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Without federal funds they can’t stay in business. Be forewarned they will re-emerge under another name and get congressional dollars from same that recently denied further funding.
Name change.
ACORN is now COI (Comm. Organizers, Intl, I think).
We could get lost in letters of all the 300 or so organizations that are ACORNs.
they are moving to ny to consolidate...
I guess they don’t like Jindal country no mo.
More specifically, the Director of Employer Employee Protocol, Special High Intensity Training (DEEP SHIT) has paid a visit and will not be leaving soon ...
Alas, it'll be a while before NY gets rid of ACORN...:)Roaches just scattering. ACORN will reform and Obama’s corrupt DOJ will protect the higher ups.
Looks like Jindal’s overtures to start an investigation made them decide to get the heck out of Dodge.
They’ll probably get a new name and keep on rigging voter rolls.
1- Don't talk out loud to pimps and prostitutes.
2- Don't talk out loud to illegal alien smugglers.
3- Don't talk out loud to anyone.
4- Cavity search them for cameras and microphones.
5- Resume business as usual.
Uh huh. I'd bet that every Staples and Office Depot within ten miles of this place sold out of paper shredders this week.
It has hundreds of front groups. Keep a watch on that office and see what opens there. Might have thee xact employees and doing the exact same things.
ACORN officials said their new leadership is transferring national headquarters to Washington, D.C. (to be close to dear leader, Pres. Big Ears)
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All 290+ ?
290+ ACORN Organizations Track To The Same Addresses In New Orleans
“The local group hasn’t been tarnished,” said Pam Dashiell with the Lower Ninth Ward Center for Sustainable Engagement. Her group partners with ACORN, and she has concerns too.
ACORN leaders said the controversy will have no effect on what happens in New Orleans.
http://www.wdsu.com/news/20992411/detail.html
Louisiana governor bans state contracts with ACORN -Shreveport Times
Jindal issues order halting state funds - Monroe News Star
Jindal issues order ending funding to ACORN - WWL
City Contracts with ACORN as state and feds pull funds - FOX 8 News WVUE-TV
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New York ACORN Front Group Based in New Orleans Gets Taxpayer Money
Wed, 09/09/2009
One of the defining hallmarks of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, is its propensity for using front organizations to advance its goals. The New Orleans-based nonprofit organization has fully 360 subsidiary and adjunct groups. Lately, one of its affiliates, a misleadingly-named nonprofit entity called New York Agency for Community Affairs, Inc. (NYACA), has been at the center of attention. A recent probe by a consortium of New York City newspapers shows NYACA thus far in this year alone has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from New York state and local taxpayers for political campaign services. In many cases, the lawmakers who earmarked the funds had been locked in close re-election campaigns that used NYACA volunteers. It’s no small wonder that NYACA and ACORN overlap to the point of being nearly indistinguishable.
According to its mission statement, NYACA was founded “to provide a vehicle for grassroots community organizations to increase their capacity to meet the needs of low- and moderate-income communities.” The group’s avowed purpose is assisting homeowners facing foreclosure and renters seeking to buy a home. But in practice it is a cleverly-disguised conduit for ACORN to contribute money to left-of-center New York politicians in tight re-election races. “There seems to be some sort of relationship between these different organizations,” said Jill Manny, a New York University law professor and executive director of the National Center on Philanthropy and the Law, after reviewing NYACA tax records. That would be an understatement.
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Issa Concludes ACORN Is a Racket
Submitted by Carl Horowitz on Wed, 07/29/2009
On Thursday, July 23, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., Ranking Minority Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, released an 88-page report, “Is ACORN Intentionally Structured as a Criminal Enterprise?” The answer to this question: affirmative. Issa pulled no punches. “It is outrageous that ACORN will be rewarded for its criminal acts by taxpayer money in the stimulus and is being asked to help with the U.S. census,” he remarked at a news conference. “This report shines a light on clear criminal conduct and it is abundantly clear that they (ACORN and its affiliates) cannot and should not be trusted with taxpayer dollars.” Issa amplified his view as a guest on Fox News Channel’s “Glenn Beck Show,” denouncing the group’s “pattern of loose financial accounting and no firewalls.”
ACORN’s extensive taxpayer subsidies alone merit a high degree of scrutiny. Over the last 15 years, the federal government has provided $53 million to this organization and its complex network of affiliates. And this money pales before what’s coming down the pike. As the committee report notes, ACORN is eligible to receive up to $8.5 billion in federal stimulus funds in the coming fiscal year, especially through programs of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. In other words, it’s not hard to see why many of the group’s critics see ACORN as an adjunct of the Obama administration. President Obama, after all, himself began as a community organizer.
Yet even if ACORN had never received a penny of government money, it should be investigated anyway. That’s because in organizational structure and operating style, ACORN strongly resembles a racketeering enterprise. The opening three paragraphs of the report’s executive summary set the tone:
http://www.nlpc.org/stories/2009/07/29/house-oversight-committee-concludes-acorn-racket