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September 23, 2009

A Look Inside ACORN's Rolodex

Topics: Political News and commentaries

In a must-read, RedState has an intriguing examination of ACORN contacts (associations in the Bertha Lewis contacts list leaked to RedState), and discusses closely related issues such as the concept of "fuisionism," ACORN's vital role in the Chicago area New Party -- the far left political party that endorsed Barack Obama, the Working Families Party ("WFP") in New York, and its relationship with the Democratic Party:

Above is a word cloud of the associations in the Bertha Lewis contacts list we received. Some are legitimate business dealings. Forest City Ratner, for example, is both bailing out ACORN and relying on its support for its construction projects. But others are more intriguing.

The larger the name, the greater the frequency of the name appearing in the contacts list. For many years it has been speculated that SEIU and ACORN share a common foundation. This seems to suggest as much. In fact, in at least one appearance on the contacts list, an SEIU official has an ACORN email address.

But were this picture a tree, the trunk would be the Working Families Party. Roger Stone has suggested the Working Families Party is ACORN. Bertha Lewis's contacts list suggests as much.
Lewis is both the head of ACORN and also the Co-Chair of the Working Families Party. As you can imagine, ACORN would have us believe that those are separate roles. However, information suggests otherwise and we also know that ACORN has a habit of creating political parties for its own ends.
To understand how the Working Families Party is part of ACORN, we need to understand the concept of "fusionism."