Report: 174 Hidden ACORN Chapters Still Exist
- Posted on August 22, 2012 at 8:07pm by
Mytheos Holt
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After the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now (ACORN) shuttered in 2010, a lot of people breathed a sigh of relief. Embezzlement scandals, questions about the group’s political strategy and, of course, the infamous video sting by activists Hannah Giles and James O’Keefe, had finally put to bed the question of whether ACORN was really interested in helping the poor, or just out to facilitate the worst elements of urban poverty.
However, if you think ACORN is gone, a new report suggests that you are severely mistaken. To quote the great American horror writer H.P. Lovecraft, “That is not dead which can eternal lie.” While it’s debatable whether the officials who used to run ACORN chapters can “eternal lie,” there is a very strong case that the organization is not dead.
The Washington Examiner reports that the nonprofit Cause of Action has uncovered 174 different cases of ACORN chapters still operating, with minuscule efforts to cover up their true nature. The list of those 174 organizations is here.
How does Cause for Action know they’re ACORN fronts? The Examiner explains:
The connections between these groups and the old ACORN groups include: having the same physical location, sharing leadership or staff or having the same tax ID number. “For some of these groups, all they did was legally change their name. Nothing else changed. The corporate structure, leadership and staff are the same,” said Karen Groen Olea, Cause of Action’s chief counsel.
And despite this arguably extremely lazy approach to rebranding, at least one of the problems surrounding the original ACORN is popping up again – namely, that some of the organizations listed are now getting Federal funding. Specifically, the Affordable Housing Centers of America and the Mutual Housing Association of New York.
Whether that funding will continue is anyone’s guess, now that the actual nature of these groups has been uncovered.
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Comments (47)
SocialistSlayer
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 9:36amYou people didn’t actually think they went away did you ? obama gave them Billions and they are still working on this site and others trying to spread their Communist lies!
Report Post »turkey13
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 11:18amThe bad thing is they may cancel out my vote!
We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth. – Sydney Schanberg
Report Post »HKS
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 12:25pmHolder turned his head so they can do anything they want and they have your money to do it. Canceling votes is what they do and they will do it again. Obama lost the last election but these guys used fictitious votes to cancel your votes out.
Report Post »RNR2012
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 5:47pmDoes Wisconsin’s 119% voter turnout ring a bell. Voter ID should be MANDITORY!
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 9:01amhttp://www.muckety.com/Demos/5028673.muckety What is DEMOS? Claims to be a “non partisan” policy organization? Only names I need to see are Van Jones and Goeorge Soros to know who they are. How much government money do THEY get in “grants and loans?” Look at ALL those connections and tell me that is NON PARTISAN! We are being conned again using our own tax dollars. Check out their web site.
Report Post »RightUnite
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 5:19amWhy is anyone surprised by this? Didn’t we all know that this is exactly what they would do?
Report Post »4xeverything
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 9:07amThis is why an Ohio judge not only outlawed ACORN after their big voter fraud case but, he also outlawed ACORN by any other name.
Report Post »ricckky
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:32amWhat else is new–No way will the liar-n-chief reject any group that spews his lies!!! We are screwed if he is re-elected!!!
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 12:15amClose these up too. No one needs their phoney billets sucking up taxpayer money. They do nothing but garner votes for democrats.
Report Post »NOTYERHUCKLEBERRY
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 10:33pmWhat a surprise! Admit defeat, close your doors, wait 24 hours. Open up with a new name. The birds are singing and the flowers are blooming. What could go wrong? Simple: The American people are awake and coming after you!
Report Post »702TruthSeeker
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 11:41pmso where can i get me some of that free obummer money?
Report Post »GaltLine
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 9:50pmThe list of 174 Acorn organizations does not include the cities and states the chapters are located in, or the area each chapter is responsible for. Not a very useful list.
Report Post »watersRpeople
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 9:21pmSomebody votes for people; somebody nudges people to vote; somebody cheats on elections to get people in office – it doesn’t just happen. Likewise, someone made the sun, the earth, and planets and the universe around us – it didn’t just happen. And eventually that someone who created the earth and stars is going to take care of business, and I hope you know whether or not you’re on the right side.
Report Post »Sirfoldallot
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 9:39pm& Glenn Beck said they would 3 yrs ago.
Report Post »watersRpeople
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 9:40pmOne person is really actually insignificant to a town; a town is actually insignificant to a county; a county is insignificant to a state; a state insignificant to a nation; a nation the same to the earth. The earth is insignificant to the solar system, and the solar system is insignificant to the galaxy, and there’s more galaxies than stars in the Milky-way. Wow, not only is one person insignificant, but the entire earth is less significant to the galaxy more so than one person is to the earth. Wow we’re nobodies.
Report Post »watersRpeople
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 9:44pmThe solar system is just another Mansion in the galaxy, and mansions all have there field that gets worked – that’s the earth. Well we all know what farmers do to their field sometimes.
Report Post »dealer@678
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 9:21pmLa Raza has been toooooo quiet during all this crap. The Blaze needs to find out what those POS’s are up to
Report Post »South Philly Boy
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 9:19pmLiberal Communist DemonCrats always take care of their own
Report Post »watersRpeople
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 9:16pmAll I have to do is ask people who are the problem causers: do you know who made the earth and solar system, and created all life as we know it? Because eventually that someone is gonna take care of business.
Report Post »watersRpeople
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 9:12pmI’m actually not worried about anything, because I know God is going to take care of business eventually.
Report Post »Jenny Lind
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 9:46pmYou are right, we do know the end game, but that doesn‘t mean it’s not going to be anything but difficult between here and there.
Report Post »AngryDwarf
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 9:04pmI looked through the list. Any way to identify the states infected?
Report Post »barber2
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 8:53pmACORN and the Affordable Housing Act : two of the Discrimination Cards’ biggest suicidal bombs ever to strike the American economy. Thanks to the Far Left ( anti-capitalist ) Democrats . Thanks to Saul Alinsky Thanks to Community Organizer , Barack Obama. Thanks to the Lefty American Media. And thanks to all of the Guy Fawkes types of international / anti-American capitalist / Black Blocs / anarchist groups and those who funded them ( THAT would be an interesting discovery ) behind this Smoke and Mirrors secret drone attack upon America. Hope the cops are ready for you all in Tampa . I say paint gun them. Arrest them. Prosecute them. And incarcerate them .
Report Post »alpha2omega47
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 8:46pmThis is no surprise to me. Obama probably meets with them at the White House.
Report Post »klatoo
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 8:34pmAcorn is just like the nazis. For some reason you just can’t kill a hate group.
Report Post »D-Fence
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 9:13pmKind of, ACORN are the Brown Shirts doing the dirty work, while the administration are more like the Nazi’s who provide the targets.
Report Post »norbit peters
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 8:26pmThe Community Agitator in the White house has calculatingly orchestrated divisions with blacks, Hispanics,Muslims,and gays; he’s plundered our treasury and subjugated 100 million people to dependency on welfare and food stamps;
He’s tried consolidating Big Bank, Auto, Energy, and Health Care under one central government control, while gutting small business and free enterprise; he’s demeaned the Supreme Court and virtually ignored due process in imposing his will on a SPINELESS GOP!
He’s a Marxist despot, born & raised, and he probably has every intention of staying in the White House – by any means necessary!
He’s pitting Americans against each other on the basis of race, religion, ethnicity, class and sexual orientation.
Just look at his legacy of anti-Christian, anti-Semitic bias; and on the other hand, his Party’s appeasement of Radical Islam (a term verbotten for Democrats to even say!).
He supports the overthrow of Middle East dictators friendly to the US, while remaining silent on the Iranian revolt.He’s embraced every anti-American agitator from Ayers to Wright, and has stewarded the most nefarious, clandestine White House in history.
He has a Soros-funded, liaison in Media Matters, while the remaining outlets of his COLLUSION MEDIA dutifully propagate his lies.
The people that dismiss this Power Coup are ignoring the fact that Marxists are doing this all over the world, so why wouldn’t they try it here?
Report Post »What’ll give them pause, however,
barber2
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 8:59pmAgree with what you have said. The finish is missing…
Report Post »cassandra
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 8:24pmthey are a nest of cockroaches
Report Post »Sirfoldallot
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 10:10pmKiller cockroaches.
Report Post »noslave
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 8:23pmlike emboldened communists,acorn,obama,holder,etc.will use any means necessary to further their agenda,hard working americans should wake up,and fight the mutts stealing food,etc,out of their families mouth,through obamas re-distribution to his voteing base ??
Report Post »Stelex
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 8:21pmThe progressive web runs very very deep. When I was in high school we had a bottle rocket fight. Several days later there was a fire smoldering in the pine needles where we fought. The fire dept came put it out. A week later they came back and found several hot spots….put them all out. You get the picture…….it went on till winter fell. This is how progressives move, underground in the shadows, popping up every once in a while then backing off, planting seeds of destruction all along the way. The acorn is just one seed, and as we’ve seen its not easily uprooted. Those who understand see the seeds everywhere. Executive Branch, Congress, Senate, Supreme Court, Federal Courts, local courts, local gov, schools, media. ……again you get the picture. WE THE PEOPLE have some serious work to do. Please wake up America. My son depends on you.
Report Post »wisehiney
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 8:21pmEven a blind hog could find those stinking acorns.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 8:19pmI just had the FCAN.org people at my door 2 days ago. The guy was an OWS looking, long dreadlocks wearing, want-to-be hippy in his 20′s wearing a tie-dyed t-shirt and the girl was a fat, what-to-be hippy chick wearing similar clothes. They wanted me to sign their petition.
Looks like the RNC in Tampa is bringing out the “finest people”.
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=you+tube+braveheart+the+finest+people&mid=D4D98996F50DAB174B19D4D98996F50DAB174B19&view=detail&FORM=VIRE7
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 8:31pmHi MONK, Makes me glad to live out here in the rural boonies. If we had idiots out here like that walking from door to door it would be quite the hike from one house to the other. Strange odd looking people would probably be met with gun wielding home owners long before they made it uphill about a hundred yards from the highway. Otherwise they would have to come through the thick woods on the other three sides. Other than friends and neighbors (loose term out here too) about all we ever see is the mailman when we do occasionally catch sight of him, delivery trucks, and the occasional broken down motorist. It’s rather pleasant out here.
Report Post »AngryDwarf
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 9:02pm@RJJ-
Report Post »Nice to know where the hazards may come from, huh. My canyon is only 200yrds. across, but I’m ranged out to 5.
shorthanded12
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 8:18pmWell Congressman Issa and Senator Grassley just will have more work in front of them knowing dam well government funds are probley being funneled to this Modern Day Plantation Organization. Lets start with the Congressional Black Caucus and Hispanic Caucus. PERIOD.
Report Post »shorthanded12
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 8:24pmCan we say Job Security for James Okeefe. Go get em youngman expose the stinking Democrats for who they are. “POS”
Report Post »Mitchm999
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 10:53pmWell, aren’t we just a little racist today?
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 8:14pmThey‘re cockroaches feeding off of us and they have a mindset that they’re entitled to our money,they aren’t entitled to our money.They should be banned and investigated for fraud but that won‘t happen until Barry’s been fired.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 8:12pmThey aren’t hidden, if you close your eyes and refuse to see them, they really aren’t hidden. But this DOJ wont go after them, in fact now that they are “Found”, I bet they get a great big check. And Holder will get to investigating them, After Jan 2016, or never, which ever comes first.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 8:20pmI would think that have quietly been getting great big checks monthly all along. Remember, this administration cannot piss our nation’s money away fast enough.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 8:39pm@RJJ
Report Post »The problem with the Administration, is they have been sleeping with dogs and prostitutes for 3.5 years, and they have caught the clap. Thankfully, that has slowed their “Peeing” away our money too fast, because it hurts too bad right now. The shot that will cure this will be another Obama term, then they will go from peeing our money away from a garden hose, and they can then open the flood gates. But on the bright side, the Mexico Peso will finally be valued more than the American Dollar. At least he will help someones economy, just not ours.