ACORN: New And Improved? « Free Us Now Weblog

ACORN: New And Improved? « Free Us Now Weblog

• Former Acorn Housing - Affordable Housing Centers of America
• California Acorn - Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment
• New York Acorn - New York communities for Change

More links to follow, I'm sure.

Allegations Against ACORN - C-Span

This hearing is totally revealing of the unchecked and protected corruption that led to the Obama Corruption and Coverup that is taking place.

Pinstripe Suits and Purple Pimp Hats by Kevin Williamson on National Review Online

Pinstripe Suits and Purple Pimp Hats by Kevin Williamson on National Review Online

...The banks have been working to buy off ACORN, as Flaherty explains, because the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) gave politically savvy rabble-rousers the power to put the bankers over a barrel. “The banks needed somebody to market and administer loan programs in these formerly redlined areas,” Flaherty says. “So ACORN says, ‘Here we are,’ and they go from being critics to being business partners. That’s the most lucrative part, but there also have been direct grants to ACORN and its various affiliates.”

Besides JPMorgan Chase’s largesse, those direct grants include at least $3.6 million from Bank of America, which also donated thousands of dollars’ worth of stock to Project Vote, an ACORN affiliate. The Capital Research Center documented these donations to ACORN Housing, another node in the ACORN system:

JP Morgan Chase Foundation: $5,007,500 and $300,000 to separate state-level ACORN units
Bank of America Charitable Foundation: $1,405,000
US Bancorp Foundation: $285,000 and $470,000 to ACORN Housing of Illinois
PNC Foundation: $95,000
Wachovia Foundation: $5,000
Provident Bank Foundation: $5,000

Most of the money moves beneath the radar. Direct gifts from corporations to nonprofits do not have to be disclosed by the donors, and the recipients only have to disclose them to the IRS. And direct donations are not the only means that companies have to fund ACORN: Local community-development grants and other low-key programs frequently are administered with an eye on politics.

Given the size and complexity of ACORN’s operations, tracking them all is a daunting task. Flaherty’s organization will be trying to put proposals before the banks’ shareholders at this year’s annual meetings, either to cut ties with ACORN or to voluntarily disclose donations of the sort that the group has relied upon. “ACORN has the leverage of the CRA,” he says. “So it’s kind of a natural that ACORN targeted the banks long before they targeted the taxpayer.” But in 2009, the banks are the taxpayer, to no trivial extent. The purple pimp hat is on us.

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State Run Media is no longer the Trusted Media

John Fund to ACORN: Bring on the Lawsuit

State Run Media exposed again.
Credibility is earned not anointed.
Maybe the Undocumented Obama will finally realize it applies to him too.
Freedom on the Move.

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