One of the more confusing things about ACORN and their affiliates is their constant switching of titles and companies and affiliates. Just to be clear - they all share the same address, the same phone numbers, and the same people.
Mark from Keyboard Militia called me yesterday and said he was in the area, so he took some pictures for me of the ACORN office.
This is the ACORN office in St Louis. It is the former office of the now defunct ACORN housing office. When you see this office, you should think about names like Ken McCoy, and Gwen Cogswell, and Glenn Burleigh, and Julie Terbrock. These are ACORN employees, the first two of whom have strong disagreements with the national ACORN office.
What's most important, is that you also see that SEIU Local 880 has their offices here. This is a different organization than the one that employs Elston McCowan and Perry Molens. SEIU Local 880 is the ACORN created union that is so much in the national news.
SEIU Local 880 was the organization with Dale Rathke as the treasurer. Yep, the $1 million embezzlement scandal that prompted the ACORN 8 investigation.
And just for fun, let's show you a picture of HCAN contacts, the Obama administration led healthcare organizing coalition.
As you can see, Julie Terbrock, the legislative liason for ACORN, is also listed as the contact for Missouri ProVote. She's the Acting Program Director for ProVote. She worked in close coordination with Laura Egerdal on the Voter ID act, using the SEIU predictive dialer phone bank to drive phone calls to Republican legislators and convince them the "public" didn't want to show their license to vote.
And for that, Laura Egerdal was rewarded with the Director Of Communications position with the Secretary of State, despite having no experience for the job but that of SEIU/ProVote. And just to top it off, Sara Howard, Russ Carnahan's new communications director, was involved with helping set up SEIU's phone bank, working with ACORN on the 2006 Minimum Wage/Elect Claire McCaskill program, and of course, Americans Coming Together, where she managed and Egerdal helped hire felons to go door to door registering fake voters.
I just thought the picture spoke so much more eloquently to the deep connections of ACORN/SEIU and the Carnahans. While Glenn Burleigh may be out saying ACORN Housing isn't in Missouri (they shut it down in St Louis after some shady finances, but it's still in Kansas City), the rest of us know that the deep connections between ACORN, different SEIU branches, and Missouri Democrats still has a lot to be discovered.
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