Posted on 10/31/2009 10:59:18 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
Some of my best friends have worked for ACORN. They are honest, dedicated and moral individuals who appreciated the mission of this group, which has done so much good for some of our poorest citizens. So I take it personally when Congress reduces ACORN to an object lesson about the purported immorality of some community organizers.
ACORN isn't perfect. Both its loose organizational supervision and occasional zealotry of its organizers have led to abuses. But Congress has been extremely hypocritical and biased in cutting off federal funds.
When two conservative activists posed as a pimp and a prostitute and with a hidden camera went to a number of ACORN's tax preparation offices seeking tax counseling, they managed to find a couple of staffers who gave foolish and unprofessional advice. ACORN has since fired those employees.
But that wasn't enough for Congress. Absent any attempt to assess how widespread such practices are or whether ACORN is striving to monitor its organizers more closely, Congress acted with unprecedented speed and zeroed out ACORN's funding.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
Some of my best friends have worked for ACORN.
Someone needs new friends.
Easy FRiend. Jet Jaguar didn't write the article and is not an ACORN supporter.
Stop the vendetta against ACORN
The headline should read “STOP ACORN”
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