Pat Dollard | Young Americans

This was an event for hundreds of community organizing groups and ACORN people were there including the main organizer of the event Deepak Bhargava was an ACORN leader for years. Bhargava was the legislative director at the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN).

From The Organizers Forum

Deepak was selected as the Executive Director of the Center for Community Change in October 2002, having been at the Center since 1994 in the position of Director of Public Policy. He has developed national grassroots coalitions on issue of public housing and transportation, resulting in significant federal policy changes. Deepak also directed the National Campaign for Jobs and Income Support, a collaboration of 200 grassroots organizations and networks with affiliates in 40 states, which focuses on poverty, economic inequality, and immigration issues. Deepak previously worked at ACORN, leading the organization’s policy work on community reinvestment, fair housing and housing finance, working with the media and testifying before Congress. Deepak currently serves on the boards of the Center on Law and Social Policy, the Applied Research Center, the Center for Immigrant Democracy and the Discount Foundation. Deepak was born in Mysore, India, grew up in New York City and received his BA summa cum laude from Harvard College.

Here is the video of Barack Obama telling Community Organizers from around the country, which includes ACORN of course, that they will be setting his agenda before he is even inaugurated:

Nah - No ties to ACORN what so ever.