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CashCowMoo
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Fraud, lies, embezzlement, numerous crap. Same crap, different name. Nothing will change with this money maker. I wonder if Obama would have won if ACORN wasnt around? I dount it. Still would have been close.


ACORN drops tarnished name and moves to silence critics
By: Kevin Mooney
Examiner Investigative Reporter
06/21/09 5:07 PM EDT
Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now (ACORN) leaders are using the threat of a law suit to silence and intimidate critics, according to current and former members of the liberal activist group.

In a letter dated June 11 an attorney for ACORN advised top whistleblowers that their unauthorized use of the organization’s name could make them liable for monetary damages and injunctive relief.
ACORN executives have also changed their organization’s name, which was tarnished by investigations in at least 14 states of allegations of voter registration fraud during the 2008 presidential campaign, and charges by current and former members of financial mismanagement and misrepresentation.
The new name will let ACORN leaders continue their operations without worrying about prior bad publicity, according to Marcel Reid of ACORN 8, a group of present and former members.
“We’ve known for many months now that the name ACORN is going to be retired,” Reid said. “The name has been so damaged to the point where the leadership knows it simply can’t go on as it has with the ACORN label out front and center, especially after all of the reporting.”
In fact, the process has already begun, she noted. Wade Rathke, who founded the organization, announced on his **** that ACORN International has officially changed its name to “Community Organizations International.”
Reid also said ACORN is in the process of dismantling Citizen’s Consulting Inc. (CCI), a New-Orleans based non-profit, which has been used to maintain centralized financial control, ACORN 8 activists claim. Tax records show that CCI is interlinked with several ACORN affiliates.
Dale Rathke, the brother of ACORN founder Wade Rathke, embezzled almost $1 million from the organization in 1999 and 2000, while he was employed as the organization’s chief financial officer with the CCI affiliate. For almost a decade Wade Rathke and other staff members concealed the embezzlement from ACORN’s board of trustees, according to the criminal complaint ACORN 8 members filed against the organization.
ACORN’s national leaders withdrew a lawsuit Reid filed with fellow board member Karen Inman last October seeking access to internal financial records. Reid and Inman were also expelled from their board positions; a move they say was illegal. Reid and Inman then came together with six other colleagues to form ACORN 8.
“ACORN has to be decapitated,” Reid said. “The senior staff and current national board should be dismantled. The only way to have reform is for the current leadership to be removed completely. We also need a forensic audit.”
Arthur Schwartz, the general counsel for ACORN, has sent a “cease and desist” letter to Reid and Inman instructing them to discontinue using the name ACORN in a connection with their activities. This same letter threatens legal action if the ACORN 8 members do not provide written assurances that they will comply with this demand by the end of June.
“It is a violation of federal and state law for you to use the ACORN name and mark without the written permission of ACORN,” the letter states. “Should you continue to do so, you will be liable for monetary and injunctive relief.”
Reid told The Examiner that ACORN 8 will not comply.
“We have no intention of not using the name ACORN 8, it is not a trademark infringement,” she said. “This get tough attitude is part of larger attempt to silence people and shut them down. We are not going to be silenced.”
Meanwhile, ACORN’s Project Vote affiliate has filed suit against Anita MonCrief, a former employee, who has testified under oath on voter registration allegations. ACORN is currently under investigation in at least 14 states for electoral irregularities. The Project Vote suit claims that Anita MonCrief and an unidentified accomplice gained access into private e-mails from group executives and stole the group’s name without permission. It also accuses Moncrief of using a company credit card for her own purposes.
“ACORN is attempting to silence me, and the allegations in the lawsuit are false,” MonCrief said in statement emailed to The Examiner.
ACORN 8 has released its own statement on “whistleblower retaliation” through its national spokesman Michael McCray that expresses support for new protective legislation.
“On behalf of the national board of ACORN 8, we are all saddened by and express great concern due to ACORN’s court action filed against whistleblower Anita MonCrief,” the statement reads. “While we do not express an opinion on the merits of ACORN’s complaint; we as reform advocates decry the tactic of suing whistleblowers – especially, low to moderate income people who do not have the financial means to effectively fight back in courts of law. Moreover, this is yet another example of why congress must enact strong corporate, government and tax-payer funded whistleblower protection laws.”
ACORN 8 has endorsed H.R. 1507, the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2009.



http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/****s/beltway-confidential/ACORN-drops -tarnished-name-and-moves-to-silence-critics-48730537.html

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Hopefully Rushie will change his name also, something more appropriate like Sluggo the Duggo? That would suit him perfectly!

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Hopefully Rushie will change his name also, something more appropriate like Sluggo the Duggo? That would suit him perfectly!

Yeaaahhhh, becuase Rush Limbaugh has done so much fraud of taxpayer money he has to change his name. lmao
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LOL CCM

Putting the cart before the horse same as the article you posted. There are allegations of fraud. The way I read that article no proof has actually been found nor has anyone gone to trial before their peers.

Rushie done fraud.........I dunno. Is lying for profit fraud?

All said though it does look like Acorn could use a good flushing in the executive level.

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LOL CCM

Putting the cart before the horse same as the article you posted. There are allegations of fraud. The way I read that article no proof has actually been found nor has anyone gone to trial before their peers.

Rushie done fraud.........I dunno. Is lying for profit fraud?

All said though it does look like Acorn could use a good flushing in the executive level.

The fraud issues are not just mere speculation, it is serious and real across the nation.
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Really? Got any proof to substantiate that claim?

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Really? Got any proof to substantiate that claim?

Do you have proof that there isnt any?


"Ladies and gentlemen, this is the worst case of voter-registration fraud in the history of the state of Washington. There has been nothing comparable to this," state Secretary of State Sam Reed


http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003806904_webvotefraud26m.html


Three of them were convicted in that case. This is just one of many, I have no idea how you come up with pretending they didnt do anything shady.

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quote:
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Originally posted by The Bigfoot:
Really? Got any proof to substantiate that claim?

Do you have proof that there isnt any?


"Ladies and gentlemen, this is the worst case of voter-registration fraud in the history of the state of Washington. There has been nothing comparable to this," state Secretary of State Sam Reed


http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003806904_webvotefraud26m.html


Three of them were convicted in that case. This is just one of many, I have no idea how you come up with pretending they didnt do anything shady.

Wow! What a shock that guy is Republican, but of course he's not biased or anything. LOL! Still chucking cowpies I see.

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7 individuals that defrauded the company in an attempt to get a free payday and consequently ended up sending false voter registration materials to the government does not a conspiracy make. Did anyone attempt to vote under one of the false names?

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Here's another fine upstanding Republican! Hahahhaa. Moral majority my azz. Can you believe an actual state governor goes AWOL for several days?? That's craziness in my book.

S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford -- after days when his whereabouts were unknown -- says he has been unfaithful to his wife.

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So how long will it before before ACORN is able to push Obama into state mandatory voluntarism training and facilities for it?

Making America feeling guilty for not volunteering enough time so making it mandated.

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http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/03/12/facing-new-voter-fraud-charges-acorn-rebr anding-continues/

Facing New Voter Fraud Charges, ACORN Rebranding Continues
2010 March 12 by Matthew Vadum

Glenn Beck hasn’t been paying much attention to ACORN lately — and that’s too bad.

He’s done the nation a great service by helping to publicize ACORN’s crimes against the American people and for that we should be thankful.

But there are so many other corrupt practices ACORN is guilty of. We have only just scratched the surface of the group’s crimes.

The public needs to know about the massive hoax that ACORN is now attempting to perpetrate on America.

The con goes like this: ACORN is trying to pass off various state chapters as supposedly new groups independent of ACORN. In this rebranding exercise state chapters are declaring that they have separated from the national ACORN group and reestablishing themselves as independent nonprofit entities.

At least four dummy nonprofit corporations have emerged from the rebranding process in recent months.

They are the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, New York Communities for Change, New England United for Justice (Massachusetts) and Arkansas Community Organizations. All four groups operate out of ACORN offices and are run by ACORN staffers. The president of New England United for Justice, Maude Hurd, just happens to be the 20-year national president of ACORN.

A leaked email from ACORN’s online director suggests ACORN will probably run out of money and fold by year’s end but a dozen ACORN state chapters reincorporated to seem like new, independent organizations will spring up in coming days to carry on ACORN’s business.

“The truth is that it is hard for us to forsee [sic] any scenario where ACORN continues beyond the end of 2010 and some of us think it might not last that long,” writes Nathan Henderson-James, director of ACORN’s online campaigns, in an apparently authentic Feb. 22 email.

“Last one to leave turn out the lights and wipe the server,” he writes at the end of the message.

The message from Henderson-James was forwarded to me by various sources who obtained it from the Google listserv Townhouse, an invitation-only discussion forum run by Matt Stoller, senior policy adviser to Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.).

Meanwhile, ACORN workers are facing fresh election fraud charges in Wisconsin.

The charges reminds the public that that the scandal-prone radical group is as determined as ever to cause trouble come election time.

In Milwaukee, Maria L. Miles and Kevin L. Clancy will face charges of felony election fraud for reportedly repeatedly registering the same individuals on voter-registration forms. Both of the former ACORN employees face up to three years’ imprisonment and a $10,000 fine. Milwaukee ACORN canvasser Latoya Lewis already was convicted of election fraud in October. All three cases arise out of the 2008 presidential election cycle.

Needless to say ACORN and its vote fraud arm, Project Vote, aren’t worried. To the nationwide network of hundreds of tax-eating nonprofit ACORN affiliates, it’s business as usual: another day, another vote-fraud scheme.

In related news, a racketeering lawsuit has driven ACORN out of Ohio. As part of the settlement, ACORN has agreed to surrender its right to do business in Ohio.

Whether it will actually honor the settlement is an open question.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zqkjg5u9PAQ

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Doin' more than a name change...

ACORN disbanding because of money woes, scandal


CHICAGO – The once mighty community activist group ACORN announced Monday it is folding amid falling revenues — six months after video footage emerged showing some of its workers giving tax tips to conservative activists posing as a pimp and prostitute.... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100322/ap_on_re_us/us_acorn_closing_down

YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS STUFF UP!

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quote:
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Originally posted by CashCowMoo:
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Originally posted by The Bigfoot:
Really? Got any proof to substantiate that claim?

Do you have proof that there isnt any?


"Ladies and gentlemen, this is the worst case of voter-registration fraud in the history of the state of Washington. There has been nothing comparable to this," state Secretary of State Sam Reed


http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003806904_webvotefraud26m.html


Three of them were convicted in that case. This is just one of many, I have no idea how you come up with pretending they didnt do anything shady.

Wow! What a shock that guy is Republican, but of course he's not biased or anything. LOL! Still chucking cowpies I see.
So the only person who would have been right would have been if a Dem said it, and even then im sure you would find SOMETHING to smear any evidence.
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Like I pointed out in this thread last year...ACORN is dirty plain and simple. It is a fraud, and has Obama written all over it.

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CCM...just curious, who WOULD you trust as a leader for this country?

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quote:
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CCM...just curious, who WOULD you trust as a leader for this country?

Colin Powell. I believe the commander and chief of the military should have some form of military service. Plus there are other obvious reasons, such as his approach to Iraq.
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quote:
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Originally posted by buckstalker:
CCM...just curious, who WOULD you trust as a leader for this country?

Colin Powell. I believe the commander and chief of the military should have some form of military service. Plus there are other obvious reasons, such as his approach to Iraq.
You do realize Colin Powell endorsed and voted for Obama right? That's some pretty thick irony there Cowpie. ROFL!

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quote:
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Originally posted by CashCowMoo:
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Originally posted by buckstalker:
CCM...just curious, who WOULD you trust as a leader for this country?

Colin Powell. I believe the commander and chief of the military should have some form of military service. Plus there are other obvious reasons, such as his approach to Iraq.
You do realize Colin Powell endorsed and voted for Obama right? That's some pretty thick irony there Cowpie. ROFL!
After what the Bush administration did to him I dont blame him. I saw that long before the elections. So yes I do know that, and I dont believe it was 100% support, but more support opposing the Bush administration.
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you believe a lot of things which arent fact..what else is new?

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quote:
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you believe a lot of things which arent fact..what else is new?

You describe yourself very well Jordan
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