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		<title>MORE Acorn: Leftists Plot Squatting to Take Over Houses</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:21:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Reboot Congress:

MORE (Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment) and other leftists held meetings in 2010 to plan their strategy for squatting on properties in the St. Louis area. The video above introduces some of their leaders. A future video will outline MORE&#8217;s longterm strategy to acquire residential property through extralegal means like squatting.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>From <a href="http://rebootcongress.blogspot.com/2011/03/introducing-more-again.html">Reboot Congress</a>:</strong></p>
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<p>MORE (Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment) and other leftists held meetings in 2010 to plan their strategy for squatting on properties in the St. Louis area. The video above introduces some of their leaders. A future video will outline MORE&#8217;s longterm strategy to acquire residential property through <a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/extralegal">extralegal</a> means like squatting.</p>
<p>Who or what is MORE, you may be wondering. When ACORN was put out of business, the local chapters re-branded themselves. St. Louis&#8217;s ACORN chapter became MORE. Even after the re-branding <a href="http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2010/07/do-communists-still-lead-missouri-acorn.html">MORE still has ties to communist organizations</a>.</p>
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<p>They&#8217;ve sponsored bank protests at <a href="http://www.24thstate.com/2010/07/ksdk-reporter-ashley-yarchin-repeats-acorn-propaganda.html">Chase Bank</a> and <a href="http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/article_204f3974-0c90-11e0-8c86-0017a4a78c22.html">Bank of America</a>. They recently stormed an event at <a href="http://www.poedpatriot.com/2011/03/commie-organization-storms-st-louis.html">St. Louis University</a>. Their efforts to acquire property through squatting and &#8220;urban homesteading&#8221; are just another page out of the radical left&#8217;s play book.</p>
<p><strong>More <a href="http://rebootcongress.blogspot.com/2011/03/introducing-more-again.html">here</a>.</strong></p>
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		<title>WATCH: SEIU Protesters Take Over Bank Headquarters</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 18:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The thing about this video that is repulsive to me isn’t necessarily the storming of a private  office by screeching idiots. After all they didn’t assault anybody and  eventually left with out having to be arrested. The real bothersome part  of this video is why they were at this particular bank.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://moonbattracker.com/wordpress/?p=627">The thing about this video</a> that is repulsive to me isn’t necessarily the storming of a private  office by screeching idiots. After all they didn’t assault anybody and  eventually left with out having to be arrested. The real bothersome part  of this video is <a href="http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110317/NEWS/103170330/-1/rss01">why they were at this particular bank</a>.</p>
<p>Watch and see what I mean:</p>
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<p>Yea. They were there because they didn’t  like the CEO’s position on labor negotiations at a hospital that was  completely and utterly unaffiliated with the bank whose business they  were purposely disrupting. These people have no decency.</p>
<p>The message they are sending by doing this  is “you damn well better do what we want or we will make every single  aspect of your life a living hell”. “We will <a href="http://blog.eyeblast.tv/2011/03/2011/03/fourteen-protesters-arrested-at-michigan-capitol-building/">storm the capital</a>“. “We will come to your place of business”. “We will <a href="http://blog.eyeblast.tv/2011/03/2011/03/union-supporters-protest-wisconsin-senators-home/">come to your home</a>“.</p>
<p>“We will not relent until you submit”.</p>
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<p>Frankly though this all sounds like little more than the angry squeals of a dying monster.</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.eyeblast.tv/2011/03/seiu-protesters-take-over-bank-headquarters/"><strong><em>Cross-posted from The Blast. </em></strong></a></p>
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		<title>President Obama Deeply Connected To Organizers Of Recent Angry Street Mob Actions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 12:27:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama and his administration, is shamefully deeply connected to the people and organizations that recently organized street mob protests, terrifying a teenage child in his own home, and storming bank buildings (violating how many Federal laws?) in a show of uncivil disobedience (intimidation).

Previous posts detail the intimate connections between the President, and &#8220;Showdown [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>President Barack Obama and his administration, is shamefully deeply connected to the people and organizations that recently organized street mob protests, <a href="http://biggovernment.com/libertychick/2010/05/20/seiu-storms-private-residence-terrorizes-teenage-son-of-bank-of-america-exec/">terrifying a teenage child in his own home</a>, and <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/17/bank-of-america-protest-d_n_578539.html" target="_blank">storming bank buildings</a> (violating how many Federal laws?) in a show of uncivil disobedience (intimidation).</p>
<p style="text-align: center"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://biggovernment.com/files/2010/05/seiu-MOB.jpg" alt="http://biggovernment.com/files/2010/05/seiu-MOB.jpg" /></p>
<p>Previous posts detail the <a href="http://biggovernment.com/amarcus/2010/05/21/npa-seiu-terrorizes-child-breaks-laws-what-did-president-obama-know-and-when-did-he-know-it/#more-122846">intimate connections</a> between the President, and <a href="http://showdowninamerica.org/" target="_blank">&#8220;Showdown in America&#8221;</a> protest organizers <a href="http://biggovernment.com/amarcus/2010/05/04/bank-bailout-bill-is-this-why-andy-stern-left-seiu/">SEIU</a> and <a href="http://biggovernment.com/amarcus/2010/05/05/is-president-obama-using-executive-powers-to-organize-angry-anti-capitalist-protests-on-the-streets-of-america/" target="_blank">National People&#8217;s Action (NPA)</a></p>
<p>Digging a little deeper reveals some additional disturbing connections between President Obama, and <em>other</em> organizers of these mob actions. These connections might be of interest to any reporters who claim the White House as their beat.</p>
<p>Another key organizing force behind the <a href="http://showdowninamerica.org/" target="_blank">&#8220;Showdown in America&#8221;</a> is a group called <a href="http://ourfinancialsecurity.org/about/our-structure/" target="_blank">Americans For Financial Reform</a>. This group is headed by former SDS radical and proud Alinsky protege, Heather Tobis Booth.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.organizergenealogy.org/heather-booth-0" target="_blank">Heather Tobis Booth is the founder</a> of a group called USAction.</p>
<p><a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:BRE_EV_CysYJ:www.sonoma.edu/users/w/wallsd/community-organizing.shtml+http://www.sonoma.edu/users/w/wallsd/community-organizing.shtml+%2BGamaliel+%2BHeather+Booth&amp;cd=1&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;gl=us&amp;client=firefox-a" target="_blank">USAction used to be called Citizen Action</a>, until the illegal behavior of  Rep. Jan Shakowsky&#8217;s husband, <a href="http://biggovernment.com/jpollak/2009/12/07/was-democrats-health-care-strategy-written-in-federal-prison/" target="_blank">ex-con Bob Creamer</a> (Obama Campaign Organizer), combined with the notorious <a href="http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2009/10/02/part-ii-of-a-leftist-love-story-acorns-seemingly-scandal-proof-friends/" target="_blank">&#8220;Teamstergate&#8221; scandal,</a> forced the organization to collapse it&#8217;s national brand into a newly named entity. (This collapse and restructuring is the role model for ACORN&#8217;s transition today.)</p>
<p>In the video below, the president of USAction and Chair of Illinois Citizen Action, William McNary, openly <span style="color: #ff0000">glorifies and embraces a working relationship with the Communist Party of America (CPUSA).</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COhdI15DUvk"><img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/COhdI15DUvk/default.jpg"/></a></p>
<p>In the first 1:20 seconds of the clip, you will hear the introducing speaker recount how included CPUSA felt during the founding convention of USAction.</p>
<p>Listening to the first 3:30 minutes in full, you will hear William McNary declare &#8220;I can&#8217;t think of anyplace else in the world I would rather be on a Friday afternoon then right here in a room full of <em>aggressive <strong>Progressives</strong></em>.&#8221;</p>
<p>Heather Tobis Booth&#8217;s Marxist USAction spearheaded ObamaCare.</p>
<p style="text-align: center"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP4uMs8ZXrE"><img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/ZP4uMs8ZXrE/default.jpg"/></a></p>
<p>Several years ago, Heather Tobis Booth&#8217;s Citizen Action honored then Senator Barack Obama by asking him to offer a keynote address at one of their fundraisers. Of course their dear friend accepted.</p>
<p style="text-align: center"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://biggovernment.com/files/2009/11/Annual1.gif" alt="http://biggovernment.com/files/2009/11/Annual1.gif" /></p>
<p>Heather Tobis Booth was once the training director for the Democratic National Committee during the Clinton administration.</p>
<p>Heather Tobis Booth is a <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20010421132924/www.ourfuture.org/about/FOUNDERS-list.asp" target="_blank">co-founder</a> of a group called Campaign For America&#8217;s Future. Other founders include Andy Stern, Cloward and Piven, Jesse Jackson, leaders of various unions, and the Democratic Socialists of America.</p>
<p>Below is video of then Senator Barack Obama finding common cause in his rousing speech to members of Campaign for America&#8217;s Future:</p>
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<p style="text-align: center"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c19Gobwg60U"><img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/c19Gobwg60U/default.jpg"/></a></p>
<p>Heather Tobis Booth, SEIU, NPA, the DNC, and the Democratic Socialists of America have a very long history of working together.</p>
<p>President Obama has long standing and deep relationships with these people, who organize law breaking mob actions on the streets of America.</p>
<p>More than one of these groups and their organizers have visited the Obama White House more than once, begging the question regarding these protest &#8220;actions&#8221;- what did the President know and when did he know it?</p>
<p>If the President of the United States is using the powers of the Executive Branch of government to help coordinate/facilitate mob actions against American citizens, would that be an impeachable offense? Would it at least warrant a couple of questions from the alleged White House Press Corps?</p>
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		<title>NPA-SEIU Terrorizes Child, Breaks Laws &#8211; What Did President Obama Know And When Did He Know It?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 15:51:16 +0000</pubDate>
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Writing for Fortune.com, Nina Easton relays her first-hand account of the uncivil disobedience and &#8220;mob&#8221;tactics exhibited by SEIU and the National People&#8217;s Action (NPA), as they terrorized a teenage child in his own home.
Baer&#8217;s teenage son Jack &#8212; alone in the house &#8212; locked himself in the bathroom. &#8220;When are they going to leave?&#8221; Jack [...]]]></description>
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<p>Writing for Fortune.com, <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2010/05/19/news/companies/SEIU_Bank_of_America_protest.fortune/index.htm" target="_blank">Nina Easton relays her first-hand account</a> of the uncivil disobedience and &#8220;mob&#8221;tactics exhibited by SEIU and the National People&#8217;s Action (NPA), as they terrorized a teenage child in his own home.</p>
<blockquote><p>Baer&#8217;s teenage son Jack &#8212; alone in the house &#8212; locked himself in the bathroom. &#8220;When are they going to leave?&#8221; Jack pleaded when I called to check on him.</p></blockquote>
<p>Liberty Chick has covered this SEIU-NPA attack-action <a href="http://biggovernment.com/libertychick/2010/05/20/seiu-storms-private-residence-terrorizes-teenage-son-of-bank-of-america-exec/">here</a>, and <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/16/class-warfare-hundreds-pr_n_578015.html" target="_blank">Huffington Post wrote</a> a disgusting whitewash of the mob&#8217;s behavior:</p>
<blockquote><p>Passersby and dogwalkers smiled at the sight of people gathered all over Baer&#8217;s lawn and blocking the road.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/17/bank-of-america-protest-d_n_578539.html" target="_blank">SEIU and NPA also loudly stormed into bank buildings,</a> occupying and shutting down their lobbies.  How much would you like being in one of those bank lobbies during an SEIU-NPA Progressive Democrat hijacking of the property? How is anyone supposed to know that the loud angry mob coming through the front door isn&#8217;t there to rob it, or worse yet, <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/05/05/2891441.htm" target="_blank">burn it down?</a></p>
<p>Just an aside -  isn&#8217;t it against Federal law to purposely shut down the normal operation of Federally insured banking institutions? Or is that sort of thing being encouraged now?</p>
<p>This is all a part of an ongoing campaign which SEIU and NPA have titled <a href="http://showdowninamerica.org/about-npa" target="_blank">&#8220;Showdown In America.&#8221;</a></p>
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<p>This series of protests began as far back as last year, and the timeline leading up to these recent, potentially law-breaking mob activities add some critical context to these ugly developments.<a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/waves/all/stern?order=APPT_START_DATE&amp;sort=asc#visitor-data" target="_blank"> </a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/waves/all/stern?order=APPT_START_DATE&amp;sort=asc#visitor-data" target="_blank">January 2009</a> &#8211; <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/waves/all/stern?page=2&amp;order=APPT_START_DATE&amp;sort=asc#visitor-data" target="_blank">October 2009:</a> SEIU&#8217;s Andrew Stern visits the White House extremely frequently and meets with many Obama administration officials.</p>
<p><a href="http://showdowninamerica.org/showdown-in-chicago" target="_blank">October 2009:</a> SEIU-NPA holds street action protests in Chicago against the American Banking Association.</p>
<p><a href="http://showdowninamerica.org/node/389" target="_blank">October 2009:</a> SEIU-NPA protest outside the home of Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/waves/all/stern?page=7&amp;order=APPT_START_DATE&amp;sort=asc#visitor-data" target="_blank">November 2009:</a> SEIU&#8217;s Andrew Stern visits the White House frequently and meets with many Obama administration officials (No further visitor data is available after January 31, 2010.)</p>
<p><a href="http://showdowninamerica.org/node/391" target="_blank">November 2009:</a> SEIU-NPA Showdown DC: Goldman Sachs, Treasury.</p>
<p><a href="http://showdowninamerica.org/node/556" target="_blank">March 2010:</a> SEIU-NPA ShowMe State Showdown.</p>
<p>April 2010: Andrew Stern retires from SEIU.</p>
<p><a href="http://showdowninamerica.org/showdown-sf-wells-fargo" target="_blank">April 2010:</a> SEIU-NPA Showdown on Wells Fargo.</p>
<p><a href="http://showdowninamerica.org/showdown-wall-street" target="_blank">April 2010:</a> SEIU-NPA Showdown on Wall Street.</p>
<p>May 2010: SEIU-NPA terrorize a teenage boy home alone, and possibly break Federal laws by storming into banks, taking over their lobbies and shutting down their businesses.</p>
<p>Are the American people expected to believe that over the course of these several working visits to the White House that the subject of the street mob actions Andrew Stern&#8217;s union was sponsoring and coordinating never once came up?</p>
<p>Unfortunately, there are no alleged reporters in all of the Washington press corps who are either smart or curious enough to ask the President what the American people are to believe about the appearance of the Administration coordinating with unions to intimidate private citizens in their homes, terrorize their children, and break federal laws by organizing mobs to occupy and shut down bank buildings.</p>
<p>If the Executive branch of the government were conspiring with <em>any</em> group to break the laws of this nation, would that be grounds for impeachment, if not a few questions on the subject?</p>
<p>Refresher Course:</p>
<p><a href="http://biggovernment.com/amarcus/2010/05/05/is-president-obama-using-executive-powers-to-organize-angry-anti-capitalist-protests-on-the-streets-of-america/">Is President Obama Using Executive Powers To Organize Angry Anti-Capitalist Protests On The Streets Of America?</a></p>
<p><a href="http://biggovernment.com/amarcus/2010/05/04/bank-bailout-bill-is-this-why-andy-stern-left-seiu/">Bank Bailout Bill: Is This Why Andy Stern Left SEIU?</a></p>
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		<title>SEIU/ACORN Stage Protests Against Banking Industry Meeting In Chicago</title>
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		<dc:creator>Andrew  Marcus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama&#8217;s ACORN/SEIU bussed in 100s of union protesters from across the country to stage 2 days&#8217; worth of media events outside of the 2009 American Bankers Association meeting in Chicago.

SEIU leaders Andy Stern and Thomas Balanoff (DSA member) joined with Jesse Jackson and others, demanding that members of the American Bankers Association stop using [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>President Obama&#8217;s ACORN/SEIU bussed in 100s of union protesters from across the country to stage 2 days&#8217; worth of media events outside of the <a href="http://www.aba.com/Events/Annual.htm" target="_blank">2009 American Bankers Association meeting</a> in Chicago.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-22026" title="andy-stern" src="http://biggovernment.com/files/2009/10/andy-stern.png" alt="andy-stern" width="271" height="400" /></p>
<p>SEIU leaders Andy Stern and Thomas Balanoff <a href="http://www.chicagodsa.org/d2002.html" target="_blank">(DSA member)</a> joined <a href="http://www.foundingbloggers.com/wordpress/2009/10/video-obamas-seiuacorn-pitchfork-brigade-in-chicago/" target="_blank">with Jesse Jackson</a> and others, demanding that members of the American Bankers Association stop using taxpayer bailout funds to lobby against Progressive banking &#8220;reforms.&#8221;</p>
<p>From the SEIU website:</p>
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<blockquote><p><a href="http://www.seiu.org/2009/10/thousands-of-taxpayers-to-converge-on-bankers-convention-to-demand-banks-stop-lobbying-against-finan.php">Thousands of Taxpayers to Converge on Bankers Convention to Demand Banks Stop Lobbying Against Financial Reform</a></p>
<p><strong>Chicago, IL</strong>&#8211;In the largest taxpayer mobilization since the economic crisis began, thousands of Americans from 20 cities will converge on the American Bankers Association (ABA) conference in Chicago from October 25 to 27 to demand banks stop spending millions in taxpayer dollars to lobby against reforms that would protect Americans from the next economic crisis.</p></blockquote>
<p>Below are some clips <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/ABAShowdown#p/a" target="_blank">which have been posted to YouTube. </a></p>
<p>Something to keep in mind while watching these clips:  SEIU is in debt to some of these very same bankers to the tune of more than $100 million, creating the appearance of a potential conflict of interests.</p>
<p><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2495/4053165816_eddbd3143b_o.jpg" alt="" width="497" height="169" /></p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beo2YYo0JZc"><img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/beo2YYo0JZc/default.jpg"/></a></p>
<p>These protesters are being bussed in (carbon footprint??) from as far away as North Carolina, and are organized by the ACORN&#8217;s red shirt brigade.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ5oVmhOtXs"><img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/uJ5oVmhOtXs/default.jpg"/></a></p>
<p>Here is Andy Stern revving up the crowd before marching on the gathering of bankers.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfhSUz4tVBw"><img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/qfhSUz4tVBw/default.jpg"/></a></p>
<p>Here the angry mob (at least by Pelosi standards) takes over the Wells Fargo lobby.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s odd to see the ACORN/SEIU Pitchfork Brigade protesting the very banks they at one time helped usher into the sub-prime market, with the help of Uncle Sam.</p>
<p><a href="http://content.knowledgeplex.org/kp2/programs/pdf/rep_newmortmkts_intro.pdf">From a 2000 report published by Fannie Mae</a>, highlighting successful case studies of banks and community groups reaching the sub-prime market:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/29148855@N07/4049929673/sizes/o/" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3520/4049929673_d51739011c_o.jpg" alt="" width="332" height="139" /><br />
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<blockquote><p>As of 1998, the nation’s largest originator and second-largest servicer of residential mortgages. Vertically integrated mortgage subsidiary of Wells Fargo &amp; Company</p>
<p>The nation’s top mortgage originator to minorities and LMI consumers. Offers integrated initiatives to reach underserved populations and neighborhoods.</p></blockquote>
<p>Also from the same report, praise for ACORN and Wells Fargo subsidiary Norwest:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/29148855@N07/4049929765/sizes/o/" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2610/4049929765_458300ff8a_o.jpg" alt="" width="332" height="193" /><br />
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<blockquote><p>Nonprofit-facilitated instruction<br />
(often with lender partnership)</p>
<p>BofA partners in counseling with National Council of La Raza and other community groups. People’s refers home seekers to the counseling services offered by ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now)</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Telecounseling</p>
<p>Potential borrowers can work with a counselor from the Norwest Mortgage HomeBuyers Club via telephone and mail contact. Countrywide’s HACC provides centralized homeownership counseling via a toll-free number.</p></blockquote>
<p>Perhaps ACORN and SEIU just want a closer and more profitable relationship with Wells Fargo, but can you really blame Wells Fargo for wanting nothing to do with <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/05/bill_hillary_and_the_faln.html" target="_blank">ACORN and their friends?</a></p>
<p>The larger issue here is that ACORN and SEIU, aided by the government, coerced banks into making risky loans by threatening bad PR in the form of embarrassing marches and campaigns accusing them of greed and racism. Now that the money has run out, ACORN and SEIU are protesting anyway, calling them greedy racists. You can&#8217;t win for losing!</p>
<p>The potential irony here is if ACORN is using government money to lobby on behalf of Progressive reforms by organizing these marches. What exactly would be the difference between that and what ACORN claims to be outraged about?</p>
<p><a href="http://www.foundingbloggers.com/wordpress/2009/10/video-obamas-seiuacorn-pitchfork-brigade-in-chicago/" target="_blank">More video from this series of protests can be found here.</a></p>
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