Remember the riots last January?
It was discovered that many of the rioters were from out of town and funded by one of George Soros' front groups. Read about it here, here and here.
Now, five months later, it seems that the flow of money has shut down. From The Washington Times (sorry for the very obnoxious self-loading video clip):
Hired Black Lives Matter protesters start #CutTheCheck after being stiffed by ACORN successor group
Hired protesters with the Black Lives Matter movement have started a #CutTheCheck hashtag and held a sit-in at the offices for the successor group to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) in Missouri after the group allegedly stopped paying them.
FrontPage Magazine reports that Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment (MORE) has been paying protesters $5,000 a month to demonstrate in Ferguson. Last week, hired protesters who haven’t been paid held a sit-in at MORE’s offices and posted a demand letter online.
MORE is the re-branded Missouri branch of ACORN, which filed for bankruptcy in late 2010, FrontPage reported. MORE and other groups supporting the Black Lives Matter movement have received millions of dollars from billionaire financier George Soros.
The group Millennial Activists United posted a letter on their blog demanding MORE “cut the checks” to demonstrators.
There was a flurry of tweets about this which have since been scrubbed - fortunately, Weasel Zippers saved them for posterity. Check them out in all their millenial self-absorbed glory here and here.
More at American Thinker.
You will remember ACORN as the group that got seriously pranked by James O’Keefe when he secretly video taped their members in several offices. Congress quickly voted to defund them and they went bankrupt only to re-emerge with different covers:
Corruption at ACORN
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) was a massive, unaccountable taxpayer-subsidized group that the Obama Administration was using to conduct the Census, register voters and sign people up for government programs. Posing as a “pimp and prostitute,” James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles visited eight ACORN offices around the country, seeking advice on how to secure a home loan to run a brothel.
Findings
The corruption was shocking and widespread. In Maryland, Giles was told to list her stated occupation as “performance artist.” Another office gave O’Keefe advice on being a landlord… of the brothel. Time after time, O’Keefe and Giles were advised by ACORN employees to lie to the police, lie on government forms and illegally secure government funding for their clearly-stated goal of opening and operating a brothel.
This scandal was what put Andrew Breitbart on the map for most people.
