ACORN International
(Organization Trends, October 2013, PDF here) Community organizer Wade Rathke created ACORN and watched it grow to hundreds of affiliated groups around the country, until scandals forced the network…
Wade Rathke
Community Organizers in Charge: Three who pack a political punch
(PDF here) “Community organizer” is a term few Americans had heard until one was elected president in 2008. Now it’s a badge of honor and a passport to the…
Disgraced ACORN founder Wade Rathke is urging Catholics to quit their church
Disgraced ACORN founder Wade Rathke is urging Catholics to quit their church: In the fall from grace of one institution after another, religious bodies have been on a steady decline for…
ACORN Founder Wade Rathke Praises the Tea Party
ACORN’s loathsome, corrupt founder Wade Rathke compliments the Tea Party movement in a new Daily Caller article: Rathke was unequivocal about the Occupy movement, telling TheDC that “in no…
Subversion Inc.
(PDF here) Special Report: This paper contains excerpts from the author’s new book Subversion Inc.: How Obama’s ACORN Red Shirts Are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers (WND…
ACORN Executive Director Joins Center for American Progress
Steve Kest, who was executive director of the organized crime syndicate ACORN, has become a senior fellow at John Podesta’s Center for American Progress. Kest joins self-described “communist” Van…
Tides Founder Drummond Pike Resigns
According to a Canadian nonprofit, Drummond Pike, CEO of the San-Francisco-based Tides Foundation, an innovative leftwing grantmaker, has resigned as head of the group he founded 34 years ago. A…
Is ACORN Engaged in a Massive Money Laundering Scheme?
I have an article in today’s American Spectator about ACORN’s racketeering and money laundering activities. Here’s the top of it: Is ACORN engaged in a massive money laundering scheme?…
Wade Rathke Says ACORN May Not Survive
Disgraced ACORN founder Wade Rathke says the group he created might not make it another year, reports the (Memphis, Tenn.) Commercial Appeal. “The organization has become the focal point of…
Citigroup Executive Pulls Out of Sham ACORN Panel Under Pressure
Citigroup executive Eric Eve (pictured below) has resigned from ACORN’s phony, allegedly independent panel, a move that removes one of the few people on the panel who could even remotely…