Hey what do you know?
Didn’t that Obama guy teach ACORN tactics, hmmm?
My rant about Democrats use of non-profits is beginning to catch fire!
Steve Malanga has a piece in today’s Post that lays out a history of who Dems learned their deceitful ways.
Can anybody say, Saul Alinsky?
ACORN's fruits
Billions to help pols, not the poor
By STEVEN MALANGA
ACORN may be fading away, thanks to government restrictions on its funding in the wake of the scandal in which its counselors advised undercover journalists on how to evade the law. But this does nothing to change the environment that propelled the radical activist group to national power.
ACORN is part of a huge network of nonprofits that continues to promote a big-government agenda in cities across America using taxpayer money. That network is alive and well today, even if ACORN itself dies.
This movement's roots go back to the godfather of community organizing, Chicago's Saul Alinsky, who in the 1930s envisioned local grassroots groups in poor areas that would mobilize residents into politically powerful coalitions.
In the 1960s, the architects of President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty decided to federalize the Alinksy model by sending billions of taxpayer dollars to community groups, with a vague notion that these would somehow "empower" residents in their neighborhoods and thus improve their lives.
Larry Seabrook: Indicted over sham non-profits
Instead, over time these nonprofits became the new political clubhouses in many areas -- and the activists who ran them became our next generation of politicians.
In New York, by the 1970s and '80s, the road to political office increasingly ran through taxpayer-funded nonprofits -- as politicians like Pedro Espada and Ramon Velez in The Bronx and Vito Lopez in Brooklyn used community groups as launching pads for political careers.
New York isn't unique. On Chicago's South Side, a young community organizer named Barack Obama launched a political career after heading up the Developing Communities Project, a social-service group that lived almost entirely off government grants.
Full article
Help Dems catch the non-profit wave to a jail cell near you!
Via New York Post
The Last Tradition
