Posted on 09/13/2009 3:41:22 PM PDT by Libloather
Group once linked to Barack Obama taped giving advice to 'brothel owners'
By Toby Harnden in Washington
Published: 9:19PM BST 13 Sep 2009
Acorn employees were taped giving advice on tax avoidance and employment of 13-year-old illegal immigrants to Right-wing activists posing as brothel owners.
"It is clear that Acorn's affiliation with the 2010 census promotion has caused sufficient concern in the general public, has indeed become a distraction from our mission, and may even become a discouragement to public cooperation, negatively impacting 2010 census efforts," said Robert Groves, the census director.
Acorn - the Association of Community Organisations for Reform Now - is a poverty action group with over 400,00 members that pushes for better housing, government grants and voters registration.
The group became a controversial 2008 election issue after investigations showed that employees submitted dozens of false voter registration forms, including some with names such as Mickey Mouse.
Mr Obama, however, vigorously defended Acorn, saying last year: "I come out of a grassroots organising background.
"I've been fighting alongside Acorn on issues you care about my entire career. Even before I was an elected official, when I ran Project Vote voter registration drive in Illinois, Acorn was smack dab in the middle of it, and we appreciate your work."
Bertha Lewis, Acorn's chief organiser, said the sting was an attempt to smear Mr Obama. "It is no coincidence that the most recent attacks have been launched just when health care reform is gaining traction."
She added: "We are the boogeyman for the Right wing and its echo chambers."
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Shouldn't that be - boogeymen?
The news finally hits the UK. Can we ever repair America's image?
What do they mean “once linked?”
I saw were the census office has dropped plans to use acorn in the census now.
We are making progress. chip away.
We’re on to something big here. I have the feeling this is just the tip of a big iceberg.
Time to dust off the RICO Act?
glad this is going global..kudos to two young kids who did what no one else would do...I hope they have more...if we could see 5 it seems to me it would be hard to say it was rogue behavior. Really , we can already see it is a pattern but it will be hard to deny once more comes out.
the new era Woodward and Bernstein....wearing a pimp fur coat and a miniskirt.
look at that picture they used ..9 months has taken a toll on him...and all he has done is vacation...hahahahaha
I hope that sumbich looks like Fred Sanford by the time we are through with him in 2012
..............Group once linked to Barack Obama...............
Whats this “once linked” all about????
Bullsh1t
I had only hoped that the pimp and ho had gone to the Chicago offices of ACORN, ground zero of the COIC corruption!
(COIC - community organizer in chief)
“I hope that sumbich looks like Fred Sanford by the time we are through with him in 2012”
He’ll be gone before then. He’s on a self destruct mission
every time he opens his mouth, which is quite often.
Great news that this is being picked up somewhere outside of the US! Not that it’s been picked up heavily here either, of course.
“Bertha Lewis, Acorn’s chief organiser, said the sting was an attempt to smear Mr Obama.”
And it worked!
Not as long as Holder is AG.
I saw that too. I think that it means "nothing to see here folks, he's above that now." Much better than plain ol' "linked". But then why publish it?
ACORN's had enough bad publicity lately that they changed their moniker. (rather than their M.O.) To what I haven't a clue. Don't believe a word they say, record what they do.
Any less traction and it will fall off the face of the earth....
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