ACORN Internal Memo Blows Cover Off Its Claims Of “Non-Partisan” Status
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“In what might be the biggest financial-political con in history, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, ACORN, is under “The Factor” microscope.”
Who are they? ACORN is a far-left organization that signs up voters, lobbies for the poor and promotes low-income housing.
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, ACORN, is a far-left organization that purports to promote the poor and disadvantaged. It is currently being investigated for voter registration fraud in least 14 states, having submitted hundreds of thousands of bogus registrations throughout the country.
ACORN claims to be “a non-profit, non-partisan social justice organization with national headquarters in New York, New Orleans and Washington, D.C..”
And despite its troubling track record, ACORN receives plenty of money from Democrats in Congress. ACORN affiliates in just 11 states are reported to have received more than $31 million in taxpayer funding. And ACORN has plenty of affiliates. Hundreds, in fact.
ACORN founder Wade Rathke also founded the huge public sector union, the SEIU (Service Employees International Union), which also happens to funnel funds to ACORN. Other ACORN affiliates, like the American Institute for Social Justice, also send millions directly to its parent.
Worse, ACORN is competing for $8 billion in Stimulus dough, thanks to President Obama.
So where does the money go? Fox News traced the money to a single, small funeral parlor in New Orleans on Elysian Fields Avenue. It appears to be a bank for ACORN and as many as 268 of its far-left affiliates.
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