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 ...
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.
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