Affiliates of America's bad seed: Acorn
from pdf @ the Employment Policies Institute
The Many Faces of ACORN
385 Palmetto Street Housing
Fund Corporation
4415 San Jacinto Street Corporation
ACORN
Acorn 2004 Housing Development
Fund Corporation
Acorn 2005 Housing Development
FUND CORPORATION
ACORN Associates
ACORN Beneficial Association
ACORN BeverlyY LLC
ACORN Campaign Services
ACORN Campaign To Raise The
Minimum Wage
ACORN Center for Housing, Inc
ACORN Children’s Beneficial Association
ACORN Community Land Association
ACORN Community Land Association of IL.
ACORN Community Land Association of LA
ACORN Community Land Association of PA
ACORN Community Labor Organizing Center
ACORN Cultural Trust
ACORN Dumont-Snediker Housing
Development Fund Corporation
ACORN Fair Housing
ACORN Fund
ACORN Housing Corporation
ACORN Housing Corporation of IL
ACORN Housing Corporation of MO
ACORN Housing Corporation of PA
ACORN Institute
ACORN Law For Education, Representation,
And Training
ACORN Management Corporation
ACORN National Broadcasting Network
ACORN Services
ACORN Television In
Action For Communities
ACORN Tenant Union Training
And Organizing Project
ACORN Tenants Union
Affiliated Media Foundation Movement
Agape Broadcasting Foundation Inc
American Environmental Justice Project Inc
American Home Childcare Providers
Association
American Institute for Social Justice
Arizona ACORN Housing Corporation
Arkansas Broadcasting Foundation
Association for the Rights of Citizens Inc
Associated Regional Maintenance Systems
Austin Organizing and Support Center
Baltimore Organizing and Support Center
Boston Organizing and Support Center
Broad Street Corporation
California Community Network
Chicago Organizing and Support Center
Chief Organizer Fund
Child Care Providers for Action Franklin
Citizens Action Research Project
Citizens Campaign for Work,
Living Wage & Labor Peace
Citizens Consulting, Inc also known as Citizens Services, Inc. This appears to be ACORNs main Financing/deposit/dispersal Front.
Citizens Campaign for Finance Reform
Citizens for Future Progress
Colorado ACORN Housing Corporation
Crescent City Broadcasting Corporation
Desert Rose Homes LLC
Dumont Avenue Housing
Development Fund
Elysian Fields Corporation, Inc
Elysian Fields Partnership
Fifteenth Street Corporation
Floridians For All PAC
Franklin ACORN Housing
Greenville Community Charter School Inc
Greenwell Springs Corporation
Hospitality Hotel and Restaurant
Organizing Council (HOTROC)
Houston Organizing And Support Center
KABF Radio
KNON Radio
Labor Neighbor Research and Training
Center Inc
Living Wage Resource Center
Louisiana ACORN Fair Housing
Massachusetts ACORN Housing
Corporation
Metro Technical Institute
Missouri Tax Justice Research Project
Montana Radio Network
Mott Haven ACORN Housing
Development Fund Corporation
Mutual Housing Association of
New York Inc
National Center for Jobs & Justice
New Mexico Organizing and Support
Center
New Orleans Community Housing
Organization
New York ACORN Housing Company Inc
New York Agency for Community Affairs
Inc
New York Organizing and Support Center
Organizers Forum
Pennsylvania Institute for Community
Affairs
People’s Equipment Resource
Corporation
Phoenix Organizing And Support Center
Project Vote
SEIU Local 100
SEIU Local 880
Service Workers Action Team
Shreveport Community Television
Site Fighters
Sixth Avenue Corporation
Social Policy
Southern Training Center
St. Louis Organizing And Support Center
St. Louis Tax Reform Group
Student Minimum Wage Action Campaign
Texas ACORN Housing Corporation Inc
Wal-Mart Workers Association
Wal-Mart Association for Reform Now
Working Families Association
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This is a list of the tenacles of ACORN as reported by the Employment Policies Institute as of July 2006. Some names may have changed since then - MORE names may need to be added since 2006.
I was looking through the nets yellow pages and noticed that a whole lot of these Acorn cells have the same seedy address @ 1024 Elysian Fields Ave., New Orleans, LA
Only nine states do not have an ACORN office at this time: Alaska, Maine, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virgina.
See Capital Research Center for some more info.
update - August 2009: This is an in progress list of ACORN sponsors. I'll add to it as I stumble on them.
JP Morgan Chase
Bauman Family Foundation
George Soros' Open Society Institute
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
Ben & Jerry's foundation
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation
Citigroup
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
The Ford Foundation
Foundations affiliated with the founder of United Parcel Service (UPS)
Service Employees International Union as well as its local affilaites
Illinois Homecare Workers and Home Childcare Providers
Local Chicago SEIU union
Change to Win labor federation
The Food and Commercial Workers Union
The United Federation of Teachers
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Friday, July 24, 2009
Democrats Block GOP Health Care Mailing - Organization Chart
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Democrats Block GOP Health Care Mailing
July 23, 2009
By Jackie Kucinich
Roll Call Staff
Democrats are preventing Republican House Members from sending their constituents a mailing that is critical of the majority’s health care reform plan, blocking the mailing by alleging that it is inaccurate.
House Republicans are crying foul and claiming that the Democrats are using their majority to prevent GOP Members from communicating with their constituents.
The dispute centers on a chart (view PDF) created by Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Texas) and Republican staff of the Joint Economic Committee to illustrate the organization of the Democratic health care plan.
At first glance, Brady’s chart resembles a board game: a colorful collection of shapes and images with a web of lines connecting them.
But a closer look at the image reveals a complicated menagerie of government offices and programs that Republicans say will be created if the leading Democratic health care plan becomes law.
In a memo sent Monday to Republicans on the House franking commission, Democrats argue that sending the chart to constituents as official mail would violate House rules because the information is misleading.
In their eight-point memo, which was obtained by Roll Call, Democrats identify a litany of areas where they believe the chart is incorrect.
For example, Democrats argue that the chart depicts a “Health Insurance Exchange Trust Fund” that is “simply a recipient of IRS funds, with no outflow. ... This is false.”
The chart’s illustration of low-income subsidies is also “misleading and false,” Democrats argue.
Congressional rules for franked mail bar Members from using taxpayer-funded mail for newsletters that use “partisan, politicized or personalized” comments to criticize legislation or policy.
The dispute over Brady’s chart is being reviewed by the franking commission, which must approve any mail before it can be sent. No decision had been made on the matter by press time.
Brady adamantly denied that the chart was misleading and said Democrats are simply threatened by the content of the graphic.
“I think their review was laughable,” Brady said. “It’s ... downright false in most of the cases. The chart depicts their health care plan as their committees developed it.”
“The chart reveals how their health care bureaucracy works, and people are frightened by it,” he added. “So this is their effort to try and discredit” the chart.
Republican Members have made 20 requests to mail a version of the chart to their constituents and have been told that the requests are being delayed while the commission reviews allegations that the chart is misleading.
“Hiding the truth about wildly unpopular policies is a Democrat specialty,” said one GOP aide. “I’d like to see the flow chart on how Speaker [Nancy] Pelosi plans on implementing the open and transparent government she keeps promising everyone.”
“We have initiated discussions with the minority to try and resolve current differences and are operating in good faith to achieve that goal,” said Kyle Anderson, a spokesman for House Administration Chairman Robert Brady (D-Pa.). The committee has oversight of the commission.
Rep. Dan Lungren (R-Calif.), ranking member of the committee and a member of the franking commission, said through a spokeswoman that he is also aware of the situation and is working with the members of the franking commission to resolve the differences, but he added that he believed Democrats on the commission were overreaching.
“He strongly believes that the franking commission does not have the authority to deny Member communications based on partisan differences of pending legislation,” said Salley Collins, a spokeswoman for Lungren.
The franking commission is made up of three Democrats and three Republicans.
Republicans quickly embraced Brady’s chart, and over the past week about 50 Members have posted it on their Congressional Web sites or used it in a floor speech. It has also been posted on the home page of the Republican National Committee.
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