Difference between revisions of "Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now"
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==Consumer advocacy== | ==Consumer advocacy== | ||
| − | Acorn now operates in more than 100 cities with a national budget of $37 million. <ref>[http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/_wsj-acorn_squash.htm Acorn Squash] WSJ, August 26, 2006</ref> Also, chapters in 700 poor neighborhoods with dues-paying members exceeding 120,000. <ref>[http://www.city-journal.org/html/13_2_acorns_nutty_regime.html ACORN’s Nutty Regime for Cities] City-juornal.org, 2003</ref> Despite what is stated on its official website (''"To maintain independence, ACORN does not accept government funding and is not tax exempt"'' [http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=12342]), this left-wing [[liberal]] group takes in 40 percent of its revenues from American taxpayers under the guise of consumer advocacy and has leveraged nearly four decades of government subsidies to fund affiliates that promote the welfare state and undermine capitalism and self-reliance. <ref>[http:// | + | Acorn now operates in more than 100 cities with a national budget of $37 million. <ref>[http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/_wsj-acorn_squash.htm Acorn Squash] WSJ, August 26, 2006</ref> Also, chapters in 700 poor neighborhoods with dues-paying members exceeding 120,000. <ref>[http://www.city-journal.org/html/13_2_acorns_nutty_regime.html ACORN’s Nutty Regime for Cities] City-juornal.org, 2003</ref> Despite what is stated on its official website (''"To maintain independence, ACORN does not accept government funding and is not tax exempt"'' [http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=12342]), this left-wing [[liberal]] group takes in 40 percent of its revenues from American taxpayers under the guise of consumer advocacy and has leveraged nearly four decades of government subsidies to fund affiliates that promote the welfare state and undermine capitalism and self-reliance. The rest of its' money coming from left-wing heavyweights like billionaire George Soros and the Democracy Alliance.<ref>[http://www.nypost.com/seven/10082008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/the_pro_barack_vote_fraud_drive_132618.htm?page=0 THE PRO-BARACK VOTE-FRAUD DRIVE] NY Post, October 8, 2008</ref> |
==Support for gun control and illegal immigration== | ==Support for gun control and illegal immigration== | ||
Revision as of 03:08, October 9, 2008
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN is, according to their website, "a non-profit, non-partisan social justice organization" [1], yet has been mired in the controversy connected with the collapse of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the fall of 2008. ACORN was created as a community organization responsible for registering voters and soliciting donations. It was founded by organizers of Saul Alinsky's Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) [1] One guiding principle of Alinsky's organization is to seek political power by any means necessary that accomplishes the end result. ACORN is notorious for unethical behaviors, fraud, and intimidation. The group considers itself the nation’s largest community organizations and has the full support of Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama. ACORN uses donations for the poor to help power-seeking politicians attain political office.
Consumer advocacy
Acorn now operates in more than 100 cities with a national budget of $37 million. [2] Also, chapters in 700 poor neighborhoods with dues-paying members exceeding 120,000. [3] Despite what is stated on its official website ("To maintain independence, ACORN does not accept government funding and is not tax exempt" [2]), this left-wing liberal group takes in 40 percent of its revenues from American taxpayers under the guise of consumer advocacy and has leveraged nearly four decades of government subsidies to fund affiliates that promote the welfare state and undermine capitalism and self-reliance. The rest of its' money coming from left-wing heavyweights like billionaire George Soros and the Democracy Alliance.[4]
Support for gun control and illegal immigration
ACORN legally intervened in an unsuccessful attempt to defend Jersey City, New Jersey's local gun control ordinance, which was struck down December 13, 2006 in New Jersey state court as a violation of state law pre-empting stronger local gun ordinances.[5]
ACORN has held frequent rallies in support of amnesty for illegal immigrants and against enforcement-only bills for dealing with the illegal immigration problem. According to their official website they list four demands on immigration, the first of which is "A path to citizenship for the estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants currently living in the United States" (in other words, amnesty).[6]
References
- ↑ Obama, ACORN, and the churches SperoNews, October 7, 2008
- ↑ Acorn Squash WSJ, August 26, 2006
- ↑ ACORN’s Nutty Regime for Cities City-juornal.org, 2003
- ↑ THE PRO-BARACK VOTE-FRAUD DRIVE NY Post, October 8, 2008
- ↑ http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1166448999875 "N.J. Judge Voids City's Gun Control Law", Charles Toutant, New Jersey Law Journal, December 20, 2006
- ↑ http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=16966 ACORN official website position on illegal immigration