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2009 FEBRUARY 8: Your Tax Dollars at Work:

Bank of AmeriҚa Gives $2,000,000 to…guess who…ACORN (They support abortion on demand in addition to whatever else it is they say they do).

Your tax dollars at work.

Developing…

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2009 MARCH 31: Sacramento Tea Party 2009:
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Ladies and Gentlemen, I have just received word that Fox News’ Neil Cavuto will be joining us for the Sacramento Tea Party. He will broadcast his show, “Your World With Neil Cavuto,” from the west steps of the Capital. Be sure to show up. If you cannot make it, be sure to check out the liveblog of the event right here at the Harrington Report!

Sign up for an email alert about the liveblogging event here:
Sacramento Tea Party

Also, Check out the New Harrington Report Store! More products are added all the time, so check back often!

UPDATE: APRIL 7: Mark Mekler, the organizer of the Sacramento Tea Party was on Your World with Neil Cavuto today and discussed the possibility of ACORN “activists” disrupting the event.

UPDATE: APRIL 9: Michelle Malkin and Michael Reagan will be joining us and speaking at the event!

Watch – Mark Meckler on “Your World With Neil Cavuto”

UPDATE: APRIL 10: Here is updated information on the possible ACORN folks who will try and disrupt the tea parties. As Mark Williams reported, they are going to come with racist propaganda and play it up for the cameras as if they are us. THE MOST IMPORTANT THING YOU CAN DO IS NOT LET ANY MEDIA TALK TO THESE PEOPLE.

Just be aware of these folks. For more information to go Mark Williams’ blog.

UPDATE: APRIL 11: Neil Cavuto takes on Leslie Marshall! I am so glad Neil Cavuto is coming to Sacramento!

UPDATE: APRIL 14: According to a recent article on FoxNews.com ACORN is not actually trying to “sabotage” tomorrow’s tea party protests. Oh no, see ACORN is really putting together rallies in support of Obama’s tax plan (I mean budget) that just happen to coencide with the national tea party movement. Mark Mekler was quoted in the article as saying “We don’t take them seriously.” Well okay then. Hope you’re right about that mark

Read- Sacramento Tea Party Website

Read- Sacramento Tea Party Facebook Page

2009 MAY 6: ACORN SPOKESMAN KICKED OFF OF GLENN BECK’S SHOW:

During a commercial break, Scott Levenson, spokesman for the group of Community Organizers ACORN said something to Glenn to the effect of “You’re just afraid of black people.”

Glenn promptly threw him out.

Developing…

UPDATE: 5.12.2009: Please click here for updates on the ACORN situation.

UPDATE: Here is video of the encounter before the commercial break.

Check it out here.

UPDATE: Here is the transcript of the encounter on air…

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UPDATE: Upon leaving the studio, Scott Levenson made a pass on one of Beck’s producers.

Then, this morning, she had a message on her phone saying, “Tell Glenn he’s a wimp…call me.”

UPDATE: This is an old video…but it is important.

As Glenn said, “You Can Take the Organizer Out of Chicago, But…”

He’s right…this is organized crime.

UPDATE: ACORN employee said, “It’s Cool” to sign multiple voter registration cards…

The video after the jump…

Also, check out the criminal charges against ACORN…

Check out the criminal charges here. (.pdf)

2009 MAY 12: Folks, the ACORN Fraud is Unraveling…

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Ladies and Gentlemen, this is crazy.

There are two hundred-ish companies registered at the address-1024 Elysian Fields Ave–of the business Citizens Consulting (by the way, I’m going to call this company tomorrow):

Here is the website.

Here is a picture of the building at the address…According to Glenn Beck.

Also, on the left, it gives a list of businesses…the ones that are featured…ACORN and the Affiliated Media Foundation‎.

And…another organization that is at that address…the SEIU. SEIU local 100 is located at the same address as ACORN, the Affiliated Media Foundation, and other businesses…

Check out their contact page here.

Now, what is the Affiliated Media Foundation?

Find out after the jump…

I will be following this issue until I get to the bottom of it. Please check back often.

The Affiliated Media Foundation Movement is, according to the “About Us” section of their website,

The Affiliated Media Foundation Movement (AMFM) is a grassroots effort to produce public radio news serving the needs and interests of low and moderate income Americans. We cover issues dealing with immigrant and workers’ rights, health care reform, the housing crisis, community development, the environment and public education. AMFM is a platform for voices not commonly heard in the mainstream media living in all parts of the United States.

Each week we produce a 6-minute feature which can take the form of one on one interviews, an essay or a feature providing an in-depth look at a particular topic. Habla Español? Our pieces are also available in Spanish.

We offer our work free of charge. They would make a good addition to the news hour at your local community radio station. To know more about how you can obtain our weekly programs contact julia@chieforganizer.org”

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Now, what is “chieforganizer.org?”

Let’s find out…

Apparently chieforganizer.org is the website of none other than Wade Rathke. Now who the hell is he? He is the founder of ACORN…and the head of SEIU local 100.

Also, folks, the address and first three digits of the phone number listed in his contact page is…you guessed it…the same as Citizens Consulting.

Check it out.

Now, you know that name sounds familiar… Well, his brother embezzled almost a million dollars from ACORN…which was treated as an internal matter…

Check it out here. (NY Times)

Folks, Rathke was steeped in the ideas of Saul Alinsky. Now who is Saul Alinsky? He is the guy who started the Industrial Areas Foundation and wrote the book, Rules for Radicals; the first paragraph contains the following,

“What follows is for those who want to change the world from what it is to what they believe it should be. The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away.”

Here is some more information on the Alinsky/Obama connection…

Folks, there is more to come on this issue, Check back Often…I will keep you up to date. I am going to make some phone calls tomorrow and get to the bottom of this.

UPDATE: 5.13.2009

Folks, I’m afraid that this whole web is intentionally complex in order to funnel money until it disappears…

The Truth about ACORN will be discovered. It may just take a while…I’ll be sure to update you.

Here is an update on the building…

The building owner has contracts with Wade Rathke.

ACORN’s purpose is to keep people in their place.

Take a look at the quote above.

“The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away.”

Why try to tear down the haves? Why not just try and become a have?

Also, here are some leads I will follow.

Who is Drummond Pike? He is the guy who payed back the embezzled money mentioned above.

What is the Tides Center? It is the tax haven where George Soros writes checks to get the tax write-off and he tells them where to send the money.

How much money can ACORN make from the Economic Stimulus?

According to Michelle Bachmann, Almost $8 billion. Now, it doesn’t all go to ACORN, but it goes to the arms of their criminal organization.

I’ll keep you up to date.

UPDATE: 5.13.09:

The website, citizensconsulting.org is registered to Dale Rathke…the brother of Wade Rathke. Dale is the guy who embezzled money…

Also, the contact email for the registrant is

ccidirector@acorn.org

Hmm…I wonder who that is….

Could that mean “Citizens Consulting director at ACORN”

UPDATE: May 18, 2009:

Alright. Here’s some more information on Tides and Drummond Pike.

Tides is a place where government money goes in and is distributed.

From their own website, The “Tides Center receives charitable donations and grants on behalf of our fiscally sponsored projects and is legally and financially responsible for all project activities. It our philosophy that sponsored projects are not separate and isolated entities; rather, they are an integral part of Tides Center.”

UPDATE: May 19, 2009:

Here is the Justice Department Complaint against ACORN. Click here. (.pdf)

The Power of RICO…Hopefully they will get somewhere. That will, hopefully, get someone in Congress to take a listen!

Here is an excerpt from YE/YB (Year End/Year Begin 2006. Published in 2006.

I received this packet from ACORN whistleblower, Anita MonCrief. This is the woman who was Stephanie Strom’s informant. Now Stephanie Strom is the woman whose story was spiked by the New York Times.

“Since Election Day, we have been engaged in a flurry of meetings with senior staff in the offices
of Speaker-to-be Pelosi and Majority Leader-to-be Reid, as well as the many friends of ACORN who
will now become Chairmen of important Committee and Subcommittees in the House and the Senate.”

Who are these people? Chuckie Schumer? Barney Frank? I’ll get to the bottom of this…

Here is the entirety of the ACORN 2006 Year End Report. (.pdf…Huge file…)

Here is the video of Anita MonCrief on FoxNews

Here is the transcript of an audio tape of Ms. Strom calling Ms. MonCrief:

STROM: “Hi, Anita, it’s Stephanie. I have just been asked by my bosses to stand down. They want me to hold off on coming to Washington. Sorry, I take my orders from higher up sometimes. Anyway, I’m sorry about this, and we’ll still be in touch. Take care. And let me know if there’s anything I can do to help you. Take care. Bye-bye.”

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UPDATE: May 20, 2009:

Check out Anita MonCrief on the B-Cast.

I have to agree with her, this is a criminal enterprise…

Check out the video here.

UPDATE: May 21, 2009:

I now have access to many ACORN documents…I’ll be analyzing them over the next day or so and get them up with commentary!

Here is the ACORN Organizational Chart…Its complicated…and two documents…Check ‘em out.

Here’s part one.

And Part two.

Wondering about the ACORN/SEIU Connection?

Here it is.

Wondering about the ACORN/Project Vote connection?

During 2002 and 2003, ACORN gave Project Vote $690,971.

Citizens Consulting Inc. gave Project Vote lots of money too…

CCI Project vote

Check out the Project Vote Audited Financial Statement.

Want to know what exactly Citizens Consulting Inc. really is?

They provide bookeeping services to both ACORN and Project Vote.

Here’s a letter to funders of Project Vote dated 7.18.2008.

Here is the Project Vote Registration Manual…

According to Anita MonCrief,

“CCI and ACORN and interchangeable. It used to be ACORN Associates, but after running afoul of the department of labor for funny reporting, it was suggested that they move the accounting to a outside company. This was a threat to Wade, so he created CCI to be a consulting agency that handled the books.”

So I did a little Googling…

And came up with this…

The website for ACORN Associates is “under construction…” Yeah, not helpful…Just like CCI…

So I did a whois search and I came up with a name and address.

The business address is 42 Hill Street Lexington, MA.

The name is John Walsh…not the guy from America’s Most Wanted…just FYI…

So I looked it up on Google Maps and…

Came up with this…

Residential area across the street from a Country Club.

Anyone have information on John Walsh?

UPDATE: May 23, 2009:

So I did a Google Phonebook search for the phone number listed in the whois results, and there are two people connected to the phone number:

John/Jack Walsh and Donna Besecker.

I searched around for both of these people, but nothing of much interest…other than Donna Besecker gave almost $1,500 to the Obama campaign…

And that she possibly is a social worker, working at Salem State College.

UPDATE: May 27, 2009:

There was a lawsuit filed in Rhode Island against ACORN, and it was dropped.

Click here to read the complaint.

Click here to read the second part of the complaint.

Click here to read the dismissal.

Also, Anita MonCrief has written an excellent report connecting ACORN, George Soros, and the 2010 census. It is a shame that the MSM was asleep at the wheel on this one…

Click here to see her article.

Also, she has asked me to host the documents, and of course, I obliged.

I will eventually have the time to read through all of these and post an analysis. In the meantime, check out her article here.

Here are the documents she discusses in her article:

ACORN Political Business Plan

Funding Cycle Outline

ACORN Five Year Business Plan

Joint Voter File List Proposal

Voter File

Concept Paper: Building Organization from 2008 Election Cycle

2007-2008 Ohio Political Plan

Also, I discovered Muckety…And it’s excellent.

I was able to construct this map…

ACORN Connections Map

An interactive version is available here.

I also found an article on American Thinker…

The article is called “Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis.”

Now, in this article, there is this great map…

Cloward Piven Strategy

UPDATE: May 28,2009:

The John Merck Fund–Corporate funder of ACORN, sent a letter last year requesting documents showing that ACORN spent JMFs money as they said they would.

A copy of the letter can be found here.

This is good. It’s a good first step. Now if more companies…and the government…would follow suit, and maybe file suit too…

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UPDATE: May 28, 2009:

Glenn Beck is talking about what I just posted yesterday. Creating a Crisis.

See the map immediatly above this. It explains the connection between the 60s radicals and ACORN.

Michelle Malkin has posted some great emails between Stephanie Strom and Anita Moncrief.

Folks, this is what is happening.

You are paying the government. You money gets appropriated to different groups who are all connected to ACORN. These are the 501 (c) 3 groups of ACORN. Here are some of the groups:

ACORN Institute, Inc.

American Institute for Social Justice

Association of Rights of People

Project Vote

Voting for America

ACORN International

This money then gets funneled into Citizens Consulting, Inc,

ACORN Campaign Services,

Citizens Services, Inc.–Obama Campaign paid over $800,000 to CSI. Read

It then gets shuffled around and is given to ACORN.

Your taxpayer dollars are going right into the Rathke Brothers’ pockets. According to an Email from Anita MonCrief, “They needed the money to further their political agenda (see Rules for Radicals) and used members as pawns to carry out their intimidation and harassment.”

In another email she said, “Wade Rathke wholly believed in the Cloward/Piven strategy and used the welfare movement of the 70′s to start ACORN. I doubt his motivations were ever pure.”

The Cloward/Piven strategy is what we were talking about above. Created Chaos.

Cloward Piven Strategy

Alright, O’Reilly is on. He is interviewing ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis.

B of A has given ACORN $3 Million…

Bertha Lewis: “1024 Elesian Fields is an old address.”

Bertha Lewis refused to allow O’Reilly’s people to see the books…

UPDATE: May 29, 2009:

Check Out Michelle Malkin’s new post, really focusing in on the Obama Connection.

See, this is what is happening, folks. Your money is shuffled around through the 501 (c) 3 organizations and then is funneled to ACORN. 501 (c) 3 organizations cannot support or oppose a candidate, so they leave that to ACORN; however, they can do voter drives…Project Vote… But ACORN is a 501 (c) 4, which means they can do partisan work and campaign activity…

Now, here is where we get to the reasoning behind all these organizations:

Donations to a 501 (c) 3 are tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law.

Donations to a 501 (c) 4 are not tax deductible. This poses a problem for ACORN…They need money.

More people are inclined to donate of they get a tax deduction…

So they created all these groups to pay for their partison, campaign work…like convincing Kris Kobach to run for Kansas Secretary of State…

Joking…well, sorta. His reasoning? “ACORN is a criminal Enterprise.”

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Folks, with ACORN controlling the 2010 census, we can pretty much throw out the census…

Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act request to obtain the Department of Commerce documents regarding ACORN’s participation and involvement in the 2010 census.

These Documents are available here.

Now, folks, there is a line in these documents that says:

“…Hate groups, Law enforcement, anti-immigrant groups, any groups that might make people fearful of participating in the Census…”are not allowed to partner with the census.

Now, why Law enforcement is lumped in with hate groups is beyond me…but that’s not the point…

ACORN makes me fearful to participate in the Census…

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2009 MAY 25: New York Times Not Only Blew the ACORN Story, But Also…
So, not only did the NYTimes screw up an excellent story, they screwed up the excellent story…

Why they decided to leave the ACORN story to bloggers like me is beyond me, but, why they dropped Watergate, is beyond anyone’s imagination.

According to Robert Smith, FBI Director L. Patrick Gray told him about the break-in, “including the culpability of the former attorney general, John Mitchell, and hinted at White House involvement.”

Smith returned to the Times and repeated what he had heard, on a tape recorder, to editor Robert Phelps.

Smith left the NYT and eventually, the memory of the event from the minds of the editors…

This pretty much seals the fate of the New York Times as America’s worst newspaper.

Just as the Watergate story had L. Patrick Gray, the ACORN story had Anita MonCrief…And they blew it on both…Great work…

2009 MAY 29: House Joint Resolution 5, Why it Could Change America Forever…

Barack Hussein Obama President for Life…

This is kind of old news…but most people probably don’t know about it…

House Joint Resolution 5 would repeal the 22 amendment…

And for those of you who didn’t too very well in your high school US history class, that’s the Term Limits Amendment…

See the text of the bill after the jump…

HJ 5 IH

111th CONGRESS

1st Session

H. J. RES. 5

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second article of amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve as President.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

January 6, 2009

Mr. SERRANO introduced the following joint resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

JOINT RESOLUTION

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second article of amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve as President.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years after the date of its submission for ratification:

‘Article–

‘The twenty-second article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.’.

Here’s the .pdf file…

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Now, folks, this doesn’t mean that he would serve forever; he would need to run for reelection…But with our friends at ACORN running the census and voter registration, that could prove to be easy for future progressives…

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