Anita MonCrief, March 1, 1979 – March 22, 2025

My friend, Anita MonCrief, was a tireless campaigner for what she thought was right.

When she was a left-leaning activist earlier in life, she worked for the now-defunct Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). When ACORN’s corruption disgusted her, she had an epiphany and embraced the political right.

She performed a great public service when she helped to kill ACORN, long a cancer on the American body politic.

She provided invaluable insights when I worked with her for countless hours and days as I documented the wrongdoings of ACORN in my 2011 book, Subversion, Inc.: How Obama’s ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers.

Anita testified about ACORN’s shakedown racket in court. The group would harass a company by protesting it until it coughed up some money.

Anita said in court that ACORN didn’t mind being accused of voter registration fraud because that was familiar turf and because such accusations diverted media attention away from the group’s shakedown campaigns, as reported in the book.

She was a funny, happy warrior with an irrepressible spirit.

The world is worse off with her gone.

Graphic: From Anita MonCrief’s Facebook page, March 30, 2025