ACORN Official: Gangster Group Will Be Bankrupt Soon But Fake Spinoff Groups Will Carry On The Corruption

The ACORN crime syndicate is not going away anytime soon, but it’s going to look different.

ACORN will probably run out of money and fold by year’s end but a dozen ACORN state chapters reincorporated to seem like new, independent organizations will spring up in the next week to carry on ACORN’s business, a leaked email from ACORN’s online director suggests.

“The truth is that it is hard for us to forsee [sic] any scenario where ACORN continues beyond the end of 2010 and some of us think it might not last that long,” writes Nathan Henderson-James, director of ACORN’s online campaigns, in an apparently authentic Feb. 22 email.

“Last one to leave turn out the lights and wipe the server,” he writes at the end of the message.

In the email Henderson-James explains the subterfuge ACORN will use to lead Americans to believe ACORN is breaking apart.

“It is definitely true that over the next week or so we should see a dozen or more organizations launched on the state level by staff who used to work for ACORN and leaders who developed their skills as ACORN members. These are not just simple name changes, but reimaginings of how best to organize low and moderate income constitiuencies [sic] without any of the legal problems and funding issues dogging ACORN, not to mention the brand damage.”

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Tags: ACORN, Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, Fox News Channel, James O'Keefe, Marcel Reid
Posted Feb 24th 2010 at 5:37 am in ACORN, Featured Story | 79438137 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/mvadum/2010/02/24/acorn-official-gangster-group-will-be-bankrupt-soon-but-fake-spinoff-groups-will-carry-on-the-corruption/ACORN+Official%3A+Gangster+Group+Will+Be+Bankrupt+Soon+But+Fake+Spinoff+Groups+Will+Carry+On+The+Corruption2010-02-24+13%3A37%3A14Matthew+Vadum

Andrew Breitbart’s Address To CPAC 2010

Below is the full length speech Andrew Breitbart delivered to CPAC 2010. We have also taken the liberty of breaking out some of the best soundbites from the speech.

1. Mr. Podesta, we are watching you!
2. What I learned from Kurt Cobain
3. E Pluribis Unum
4. The Frankfort School roots of multiculturalism and political correctness
5. Big Education
6. MSM – You are not on the American team!
7. CPAC cuts Breitbart short

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Tags: Big Education, Columbia University, CPAC 2010, David Shuster, Frankfort School
Posted Feb 22nd 2010 at 5:41 pm in Culture, Featured Story, History, Media Criticism, News, Politics, Tea Party | 78850104 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/amarcus/2010/02/22/andrew-breitbarts-address-to-cpac-2010/Andrew+Breitbart%27s+Address+To+CPAC+20102010-02-23+01%3A41%3A32Andrew++Marcus

Obama Recruiting Radicals in High Schools

Barack Obama is using our public school system to recruit for his Alinsky-inspired private army. Organizing for America (OFA), formerly Obama For America, is recruiting in our high schools to “build on the movement that elected President Obama by empowering students across the country to help us bring about our agenda” – that is, his agenda of socialism for the United States of America.

Chuck, a reader of my website AtlasShrugs.com, has a daughter in the eleventh grade in a public high school, Perry Local in Massillon, Ohio. The teacher in her government class passed out a propaganda recruiting paper – headed with Obama’s distinctive “O” logo — asking students to sign up as interns for Organizing for America. You can see the entire intern recruiting form at AtlasShrugs.com.

And what will these “interns” be force-fed? The mother’s milk of the left — anti-war agitation, anti-capitalism, Marx, Lenin, Ayers, LGBT agenda promotion, global warming, pro-jihad, and illegal immigration. For starters. Maybe “Ellie Light,” who has in the last few weeks published the same Letter to the Editor supporting and defending Obama in over a dozen newspapers across the country, can give lessons in astroturfing.

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Posted Jan 31st 2010 at 3:40 pm in Education, Obama | 67710433 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/pgeller/2010/01/31/obama-recruiting-radicals-in-high-schools/Obama+Recruiting+Radicals+in+High+Schools2010-01-31+23%3A40%3A32Pamela+Geller

Judging Alito – Obama’s Ultimate Arrogance

President Obama’s State of the Union obviously was a first in more than one way.  Obama point blank, called out (to use the modern vernacular) our Supreme Court Justices on national TV.  He did so because he politically disagreed with their legal decision.  In doing so, Obama demonstrated his supreme arrogance – and let America know just how far he is willing to go to get his way.

As we know, our Federal Judicial system is one of three separate but equal branches.  Historically, the judiciary has been the least political of the three branches.  That status reaches well beyond our own system.  Prior to judges and courts, civilizations tended to rely on counsels of elders to pass judgment on the actions of their village or tribe.  Those elders held a special place, as dispensers of wisdom, in their societies.

The roles of judges today evolved from those wise elders.  Importantly, our system and theirs was based on the notion that the decisions made were made dispassionately and not subject to mob rule or pressure.  By publicly ridiculing the Supreme Court, and subjecting them to a standing ovation from the complicit Democrats that surrounded them, Obama demonstrated to everyone how little regard he has for our system.  That disregard is in keeping with his Saul Alinsky radicalism and the methods he employed.

Obama, to be sure, is not the first President with a constitutional changing agenda to take on the Supreme Court – nor the most crass about it – at least so far.   That dishonor belongs to Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

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Tags: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Justice Samuel Alito, Obama, Saul Alinsky, state of the union
Posted Jan 29th 2010 at 5:31 am in Culture, Featured Story, Justice/Legal, News, Obama, Politics, Uncategorized | 66846224 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/tdelbeccaro/2010/01/29/judging-alito-obamas-ultimate-arrogance/Judging+Alito+-+Obama%E2%80%99s+Ultimate+Arrogance2010-01-29+13%3A31%3A49Thomas+Del+Beccaro

ACORN Whitewash: ACORN Report Is Dishonest Legal Hair-Splitting

I participated in listen-only mode in the teleconference call Monday in which ACORN’s allegedly independent “audit” was released.

I regret it was difficult to make out what the players were saying.

That’s because as the left ferociously circled the wagons, all the creaking wheel noises in the background drowned out much of what was said.

Scott Harshbarger, ACORN ally and former attorney general of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

One the main points that ACORN ally and former Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger and ACORN CEO/chief organizer Bertha Lewis were trying to make was that ACORN, i.e. the lead entity that controls the ACORN network, and ACORN Housing, are separate entities.

Because ACORN Housing and ACORN are different organizations neither is responsible for the other, they argued. In other words, ACORN is not responsible for ACORN Housing employees caught on video encouraging illegal behavior, and vice versa, they reasoned.

Harshbarger said on the conference call

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Tags: ACORN, ACORN Headquarters, ACORN Housing, AmeriCorps, Bertha Lewis
Posted Dec 8th 2009 at 9:33 am in ACORN | 4233427 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/mvadum/2009/12/08/acorn-whitewash-acorn-report-is-dishonest-legal-hair-splitting/ACORN+Whitewash%3A+ACORN+Report+Is+Dishonest+Legal+Hair-Splitting2009-12-08+16%3A33%3A38Matthew+Vadum

Citigroup Executive Pulls Out of Sham ACORN Audit Under Pressure

Citigroup executive Eric Eve (pictured below) has resigned from ACORN’s phony, allegedly independent panel of inquiry, a move that removes one of the few people on the panel who could even remotely claim to actually be independent.

If you read between the lines, it also seems to mean Citigroup agrees the panel is a sham.

Eve, senior vice president of Global Consumer Group, Community Relations, at Citigroup, quit after the National Legal and Policy Center pressed Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit to cut ties with ACORN.

In a letter to NLPC president Peter Flaherty, Citigroup announced Eve’s resignation from the panel.

“We too are deeply concerned about the recent media reports regarding ACORN and, because of those reports, have suspended our charitable financial support and program relationships with ACORN, and we are awaiting the results of the independent audit of ACORN activities now underway,” wrote Natalie Abatemarco, Citigroup’s vice president, Global Community Relations.

“On a related topic, please be advised that Eric Eve has resigned his position on the ACORN Advisory Council,” she added.

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Posted Nov 5th 2009 at 6:01 pm in ACORN, News, Politics | 26186143 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/mvadum/2009/11/05/citigroup-executive-pulls-out-of-sham-acorn-audit-under-pressure/Citigroup+Executive+Pulls+Out+of+Sham+ACORN+Audit+Under+Pressure2009-11-06+01%3A01%3A15Matthew+Vadum

ACORN Video: Prostitution Scandal in Philadelphia, PA Part I

*UPDATE Below*

Alinsky Rule #1: “Power isn’t only what you have, it’s what the enemy thinks you have.”

Now that ACORN lied to you, Media Matters, what are you going to do?

**UPDATE 2:24 PM EST** We muted the audio of the ACORN employees on the video released today due to ACORN’s legal attack upon us.  We call upon ACORN to state publicly now that it has no objection to the public release of any its employees oral statements to us.  If they are interested in the truth, why wouldn’t they do so?

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PETA Shakedowns and “Social Responsibility”: Moving the Goalposts

PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) has been known to employ attention-getting methods with everything from nude models protesting fur to activists throwing vegan custard pies in the face of Ronald McDonald in front of children. PETA describes its mission as ending the suffering of animals on “factory farms, in laboratories, in the clothing trade, and in the entertainment industry.”  To that end, the group has used everything from engaging in agitprop to aiding the terrorist tactics of animal rights groups, as investigative reporters have charged.

Of late, the group that claims to be the “largest animal rights organization in the world” focuses efforts on behind-the-scenes strategies to fill coffers.  Their more recent endeavors exploit the pressure companies feel to display their “social responsibility.” 

At the same time, the non-profit engages in clever partnerships with companies whose competitors are targeted by PETA.  And often those who “partner” with PETA treat animals in a manner similar or identical to that which PETA claims is abusive when done by targeted companies.

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To Understand ACORN, Look To the Early 20th Century

There was one man who paved the way for ACORN, its agenda and its tactics, and he rose to prominence a good twenty years before Saul Alinsky. His name was Arthur Townley.

Please bear with me for a bit of history.  A.C., as he was more popularly known, was a member of the Socialist Party in North Dakota.  At the time, grain prices were manipulated, in his view, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  What put him over the edge was when he overextended himself in an attempt to reap a hefty profit on flax, only to have the price drop, along with a bad crop.  He lost a substantial amount of money.

As a socialist, he naturally blamed the out-of-state capitalists and sought to do something about it.  His solution: A state-controlled grain industry.  According to “Political Prairie Fire,” written by Robert L. Morlan in 1955, Townley had a multi-point list of demands, including “State ownership of terminal elevators, flour mills, packing houses, and cold-storage plants,” as well as “Rural credit banks operated at cost.”

When his Socialist Party wasn’t interested in his plan, Townley set out and created The Nonpartisan League in 1915, a mode for organizing farmers into a political constituency to be reckoned with.  See, Townley lacked one key ingredient: power.

His theory was that in order to enact his plan, he needed to create the sufficient pressure on elected officials in meet his demands or face the consequences.  His group also worked to elect candidates that agreed with its views.

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Posted Oct 2nd 2009 at 1:45 pm in ACORN, Economics, History | 1147018 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/kolson/2009/10/02/to-understand-acorn-look-to-the-early-20th-century/To+Understand+ACORN%2C+Look+To+the+Early+20th+Century2009-10-02+20%3A45%3A34Kyle+Olson

ACORN, Kanye West and the Hierarchy of Multiculturalism

Journalists need to ask themselves, how did this happen? How could they miss the corruption at ACORN? President Obama was once an ACORN lawyer, so the group is certainly significant enough to warrant media scrutiny. Then how did all the seasoned professionals get scooped by two students–James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles–one of whom isn’t old enough to legally drink?

ACORN’s many problems have been well known for quite a while, at least to anyone venturing beyond network newscasts and liberal blogs. As an organization, ACORN doesn’t just limit itself to churning out forged voter registrations. It’s a full-blown racketeering enterprise worthy of The Sopranos, and it finances its operations with the help of taxpayer money.

So how could the major media fail to hold ACORN to account all these years?

I have my pet theory.

Political correctness has been slowly rotting the establishment media to its core, to the point where few professional journalists would dare launch a serious investigation into the exalted Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now. Why? Simple: according to the tenets of political correctness, the racial makeup of the communities being “organized” automatically confers the presumption of moral superiority upon ACORN. So all those nasty rumors about ACORN must be no more than lies spread by racist propagandists.

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Tags: ACORN, acorn prostitute video, acorn scandal, BigGovernment.com, Bill Clinton
Posted Sep 19th 2009 at 10:00 am in ACORN, Culture, Media Criticism, Obama, Politics | 5250186 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/emaloney/2009/09/19/acorn-kanye-west-and-the-hierarchy-of-multiculturalism/ACORN%2C+Kanye+West+and+the+Hierarchy+of+Multiculturalism2009-09-19+17%3A00%3A13Evan+Coyne+Maloney

San Diego: ACORN Stands By Their Employee, Until They Don’t

Interesting press coverage from San Diego. ACORN holds a press conference to announce they are standing behind their employee, who was captured in undercover footage from James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles offering to help smuggle into the country underage prostitutes from El Salvador. The ACORN employee had suggested that the children be brought across the border in Tijuana, because he has “a lot of contacts there.” After the cameras stop rolling, we learn that ACORN has fired the employee…the truth will out.

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Once Upon an ACORN: Why ACORN’s Internal Audit is a Sham

The announcement by ACORN that it is creating a panel of inquiry consisting of its corrupt friends is a fairy tale. ACORN did the same thing last year after an internal scandal but when the honest people on ACORN’s internal panel began asking uncomfortable questions, it cast them out.

Since it’s a fairy tale, let me tell the story the fairy tale way:

Once upon a time there was a group called the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). It was run, and continues to be run today, by very bad people who do very bad things while they pretend to make America a better place.

They get very upset when people point out the bad things they do. They always lie about those things and call those people who speak against them nasty names like “racist” so those people will get scared and run away. Often it works.

They carry out voter registration drives strictly with a view to meeting predetermined quotas. They don’t give a farthing’s cuss if their canvassers register Mickey Mouse or the dead to vote; in fact, they encourage it. As long as the big fat checks keep coming in from billionaire leftist George Soros and Herb and Marion Sandler everything is OK in their eyes.

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Posted Sep 17th 2009 at 2:42 pm in ACORN | 4210140 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/mvadum/2009/09/17/once-upon-an-acorn-why-acorns-internal-audit-is-a-sham/Once+Upon+an+ACORN%3A+Why+ACORN%27s+Internal+Audit+is+a+Sham2009-09-17+21%3A42%3A29Matthew+Vadum

Full Transcript: ACORN Prostitution Scandal, San Bernardino

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ACORN Video: Prostitution Scandal in San Diego, CA

With 70 miles of stunning beaches and picture-perfect weather all year round, having fun during the summer in San Diego doesn’t require a lot of money.

The city combines old-fashioned Mexican charm with a modern edge. In a city where the sun is always shining, it’s the perfect place to get away for a bit of relaxation or stimulation.

If you’re looking for trendy boutique hotels, an exploding culinary scene, or visiting the local ACORN to get your underage prostitutes smuggled across the Mexican border, you’re in the right place.

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ACORN Prostitution Scandal: San Bernardino, Continued…

**This is a Part III of the ACORN San Bernardino exposé.

Alinsky Rule #8: “Keep the pressure on…  with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose.”

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SEIU: ‘One of the Pillars of the ACORN Family’

Part of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now’s (ACORN) rotten core includes a very cozy relationship with Big Labor.  In fact, in many instances ACORN and Big Labor are one and the same.  In 2008, Big Labor funneled ACORN millions of dollars for so-called organizing activity.  But, that is only the tip of the Big Labor iceberg.

ACORN controls or significantly dominates several Big Labor unions and organizations.  ACORN created and controls SEIU 100 (Gulf Region) and SEIU 880 (a recently expanded SEIU mega-local that covers Chicago, Illinois, Indiana, and Kansas).

ACORN founder S. Wade Rathke referred to mega-union SEIU 880 as “one of the pillars of the ACORN Family.”

Service Employees International Union (SEIU) President Andy Stern hand picked ACORN’s Rathke to direct SEIU’s nationwide organizing projects.

In addition to Rathke’s and ACORN’s SEIU involvement, Rathke controlled Louisiana HERE Local 100, was Secretary-Treasurer of a New Orleans based AFL-CIO labor organization, and served on the board of a hotel employees union organizing committee.

A search of financial disclosure reports (UnionReports.gov) filed with the U.S. Department of Labor for the years 2000 and 2006 disclosed the following positions that Rathke held in labor unions while he concurrently served as ACORN’s Chief Organizer:

Wade Rathke DOL Reported Union Positions (2000,2006)

ACORN’s connections extend to several other Big Labor funded organizations such as the Wal-Mart Alliance for Reform Now (WARN), Site Fighters, and Community Labor Organizing Center (CLOC).

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Posted Sep 16th 2009 at 7:30 am in ACORN, Economics | 2918249 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/dloos/2009/09/16/seiu-is-one-of-the-pillars-of-the-acorn-family/SEIU%3A+%27One+of+the+Pillars+of+the+ACORN+Family%272009-09-16+14%3A30%3A28Don+Loos

ACORN Video: Prostitution Scandal in New York, NY

This recent scam, which was attempted in San Diego, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia to name a few places, had failed for months before the results we’ve all recently seen.
-Bertha Lewis, Chief Organizer, ACORN

So, we headed up to New York…
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Alinsky Rule #10, “The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure that results in the reactions from the opposition that are essential for the success of the campaign.”

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Posted Sep 14th 2009 at 12:35 am in ACORN, Exclusives, Featured Story, News | 19101,012 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/jokeefe/2009/09/14/acorn-video-prostitution-scandal-in-new-york-ny/ACORN+Video%3A+Prostitution+Scandal+in+New+York%2C+NY2009-09-14+07%3A35%3A06James+O%26%2339%3BKeefe

Counterpoint: Borat of the Right Releases Fantasy of ACORN Prostitution Ring

In the “gee, I made this not very smart person look really stupid” genre of film making- the sort of “ask stupid questions and play ridiculous characters and edit to make funny” made most famous by Sacha Baron Cohen- comes “Baltimore Acorn Workers support prostitution.”

Acorn is a community organizing network that works on a variety of issues, from voter registration to fighting predatory lending practices. In other words, it is just the sort of organization for poor people that the Right loves to hate.

According to the news stories, the video may show two (Black and seemingly not terribly educated) Acorn employees trying to help two (white and seemingly educated) young people figure out how to start a brothel with girls from El Salvador (who, not coincidentally, are here illegally).

ACORN workers caught on tape allegedly advising on prostitution – CNN.com.

Within this fantasy is every fear and desire of the far right: evil Black women activists, poor people, illegal immigrants, and sex. (more…)

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Posted Sep 13th 2009 at 5:45 pm in ACORN, Politics | 1810512 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/lessig/2009/09/13/counterpoint-borat-of-the-right-releases-fantasy-of-acorn-prostitution-ring/Counterpoint%3A+Borat+of+the+Right+Releases+Fantasy+of+ACORN+Prostitution+Ring2009-09-14+00%3A45%3A41Laurie+Essig

Limbaugh Makes ACORN/Obama Connection

From the transcript of today’s “Rush Limbaugh Show” show:

RUSH: Now, this is incredible.  Andrew Breitbart’s Big Hollywood, started a new website recently, BigGovernment.com.  And filmmaker James O’Keefe, 25-year-old independent filmmaker, has his own theory about how to expose people on the left and he’s using Alinsky rules.  One of the Saul Alinsky rules in dealing with your enemies is making your enemies live by their own rules will destroy them.  So O’Keefe’s theory is, hey, just calling attention to their corruption and disagreeing with it and demanding that it stop isn’t going to accomplish anything.  We’ve got to go encourage the corruption and illustrate how it happens.  So what happened was, James O’Keefe posed as a pimp with a 20-year-old woman named Kenya who posed as a prostitute while visiting ACORN’s office in Baltimore.  The couple told ACORN staffers that they wanted to secure housing where the woman could continue to maintain a prostitution business.

Now, ACORN advised the woman on two things:  how to avoid being caught paying taxis, how to avoid paying taxes on her business, how to cheat the IRS, and how to get away with running a prostitution business in Baltimore.  We have couple sound bites that illustrate this.  There’s video of this.  The whole video runs about an hour.  They got two long segments of it on O’Keefe’s site at BigGovernment.com.  This is your tax dollars at work, by the way.  ACORN employees, ACORN, four to five billion dollars in the stimulus package directly to them.  Remember, ACORN is Barack Obama’s training ground.  When he got to Chicago he became a community organizer with ACORN.  He taught them how to do things; they taught him how to do things.  We now have an ACORN-type community agitator as president of the United States.  So in this bite, this is the videotape, James O Keefe is posing as the pimp, his woman, Kenya, posing as the prostitute at the ACORN Baltimore office, and in this bite the ACORN employee advises the cameraman on how to hide a prostitution business.

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