Today is the day our new ACORN Watch Section goes live, and the timing couldn’t be better. I’ll explain why shortly, but first let’s talk about the new ACORN Watch Section here at the Union Label Blog.

As we all know… unions are some of the most corrupt organizations in the country. Union thugs work to limit free speech by blocking the initiative process, they scam union members by using dues for fraud type transactions and political activism, and they corrupt the American political process on all fronts.

This is why we at the Union Label Blog have worked hard to keep the union news flowing, and our stats are showing that people are indeed interested to hear what we have to say.

Because of this growth in traffic and attention, we’ve decided to add a section documenting election fraud via ACORN, an organization that is doing everything possible to cheat the American voters out of fair elections.

Some ACORN allies will preach about the organization being there for the low income families who need help, but they refuse to include anything about ACORN’s massive election fraud campaigns, attacks on free speech, and internal fraud/corruption.

Which brings us back to the perfect timing of taking this new section live… and this is extremely important for those of you who might think ACORN is looking out for your best interest.

Wade Rathke, who founded ACORN in 1970, left his position as the organization’s chief organizer after an embezzlement scandal that occurred eight years ago surfaced last month involving his brother and the group’s finances. ACORN’s national board asked Rathke to step down from his position about a week ago. Rathke’s brother, Dale, embezzled almost $1 million from the community group but the crime was handled internally and not reported to the police, allegedly at the behest of Wade Rathke.

The founder of ACORN and his brother were scamming members of the organization for years!

According to the New York Times column on the story, the organization hid the fraud from the board as well as its members because it was afraid of giving groups who might feel this is unacceptable, you know… as in… MOST AMERICANS, ammunition to fire at ACORN.

He said the decision to keep the matter secret was not made to protect his brother but because word of the embezzlement would have put a “weapon” into the hands of enemies of Acorn, a liberal group that is a frequent target of conservatives who object to its often strident advocacy on behalf of low- and moderate-income families and workers.

And apparently a lot of the staffers who were either aware of the rip off eight years ago when it started, or were actually a part of it, are still working at ACORN.

But the fact that most of the handful of people who did not disclose the fraud when they learned of it eight years ago still work for Acorn or its affiliates concerns many of the group’s financial supporters.

Have no doubt folks, ACORN is a big scam, an insult to Americans, a hindrance to the American voting process, and this sort of thing will only continue to get worse moving forward.

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Stay tuned for more!

-Eric Odom