Posted on 09/15/2009 3:10:44 PM PDT by pissant
ACORN is an institution of integrity that is getting an unfair rap from news outlets unwilling to look at the group's 38-year history of advocacy work, its co-founder says.
Wade Rathke, ACORN's co-founder and former chief organizer, blasted FOX News on Tuesday for its "unfair" coverage of a group he said has served as a champion for social justice since 1970. Rathke, in an interview, said FOX News should "be careful and fair about how it looks at the organization's work."
"It's a wonderful organization. I do nothing but wish for its success," he said. "You have to look at the motivation of some groups."
A non-partisan grassroots community organization of low and moderate-income people, ACORN -- the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now -- has come under fire in the past week after videos surfaced showing some workers in several cities giving tax advice to an undercover filmmaker who, purporting to be a pimp, says he wanted to run a brothel.
The U.S. Census Bureau severed all ties with the organization following the videos' release, and the Senate voted Tuesday to bar funding to the group.
But Rathke, who left the group in June 2008, defended the group's objectives and touted its role in raising the minimum wage and passing the Community Reinvestment Act — a federal law enacted in 1977 to reduce discriminatory credit practices against those living in low-income communities. He also cited the group's work on local living wage laws in 15 cities, including Chicago, Oakland, Denver and New York.
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They’ll have an army of toothless crack ho’s boycotting them pretty soon.
Wade...just STFU!
Only in the minds of the obama wing of the socialist party would it be “unfair” to criticize ACORN’s support for child abuse and child molestation as an industry. After all, the good in their community that ACORN does with the money more than makes up for destroying the lives of individual children.
No—keep talking!
The Left’s mantra: Our goals are to help the oppressed, therefore you must excuse any associated criminal behavior, unintended consequences, or failures of our programs.
On DU a poster thinks Giles, O’Keefe and Beck are a COINTELPRO operation....hahahaha....
Those are all FBI agents posing as ACORN workers....
Rathke is a piece of work too. Let’s hope he gets pulled into this as well. There’s a reason he left in 2008.
Is Wade the embezzler or was it his brother?
Dexter, please pick up the white courtesy phone...
Where’s that missing $1 million, Wade ?
That's what OJ's been doing for years, but he's guilty.
You mean SEIU, right????
LLS
hate speech
Awwww...ACORN got caught with their hands in their pants.
...and it's used with increasing frequency on capitol hill and in the White House.
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