Judicial Watch Obtains Obama Commerce Department Documents Detailing ACORN Partnership for 2010 Cens

Judicial Watch Obtains Obama Commerce Department Documents Detailing ACORN Partnership for 2010 Census

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Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has obtained documents from the U.S. Census Bureau detailing the substantial involvement of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) in the 2010 Census. Included among the 126 pages of documents, obtained by Judicial Watch under threat of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, is ACORN's original Census partnership application. The document describes 18 different areas of responsibility requested by the community organization, which is under investigation in multiple states for illegal activity during the 2008 election, including voter registration fraud.

The documents also list the types of organizations ineligible for partnering with the U.S. Census. They include: "...Hate groups, Law enforcement, anti-immigrant groups, any groups that might make people fearful of participating in the Census..." The release of these Obama Commerce Department documents comes in the wake of an Obama Department of Homeland Security report released in April linking opposition to illegal immigration to "rightwing extremist radicalization."

In its official statement responding to the ACORN controversy, the Obama Commerce Department downplayed ACORN's participation in the Census, and labeled "baseless" the notion that ACORN would be involved in any Census count. However, the Census Bureau offered ACORN the opportunity to "recruit Census workers" who would participate in the count. Moreover, as an "executive level" partner, ACORN has the ability to "organize and/or serve as a member on a Complete Count Committee," which, according to Census documents, helps "develop and implement locally based outreach and recruitment campaigns."

According to its application ACORN also signed up to: "Encourage employees and constituents to complete and mail their questionnaire; identify job candidates and/or distribute and display recruiting materials; appoint a liaison to work with the Census Bureau; provide space for Be Counted sites and/or Questionnaire Assistance Centers; sponsor community events to promote participation in the 2010 Census," among 18 requested areas of responsibility. The documents also show the decision to add ACORN as a partner occurred in February, long after the January 15th Census partnership application deadline. (One Census official had bet "it was under Bush.")

Among other conclusions from the documents:

The Census Bureau requested that ACORN "help us highlight [ACORN's] innovation and hard work and share best practices so other organizations can learn from your experiences."
Members of the Census Bureau and Department of Commerce staff assigned to organize the 2010 Census were unaware of when the decision to involve ACORN was made, how the Census Bureau choose and defined partners, or whether partners received payment.
The Census Bureau did not conduct background checks on the 3.7 million people hired to conduct the 2000 Census, unless a preliminary name check provided a match. Overall, 8% of the applicants, or over 300,000 people, were considered risks for hire.
According to the U.S. Census documents, among other things, census data is used to allocate $300 billion in federal funds. Census data also "determines how many seats each state will have in the House of Representatives as well as the redistricting of state legislatures, county and city councils, and voting districts."

"Given its history of illegal activity and fraud, ACORN should be nowhere near the 2010 Census," said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. "And shame on the Obama Commerce Department for continuing to demonize conservatives by lumping together law enforcement and anti-immigration groups with 'hate groups.' This discriminatory policy raises First Amendment concerns. Indeed, these documents provide further evidence that the Obama administration is politicizing the 2010 Census."

Obama sued on behalf of ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, but did little else.

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Inside Obama’s Acorn
By their fruits ye shall know them.

By Stanley Kurtz


What if Barack Obama’s most important radical connection has been hiding in plain sight all along? Obama has had an intimate and long-term association with the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (Acorn), the largest radical group in America. If I told you Obama had close ties with MoveOn.org or Code Pink, you’d know what I was talking about. Acorn is at least as radical as these better-known groups, arguably more so. Yet because Acorn works locally, in carefully selected urban areas, its national profile is lower. Acorn likes it that way. And so, I’d wager, does Barack Obama.

This is a story we’ve largely missed. While Obama’s Acorn connection has not gone entirely unreported, its depth, extent, and significance have been poorly understood. Typically, media background pieces note that, on behalf of Acorn, Obama and a team of Chicago attorneys won a 1995 suit forcing the state of Illinois to implement the federal “motor-voter” bill. In fact, Obama’s Acorn connection is far more extensive. In the few stories where Obama’s role as an Acorn “leadership trainer” is noted, or his seats on the boards of foundations that may have supported Acorn are discussed, there is little follow-up. Even these more extensive reports miss many aspects of Obama’s ties to Acorn.

WE?

What do you mean hidding in plain sight?

This was known, no one was listening.
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ACORN’s Nutty Regime for Cities

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ACORN’s bedrock assumption remains the ultra-Left’s familiar anti-capitalist redistributionism. “We are the majority, forged from all the minorities,” reads the group’s “People’s Platform,” whose prose Orwell would have derided as pure commissar-speak. “We will continue our fight . . . until we have shared the wealth, until we have won our freedom . . . . We have nothing to show for the work of our hand, the tax of our labor”—claptrap that not only falsifies the relative comfort of the poor in America but that also is a classic example of chutzpah, given ACORN’s origins in a movement that undermined the work ethic of the poor. But never mind—ACORN claims that it “stands virtually alone in its dedication to organizing the poor and powerless.” It organizes them to push for ever more government control of the economy, as if it had learned no lessons about the free-market magic that made American cities unexampled engines of job creation for more than a century, proliferating opportunity and catapulting millions out of misery.

Now I see inside Obama's head.

This is the first part of a segment on ACORN on the Glenn Beck Show on 05/28/09. This is a brief history of ACORN and Obama's possible association with ACORN.

ACORN History 05 28 09 Part 1

Document drop: The truth about ObamACORN

They thought it would go away. They were wrong. Obama and the Left thought ACORN’s scandalous racket was a dead issue. But whistleblowers, investigative bloggers, and talk radio continue to press for transparency and taxpayer accountability. Iowa GOP Rep. Steve King has renewed efforts for congressional hearings into the financial structure of the massive, publicly subsidized activist group and its non-profit affiliates. Judicial Watch sheds light on ACORN’s partnership with the Census. Keep an eye on ACORN’s propaganda role in the Obama push for a government health care takeover. And Glenn Beck spotlights the left-wing strategy session to rescue ACORN.

My column today returns to one of the Obama campaign’s big lies — that Barack Obama “never organized with ACORN” and that ACORN had nothing to do with Project Vote. They were joined at the hip back then and they remain joined at the hip today.

Here’s the text of e-mails from ACORN and affiliate staffers patting themselves on the back for their role in Obama’s voter registration drive (click here for the original). Note the addressees, including Frances Piven. Yes, that Frances Piven:

Lawmaker Pushes for Investigation into ACORN Finances

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Exposing Health Care For America Now (HCAN) Lobby!
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Discredited Republican voter-suppression guru Ken Blackwell is attacking Barack Obama with naked lies about his supposed connection to ACORN.

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Obama Claims He Never Worked For Acorn

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e-mails from ACORN and affiliate staffers patting themselves on the back for

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Why does this matter? Transparency, tax dollars, and electoral integrity. ACORN’s own lawyer, Elizabeth Kingsley, acknowledged last year that a vast web of tax-exempt ACORN affiliates were shuffling money around – making it difficult to impossible to track whether campaign rules and tax regulations were being followed. ACORN receives 40 percent of its revenues from taxpayers. Americans deserve to know whether and how much commingling of public money with political projects has occurred over the last four decades – and what role the Obama campaign played in this enterprise.

Acorn Report Raises Issues of Legality
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ACORN Watch, Pt II: Obama hid $800,000 payment to ACORN through “Citizen Services, Inc.”

Obama team admitted its failure to properly disclose $800,000 in payments to ACORN’s subsidiary, CSI – which works hand-in-hand with Project Vote and the ACORN parent organization. Obama mysteriously re-classified the campaign advance work expenditures as “get-out-the-vote” activities.

Document drop: What NYTimes reporter Stephanie Strom really knew about ObamACORN
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Yesterday, I posted a few of the e-mails between NYTimes Stephanie Strom and ACORN/Project Vote whistleblower Anita MonCrief. You can download the entire series of message by clicking here. Mike Gaynor has transcriptions of several of the message here, including:

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Listen closely as ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis laughs at Bill O'Reilly after he calls ACORN "a quasi-socialist organization" and when he asks for his "Factor" investigators to see "the books".

ACORN allies converge in the midst of financial allegations

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In a related development, The Examiner has learned that the John Merck Fund (JMF), one of ACORN’s many corporate funders, demanded last year that the group prove its work is non-partisan and document that it spent grant money as originally promised.

Ruth Hennig, JMF’s executive director, said in an Aug. 1, 2008, letter to ACORN that a “due diligence” audit raised questions about how the group had spent a company grant.

“Additionally, our due diligence has revealed the appearance of a very close connection between ACORN, certain ACORN affiliates and Project Vote, notwithstanding the fact that they are separate corporate entities. In light of this close connection please provide us with documentation establishing that all JMF grants to Project Vote were or are being expended for the purposes stated in the governing grant letter agreements. In addition please confirm whether any such grants were transferred to ACORN or Citizens Consulting Inc.”

Hennig also asked that a “complete expense” report be provided. Her letter was addressed to Michael Slater, deputy director of Project Vote, one of ACORN’s voter registration campaign arms.

The Inside Story of ACORN
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A couple of weeks ago, the New York Times revealed in a piece by Stephanie Strom that the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) kept secret for eight years the embezzlement of nearly $1 million .The embezzler was Dale Rathke, the brother of ACORN founder Wade Rathke.

Is Obama connected to the ACORN-Rathke embezzlement scandal? The ...

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Thank You for posting this and your efforts!S&F. I have been waiting for someone to post this. I know alot of people on this site will call this nothing more than a right-wing hatchet job by Faux-News, but if you look at the facts presented I think anyone with a firm grasp of reality no matter of political affliation, will see what is going on here. But alas after Mr. Holder summarily dismissed charges against the New Black Panthers Party, I don't see this ever being looked upon by Justice officials.

Originally posted by djvexd
Thank You for posting this and your efforts!

S&F. I have been waiting for someone to post this. I know alot of people on this site will call this nothing more than a right-wing hatchet job by Faux-News, but if you look at the facts presented I think anyone with a firm grasp of reality no matter of political affliation, will see what is going on here. But alas after Mr. Holder summarily dismissed charges against the New Black Panthers Party, I don't see this ever being looked upon by Justice officials.

Thank you dj,

I know my posting aren't always popular.

You know, ive been posting stuff for WEEKS about ACORN and no one even bothers to look at the thread.

Ive been screaming about this for months and no one seems to care , heres one thread of my own that coincides with this one.

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People need to stop waiting for these things to get to be all over the mainstream before they decide to get involved and do something.....its like trying to stop a shooter after he pulls the trigger. Get involved people, and wake up out of this comma weve been in as a country

Originally posted by ManBehindTheMask
You know, ive been posting stuff for WEEKS about ACORN and no one even bothers to look at the thread.

Ive been screaming about this for months and no one seems to care , heres one thread of my own that coincides with this one.

www.abovetopsecret.com...


People need to stop waiting for these things to get to be all over the mainstream before they decide to get involved and do something.....its like trying to stop a shooter after he pulls the trigger. Get involved people, and wake up out of this comma weve been in as a country

I understand, I posted info on ACORN before the election.

Why do you think people are turning a blind eye?

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Ditto
Ditto
I hear you man. I've posted a little about ACORN and the apathy is quite troubling. The potential impact that they will have on the census could seriously fracture this nation for good. Compound the problems with ACORN and Rahm overseeing the census and you get one hell of an explosion.

ACORN is littered with fraud and corruption and Obama'a little finger prints are all over that organization.

Here is a great article on ACORN in Townhall.com today.
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Cheers to you once again!!! I'm glad to know some people are keeping an eye on what is happening right under our noses.

Fraud and corruption are A-OK as long as it's left leaning.

How do you think O & B are able to get away with what they're doing to the country with nary a peep from the same people who would foam at the mouth if Bush took the slightest misstep.

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i agree, ive seen your posts too, im glad that atleast the three of us are bringing this up. Im not sure why the people on ATS would find this information a non issue.

I think this ACORN scandal is going to play a HUGE roll in everything that goes on in this country, with so much money changing hands so deeply rooted into the government, people should be extremely alarmed.

People want to chew the fat over conspiracy theories all over this sight, that have a lot less proof.

You want a real conspiracy that runs deep and effects all the PTB then start researching this stuff people.......its disturbing

And so evil continues to spread like a wild fire in calafornia with a 40 mile an hour wind. Obama is a fake president as now we have a fake congress and who will be held accountable. All this evil increasing to heights never experienced before now. The end is near and only a new beginning will change all of this deception as the truth will over come lies as love always is victorious over hate. You have only one choice and that is to believe that you would see with eyes that see and hear with ears that hear. Other wise you will die twice and its the second death that will last forever. You Obama "Commander and Thief" have yet to produce a legitimate birth certificate, why should anything he represents, represent the truth for how can a lie become what is true and right and good?

To jibeho and manbehindthmask, I am sorry and I will take a look at your threads regarding acorn. To be absolutley honest I didnt even know they existed until right before the election took place. Some of us wake up a little later than others I'm afraid.

Personally, I despise the left-right paradigm and consider it a distraction from the real show, but I find it somewhat disturbing that the corrupt bag of nuts known as 'Acorn' is anywhere near the US Census.

I also find it disturbing that the Census workers are taking GPS readings of houses. Something stinks really bad in this country right now...

My nose is telling me that this horrific smell is the sewage of fascism, slowly bubbling up through America's streets.

Looks to me like ACORN is the opposite of the NWO banking cartel. Bring down and bankrupt the world economy in order to end the problem of poverty. For the only why to change the system, is through a majority. When the majority are starved of material wealth.

They will demand a system that is fair and balanced. Through suffering and desperation the people will again focus on what matters, family,one another and life it's self.

I personaly do not see any other way of waking people up than this economic collapse we are seeing here. I can see how people can view the world through negativity in all situations and experiences. I try to see every thing as a means to an end, for I believe in a divine plan.


Look a little deeper than the surface. If FOX is attacking ACORN they have to be anti NWO. Bring on the "resource based economy". The monetary system has served it's purpose and now only holds back social progress through supression of technology.

Bring on FREE energy Obama! We know it exists in military aps. Does any one truely believe the total abolishment of the monerary system would be bad! Do you think the way we pollute and neglect all life on earth can go on forever?

Look around, the economy is not going to make a come back. This plan was created by the so called "White Hats" I believe. It is a game of cat and mouse being played out behind closed doors.

We create our reality through a collective consiousness. The negativity and fear we feel, only serves to strengthen the negative forces in this game we call life. Love is the answer to freedom. Fear is the enemy!


Peace!

Originally posted by jibeho
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Cheers to you once again!!! I'm glad to know some people are keeping an eye on what is happening right under our noses.

TY, jibeho