ACORN
- "ACORN members spearhead formation of the Working Families Party, the first community-labor party with official ballot status in New York state in more than 50 years." -- ACORN'S own website (see below for link if you don't trust me yet
- Voter Fraud lawsuits are underway in 11 states with over 300 arrests.
- Independent Filmmaker James O'Keefe posed as a pimp (and Hannah Giles as a prostitute) successfully film ACORN employees assisting and advising them to evade taxes, house illegal immigrants in a child prostitution brothel, and traffic sex workers.
- see Bertha Lewis, CEO listed below, she has spoken on these issues on several occassions
- htttp://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/10/06/ceo-bertha-lewis-defends-acorn-national-press-club/
America Coming Together
- Liberal, "Get out the Vote" PAC funded by Peter Lewis, George Soros, and labor unions especially SEIU (per Wikipedia:America Coming Together)
- During the 2004 election, ACT ran what its website called "the largest voter contact program in history," with over 1,400 full-time paid canvassers -- many of whom were discovered to be felons convicted of violent crimes -- as well as thousands of volunteers working from 55 offices, contacting voters door-to-door and by phone.
- The FEC hit ACT with a $775,000 fine for campaign-finance violations — one of the largest FEC fines ever — and it reportedly ceased operations in 2005.
- Patrick Gaspard, National Director (2004-2005?) - now is the Director of the Office of Political Affairs (Karl Rove's former position)
CCI Citizens Consulting Inc.
- Citizens Consulting Inc., which assisted ACORN, and from various accounting and legal consultants in New Orleans is subpoenaed in the ACORN investigation.
Davis, Frank Marshall
- The communist poet was Obama's self proclaimed childhood mentor from ages 10-18.
- FBI tracked Davis as a member of the Communist Party's Dorie Miller Club in Chicago-card number 47544.
- Davis taught courses at the party controlled Abraham Lincoln School in Chicago and attended meetings of the party's Cultural Club until he left for Hawaii in 1948.
- Worked as a columnist for a union financed, communist controlled newspaper, the Honolulu Record.
- Hawaiian Communist Party regularly agitated against the US military bases with Davis instigating FBI tracking for obscure photography incidents (suspected espionage).
- http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2008/10/obama-file-37-overlap-obamas-mentor.html
East West Centre
- This is where Barack Hussein Sr and (Stanley) Ann Dunham may have met, Obama describes them meeting in a Russian language class at UH and married in February, 1961.
- Described as "leftist" group - one defender says that's exaggerated but describes the members of EWC as: "many of which had been left-of-center or at least partial to "development" thinking where government has a crucial role in a nation's economic, educational, and social growth"
Gaspard, Patrick
- Director of the Office of Political Affairs (Karl Rove's former position), who was former Exec. VP of SEIU, Chapter 1199 and its 300,000 members.
- First organized SEIU protests in Amadou Diallo case in New York and later 2000 voter protests in Florida.
- Worked on the following campaigns: Jesse Jackson (1988), David Dinkins (1989), and Howard Dean (2004)
- Joined America Coming Together, a 527 organization dedicated to getting out the Democratic vote (after Dean dropped out of 2004 election) - see ACT
- My analysis from a previous blog: http://brandon7221.blogspot.com/2009/10/another-acorn-falls-from-obamas-tree.html
Hawaii
- Obama born August 4, 1961 at Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women & Children
- Returned to Hawaii from Indonesia in 1971 and later asked to live with grandmother as mother returned to Indonesia
Ickes, Harold
- Co-founder and unofficial director of the Democrat Shadow Party
- Former Deputy Chief of Staff for the Clinton White House
- Sought chairmanship of the Democratic Party in February 2005
- Ran Hillary Clinton's successful Senate campaign in 1999-2000
- In his law practice, he represented "Mob-run labor unions" with ties to the Lucchese, Colombo, Genovese, Gambino and other major crime families.
- Obama and Mother live in Jakarta between 1967-1971 as Dunham married Lolo Soetoro.
- Mother worked at the US Embassy which was during the intense Suharto regime.
- Obama returned to Hawaii in 1971 to live with grandparents.
- Mother returned years later, living in Indonesia from 1977-1994.
- ACORN CEO
- Voter Fraud lawsuits are underway in 11 states with over 300 arrests.
- Independent Filmmaker James O'Keefe posed as a pimp (and Hannah Giles as a prostitute) successfully film ACORN employees assisting and advising them to evade taxes, house illegal immigrants in a child prostitution brothel, and traffic sex workers.
- In Defense of ACORN (re: videos): “This form of modern-day ACORN McCarthyism has got to stop. I’m Bertha Lewis and some of you may know me as the biggest threat to democracy in America and most recently, some of you may know me as the head of an international brothel network”
- Lewis attacks O'Keefe: "These new filmmakers, O'Keefe himself, told The Washington Post, 'They're registering too many minorities; they usually vote Democratic; somebody's got to stop them,'" -- The WashTimes fails to include any quotes, any evidence, any anything, to support the "racist" angle.
- Describing ACORN: "I believe in what I call 'bureaucrats for social justice. It doesn't seem glamorous like other community organizing, but when you organize poor people, they deserve just as much professionalism, the best employees, the best staff, as any other group."
- Claims the investigation revealing Dale Rathke imbezzled $5million NOT $1 million is completely false.
- http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/10/06/ceo-bertha-lewis-defends-acorn-national-press-club/
"New Ground"
- This is the newsletter of the Democratic Socialists of America (Chicago chapter)
- Printed alleged links between Obama, the New Party and other extremist friendships
- http://www.chicagodsa.org/ngarchive/ng42.html (New Ground issue Sept-Oct 1995)
New Party
- Linked to ACORN sharing on-the-ground organizing, legal representation, training, or even funding
- Obama was seeking New Party endorsement in Chicago, Patrick Gaspard was working as a New Party organizer in New Jersey
- http://www.chicagodsa.org/ngarchive/ng42.html (New Ground issue Sept-Oct 1995)
O'Keefe, James
- Independent Filmmaker James O'Keefe posed as a pimp (and Hannah Giles as a prostitute) successfully film ACORN employees assisting and advising them to evade taxes, house illegal immigrants in a child prostitution brothel, and traffic sex workers.
Rathke, Dale
- Brother of Wade was founder of ACORN
- Embezzled $1 million from ACORN - repaid by Wade Rathke and donor
- New Orleans Times-Picayune reported the revelation that $5 million had been embezzled from ACORN (which was reported in a subpoena from the investigation by Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell)
- http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/10/06/ceo-bertha-lewis-defends-acorn-national-press-club/
Rathke, Wade
- Founder of ACORN
- Repaid $1 million (with donor) to ACORN for monies embezzled by brother Dale.
- http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/10/06/ceo-bertha-lewis-defends-acorn-national-press-club/
Washington, Harold
- Chicago's first black mayor, 1983: inspired Obama to move to Chicago
Working Families Party
- A successor to the New Party, led by New Party co-founder Dan Cantor, and largely controlled by ACORN and the SEIU).
- Gaspard and ACORN'S Bertha Lewis supported Working Families Party in a joint response to criticisms from a local journalist.
- "ACORN members spearhead formation of the Working Families Party, the first community-labor party with official ballot status in New York state in more than 50 years." -- ACORN'S own website (see below for link if you don't trust me yet)
http://penningspennings.blogspot.com/2008/09/obama-and-east-west-center.html
http://spectator.org/blog/2009/09/29/the-politico-gets-played-by-ac
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6706
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