinsky and Rathke seek to harness the Bon-Bon's of the world to bring about socialism.
Bon Bon, like any good ACORN soldier, never misses a meal. Her BMI is 30+, obese, and she's grown fat ON OUR TAX DOLLARS. Bon Bon has been into the Ding Dongs a little too often, and she's got a whole wardrobe of those XXL ACORN T-shirts that SHE BOUGHT WITH OUR TAX DOLLARS. She's a bloated parasite, and she and her kind need to understand that the host is dying.
ACORN is another sector of the ‘truth is relative’ crowd. The road of falseness from ACORN to the whitehouse is sickening beyond words. A mass scale of falseness.
I will say it again……bitter, bitter, people. With a bitterness that will not be quenched. They will never, never know happiness no matter what they achieve. Blinded fools who destroy all good in their path.
Sick!
you guys are idiots…………… not one of the facts that you present are true and all of you are very racist ……..
I wish i could catch yall on the street so i could scare you with my presence….. haha funny thing is that not one of you would ever confront me because not one of you have nuts… you motherfuckers must not get laid….
hooray its bonbon my hero….. i love bonbon because she has more influence then any of yall
long live acorn!!
acorn is my homeboy….
i want to say one thing i love acorn….
america loves acorn
acorn loves america
breitbart is a dick rider hahaha
What disturbs me most about BonBon is that she is a Precinct Inspector. This is where she can do the most damage, especially if there is no Republican counterpart in her precinct. I'm guessing that her precinct is heavily Democrat, and it's very likely that the Republican party is weak and unorganized and hasn't made an effort to recruit volunteers to serve as election judges, precinct inspectors, etc.
Please please please call your local elections board and volunteer to be an election judge! If we want to stop shenanigans at the polls, it's crucial that we have someone there! For every Democrat poll watcher, election judge, etc there should be a Republican counterpart, but this often doesn't happen in areas that are strongly Democrat. If you live in or near a heavily Democrat area, please volunteer!
OH MY GOD, SHE'S GONNA EAT ME!!
“they clean up after these rich people, they wash their cars and take care of their children. But when they go home, they don’t want us around. Now what would you call that? I don’t want to call it racist. But what would you call it?”
I'd call it a job…now go home your not staying for dinner!
I truely admire the courage of the people here, the contributors, the PI's, the INVESTIGATIVE reporters, the owner, I'm just glad I could be of some small help ! Y'all are true patriots! God bless!
Again, THANKS!
Bon Bon, glad you could read about yourself and what Americans think about you! It's nice to squeeze money out of the poor to subsidize your organization and its leaders' meaningless existences, isn't it? ACORN is scum – leaching off of the taxpayers and the poor for the personal benefit and promotion of its leaders. I’m glad you found a niche in life, Bon Bon – but being a parasite really isn’t an honorable profession.
Is this woman, Bon Bon Hurd any relation to former ACORN head, Maude Hurd?
Has there been any confirmation?