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Questions Raised on Democratic Primaries, As ACORN Blows Apart.

August 17, 2008 (LPAC)--The giant ACORN community-organizing group, whose political action committee endorsed Barack Obama in February and sent out organizers for Obama in the primary elections, has cracked up. Its founder and leader Wade Rathke has quit after it was revealed that his brother Dale Rathke stole $948,607.50 from ACORN and its affiliates, in 1999 and 2000. The embezzlement was kept quiet for eight years, until a covert arrangement with the billionaire funders of this "poor people's" organization, to keep law enforcement away, became known.

ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) has been one of the main channels through which British empire speculator George Soros has funded and promoted Obama's Presidential candidacy. A good deal of the Soros apparatus is involved, and in an uproar, in the collapse of ACORN.

Among the players in this clique are the Soros-run billionaires' club, "Democracy Alliance"; the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), whose pro-globalist president Andy Stern does Soros's bidding in politics; and the Tides Foundation, that conduits Soros and other "charity" money into political causes.

The New York Times reported August 16, "When the embezzlement of almost $1 million by the brother of the founder of ... ACORN, surfaced last month, the organization announced that an anonymous supporter had agreed to make it whole. That supporter was Drummond Pike, the founder and chief executive of the Tides Foundation, which channels money to what it describes as progressive nonprofits, including some ACORN charitable affiliates. Mr. Pike is a friend of Wade Rathke, the founder of ACORN and its leader until the scandal broke, and he [Pike] agreed to buy the promissory note that required the Rathke family to repay ACORN the money that Mr. Rathke's brother, Dale, had stolen. Mr. [Wade] Rathke is a member of the board of the Tides Foundation and other Tides-related organizations."

To review this incest:

Wade Rathke, who founded ACORN, was a director of Tides Foundation. As Andy Stern's ally, Rathke is still Chief Organizer of Local 100 of the SEIU.

Drummond Pike is founder of the Tides Foundation, which funds ACORN with Soros money; Pike brought ACORN founder Rathke onto the Tides board. Pike is the Treasurer of the Democracy Alliance, the Soros political funding group that passes the money along toward ACORN and other groups. In the attempt by Pike's longtime political partner Rathke to cover up the ACORN embezzlement, Pike personally put up about $700,000 from undisclosed sources to buy out the note the Rathkes had arranged to cover the matter.

Other leaders of the Soros clique operating ACORN:

** Democacy Alliance Vice Chairman Anna Burger is also secretary-treasurer of the SEIU, and chairs the grouping of SEIU and other unions that broke up the pro Democratic Party AFL-CIO back in 2005.

** Democracy Alliance co-founder and director Anne Bartley, niece of Laurance Rockefeller and political strategist for the Rockefeller family donations, is the wife of Larry McNeil, head of leadership training for Andy Stern, Wade Rathke and the other SEIU honchos.

ACORN is a "non-partisan" organization, which operates several tax-exempt sub-entities designed to take money from foundations and coordinate with its top-down political aims, while using thousands of political operatives in election-related drives throughout the country.

The melt-down of this apparatus raises questions about the covert and perhaps illegal funding of primary election activities directed against the Hillary Clinton campaign.

On February 21, 2008, one day before ACORN's political action committee formally endorsed Barack Obama's campaign against Hillary Clinton, and two weeks before the crucial March 4 Ohio primary election, the following help-wanted ad appeared, and was circulated on the Internet:

"Ohio ACORN GOTV effort for Obama is hiring canvassers now.

"GOTV for Obama! Ohio ACORN is doing a Get Out The Vote project with the OBAMA Campaign. Ohio ACORN is hiring canvassers to go door to door encouraging voters to vote for Barak Obama.

"ACORN is hiring in Cleveland (216)431-3905 , Columbus (614)425-9491, Cincinnati (513)221-1737, for Dayton (call Cincinnati), and for Toledo call Cleveland. Or email polnatoh@ACORN.org and your inquiry will be routed to the appropriate person in each of these cities. Intake and training will be held daily at local ACORN offices. Canvass begins on Wednesday Feb. 27th and will work through election day. Please, only persons wishing to work all or most of these days (Saturday and Sunday included) should inquire.

"Please do not contact the Obama campaign directly regarding this post as they are not the organization doing the hiring and it will only distract their staff and volunteers from the other important work they are doing on behalf of Senator Obama."

Some previous cases:

2004-- Four ACORN employees in Ohio were indicted by a federal grand jury for submitting false voter registration forms. January, 2005-- two Colorado ACORN workers were convicted of submitting false voter registrations. November 1, 2006—four ACORN employees were indicted in Kansas City, Mo., for voter registration fraud, part of a national investigation. 2006-- ACORN was investigated for submitting false voter registrations in St. Louis, with 1,492 fraudulent registrations identified.

2007-- five Washington state ACORN workers were sentenced to jail; ACORN agreed to pay King County $25,000 for investigative costs