The ACORN/SEIU Branch at the White House

(Video below). Nuts dropping everywhere this fall. Matthew Vadum, TAS on the frequent visitors to the Obama White House. Thugs rule.

Comandante Obama's crony, Andy Stern, SEIU tops the list with 22. Who is Andy Stern? "Workers of the world unite is not just a slogan anymore". "We're trying to use the power of persuasion, but if that doesn't work, we'll use the persuasion of power". "We know where they live". WBEZ Chicago footage. Watch:
SEIU/ACORN brushed back in Illinois, as more families became aware of the harm they plan.

Obama got his start with ACORN. We the people need to topple this menacing oak, hollow and rotten at the core.

More. ACORN in the news. Jeffrey Lord, TAS, Anti-Beck, Dobbs efforts dropped by Church Coalition. (My previous posts here and here) but now we have an ACORN twist:

It turns out two of the funders for the Media Democracy Fund campaign targeting Fox News and talk radio personalities are -- wait for it -- ACORN money pots.

Can we call them a cancer on society yet? Obama's Mob Operation ACORN. US of A-CORN.

Anita Moncrief, ACORN whistleblower, HotAir. Read it all, but here's a key passage (emphasis mine):

ACORN is a Democrat scandal and it is hard to separate one from the other. Corruption is the overriding theme and it comes mostly from the left. Another particularly odd pairing continues to be the radical reformers of ACORN and top Conservatives and Republicans. The ACORN 8, a group of former ACORN board members, have formed a Scozzafava-like partnership with the Republicans. In attempting to expose ACORN, some appear to have ignored key facts and overlooked a pattern of withholding key information to coincide with opportunistic timing aimed at aiding Democrats. An example of this is the complete removal of two longtime Obama ACORN cronies from a complaint filed with the United States Justice Department last January by the ACORN 8. Madeline Talbott is described by Stanley Kurtz of the National Review Online as “the woman who first drew Obama into an alliance with ACORN.” And Keith Kelleher is Talbott’s husband, the Chief Organizer of SEIU Local 880 in Chicago.

Yes, we have some Illinois Republicans involved that we need to root out. If they want to remain politically viable--and for some they are too compromised, given their records--they need to repudiate ACORN/SEIU totally. As for helping the poor--what are they really doing? They are victimizing them and skimming the money off the top. LOOK--ACORN Corruption at the Local Level – Is Your Newspaper Covering It? LOOK:

Based on what little I've learned, a more legitimate question might be, "Is ACORN's so-called outreach really just a facade to conceal other not well-known activities it really considers more important"?

The issue first occurred to me when I read a September 18 report by WCPO in Cincinnati (WCPO apparently stands for "We Constantly Promote Obama") about the office's decision to suspend services (bolds are mine):

Every month more than two dozen people walk into ACORN's Cincinnati office on Central Avenue for help with avoiding foreclosure and finding financial aid programs.

ACORN, or The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, is the nation's largest community activist group. But starting this Friday, it's suspending its social services and outreach.

The agency is conducting damage control after undercover video hit the airwaves. In it, ACORN workers appear willing to help a pimp and prostitute buy a home to run as a brothel. The two were actually conservative activists.

ACORN says the tapes were doctored and an internal investigation is underway. The employees in the tapes have been fired.

The leader of Ohio ACORN, Amy Teitelman, calls the videos "a racist and classist campaign against us."

Let's get past the tired boilerplate leftist name-calling for a moment and look at the numbers.

ACORN Cincinnati, when operating, was seeing barely more than one new client each business day. Barely one.

Read on. The pattern holds nationally as well.United Way and Habitat for Humanity run circles around them in actual people helped--so what are they really doing, hmm, mmm, mmm?

ACORN took the 5th the other day. I imagine they are very busy in NY and NJ today.

More on ACORN and NY 23. Coming to a precinct or two near you.