ACORN

Secretly taped videos have shown ACORN housing counselors at five locations giving advice to two young film-maker activists posing as a pimp and prostitute running a prostitution business involving underage illegals girls from El Salvador, on how to conceal their criminal business, and skirt housing and tax laws, .
The acronym ACORN stands for Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.
One might ask: who is the most famous community organizer in the world and does he have any connection to ACORN?
1. In a 2004 article in Social Policy , Toni Foulkes, a Chicago ACORN leader, said that under Barack Obama's leadership, Project VOTE in 1992 delivered 50,000 newly registered Illinois voters that helped Carol Moseley Braun win a Senate seat. Of those 50,000 votes, Foulkes wrote, "ACORN delivered about 5,000 of them."
2.Obama, as ACORN’s lawyer, sued Illinois in 1993, to make voter registration more lax.
3.Obama as ACORN’s lawyer, sued Citibank in 1994 (Buycks-Roberson case, above), to force them into giving sub-prime loans to home buyers with poor credit ratings, setting the stage for the mortgage meltdown.
4. ACORN was a driving force for the revised Community Reinvestment Act of 1995, pushing sub-prime mortgages through a very eager Fannie Mae. This allowed ACORN to pressure mortgage lenders to grant bad loans to bad risk home buyers in the name of helping the poor. AS we know now, many of the poor were hurt further with the 2008 financial crisis and widespread foreclosures in 2008-2009. Initially, Fannie Mae prospered and gave Obama‘s campaign $126,349.
5. Obama promised in 2007 to let ACORN and related groups "help us shape the agenda" of his presidency, by meeting with them after the Nov. 4 election. What is their agenda? "Helping low income people?"
6. When Obama met with ACORN leaders in November 2007, he reminded them of his affinity for ACORN and his time as a Project Vote organizer. Sen. Obama said, "I come out of a grass roots organizing background. That's what I did for three and half years before I went to law school. That's the reason I moved to Chicago was to organize. So, this is something that I know personally, the work you do, the importance of it. I've been fighting alongside ACORN on issues you care about my entire career. Even before I was an elected official, when I ran the Project Vote voter registration drive in Illinois, ACORN was smack dab in the middle of it, and we appreciate your work."
7. Obama's campaign funneled $860,000 to ACORN for their 2008 General Election operations, violating their 501(c) tax payer exempt status, and then lied about it.
8. Obama’s campaign Web site in 2008 tried to deny these facts.
9. In September 2009, as President, Obama tries to pretend he hardly knows anything about ACORN.
Is the housing and tax advice for a criminal enterprise the only scandal with ACORN? Not hardly!
10. Even the New York Times knew ACORN was getting donor lists from the Obama campaign and using them to raise more money for "voter turnout" efforts, a clear violation of federal election law.
11. Dale Rathke embezzled a million dollars from ACORN and that his brother Wade, the CEO of ACORN, at the time covered it up and eventually ACORN refused to press charges against Dale. 12. The ACORN Board Members who wanted an audit were expelled from the Board.
13. The FBI arrested 11 ACORN members in Florida,
14. ACORN employees, or its third-party voter registration affiliates, are under investigation for or facing charges of voter registration fraud in 14 states (Connecticut, Florida, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas, Louisiana, Minnesota,Virginia and Wisconsin). ACORN is being investigated in at least 20 states.
15. Acorn touts living-wage laws as a way to lift the working poor into the middle class. When California regulators sued Acorn for not paying its own workers the minimum wage, Acorn argued that this would endanger its mission - because it would have to hire fewer workers.
16. ACORN intimidated citizens into early voting in 2008 and told them how to vote.