Obama Gives $446 Million to ACORN Veteran

[Geee]

Front Page Magazine:

 

A former senior ACORN official has been put in charge of close to half a billion taxpayer dollars in Illinois, one of the most corrupt states in the Union and the home state of America’s Community Organizer-in-Chief.

What could possibly go wrong?

 

In 2010 the Obama administration designated $7.6 billion for a foreclosure relief program. Of that total $445.6 million will be administered by ACORN alumnus Joe McGavin, now a director at the Illinois Housing Development Authority. As Judicial Watch discovered, McGavin was “Chicago Operations Manager” at Affordable Housing Centers of America (AHCOA) from November 2008 through January 2011, according to his LinkedIn profile.

Until two years ago AHCOA was called ACORN Housing. The nonprofit corporation renamed itself Affordable Housing Centers for America after undercover activists caught ACORN employees offering helpful advice about starting a brothel for pedophiles and committing other crimes on video in 2009. Soon after, popular revulsion prompted Congress to ban funding of ACORN and groups related to it.

ACORN Housing, which had been the largest affiliate in ACORN’s corrupt, taxpayer-subsidized empire of activism, grew out of crime: squatting. It emerged from a 1982 action in which ACORN built a squatters’ tent city behind the White House.

ACORN Housing helped to erode lending standards by pushing the financial affirmative action law known as the Community Reinvestment Act. The group also pressured banks to adopt, in its own words, “more flexible underwriting criteria that take into account the realities of lower-income communities.” Inner-city lenders were pressured to use “less traditional income sources such as food stamps,” the group bragged in a pamphlet years before the mortgage bubble that it helped to inflate burst.

Not much is known about McGavin but it is clear that he has worked at the Illinois Housing Development Authority since February 2011. Richard M. Daley, mayor of Chicago from 1989 to 2011, happens to be “Of Counsel” at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, the same law firm at which IHDA chairman Terry E. Newman is a partner.

[righteousmomma]

Typical. As Valin likes to say: "Nothing to see here folks. Just move on."

November cannot come soon enough.

[NCTexan]

We're heading to Chicagoland later this week. I'm breaking out the old toxic waste/bio hazard suits right now.

[nickydog]

Typical. As Valin likes to say: "Nothing to see here folks. Just move on."

November cannot come soon enough.

 

Or he might say he is shocked -- SHOCKED!!

[righteousmomma]

LOL Nickdog

 

At least this trip we are not driving the car with its nobama sticker. So far never been keyed or anything but there is always the fear. We have had some funny reactions from thumbs up to squealing tires angrily zipping around after red lights. The funniest though were the women shaking their heads and mouths ranting but we couldn't hear a word. All of these reactions have been right here in Raleigh. My favorite way to park in a lot is next to a pro o. The yin and the ying yang.

Tried to tell a couple folks that it's his policies and leftist ideology that we object to but so far no buyers in that belief