Posted on 10/24/2009 4:17:09 PM PDT by james500
Several Louisiana ACORN leaders, including the recently ousted state leader, are expected to announce today that they have started a new organization under the same name after national authorities of the community action network voted to take over the chapter.
A notice of a news conference scheduled for 3 p.m. in Light City Church, 6117 St. Claude Ave., says the event will include "Louisiana ACORN Executive Director Beth Butler, " who was fired from that post Oct. 12 by national ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis.
The document states that Butler will be joined by several Louisiana ACORN officers, board members and the head organizers for the state chapter and the New Orleans regional chapter, all of whom apparently are leaving their posts within the existing structure.
Both sides have given every indication that the tug-of-war over the name and resources will end up in court.
The split from the national organization apparently has been in the offing since national leaders last year pushed out ACORN founder Wade Rathke after disclosures that his brother, Dale Rathke, had embezzled from the organization, but later paid back, more than $1 million.
But it intensified in later skirmishes between Wade Rathke's national successors and Louisiana ACORN figures over the assets and operations of the organization's originating chapter, which remains one of its largest and most successful.
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
The shell game continues and frankly I think we should take a sledge hammer and finish it.
It’s called CORRUPT.
The Discovery phase should be extrememly interesting.
What is old chocolate-master, Ray Nagin, doing this days?
Where’s the funding going to come for these fatasses?
Follow the money. These losers are incompetent to hold real jobs and make real money.
MY GOODNESS! WHAT took them so long? Wasn’t the big expose’ a couple of WEEKS ago already?
:-)
Singing Cuba's praises, last I heard.
Is old Ray an ambassador now?
I’m tired of all the corrupt organizations and all the corrupt politicians feeding them our taxpayer money!
BACOrN!
Why the heck do they think they can go right back into business? They should be in jail.
whack-a-mole bump
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