“ACORN Produces Leaders and Gets Results” (3)

ACORN rides greased wheels

This is part three of a four-part series. Parts ONE and TWO are required reading for anyone interested in justice for the American taxpayer/homeowner. Your payday loan source is happy to bring this information to you.

…we have the opportunity to work on a range of issues at both the state and federal levels that would have been dead-on-arrival just a few weeks ago raising the minimum wage across the nation; starting to address Americas health care crisis; moving campaigns to create state Earned Income Tax Credits, rather than only opposing right-wing tax-cuts for millionaires; etc.

Yay… Robin Hood?

At first, Anita MonCrief writes, this sounds like a boon to the underprivileged. But communication from other documents point leads her to their true motivation:

Sounds great and very beneficial to the poor right, but another internal document goes on to state “Electoral plans redistricting and holding congress and 2010 Gubernatorial races (47)…Senate in 2010c Questions about getting to 60 in 2008. So 2010 becomes an additional push for more seats.

“Obviously preparing for power was not meant for the poor, but for the Democrats that are currently in office with the dubious help of ACORN and generous donations from the Sandlers,” MonCrief replies. The Sandlers in particular had to be more than just donors, but huge string-pullers for the Democratic party. Their funds also created Pro Publica, an “independent, non-profit” news group that has reported little or nothing of ACORN’s connections to the Democrats and President Obama.

“Preparing for power”

Polett had access to Barack Obama’s donor list during the fundraising phase of his bid for the presidency. MonCrief recounts (as she did in court testimony) that Polett “gave a pep talk to staff at a retreat in November of 2007, and mentioned that he had the opportunity to supervise Barack Obama and that ACORN produces leaders and gets results.”

How does ACORN get results? I’ve alluded to one of the big ways already. In 2001, they “persuaded” Household Finance Corporation to “abolish its practice of selling bogus credit insurance that had been costing a billion dollars a year straight out of homeowners’ pockets,” writes MonCrief…

CLICK HERE to continue. Will ACORN go after the pick a pay Pontiff, Herbert Sandler? I’d say the odds aren’t good…

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