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Posted on 10/22/2009 6:12:53 AM PDT by rrstar96
For more than a decade, Stephen Bradberry has served in various roles for ACORN's New Orleans operations, but none of them -- perhaps with the notable exception of picking up the pieces after Hurricane Katrina -- involved the obvious challenges of his new role as a temporary administrator of the state community action network.
That's the assignment ACORN National President Maude Hurd handed to him after the national board voted over the weekend to take over the Louisiana operation as part of an ongoing rift between the parent organization and the leaders of its one-time home base.
Bradberry, who came to New Orleans 22 years ago as a Dillard University freshman, said he is pragmatic about the layers of complications surrounding his replacement of the ousted Beth Butler.
The national organization continues to endure the political fallout from allegations of voter fraud and damaging secret videos showing ACORN employees in a handful of offices giving tax evasion advice to a pair of visitors posing as a pimp and prostitute.
Louisiana Attorney General James "Buddy" Caldwell is investigating possible embezzlement beyond the acknowledged $1 million that ACORN found that Wade Rathke's brother, Dale Rathke, had pilfered from the group and later paid back earlier this decade. ACORN says Caldwell will find nothing new.
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
Pelican State ping
Fences, prostitutes, pimps....Acorn wants to mend them all!
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Give ACORN a hammer, some nails, and 100 gallons of white paint.
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