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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: NHSparky on March 22, 2010, 06:11:45 PM
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ACORN Closing in Wake of Scandal
Monday, March 22, 2010
(c) Fox News.com
LINK (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,589768,00.html)
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CHICAGO — The once mighty community activist group ACORN announced Monday it is folding amid falling revenues — six months after video footage emerged showing some of its workers giving tax tips to conservative activists posing as a pimp and prostitute.
"It's really declining revenue in the face of a series of attacks from partisan operatives and right-wing activist that have taken away our ability to raise the resources we need," ACORN spokesman Kevin Whelan said.
Several of its largest affiliates, including ACORN New York and ACORN California, broke away this year and changed their names in a bid to ditch the tarnished image of their parent organization and restore revenue that ran dry in the wake of the video scandal. They will continue to operate under their new names and aren't affected by ACORN's decision to shut down.
ACORN's financial situation and reputation went into free fall within days of the videos' release in September. Congress reacted by yanking ACORN's federal funding, private donors held back cash and scores of ACORN offices closed.
Earlier this month, a U.S. judge reiterated an earlier ruling that the federal law blacklisting ACORN and groups allied with it was unconstitutional because it singled them out. But that didn't mean any money would be automatically be restored.
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Edit: Emphasis mine.
Really? Was it a right-wing attack that made you register someone 73 times? Submit applications with the name Mickey Mouse, etc., on them?
Oh, and does anyone REALLY think ACORN is going away? How's Obama gonna get elected again?
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Didn't Congress just re-approve funding for ACORN sometime last week?
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Didn't Congress just re-approve funding for ACORN sometime last week?
I thought so, and the courts had said that their funding couldn't be cut by congress anyway.
Most likely this is part of their scam to regroup, reorganize and change their name to avoid legal problems.
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They are simply changing names and fronts.
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Didn't Congress just re-approve funding for ACORN sometime last week?
Question. The Courts ruled that Congress couldn't cut off funding, hence the re-authorizaton. Several state subsidiaries broke off, forming a new organization under a new mast head. Will they be automatically authorized to receive federal funding or will they have to apply under their new organization?
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They'll get funding. Don't worry. They also get funding from states and such too.
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I thought so, and the courts had said that their funding couldn't be cut by congress anyway.
Most likely this is part of their scam to regroup, reorganize and change their name to avoid legal problems.
My thought also, thundley, and I had also thought that it might be a way to reorgaize and chanage their name to get out of the public eye so as to operate under the screen of public opinion. I doubt that liberals in this country will allow such a useful left wing organization to go under.
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Question. The Courts ruled that Congress couldn't cut off funding, hence the re-authorizaton. Several state subsidiaries broke off, forming a new organization under a new mast head. Will they be automatically authorized to receive federal funding or will they have to apply under their new organization?
Don't know, but I'm sure it'll be done in some sneaky underhanded way.
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Don't know, but I'm sure it'll be done in some sneaky underhanded way.
Some way in which they escape the liabilities of ACORN, but get to keep any assets. Kind of like the way GM filed bankruptcy .
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Gee, what a shock. NOT.
LINK (http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2010/03/bertha-lewis-and-congressman-issa-both.html)
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They can change their name all they want, but a turd by any other name still stinks.
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Their new name is NACA.
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They may close temporarily but they will be up in running in time for the next election