Posted on 09/15/2009 7:27:19 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
Conservatives are on the march against the community organization ACORN, accusing its massive voter registration effort of fraud and faulting Obama for having any connections to the group. As we reported this morning, ACORN doesn't necessarily mind the attention.
But what exactly is ACORN? Actually, it's many, many things. The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now has dozens of affiliated entities, from a home-buying assistance corporation to community radio stations to liberal research and training institutes. The giant web of ACORN organizations, primarily based in Louisiana, has been funded by a mix of labor union money, government grants (which really drive conservatives crazy) and charitable contributions from large foundations. See below for a breakdown of funding sources.
Plus, Project Vote -- the voter mobilization organization that works closely with and draws its leadership from ACORN -- paid ACORN and an affiliate $5.4 million in 2006. But where does Project Vote get its money? Normally it's hard to tell, but we obtained a 2006 tax return showing the nonprofit's funders, including: $4.5 million from the charitable trust of the investment management firm Vanguard; $425,000 from the Bauman Family Foundation, which also gives to the People for the American Way; and $396,000 from the liberal phone company Working Assets.
The breakdown on ACORN comes after the jump.
Union Money
ACORN's biggest union backer, the Service Employees International Union, gave more than $4 million to the community organization and its affiliates from 2006-07, according to Dept. of Labor filings. One SEIU local union, the Illinois Homecare Workers and Home Childcare Providers, sprouted from ACORN's organizing efforts and pays rent to ACORN.
ACORN's affiliates also pick up money from the Change to Win labor federation, the Food and Commercial Workers Union and the United Federation of Teachers, among others.
Vanguard will be hearing from me today! I urge others to write also if applicable.
National Public Radio? Good thing I’m sitting down.
ACORN has a rich history of embezzlement of funds.
Was she ACORN or SEIU?
What about the people who planted the fake news stories about "rape gangs" ~ were they ACORN or SEIU?
What about the news media people who bought into those stories ~ do they have ACORN or SEIU links?
” What about the news media people who bought into those stories ~ do they have ACORN or SEIU links? “
You mean Shep and Geraldo??
They don’t even have links to *reality*.....
Come to think of it, it wouldn’t surprise me a bit....
I’m seeing several people pick up on that. I missed the significance of that. I don’t think I’ve ever heard Vanguard advertise itself as a political outfit.
Perhaps we should all email this to Malkin, Rush, and others so they start discussing the money trails of this group and it’s umbrella groups.
We have to poison ACORN’s roots. It’s roots are it’s money sources.
Typical of the stories that don’t stand up to scrutiny just in case everyone forgot: http://michaelhoman.blogspot.com/2005/09/one-of-millions-of-hurricane-katrina.html
As I told my hubby last night in reference to the Kanye West debacle: Color doesn't matter to me...but I damn sure will call 'em as I see 'em based on their actions. I'd call out white trash just as quick if they did something so blatently racist.
More stories refered to ~ this particular site seeks to debunk them. I think we may be able to get some names here and track them back to SEIU and ACORN http://www.gangresearch.net/GangResearch/Media/neworleansviol.htm
I call em as I see em too, but my comment was based on certain criminals using their color as an excuse for different rules and/or treatment......Unfortunately, our society has allowed for certain kinds of racism in this way. It doesn't make it right.
Actually, I'd like to live in Martin Luther King's dream and I can't help but wonder what he would say if he were still here.
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