ACORN CEO outside court: 'We're on life support'

AP via Google ^ | April 21, 2010 | By LARRY NEUMEISTER

[Jet Jaguar]

The head of activist group ACORN came to a federal court Tuesday to observe a legal fight over its funding and said the group was on "life support" after waves of bad publicity and an attempt by Congress to cut off its money.

Bertha Lewis, the chief executive officer for the group, said ACORN was getting by on about $4 million annually rather than its one-time $25 million budget and had reduced its staff to four, down from between 350 and 600 employees.

"We're still alive. We're limping along. We're on life support," Lewis said in an interview just after a government lawyer asked a federal appeals court to temporarily block a judge's ruling that it was unconstitutional for Congress to cut funding to ACORN.

A three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan did not immediately rule on the request after hearing arguments. If granted, a stay of the lower-court order would remain in place until full arguments on the issue can be heard during the summer.

Attorney Mark Stern argued for the Justice Department that Congress did nothing wrong when it took action last year against ACORN after it identified "widespread mismanagement."

Attorney Jules Lobel of the Center for Constitutional Rights said that funding for economically distressed people who receive government subsidies for homes was being blocked and that the money needed to be freed or some people would be homeless.

U.S. District Judge Nina Gershon has ruled twice in the past six months that the funding cutoff was unconstitutional.

The Brooklyn judge said ACORN was punished by Congress without having gone through processes to decide whether money had been handled inappropriately.

[Jet Jaguar]

ACORN Ping

FReep mail me if you want on/off the list.

[Jet Jaguar]

Thanks.

[no dems]

I don’t trust ACORN. I don’t believe anything Big Bertha says.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

"We're On Life Support!"

DNR

[Jet Jaguar]

Do Not Resuscitate

Agreed.

[pennyfarmer]

Attorney Jules Lobel of the Center for Constitutional Rights said that funding for economically distressed people who receive government subsidies for homes was being blocked and that the money needed to be freed or some people would be homeless.

That is quote of the day.

If you are capable of making a house payment then you should certainly be able to pay a rent payment.

The idea that there are only two options; home ownership and homelessness is completely ludicrous.

[Safrguns]

How can you be on life support if you have no life?

[Tempest]

sideways solicitation for money.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Time to pull the plug.

[NoLibZone]

On life support.

Too bad.

My local medical review panel has determined that the patient is not worth saving.

[freedumb2003]

>>Do Not Resuscitate<<

Is there an “inhibit resuscitation even if apparently spontaneous” category?

[Drango]

bummer.

[Windflier]

"ACORN CEO outside court: 'We're on life support'"

Pull the plug.

[Lancer_N3502A]

GOOD!

And I hope ACORN has a VERY deservingly painful death.

I.E.: the bulk of your executives are tried for treason; local, state and national election fraud; and that they spend the next 25 years of their lives in federal prison.

[Pontiac]

Lewis said the legal fight was critical to ACORN's recovery.

"If we can survive this, inch by inch, little by little, this organization can build itself back up," she said. "We're going to fight like hell to stay alive."

Rather an appropriate turn of phrase as their goal is to make the United States a living h*ll.

[freekitty]

What a horrible woman she is.

[rockrr]

Bertha Lewis, the chief executive officer for the group, said ACORN was getting by on about $4 million annually rather than its one-time $25 million budget and had reduced its staff to four, down from between 350 and 600 employees.

They can't manage their graft and extortion racket on $4 million? Wow, crooks just ain't what they used to be...

[txhurl]

‘Feign weakness when you are strong’

- Tzu

[timestax]

‘Feign weakness when you are strong’

Yeah, that seems to be the stratgy. Remember how the media and Demoncraps were saying that Obambi's Health Insurance Bill was dead? It was all a ruse. DON'T BE FOOLED AGAIN!