Tuesday, November 04, 2008
Cracking ACORN - by Matthew Vadum
They are SO entangled, and I'd bet that it's intentional.
There are just too many "things" about ACORN for me to believe that they are "good" guys...
There are just too many "things" about ACORN for me to believe that they are "good" guys...
In this National Review article, Matthew Vadum writes about ACORN:
"ACORN uses a complex system of interlocking directorates to control its far-flung network of affiliates. Well, actually they’re not that far-flung. An intrepid blogger discovered that 294 ACORN affiliates operate out of ACORN’s building on Elysian Fields Avenue in New Orleans.
ACORN lawyer Elizabeth Kingsley raised the alarm about interlocking directorates and the dangerously close ties between ACORN and Project Vote in an internal report, the New York Times reported on October 22. There is so much overlap that 'we may not be able to prove that 501(c)3 resources are not being directed to specific regions based on impermissible partisan considerations,' Kingsley wrote in a reference to the tax code provision regulating charities.
Capital Research Center discovered that ACORN moves money around its network with a boldness and agility that Pablo Escobar would have admired.
ACORN affiliate Project Vote paid ACORN $10,861,825 (2000–2006), Citizens Services Inc. (CSI) $1,206,942 (2005–2006), and $1,266,967 to ACORN affiliate Citizens Consulting Inc. (CCI) (2000–2004). Incidentally, Project Vote, ACORN, CSI, and CCI all share the same address in New Orleans.
Other ACORN affiliates with the same Big Easy address swap funds all the time.
Since 2000, the American Institute for Social Justice Inc. (AISJ) has paid ACORN at least $8,563,303. AISJ has paid CCI $362,464, and ACORN Associates Inc. $258,593. Since 2000, ACORN Housing Corp. Inc. paid its roommates, CCI and ACORN affiliate Peoples Equipment Resource Center $1,566,228 and (at least) $58,003, respectively."
