Posted on 07/09/2009 1:13:52 PM PDT by vadum
The relentlessly sanctimonious Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now may not deserve its carefully cultivated image as a defender of the poor.
That's because the group has become the leading cheerleader for a controversial real estate development that is slated to use eminent domain to remove the poor people it claims to represent.
ACORN, which has long prided itself on fighting the so-called gentrification of neighborhoods as rising property values force the poor to move, has also taken money from the project's developer and signed a binding agreement forcing it to stand behind the project no matter what.
In the world of corporate shakedowns it is commonplace for liberal activist groups to use the money they extract from a supposed "donor" to fund operations, but it is very unusual for a group to take money in exchange for betraying those it is supposed to represent.
But the far-left activist group ACORN, which claims to defend the poor from what ACORN ally Rep. John Conyers (D-Michigan) last year called America's "capitalist predators," is doing precisely that.
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With millions of dollars in back taxes owing to the IRS, states, and localities across the nation, ACORN's continued backing for Atlantic Yards was apparently purchased for $1.5 million in 2008.
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(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
ACORN isn’t worried because it believes it’s constituents are too stupid to figure out the conflict of interest.
The poor remain poor because they are too lazy to become educated!
ACORN is ‘trickle down economics’.
10% of 10% for their constituents.
It was only a matter of time. And not as long as I thought.
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