Posted on 09/12/2009 2:15:33 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Statement from Bertha Lewis, Chief Organizer, ACORN Regarding Recent News Reports September 12, 2009
The relentless attacks on ACORN's members, its staff and the policies and positions we promote are unprecedented. An international entertainment conglomerate, disguising itself as a "news" agency (Fox), has expended millions, if not tens of millions of dollars, in their attempt to destroy the largest community organization of Black, Latino, poor and working class people in the country. It is not coincidence that the most recent attacks have been launched just when health care reform is gaining traction. It is clear they've had these tapes for months.
We are their Willy Horton for 2009. We are the boogeyman for the right-wing and its echo chambers. If ACORN did not exist, the right-wing would have needed to create us in order to achieve their agenda, their missions, their ideal, retrograde America. This recent scam, which was attempted in San Diego, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia to name a few places, had failed for months before the results we've all recently seen. I am appalled and angry; I cannot and I will not defend the actions of the workers depicted in the video, who have since been terminated. But it is clear that the videos are doctored, edited, and in no way the result of the fabricated story being portrayed by conservative activist "filmmaker" O'Keefe and his partner in crime. And, in fact, a crime it was - our lawyers believe a felony - and we will be taking legal action against Fox and their co-conspirators.
We will not be intimidated by this international conglomerate, which has made as its mission the destruction of our organization. ACORN members are committed to the empowerment of their communities - Black, Latino, poor, and working class – at the deepest level. We are an organization committed to halting the foreclosure crisis and keeping people in their homes. We are an organization committed to ensuring quality, affordable health care for every American. We are an organization that will not be stopped in our commitment to our members and our communities which has included:
* Helping hundreds of thousands of African-American and Latino voters register to vote and get to the polls in recent years; * Preparing, since 2004, approximately 150,000 free tax returns totaling $190 million in refunds and increased earned income tax credit participation; * Providing effective foreclosure prevention advocacy saving thousands of American families from losing their homes to foreclosure.
This should’ve been posted under “Humor.”
It’s hilarious.
Yeah, promoting trafficking in prostitution with young illegals.....promoting tax evasion....yeah, you’re the “bogeyman” all right.....anyone who associates with ACORN is the enemy. And, THEY are the racists!
LOL ... defines too dumb, to know how dumb they are.
Big Bertha is the “Chief Organizer”...priceless.
“The relentless attacks on ACORN’s members, its staff and the policies and positions we promote are unprecedented”
And VERY, VERY much deserved.
There’s really someone walking around named Bertha? I wonder what she looks like.
Are there no white people that need assistance getting registered to vote and to the polls?
Heh heh.
The Vast White Wing Conspiracy strikes again!/s
Her organization’s employees are on tape trying to get government housing for a (white) pimp’s bordello for underage (hispanic) prostitutes and her response...
“Those racist tv people.”
The woman has brass underpinning.
150,000 false tax returns
In other words, cheating real taxpayers out of billions of dollars for years! FUBO and FUACORN
This is merely a Rat scurrying from the bright lights of exposure............
And they never complained of the attempts?
Suuuuuuuuuuuuuure.
I had to stop reading at the, ‘Willie Horton’ comment.
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Ok, time to audit those books!! Let's get our 190 million back to the PRODUCERS in our country.
God willing WE HAVE ONLY JUST BEGUN!
These people get free Millions/Billions.
Yep, rather than discussing the serious charges against ACORN, all they can do is attack Fox news and claim that this is a Willie Horton style campaign of attack and distortion of what ACORN is. Well, those of us with a mind and the ability to think independently know exactly what ACORN is and what they do. And we won’t be influenced by self-serving absurd statements from ACORN on what these controversies are all about.
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