As ACORN’s faux independent review gets under way, ACORN’s advisory committee, made of up key liberal allies, is watching it closely, as seen in a fresh media advisory issued by David Redlener of The Advance Group and obtained by ACORNcracked.com. That’s because ACORN is a critical component to the Left’s agenda for America.

Remember during the bank bailouts the justification was because they were “too big to fail.” Well, to the liberal Left, ACORN is too big to fail. It has its hands in too many things and runs an effective ground operation through registering voters, turning them out on Election Day, as well as managing ballot initiative campaigns as a tool to boost Democratic turn-out.

Consider Professor Peter Dreier’s analysis of ACORN’s use of ballot initiatives, from a 2005 article he wrote:

ACORN’s strategy to inject this issue into state ballot measures is another important step. In early 2004, ACORN initiated a statewide ballot initiative in Florida to raise the state minimum wage, registered thousands of residents, mostly in low-income, minority neighborhoods in cities, to increase turnout on election day, and won a decisive victory the following November. On its own, this is an impressive accomplishment. Since its victory in Florida, ACORN and its labor allies have begun talking about grassroots minimum-wage initiatives in other states in 2006, particularly where Democrats have a chance to expand, or hold on to, key offices. Campaigns are already underway in Ohio, Michigan, and Arizona, and ACORN is exploring possibilities in six other states and several cities. The strategy is designed to increase voter turnout and to provide candidates with a clear economic-justice issue.

Dreier, for the record, has a long history with ACORN and just last week appeared on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show to decry the media’s treatment of the group during its latest scandal.

Consider for now just two of ACORN’s advisory committee members: John Podesta and Andy Stern.

Podesta, a chief of staff for former President Bill Clinton, is president and CEO of the Center for American Progress, and organization providing and intellectual ammunition and personnel for the Obama Administration and Congress. He received “special recognition” from ACORN at a recent event hosted by the National Education Association, the country’s largest teachers’ union.

Stern is president of the SEIU. His organization, according to its own numbers, spent over $60 million getting Obama elected and has been a leader in Healthcare for America Now, the organization, along with ACORN, that has been providing the ground troops in the fight for the proposed government takeover of health care.

It’s no mistake that government bureaucrats overseeing a proposed “government option” would be unionized, according to the legislation. Stern’s SEIU would likely be at the front of the line, given his union’s work to elect this Administration and Congress. Health care reform as it’s been progressing would likely mean a huge influx of members for the SEIU.

A hobbled ACORN would be a detriment to the Left and its agenda that’s still unfolding.