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Offline Chris

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ACORN Shutting Down Nationwide, Launching Renaming Effort
« on: February 22, 2010, 02:33:45 PM »
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As part of the radical group’s fraudulent rebranding scheme, ACORN has renamed its New York chapter New York Communities for Change. Unlike on the West coast where ACORN is at least pretending its renamed California chapter (Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment or ACCE) is not part of the ACORN network, New York Communities for Change shares the same Nevins Street address as ACORN’s Brooklyn office.

Meanwhile, the Massachusetts branch of ACORN has been renamed New England United for Justice.

More state-level name changes are expected soon while the basic structure of ACORN, which is controlled from the top using interlocking directorates, remains essentially intact.

The ACORN network’s interlocking directorates are deliberately organized to help ACORN escape legal and public scrutiny. “ACORN hides behind a paper wall of nonprofit corporate protections to conceal a criminal conspiracy on the part of its directors, to launder federal money in order to pursue a partisan political agenda and to manipulate the American electorate,” according to a report from the Republican investigators of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
http://biggovernment.com/mvadum/2010/02/22/acorn-crime-family-renames-new-york-chapter/

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The embattled liberal group ACORN is in the process of dissolving its national structure, with state and local-chapters splitting off from the underfunded, controversial national group, an official close to the group confirmed.

"ACORN has dissolved as a national structure of state organizations," said a senior official close to the group, who declined to be identified by name because of the fierce conservative attacks on the group that began when a conservative filmmaker caught some staffers of its tax advisory arms on tape appearing to offer advice on incorporating a prostitution business.

"Consistent with what the internal recomendations have been, each of the states are developing plans for reconstitution independence and self-sufficiency," said the official, citing ACORN's "diminished resources, damage to the brand, unprecedented attacks."
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0210/ACORN_dissolved_as_a_national_structure.html?showall
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Re: ACORN Shutting Down Nationwide, Launching Renaming Effort
« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2010, 02:34:56 PM »
A turd can change its name, but it is still a turd.
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Re: ACORN Shutting Down Nationwide, Launching Renaming Effort
« Reply #2 on: February 22, 2010, 04:25:21 PM »
Howsabout "People's Energized Community Action Network," or PECAN?

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