Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on November 13, 2009

ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis on the rampage... ACORN sues government, is ACORN protest in LA a rallying cry for Marxists?

Very revealing posts about the Los Angeles protest led by ACORN, especially the audio file provided in Part II on the Big Government site from an interview with an ACORN protester/community organizer.

Here are a few paragraphs from the first part of Post Number 1, written by Big Government’s Andrew Breitbart… be sure to read it in its entirety at BG.

ACORN–The LA Story, Part I:

Today I received a phone call from my friend, Gary H., who said that ACORN was staging a protest outside the Fox News studios in West Los Angeles. I called someone at the Fox News bureau to find out that there were no protesters there, but quickly realized ACORN had gotten that wrong too. They were protesting in front of FOX Television Center, the home of local affiliate KTTV.

Since I woke up to the news that ACORN had sued the U.S. government to get its federal funding back, it struck me as obvious that ACORN is in the process of trying to get its mojo back absent any real investigations by the Holder Justice Department, the Democratic-controlled Congress, and the Jerry Brown sham investigation in California – not to mention the so-called “internal investigation” whose chief investigator was picked by number one ACORN defender, John Podesta, and SEIU head Andy Stern, whose union is deeply aligned with the troubled “community organizing” group.

As I walked toward the group I noticed a news camera was filming them, so I stood next to the camera, not only to memorialize what I was saying, but also as a further attempt to grant myself security, given that I was greatly outnumbered.

I told the group that my website, BigGovernment.com, was the website that had launched the ACORN story and that I was here to answer any questions they had about our investigation. Instead of engaging me, they backed away, pointed at their ACORN buttons, screamed and chanted. One ACORN leader, a towering African American gentleman, told the group: “‘We don’t want to hear what he has to say.” And began leading them in a group chant:

“Everywhere we go, people want to know, who we are, so we tell them: We are ACORN, mighty, might ACORN!

They also chanted, multiple times, words from the old Unidad Popular Marxist song that accompanied Salvador Allende’s successful 1970 presidential campaign in Chile: “The people united, will never be defeated” – a rallying cry for radical leftists all over the world.

I tried to draw their attention and talk as loud as I could, and asked a series of questions, “What do you think about Dale Rathke embezzling millions from your organization?” “How much are you getting paid?” “Are you aware that ACORN has been caught paying less than the minimum wage for protesters fighting for a minimum wage increase?”

And I also told them many times, “You are being used.”

Click here for more information about the LA protest and to listen to the audio on Part II: ‘We knew we were gonna put in Obama.’ There is also a transcript of the Gary Hewson’s interview.

More audacity from ACORN… the corrupt organization is SUING. Gotta have those taxpayer bucks, dontcha know:

American Thinker: Unmitigated gall: ACORN sues government over de-funding:

Can you blame them? I mean, beyond the scope of their criminal activity, those federal dollars grease the wheels in hundreds of neighborhoods across the country. It gives walking around money to their canvassers and other minions who supply the muscle for their community extortion rackets. It funds their offices where they train employees in techniques on how to radicalize people.

In short, without those federal funds, ACORN is just another liberal interest group struggling for cash.

So it should come as no surprise that ACORN has gone to federal court to get that funding restored.

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Remember when the de-funding occurred, ACORN insisted that federal funds were not essential to its operations? This is true to a certain extent. But if they really want to be a player in the Democratic party, they need that federal cash.

It may be very difficult for ACORN to make the case that they are a single entity. They have so many subsidiaries, false fronts, for profit ventures, and convoluted organization, that it’s hard to tell where one leaves off and the next begins. Thus, their grounds for suing – that the defunding is a “bill of attainder” may not have much standing when all is said and done.

From Politico: ACORN sues over funding cut:

The suit will seek to restore funding and roll-back the ban, which was passed as part of the legislative branch appropriations bill in September.

ACORN claims, among other things, that the legislation was of “malicious and punitive intent.” The suit also claims Congress violated the Fifth Amendment and prejudged ACORN without a full investigation.

OMB Director Peter Orszag and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner are co-defendants in the suit, because of their role in facilitating Congress’ wishes in the budgeting process.

Efforts to defund ACORN became popular among Democrats and Republicans after conservative activists caught the organization’s employees in several offices advising actors posing as a politician and his prostitute girlfriend on how to evade taxes and set up a brothel.

Sen. Mike Johanns (R-Neb.) and others in Congress quickly moved to ensure no federal funds were steered to the group – measures that got support from even the most ardent liberals like Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.). The language that the lawsuit targets is in the legislative branch appropriations bill.

More on ACORN:
James O’Keefe, Big Government: **Breaking** The LA Story, Part III: ACORN Employee of the Year, Felix D. Harris
Chris Berg, Big Government: ACORN — 50 More Days Without Federal Funds
Capitol Confidential, Big Government: Los Angeles Robocall Proves ACORN ‘Internal Review’ Is a Scam
Nice Deb: ACORN Drama In LA and Video: Breitbart’s ACORN Unveiled Press Conference and Bill O’Reilly To MN Gov. Pawlenty: Take Another Look At ACORN’s 43,000 Votes For Al Franken
Patterico’s Pontifications: L.A. Times Fails to Disclose that Author of Fact-Challenged Pro-ACORN Op-Ed Has Been ACORN Consultant
Government Mess: Computers, Hard Drives Seized at ACORN’s New Orleans Office
Michael Volpe, Big Government: The Future of Wade Rathke and ACORN, Part II: Tea Parties and Protests
Frugal Café Blog Zone: RAID: Louisiana ACORN HQ Searched for Financial Docs: Rebranding ACORN “Like Putting Lipstick on Chitterlings” and ACORN’s Taxpayer Funding Kicks Back in on Halloween… Congress, What’s Up with the “Trick AND Treat” of Our Tax Dollars? (video) Update: Funds Halted for 50 More Days and ACORN in Another Sex-Fraud Scandal Uncovered by O’Keefe & Giles: Philadelphia… Now City of “Prostitute Love” (video) and Why Did FEMA Award $1 Million ‘Fire Prevention’ Grant to ACORN? and ACORN’s Brazen $7 Million Lawsuit Against Filmmakers O’Keefe, Giles, & Breitbart Has Little Support (video) and ACORN: “We’ll Help You Get Away with Stuff” — Jay Leno, Bill O’Reilly, & Dennis Miller Weigh In (video) and ‘Big Government’s’ Breitbart Lets Major TV News Media Have It for Lying, Ignoring, or Distorting ACORN Child Hooker-Tax Fraud Scandal (video)
Michael McCray, Big Government: ACORN Layoffs are Taxpayer Rip-offs
Kenneth Gladney, Big Government: I Am Kenneth Gladney
Hannah Giles, Big Government: LameStream Media: Why Did You Bypass These Juicy ACORN Nuggets?
Matthew Vadum, Big Government: ACORN Still Owes $2.3 Million in Overdue Taxes and BREAKING: ACORN Ally Nadler Resists Probe While Giving ACORN Advice:
Radio Vice Online: ACORN: Who will be fired in Philadelphia? Housing, prostitution, fraud
Stage Right, Big Government: Media Matters: Never Mind About All Those Facts… We Have a Police Report!
Publius, Big Government: WaPo: Duo Release Another Video of Their Meeting with ACORN Worker
American Spectator: Philly Video Proves ACORN Was Lying
Billy Hollowell, Big Government: The Media’s Complicity: Anaysis of ACORN Coverage
Sen. David Vitter (R-LA), Big Government: FEMA Grant to ACORN is Offensive
Wall Street Journal: Bank Pulls Back From Acorn Work
US News & World Report: ACORN Story Shows How Internet Reporting Is Beating the New York Times
Traction Control: New Hannah vid – Acorn caught in more lies
Macsmind: Let’s Ramp Up Investigation into All the Organizations of the Left
Republican Redefined: ACORN at it Again: The War Against the Popular Rule Rages On
James O’Keefe, Big Government: Unsolved Mysteries and Irreconcilable Difference for Mr. Scott Harshbarger

Publius, Big Government: Bertha Lewis: Help ACORN, Vote Obama! and Ethics Are Voters’ Top Issue? How Did That Happen… and ACORN Tactics Revealed in Discovered Documents
Are you Freaking Stupid?: Who would leave computers behind which contain incriminating evidence, with get this the passwords in the desk drawers? Um..ACORN
Michelle Malkin: ACORN Watch: Fight the thugs and A tale of two protection rackets: ACORN’s — and the media’s
GayPatriot: NYTimes fails to report memo detailing ACORN’s trouble in wake of the left-wing organization’s latest scandals
Capitol Confidential, Big Government: Exclusive: FEMA Awards Fire Prevention Grant to ACORN
Publius, Big Government: Slate: Two Cheers for Andrew Breitbart and ACORN Scandal Hits London Media
Big Hollywood: Breitbart Uses Netroots Tricks to Take Down ACORN
Maura Flynn, Big Government: ACORN Founder Wade Rathke: “There Is a Different Culture”
Kyle Olson, Big Government: ACORN ‘Advisory’ Committee Has Huge Stake in Success of Group
Ben Shapiro, Big Government: White House Creates ACORN for the Arts
NBC San Diego: Arnold Jumps into ACORN Scandal
Anita MonCrief: Schumer, Gutierrez and Waters Honored for Governing the “ACORN Way” at Anniversary Celebration
Bret Jacobson, Big Government: SEIU’s Texas Roadshow: Will They ‘Kill’ Your Company?
Gateway Pundit: Figures. ACORN Was Behind Franken’s Stolen Senate Seat and Zombie Robbery… 2,812 Dead Voters May Give MN Senate Seat to Franken
Tom Steward, Big Government: An Early ACORN Whistleblower: Karen Inman
Big Hollywood: ACORN Video Investigation
Big Government: ACORN’s Working Family of Democratic Socialists
Hot Air: Breitbart: I thought Bertha Lewis was grateful that we exposed ACORN’s corruption and ACORN chief: Targeting a minority group with a prostitution sting is racist or something and Is ACORN operating in Maryland illegally?
Kristina Rasmussen, Big Government: Illinois Grant to ACORN Housing Under Review
Patrick Tuohey, Big Government: Turning Tea Party Patriots into Political Petitioners
Goodtimepolitics: ACORN Plot Recovered From Computers Abandoned By ACORN workers

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