Posted on 09/27/2009 6:52:31 AM PDT by george76
While everyone in Washington is suddenly pretending they’ve hardly ever heard of ACORN, they might want to pretend they’ve never heard of the SEIU, one of the nation’s largest unions.
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now and the Service Employees International Union are tight as Heidi Klum and a new pair of jeans.
You also don’t talk about either organization without mention of Wade Rathke, co-founder of ACORN and founder of SEIU Local 100 in New Orleans. Rathke, who resigned from ACORN last year as “chief organizer” after it became known that his brother embezzled almost $1 million from the association, continues to run Local 100, as well as ACORN International, recently renamed Community Organizations International.
Rathke’s social justice empire is so vast that he is more hydra than man. Nine heads are surely better than one when you’re organizing communities in at least 12 countries.
Picture a triangle...ACORN...SEIU...the taxpayer. Now picture arrows flowing back and forth, representing the exchange of greenbacks and services.
To break it down, ACORN and SEIU are hand and glove. Rathke himself referred to SEIU as “one of the pillars of the ACORN family of organizations” ... This coziness has been long known among conservative watchdog groups, but Washington has paid little attention until now.
Suddenly, ACORN is as popular as a sneeze on a crowded bus. President Obama, who once represented ACORN as a lawyer and helped train organizers, recently told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos he doesn’t really follow ACORN much.
Taxpayer dollars going to unions?
Blagojevich ...helped position the SEIU so that it could unionize health care workers... SEIU showed its appreciation in advance by becoming Blagojevich’s largest contributor, handing over $1.8 million for his two gubernatorial campaigns.
Now that’s community organization.
(Excerpt) Read more at daytondailynews.com ...
Obamah’s foot-soldiers!!
In order to embezzle a million dollars, you have to have a lot of loose money laying around.
Geez, who woke her up? Someone, quick get some more sleeping pills. Ms. Parker has zero credibility with me as she is one of the RINO apologists. Must be her inbox has been empty for a while so she throws some meat out for the knaves to grovel at hoping she will give them a taste.
Even Democrats, are jumping from the the ACORN ship.
More like hammer and sickle.
Well duh! Parker is a elitist wannabe, snob opportunist, sell out. Who cares if she wants to make herself look conservative on Beck’s coattails. Commies count on us caring about what these narcissists think. ZZZZZZZZZZZ
so did wade rathke snub kathleen or what? she not get invited to a dinner party?
Hey Kate, SHUT UP AND GO AWAY!
Why does anyone even give a post to this cino (Conservative in name only)?
“Kathleen Parker”
Isn’t this the same b!tch suffering from severe Palin envy?
i’m convinced ACORN helped poor people as a sideshow to their real agenda of influencing elections and enriching its founders,
Wow, I’m impressed.
Kathleen Parker can write a entire column without insulting Sarah Palin. I didn’t think it was possible.
I could care less what this person writes. I wish she would just go away.
More like hammer and sickle.
I was thinking it's more like a condom than a glove.
I will not read her columns ever again. She is dead to me. As is that other turncoat P.Noonan.
This Parker women is still dead to me
Gosh, Kathleen has stuck her manicured finger in the wind and detected that it is blowing in a different direction.
This moronic broad just wake up? Crawl back under your RINO rock missy, nobody wants you here!
Good grief!!! She is RIGHT on this matter and the left will red her column....why in HELL would you want her to shut up on this??
Nope. I'd rather get sneezed on by a busful of commuters than have one ACORN "census worker" come to my house.
ACORN and SEIU tells them "You can't do this on your own, VOTE for DEMOCRATS who will GIVE YOU EVERYTHING YOU WANT "except SELF_RESPECT".
Or, authorized or hacked access to electronic accounts.
Yes, but where are they jumping to?
As Katie dog paddles around, lost in the fog of the Potomac she has begun to surface as an androgenous cross between Dorothy Parker and Jack Anderson with a shade of Will Rogers thrown in for the balcony crowd.
I hope’s got her rabies shots up to date.
Amen!!
Agreed.
The act of embezzlement only works if you dont get caught or expect to get caught.
I would suppose most any fool could steal a few hundred dollars in loose cash if there were thousads in their purview.
To steal a milion and not expect to get caught there has to be millons of loose dolars.
I’m surprised this apologist for everything conservative, Kathleen Parker, had the stomach to write this piece. She’s still a jerk, nevertheless, and her attacks on Sarah Palin will never be forgotten.
And the Left is not going to read it from a Free Republic website. We have any number of authors who can say the same point only better.
Jon Stewart of the Daily Show gave her cover.
Or is she too stupid to know that ACORN IS Obama and Obama IS ACORN, and she's still swooning over him?
I don't much care what she says about anything, but I suppose it's good that she at least has this much information right.
So is the Tides Center which funds many of the oleftist environmental and social justice groups:
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderprofile.asp?fndid=5184
The Tides Center’s Board Chairman is Wade Rathke, who is also a member of the Tides Foundation Board. Rathke, a protege of the late George A. Wiley, serves as President of the New Orleans-based Local 100 of the Service Employees International Union, and is the founder and chief organizer of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN)
Kathleen Parker, you go girl/
FReep mail me if you want on/off the list.
Make sure to shower after having any dealings with a thug from the SEIU.
Blagojevich ...helped position the SEIU so that it could unionize health care workers... SEIU showed its appreciation in advance by becoming Blagojevich’s largest contributor, handing over $1.8 million for his two gubernatorial campaigns.
Now that’s community organization.
Washington Post - they're doing justice to the ACORN issue. Informative, easy to read... great stuff.
Don’t tell me, let me guess: Kathleen is...Blonde!
Hand and glove? PUHLEEZ, at least get the colloquialism correct, it’s “hand IN glove”.
No wonder she gets no respect. She’s as smart as a sack of rocks. What my dog disposes of on our walks has more functioning brain matter than she shows evidence of.
Yet she is supposed to be some “conservative” thinker/pundit? God save us all.
SEIU is just as corrupt, if not worse. SEIU was the one mentioned on the Blago tapes. Blago seemed certain that his pal Odumbo could get him a cushy job there. He even goes into detail as to how it would work. One of their pay to play deals. The Chicago way ya know.
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