Posted on 02/17/2010 11:27:26 AM PST by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
Democrats just can't stay away from ACORN. Even as scandal piles on top of scandal, they continue to embrace the organization. The latest is that the Senate just confirmed Patrick Corvington as chief executive of the Corporation for National and Community Service. Corvington and ACORN have quite the history as Matthew Vadum notes:
Read more at the Washington Examiner:
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Links from this site also proved interesting.....looks like this whole thing is about hiring people to help people where there are already agencies which do this..and so 135,000 gov. jobs we’re paying these folks to do what’s already being done.....looks like they are surely up to far more than helping....
On second thought, let’s do talk about impeaching this jerk.
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Now this Corporation is nothing but a Dem "get out the vote" front.
I will gve themcommunity service. They do not need my tax dollars doinng it.
I'd rather have NASA than this wimp organization of socialist prigs, training our kids top be communists.
For real? Geez.
A quote from the Corporation for National and Community Service website:
The Corporation’s FY 2011 budget request of $1.416 billion will strengthen our nation’s volunteer sector, foster innovation and civic engagement, and mobilize more than six million Americans to solve critical problems through national service.
Corruption as usual. Now they just rub it in our faces knowing we can’t do dip about it. The fed.gov enablers and ACORN are immune from prosecution. Nothing else could explain their bold and overt corruption where billions of taxpayer dollars flow into their coffers.
Heck, some high court even ruled that the fed.gov had to give them the money inspite of their exposed corruption. That court offered that to not pass the taxpayer bucks would be discriminatory.
There’s a picture of him at this link:
http://www.echoinggreen.org/taxonomy/term/618
You be the judge.
Senate confirming anyone to a “Corporation”?
WTF?
Well how will ACORN get their dirty little hands on all of Obama’s billions to community projects if they don’t have a insider funneling it?
It never ends with these snakes.
This junk is getting OLD.........
don’t know what echoing green is, but did you see that Barbara Bush (the younger) was a 2009 fellow?
More of Obama’s “jobs created or saved”.
I’ve forgotten why we need a Corporation for National and Community Service. I’m sure it’s very important, though.
Yeah Obama is Hitler with cash for clunker Obama volkswagon cars for all. Did you see the latest on drudge on WEATHERIZING your house for 52K? WTF? Obama has it all backwards... folks are homeless folks are afraid of losing jobs and he wants to make their homes “green” to pay off his many slush funds and campaign donors. Obama makes Chuckie Schumer the snake oil salesmen look like a saint.
His audacity is frightening to say the least.
(1) TOP ACORN--BARACK OBAMA "Get your pencils and paper ready. Today. we're going to learn how to use HUD federal funds to open a brothel utilizing underage children imported from the Third World. And when I become president, this will all be legal. And get my govt check ready."
PATRICK GASPARD
(2) ACORN's man in the Obama White House is longtime ACORN operative Patrick Gaspard. He holds the title of White House political affairs director, the same title Karl Rove held in President Bush's White House. He's the President’s fixer and the man who gets ACORN projects and money. Gaspard once worked for ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis.
(3) Patrick Gaspard’s brother Michael Gaspard works for The Advance Group. Michael Gaspard works for ACORN’s registered lobbying organization and with ACORN’s national spokesman Bertha Lewis. Michael apparently keeps a lower profile than his brother. He does not appear on lobbyist disclosures for The Advance Group NY State. Nonetheless, he works there. Ms. Lewis’s contacts list confirms Michael Gaspard’s employment there.
(4) ACORN Shaun Donovan. Mr. Donovan is HUD Secy. Before that, Mr. Donovan was NYC Commissioner of Dept of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD)---where Donovan worked on affordable housing initiatives----projects right up ACORN’s alley.
(5) ACORN Karine Jean-Pierre is WH liaison for Dept of Labor (headed by latino agitator Hilda Solis). Karine once worked for John Edwards (vertical or horizontal?). She left there to work for Cong Anthony Weiner, then became Barack Obama’s regional political director.
ACORNS EVERYWHERE Senate Finance Committee Study
ACORN comprises a mind-boggling 94 different affiliates, that amounts to "a big shell game," a biting Senate Finance Committee study shows. The study, by the staff of Iowa Republican Charles Grassley, reveals four ACORN charity groups give more than half their revenue to taxable entities that engage in "impermissible lobbying and political activity." ACORN and it’s subsidiaries for decades have moved taxpayer money into their own pockets and into the left-wing Marxist machine.
Sen Charles Grassley's documents show leaders of ACORN community groups transferred several million dollars in charitable and government money-----meant for the poor---- to parts of the group that have political (and sometimes profit-making) missions.
Sen Grassley's documents indicate that ACORN's tax-exempt groups----along with its tangled web of allied organizations---- used more than half their charitable and public money in 2006 to pay other ACORN affiliates.
Clinton pictured above with ACORN founder Wade Rathke.
The tax-exempt Clinton Foundation had just donated $250,000 to ACORN.
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BACKSTORY The tax-exempt Clinton Foundation also provided $275,000 in tax-exempt grants supposedly for ACORNS’S "Katrina Benefits Access project" and ACORN'S "Operation Hope Project; Restore Hope." The tax-exempt Clinton Foundation also helped secure "private sector" commitments for ACORN.
JUST WONDERING Can ACORN produce records on how they spent the money? Oh, nevermind. The IRS, SEC, FBI, Congress and the GAO can find out (/snic).
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The IRS has pinpointed tax-exempts and non-profits as the locus classicus for money laundering and tax evasion (stolen money is taxable). The biggest frauds are tax-exempts writing checks to other tax-exempts---the way these "altruistic do-gooders" siphon off, then launder, tax-free monies for themselves.
The Rathkes embezzled millions from ACORN --- but their activities offshore gives rise to concerns about massive govt fraud and money laundering.
Since 1970, ACORN has organized in 1,200 neighborhood chapters in 110 cities across the US and in cities in Canada, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Peru, Argentina and India.
ACORN also appears to have been involved in improper use of pension funds ..... some of the Rathke embezzlment was apparently taken from the pension fund using ACORN's American Express card. This displacement of funding led to the creation of a complex repayment system in which accused embezzler Dale Rathke owed ACORN, and ACORN in turn, owed ABA, which, for its part, wrote off part of the money. (Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
ACORN receives funding from a variety of tax-exempt private charitable organizations: the Bauman Family Foundation, George Soros' Open Society Institute, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation and from corporate foundations, including JP Morgan Chase Foundation, Ben & Jerry's foundation, Bank of America Charitable Foundation, and Citigroup, as well as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and tax-exempt foundations affiliated with the founder of (UPS). (NPR: ACORN's Money Tree Has Many Branches, October 15, 2008).
A full list of ACORN and ACORN affiliate donors is available from the Capital Research Center, a non-profit organization which studies political advocacy groups. (Foundation Watch, 2008: Capital Research Center Cracks the ACORN)
This guy loves getting things done throufgh the backdoor and in the dead of night..
Another image.. the road apple didn’t fall far from the horse’s posterior..
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