Thread: Tarnished , Liberal ACORN launches re-branding effort/new na

Saw the founder? of ACORN on Dobbs recently. Once again she denied any on-going investigations. She denied that they had a contract with the census issue as well.

In fact Waukegan has had a spin-off group of ACORN come to organize our citizens. They only charge $10 per meeting. I went to the first one to see what it was like. It almost felt like a pyramid scheme...


Tarnished by Vote-Fraud Investigations, Liberal ACORN Launches Re-Branding Effort




Monday, June 22, 2009 7:26 PM

By: David A. Patten Article Font Size


ACORN's entanglements with vote-fraud allegations have grown so radioactive that the organization may jettison the ACORN name altogether.

ACORN's global entity, ACORN International, announced June 17 that it has changed its name to "Community Organizations International."

Speculation is rampant that the parent ACORN organization, whose formal name is the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, is considering a name-change as well.

The rebranding is seen as an indication that mounting fraud allegations are taking a heavy toll.

"This may indeed be the beginning of an ACORN network-wide rebranding, but a rotten ACORN by any other name still stinks," Matthew Vadum, a staunch ACORN critic at the Capital Research Center think tank, tells Newsmax.

Vadum describes ACORN International as "a nonprofit group that aspires to spread the gospel of [radical community organizer] Saul Alinsky across the globe."

Criminal prosecutions and investigations pending against ACORN and its former workers include:

# An ongoing FBI probe.

# Fourteen states are looking into vote-fraud allegations against ACORN.

# In Las Vegas and Pittsburgh, prosecutors have filed indictments against several former ACORN operatives. Charges focus on the organization's alleged practice of establishing quotas specifying the number of registrations workers were required to submit each day. Many states outlaw such quotas, for fear they may pressure canvassers into encouraging fraudulent registrations.

# Ohio's Cuyahoga County has indicted Darnell Nash, an ACORN-registered voter, for voting illegally. Nash registered to vote on nine occasions, using different names and addresses each time.

# Investigators have said that as many as 4,000 ACORN voter registrations in Ohio could be fraudulent.

ACORN International has stated that its mission is to "sustain grassroots organizing throughout the world."

ACORN and ACORN International have interlocking directorates. In its 2007 tax filing, ACORN International listed its president as Maude Hurd, who also serves as president of the parent ACORN organization. Both organizations are based in New Orleans.

"ACORN's brand has been damaged through their own actions. It would certainly be understandable if they decided to change their name,â€

fedupinwaukegan wrote:

I went to the first one to see what it was like. It almost felt like a pyramid scheme...

Good for you, fedup, to go see it for yourself.

Originally Posted by builditnow

fedupinwaukegan wrote:

I went to the first one to see what it was like. It almost felt like a pyramid scheme...

Good for you, fedup, to go see it for yourself.

Yes, one definitely has to see how these meetings are run. I went back to see my posts about this meeting on our local board. Here is some information on the splinter group. Perhaps ACORN will do the same thing. New name, same philosophy. The core members that night had on blue 'Action Now' or 'Accion Ahora' t-shirts. I sat their imaging that if they collected $10 from every person every meeting that would be a tidy sum...



NEW NONPROFIT The board and staff of Illinois ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now), has left to form a new nonprofit called Action Now. Led by Madeline Talbott, who founded Illinois ACORN 25 years ago, Action Now will work on education issues, along with fighting foreclosures, offering job assistance, advocating for better health care and living-wage jobs and providing leadership training. More information is available at www.actionnow.org or by calling (312) 676-4280.

http://www.catalyst-chicago.org/news/in ... 397&cat=28

fedup wrote:

The core members that night had on blue 'Action Now' or 'Accion Ahora' t-shirts.

Are you kidding? The one t-shirt is "Action Now" in Spanish, right? God forbid any Hispanic members should have to know the two words Action Now in English.