ACORN’s “Muscle for Money” does the bidding of SEIU

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ACORN’s “Muscle for Money” does the bidding of SEIU

July 7, 2009
Acorn CEO Bertha Lewis addresses community members Friday, June 19, 2009 in Phoenix. (AP)
WASHINGTON —

Corporate and political officials who defy workplace and community organizers risk being made objects of scorn by bright red-clad protestors in public and private, courtesy of an activist union and its close allies in the nation’s most controversial liberal non-profit advocacy group.

It’s officially called the “Muscle for Money” program within the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) where it was started, and unofficially by the same name among activists of Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now (ACORN).

ACORN is under investigation in at least 14 states over voter registration fraud allegations stemming from the 2008 presidential campaign. The group endorsed President Barack Obama, despite federal laws barring partisan political activities by tax-exempt groups.

Muscle for Money includes multiple techniques for creating highly aggressive, organized efforts both to pressure businesses and officials to support the activists’ agenda or to discredit and intimidate opponents of their agenda, according to present and former ACORN members.

SEIU has funded Muscle for Money activities in the past and continues to finance corporate shakedown efforts across the country as part of this program. SEIU locals 100 and 880 have been identified as allied organizations on ACORN’s web site.

http://www.sfexaminer.com/opinion/ACORNs-Muscle-for-Money-does-the-bidding-of-SEIU--50091427.html

pretty ugly.

[gb2004]

Why would they even call it "muscle for money" unless it was meant to intimidate and bully people? Can you imagine if a conservative group called themselves that?

“The idea is to go to private homes where wives and children are present and stand outside so the family members of a company official could be harassed and subjected to intimidation,” said MonCrief. “Protestors would also go to company functions like banquets where they would be as disruptive as possible.”

[simssk]

Sounds like the days the mob was in power in many cities...cough.. cough.. Chicago.... and people had to "pay" for protection.

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Why would they even call it "muscle for money" unless it was meant to intimidate and bully people? Can you imagine if a conservative group called themselves that?

thugs have no shame

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Rivera previously served as a union organizer in his home country of Puerto Rico. He brought his techniques to America, according to Johnson, and was able to turn out 30,000 SEIU supporters in the streets of New York City. Now, Rivera enjoys a $10 million budget and a war room with a staff of more than 400, all courtesy of union members’ dues, to target lawmakers in the health care reform debate. Johnson considers Rivera to be “another union goon” who has used bully tactics, and millions of dollars from membership coffers, to advance a political agenda.

President Obama asked America to judge him based on those with whom he surrounds himself. Clearly, he is working with Rivera to advance health care policy that is quite friendly to his allies at the SEIU. Johnson believes that this sort of partnership helps to disguise the fact that the SEIU’s pensions are extremely underfunded, with 1 out of every 160 retired union members unable to cash out what is owed to them in their pension.

The SEIU continues to use their favorite method of persuasion- public protesting- to make their members feel as though they are part of a team effort. During Organizing for America events, created as an offshoot of the Obama campaign and funded by the Democratic National Committee to promote the President’s agenda, the SEIU and ACORN rally side-by-side, decked in their famous purple shirts and displaying the hostility they are known to exhibit. Moreover, they have begun hosting meetings in members’ homes to plan activism and view Obama’s speeches on health care reform.
http://healthcarehorserace.com/activism/07292009/noisy-desperation-a-panicked-seiu-clings-to-failing-health-care-platform/

the unholy alliance

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Why would they even call it "muscle for money" unless it was meant to intimidate and bully people? Can you imagine if a conservative group called themselves that?



“The idea is to go to private homes where wives and children are present and stand outside so the family members of a company official could be harassed and subjected to intimidation,” said MonCrief. “Protestors would also go to company functions like banquets where they would be as disruptive as possible.”

And these are the same people bitching about the way the town hall meetings are going.....:rolleyes:

[gb2004]

ACORN's so-called "muscle for money" strategy extorts "donations" from targeted government and corporate officials by offering them Mafia-like protection from protests by the group's own paid thugs, many of them convicted felons. ACORN has also blocked bank mergers until the targeted financial institutions agreed to change their lending policies to ACORN's satisfaction.

Rev. Jesse Jackson's Operation PUSH successfully utilized a similar approach by threatening boycotts and discrimination lawsuits to shake down major Fortune 500 companies. ACORN activists took Jackson's successful strategy a step further by physically blocking the entrances to banks that refused to make sub-prime loans.

Wow

[gb2004]

And these are the same people bitching about the way the town hall meetings are going.....:rolleyes:

Hypocrites.

[kat]

More on this:

http://pumabydesign001.wordpress.com/2009/07/07/acorns-muscle-for-money-campaign-one-mans-experience/

Hewitt recalled meeting Wade Rathke, ACORN’s founder and then its chief organizer. ‘He was like a hippie right out of the 1960s,’ Hewitt said.

Liberty Tax agreed to make changes to give customers a better understanding of the mortgages they were receiving, but refused to go any further, Hewitt said.

‘All of sudden, four bus loads of homeless people pull up in front of our headquarters here in Virginia Beach,’ he said. ‘They came pouring into the building like a Mongolian horde. There was screaming and fighting. One employee was bitten and another was scratched. They both had to go to the emergency room.’

All of the protestors were arrested and Liberty Tax filed a complaint but it was later dropped because the legal expenses pursuing it would have required would easily have exceeded hundreds of thousands of dollars, Hewitt said.

Despite it all, Liberty Tax ultimately signed a long-term agreement to pay just under $50,000 a year to an ACORN affiliate, Hewitt said.

“ACORN has used threats and intimidation to advance its agenda since its founding in 1970 by Wade Rathke, who adapted the tactics he learned as a member of the radical Students for a Democratic Society – a group former New Leftist David Horowitz describes as “the first terrorist political cult.”

In 1969, Rathke started a Massachusetts chapter of the militant Welfare Rights Organization founded by George Wiley. As Horowitz explains in his book, “The Shadow Party,” Wiley used the Cloward-Piven strategy (named for left-wing Columbia University sociologists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven) to purposely overwhelm New York’s welfare system and thereby encourage either increased benefits or social upheaval…”

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Is it me or are the images being circulated by the MSM at these "town halls" lately depicting crowds of largely elderly or retirees?
If so hired union goons in a confrontation with ****ed off old folks sure can't help Obogus' case. :think:

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CNA/NNOC Statement On Restraining Order Against SEIU: Threats, Harassment And Stalking Of RNs Remain Out Of Bounds, USA
Main Category: Nursing / Midwifery
Article Date: 24 Apr 2008 - 4:00 PDT

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A ruling by Alameda County Superior Court to vacate its temporary restraining order against the Service Employees International Union and its President Andy Stern on procedural grounds does nothing to justify any continued acts of threats, harassment, and stalking of registered nurses, the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee said Tuesday night.

"The TRO gave the nurses a few days reprieve from harassment," said Geri Jenkins, RN, a member of the CNA/NNOC Council of Presidents who said she had six SEIUers make a stalking visit to her home.

"Nothing in today's ruling should be construed as a license to continue behavior and a pattern of threats and harassment that has become an SEIU trademark," said Jenkins.

"Hopefully Stern and SEIU will use this opportunity to learn from this experience that it is time for them to respect nurses, that their deplorable behavior is not acceptable and does not enhance their reputation or their credibility," Jenkins said.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/105210.php

let's beat up the nurses

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Published on National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation (http://www.nrtw.org)

SEIU Union Officials Face Federal Prosecution for Illegal Threats against Non-Striking Nurses
By Nick Cote
Created 3 Jul 2008 - 2:11pm

Subhead:
Right to Work attorneys trigger prosecution after union bosses threatened Pomona Valley nurses with jail time for refusing to abandon patients

Location: Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles, California (July 3, 2008) – Federal labor board officials in Los Angeles will
prosecute the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 121RN for illegally threatening nurses at the Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center with financial penalties and arrest for refusing to abandon their patients during a union-ordered strike.

http://www.nrnpa.org/documents/News%20Articles/NRTW-Pomona-SEIU.pdf

[gb2004]

Is it me or are the images being circulated by the MSM at these "town halls" lately depicting crowds of largely elderly or retirees?
If so hired union goons in a confrontation with ****ed off old folks sure can't help Obogus' case. :think:

No, but he's too arrogant to realize that.