ACORNs Power Profile - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

1 / 13
About This Presentation
Title:

ACORNs Power Profile

Description:

... voter turnout of working class, mainly Democratic voters without ... NM: Problems in 2003, 2004, 2005; registered 13-year-old to vote. Govt Grant Fraud ... – PowerPoint PPT presentation

Number of Views:41
Avg rating:3.0/5.0
Slides: 14
Provided by: tomd162
Category:
Tags: acorns | class | fact | power | profile

less

Transcript and Presenter's Notes

Title: ACORNs Power Profile


1
ACORNs Power Profile
  • 175,000 member families
  • gt 75 organizations
  • gt 40 million budget (only 8 from members)
  • gt 80,000 union members (millions in dues)
  • Bi-coastal political party
  • Spent 20M on registration/GOTV in 04

2
ACORN Why Wages?
  • We would like it to become a fact of political
    life where every year the other side has to
    contend with a minimum-wage law in some state.
  • This is what moves people to the polls now. This
    is our gay marriage.

-- Jen Kern, head of ACORNs Living Wage Resource
Center
3
2004 Florida Min. Wage Campaign Goals
  • Campaign Goals
  • The goals of this campaign are threefold
  • 1. To increase voter turnout of working class,
    mainly Democratic voters without increasing
    opposition turnout
  • 2. To increase the power of progressive
    constituencies by moving a mass agenda, putting
    together the capacity to get on the ballot and
    win, and by putting our side on the offensive
  • 3. To deliver a wage increase to hundreds of
    thousands of Floridians.

-- Floridians For All Campaign Plan, 2003
4
Black Eyes
  • Voter fraud in 13 states since 1998
  • Government-grant fraud
  • Union Attack Dog (Wal-Mart, Overloads hospital
    emergency rooms for SEIU)

5
2006 Voter Registration
  • MO 4 KC employees indicted for voter fraud
    thousands of potentially fraudulent STL cards
    Allegations of illegal work w/ Claire McCaskill
  • OH 3 counties cite problems with hundreds of
    cards
  • PA 3,000 questionable cards, more than 100 told
    investigators someone wrongly tried to register
    them
  • CO 200 cards rejected for identical handwriting
  • NM Problems in 2003, 2004, 2005 registered
    13-year-old to vote

6
(No Transcript)
7
Govt Grant Fraud
  • Misused VISTA program grants under Carter for
    union organizing and politics
  • Clinton Administration found ACORN misused 1
    million AmeriCorps grant to build its own
    membership
  • Arkansas ACORN leader alleged all the money for
    housing re-build project ended up under ACORN
    chiefs control

8
AmeriCorps
  • the only reason for having the AmeriCorps
    program was to gain new ACORN members

-- AmeriCorps Inspector Generals report
9
Govt Still Funding ACORN
  • 3 million from HUD to ACORN affiliates 2003-2004
  • 3.2 million from HUD in 2005
  • Grants continue HUD (home counseling), IRS (tax
    counseling), etc.

10
Govt Money, ACORN Coffers
11.2M
5.1M
Fees/ Grants to ACORN Entities
Govt Bodies
ACORN Housing Corporation
  • IRS Filings, 1997-2003

11
Govt Money, ACORN Coffers
100
90
Govt Grants 2002-03
American Environmental Justice Project budget
ACORN Louisiana
100
100
Govt Grants 2000
American Environmental Justice Project budget
ACORN
100
9,000
Govt Grants 1998
American Environmental Justice Project budget
ACORNs SEIU 100
  • IRS Filings, 1998-2003

12
ACORNs Goal Power
  • ACORNs lifeblood is conflict with targets
    outside the organization.

Principles and Foundations of ACORN
13
ACORNs Method Shakedown
  • In an interview last year with ACORN head Wade
    Rathke last year, one of the things Wade told us
    is that currently ACORN received more money in
    the form of settlements at the end of corporate
    campaigns than they do from foundations and
    churches combined.

gt Prof. Fred Brooks, Dec. 2005
Write a Comment
User Comments (0)
About PowerShow.com