ACORN Tactics
By: EXAMINER SPECIAL REPORT
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February 12, 2009
A selection of ACORN tactics:
* Disrupt government meetings, such as a closed session of the Chicago City Council, where ACORN members pushed over a metal detector and prevented aldermen from entering the chamber.
* Disrupt a bankers’ dinner with inflated rubber sharks and demonstrate in the lobbies of banks that refuse to attend a national ACORN-sponsored “bank summit.”
* Intimidate local officials by sending busloads of chanting supports to pay a “surprise visit.”
* Organize political demonstrations for favored candidates.
* Picket companies that refused to cooperate with ACORN, using a 12-foot inflated rat.
* Target local officials’ homes like that of former Baltimore mayor and now Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley.
* Threaten to sue banks for discrimination, then collect their “donations.” --- Barbara Hollingsworth
