Posted on 10/03/2009 5:09:45 AM PDT by Zakeet
A credible source claims the embattled left-wing advocacy group ACORN is poised to announce massive staff layoffs but an ACORN spokesman denies this is the case.
A credible source close to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now revealed that the activist network intends to lay off all staff members operating out of its New Orleans headquarters. All information provided by the source to this reporter in the past has turned out to be correct.
However, ACORN spokesman Scott Levenson of the public relations firm The Advance Group in New York City said the source was incorrect.
In an interview Friday afternoon with Levenson said (referring to BigGovernment.com), “You guys just can’t get it right. You’re wrong again.”
When pressed to elaborate, Levenson declined to do so.
Levenson received media attention earlier this year when Fox News host Glenn Beck ejected the combative publicist from his studio during a commercial break. Beck said at the time that Levenson accused him of being a racist.
My source said that one of the employees to be cashiered in the Crescent City is the daughter of disgraced ACORN founder Wade Rathke. Rathke’s wife, Beth Butler, also works for ACORN but it is unclear at this point if she too will be laid off. Rathke’s son also reportedly is employed by ACORN.
ACORN also plans to lay off two-thirds of its Washington, D.C., staffers as soon as Wednesday of next week, according to the source. Layoffs will also extend to ACORN’s affiliate the ACORN Institute.
The source also revealed that all or most of ACORN’s development staff in the group’s New York City office will soon be laid off if they haven’ been laid off already.
ACORN’s already tarnished image took a major hit last month when BigGovernment.com unveiled undercover sting videos in which ACORN staffers across America were shown advising a pair posing as a pimp and a prostitute on the finer points of avoiding prosecution for prostitution, importation of underage illegal aliens to serve as sex workers, obtaining government grants under false pretenses, and tax evasion.
The adverse publicity generated by the videos and the group’s never-ending scandals is slowly but surely drying up ACORN’s funding sources.
Good thing I've never had anything to do with that bunch of losers.
bttt...Thank-you Hannah, James, Glenn Beck and Breitbart
"GLEN BECK RESPONSIBLE FOR MASSIVE LAYOFFS" subtitle,
"must be taken off air to protect economy"
I would thank them, but like the Terminator in the Arnold Movies, the later ones could morph into anything, the question is what do they turn into?
But what do Lindsay Graham and John McCain have to say about all this?? After all, l’il Ms. Liindsey thinks Glenn Beck is a bad influence.
Nothing but a reorganization. The laws that regulate them are so porous that they’ll resurface under a name like “Team Pro America Super Fantastic Foundation” and continue. They are too big and too profitable for too many people to go away.
Nice headline!!!
How many of us expected that after November’s election?
All the credit goes to the two young film makers.
So, it appears ACORN has made it to corporate nirvana. Too big to fail.
FIRE them ALL.
What ever it takes, one at a time starting with ACORN.
“Maswsive layoffs”?? Just how many people does ACORN “employ”??
So either ACORN keeps their staff on, and pays them largely with what money they can scrape up from Government and Private donations...
or...
They “lay off” staff in order to make them eligible for Government funded unemployment benefits instead.
There are other stories here on FR and elsewhere that prove ACORN’s biggest donors are pulling the plug as fast as they can, so I believe ACORN will be slashing “staff”, the question is how many??
Thanks for nothing Lindsay Graham.
Didn’t I see a report that a number of rather large liens were placed against Acorn by IRS and other authorities for not paying employee’s witholding taxes in New Orleans?
This would fit,since it seems that their entire operational
goal is to screw the American taxpayer.
SEIU, The Tides foundation and Apollo still need to be shutdown.
as the public money dries up, so does the acorn...
Gee... Wonder if any of those “former employees” will have anything to share?
Which is exactly why getting the Olympics to Chicago was so important.
$$$$$$$ $$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$4
Cash for corrupt cronies.
As far as I am concerned it will not be until there are massive layoffs that it can be believed their funding has been cut by any and all the tributaries that channel money to this organization.
Can anyone imagine this bunch giving medical advise like they give tax filing advise or help people get a home mortgage, or how they register voters?
Where’s that graphic of the weeping girl when ya really need it? ;’)
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