http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/acorn/ en-us Mon, 6 Jul 2009 04:13:25 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286286/posts Three Republicans on the House panel that oversees the Census Bureau have asked fellow GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota to end her plans to boycott next year’s count. Reps. Patrick McHenry of North Carolina, Lynn Westmoreland of Georgia and John Mica of Florida issued a statement saying every elected representative has a “responsibility” to encourage participation in the 2010 Census. “Boycotting the constitutionally mandated census is illogical, illegal and not in the best interest of our country,” they stated. . . . . . McHenry, Westmoreland and Mica – no fans of Acorn – pointed out an “unfortunate irony”... The Wall Street Journal - Washington Wire http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286286/posts#comment Mon, 6 Jul 2009 04:13:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2285740/posts I have heard a great deal about the Census Addendum for 2010. I thought that all we were required to provide was the number of inhabitants in the household for representation purposes. I was watching Glenn Beck recently and he was discussing this with a conservative female politician from Minnesota, I believe. I understand that they want to know how far you travel to work, when you leave, when you come home, how much you make, do have guns, etc. etc. I guess that if one does not cooperate, there could be a fine involved. It was stated in the... Self (Shameless Vanity) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2285740/posts#comment Sun, 5 Jul 2009 03:13:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285404/posts What was to have been a serious discussion Friday turned into a case of finger-pointing and accusations between a health care reform advocacy group and the staff of Republican Sen. Mike Johanns. Officials with Change That Works Nebraska accused members of Johanns’ staff of calling security guards to intimidate people set up outside a meeting to discuss health care — a charge Johanns’ office denies. The group’s director, Jane Kleeb, was invited by Johanns to participate in the round-table discussion on the University of Nebraska Medical Center campus. Kleeb, in turn, gathered a group of teachers, veterans and others to... Journalstar.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285404/posts#comment Sat, 4 Jul 2009 13:54:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284831/posts Massachusetts' Liberals are celebrating the 4th of July weekend by planning to pass legislation to ban public access to firearms training. Since no one in MA can go to their chief of police to beg for a MA LTC without completing training, this is another way to ban firearms ownership in MA without violating Heller. They are undoubtedly laughing it up over this one on Beacon Hill. Pay attention. This is part of Obama's test plan to end private firearms ownership in the U.S. (Patrick was reportedly on the team that helped train ACORN to "win" the 2008 election). Gun Owners Action League http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284831/posts#comment Fri, 3 Jul 2009 14:17:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284950/posts When President Obama announced on June 9 that some financial institutions would be allowed to repay Troubled Asset Relief Program dollars, he said the massively expensive TARP bailout had made money for the federal government. "It is worth noting that in the first round of repayments from these [TARP recipients], the government has actually turned a profit," the president said. Indeed, TARP supporters have long held out the hope that the program might be profitable. But now Rep. Barney Frank, the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, has come up with a proposal to spend any TARP profits before... The Washington Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284950/posts#comment Fri, 3 Jul 2009 17:28:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284896/posts The Big Fix – Part Three RIGGED, ILLEGAL, RACIAL, and INTRUSIVE Strike One. In violation of Article 1, Section 2, of the U.S. Constitution, President Barack Obama has assumed complete control of the 2010 Census. This Article, which concerns the legislative rather than executive branch of government, stipulates that the “enumeration” be conducted by a commerce official under the supervision of the Senate and the House of Representations. It reads: Representation and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers … . The actual Enumeration shall be... The Last Crusade http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284896/posts#comment Fri, 3 Jul 2009 15:55:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2284676/posts What if a far left group, with a goal of radically changing the U.S., with a history of significant criminality and effective grass root organizing got together with a corrupt far left billionaire who is also trying to transform the United States of America in a radical way? That's exactly what's happening between George Soros and ACORN. Think of ACORN as instruments of George Soros grand plan. Soros wants to elect far left candidates, pass universal health care, props up the unions among many liberal ideological goals. Think of ACORN is the tool of implementation of his ideology, or at... The Provocateur http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2284676/posts#comment Fri, 3 Jul 2009 06:18:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284550/posts [T]oday the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the layoff of Census workers comprised the bulk of the jobs just lost in the federal government. The July 2 Employment Situation Summary states: "Employment in federal government fell by 49,000 in June, largely due to the layoff of workers temporarily hired to prepare for Census 2010." What's wrong with this picture? The federal government isn't exactly on an austerity binge right now. Given that the Obama administration lied about ACORN's involvement in the Census, it might be lying now about the laid off workers being temporary employees. Is the way being... American Spectator http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284550/posts#comment Fri, 3 Jul 2009 01:33:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284514/posts Politics: The former Stuart Smalley becomes the 60th Democrat in the U.S. Senate, thanks to the community organizers at Acorn and the little-known Secretary of State Project. Is the system being rigged?Politics: The former Stuart Smalley becomes the 60th Democrat in the U.S. Senate, thanks to the community organizers at Acorn and the little-known Secretary of State Project. Is the system being rigged? Incumbent Republican Norm Coleman conceded defeat in the mother of all recounts in Minnesota's U.S. Senate race after the state's Supreme Court unanimously rejected his lawsuit. Arguably, his seat may have been lost the day in 2006... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284514/posts#comment Fri, 3 Jul 2009 00:26:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2283979/posts The following is a news item pulled from the website of LaRouchepac.com June 23, 2009 (LPAC)--Health Care for America Now (HCAN), endorsed by President Obama as the coalition pushing his health-care (euthanasia) reform, is a project of billionaire British-agent speculator George Soros, his Tides Foundation, and the Saul Alinsky counter-insurgency networks Soros used to ramp up the Obama Presidential candidacy. Though labor unionists will come into Washington on June 25 to rally and lobby for the Obama "reform," the HCAN organization sponsoring the D.C. events explicitly opposes the single-payer health-care plan favored by labor and by most Americans. The group... blog.nj.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2283979/posts#comment Thu, 2 Jul 2009 12:10:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283689/posts Link only - Protesters demand mortgage help http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283689/posts#comment Wed, 1 Jul 2009 23:36:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283597/posts When housing activists like ACORN and Momsrising.org tried to use Twitter to pressure Goldman Sachs to sign onto a new affordable housing program, the told their members to tweet "“petition @GS_NEWS Prevent home foreclosures with the MHA program now! http://act.ly/5l retweet to sign #Homewrecker." Their goals was to get Goldman, along with other investment banks, to sign on with President Obama’s new Making Home Affordable (MHA) Program. They targeted Goldman because they thought the bank was the most active Wall Street firm on Twitter, due to the number of tweets on the @GS_News account, according to the Wall Street Journal's... The Business Insider http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283597/posts#comment Wed, 1 Jul 2009 21:43:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2283436/posts The nuts are at it again, folks. In this Accuracy in Media interview, an ACORN state organizer and friend describe their infatuation with their Messiah’s health care plan. My reaction to this video is two-fold. On the one hand, I’m amazed that this group has such a dangerous reputation when their members are this grossly inept. On the other hand, I’m not very surprised when I find that the stupid are Obama supporters. Watch and take heart… our mission is to defeat people whose IQ is lower than my family’s cat and whose ability to express coherent thought is rivaled... The Constitutional Alamo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2283436/posts#comment Wed, 1 Jul 2009 18:21:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283340/posts House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.) has had a change of heart regarding his earlier decision to investigate the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). He now says he is no longer planning to investigate ACORN, which is under fire for vote-fraud accusations in last year's presidential election. But why the change of heart? Conyers, faithfully adhering to the blame-casting game that has long held sway in Congress, weakly and obtusely laid the fault for this recent reversal at the feet of purposely unidentified “powers that be.” "The powers that be decided against it," Conyers told the... New American http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283340/posts#comment Wed, 1 Jul 2009 16:08:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283260/posts A Sombrero for Uncle Sam The Constitution in the Crapper byPaul L. Williams, Ph.D.thelastcrusade.org Those who count the vote decide nothing. Those who count the voters decide everything. Joseph Stalin It will determine which states gain seats in Congress and which ones lose them. It will divert billions in federal funds to states and cities with the greatest number of illegal aliens.It will support the conviction that America has become a bi-lingual country.It will allocate of billions of taxpayers’ dollars to special interest groups, such as NAACP, Fundacion Azteca, Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow Push Coalition, and Acorn.The dice have been loaded.The... The Last Crusade http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283260/posts#comment Wed, 1 Jul 2009 14:28:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283208/posts Reversing a decade-long trend, many of America's largest cities are now growing more quickly than the rest of the nation, yet another sign of an economic crisis that is making it harder for people to move. Southern Ledger http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283208/posts#comment Wed, 1 Jul 2009 13:32:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2283188/posts When we’re finally done with Obama his “Czar System” circumventing the constitutional confirmation process will stand out. Since he has a Czar for everything, count on a Labor Czar who will be his enforcer. Andy Stern, President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) will be Labor Czar. He’ll direct Obama’s ACORN brown shirts and intimidate workers into surrendering to Card Check and nobody will be able to stop them. Who is Commissar Stern? Stern’s a favorite son of the Democratic Socialists of America, whose name spells out its aims. Stern’s SEIU is ruthlessly lawless. More than 3820 Unfair Labor... The Collins Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2283188/posts#comment Wed, 1 Jul 2009 13:06:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283044/posts SOL - I have gotten several reports concerning threats to Tea Party events and two regarding threats to individual organizers and in one instance their family. In each instance when provided information (regarding this or other issues) I endeavor to source and verify or will not post or email it to the group. I do now have one confirmed statement from a victim of such a threat and have discussed it with him. The individual making the threat has direct ties to opposition groups as discussed below and an attorney has been consulted by the individual targeted and other steps... www.alarmandmuster.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283044/posts#comment Wed, 1 Jul 2009 05:13:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2282943/posts A district judge who held another ACORN worker for trial Monday on election law violations urged prosecutors to go after the real culprit, the organization that employed him. "Somebody has to go after ACORN," Senior District Judge Richard H. Zoller said about the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. "It's happening all over the country. All you have to do is turn on the television," he said, referring to voter registration fraud charges brought recently against ACORN and its workers in Nevada. "We will," Allegheny County Detective Robert F. Keenan promised as he wrapped up his testimony. A spokesman... Pittsburgh TRIBUNE-REVIEW http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2282943/posts#comment Wed, 1 Jul 2009 01:50:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2282874/posts After the Minnesota Supreme Court unanimously rejected his lawsuit today, Republican Norm Coleman graciously conceded the bitterly disputed contest over the second U.S. Senate seat for Minnesota. None of this changes the fact that as a senator Al Franken is not legitimate. The election was stolen at the precinct level, during the recount, and during the post-election litigation. Never forget the role that ACORN played in this. As ACORN-aligned Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, a former community organizer, presided over the vote-counting process, Coleman's original lead dwindled. The morning after the election, Coleman led Franken by 725 votes. Over the... Capital Research Center http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2282874/posts#comment Wed, 1 Jul 2009 00:09:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282289/posts ACORN, which played a starring role in creating the subprime mortgage crisis, plans to add insult to injury by harassing lenders across the nation with protests tomorrow in an effort to coerce them into supporting President Obama's Making Home Affordable foreclosure-avoidance program. Austin King, director of ACORN Financial Justice, sent out a press release today advising of the demonstrations that are planned as part of its "Homewrecker 4" campaign. The four financial companies targeted are Goldman Sachs, HomEq Servicing, American Home Mortgage, and OneWest. Read the whole document here. ACORN plans to hit Dallas, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, St. Louis, New York... The American Spectator http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282289/posts#comment Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:33:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282752/posts The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, the multi-level activist organization for which President Obama worked and which now is entangled in charges of voter fraud in multiple jurisdictions across the U.S., appears to be in the bull's-eye of investigators. According to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, a judge hearing a voter fraud case against an ACORN employee has suggested investigators pursue the conglomerate itself, obtaining a promise that it will be done. The exchange came in the courtroom of Senior District Judge Richard Zoller. The Tribune-Review report today said the judge told Allegheny County Detective Robert F. Keenan, "Somebody has... World Net Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282752/posts#comment Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:45:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2282660/posts The roots of ACORN becoming the bogeyman in conservative circles could likely be found in that group's involvement in the Community Reinvestment Act. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if conservatives blamed the CRA, wrongly in my opinion, largely because ACORN is so tied to it. The Provocateur http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2282660/posts#comment Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:00:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282611/posts Al Franken confirmed to MN senate by MN supreme court. Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282611/posts#comment Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:11:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282533/posts ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, launched a campaign Monday criticizing the four lenders for not doing more to help with refinancing and modification of distressed mortgages. The Phoenix housing market has been one of the hardest hit by the real estate slide and has one of the highest foreclosure rates in the U.S. ACORN will hold rallies in Tuesday in cities including Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and Seattle. None have been set yet for Phoenix. ACORN is one of the nonprofit agencies approved by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to help... Phoenix Business Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282533/posts#comment Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:54:39 GMT