WE are still being forced to fund them due to court order...
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/3/11/he....e_acorn_funding
A federal judge has reaffirmed her earlier ruling blocking the congressional effort to de-fund the anti-poverty group ACORN. On Wednesday, Judge Nina Gershon cemented a decision from last year that stripping ACORN of its federal funding amounted to an unconstitutional ?bill of attainder.? Judge Gershon has asked all federal agencies to allow ACORN funding without delay. The congressional vote followed the release of videos appearing to show ACORN staffers offering advice to two right-wing activists posing as a pimp and prostitute.
ACORN has long been a target of right-wing scorn for its work helping low-income Americans with voter registration, tax problems and foreclosures.
That's a lie. They are being scorned for their criminal activity and voter fraud.
Get a new name, pretend not to be ACORN, maybe fool people into giving you money again, maybe get some more tax money, maybe do it all over again. Is anyone surprised that people engaged in fraud would do an identity change? Not me. Just keep track of who the players are, no matter what the name, and expose the chameleon each time.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/03/15/acorn-branches-rename-rebrand-video-scandal/?test=latestnews
Affiliates of the once mighty liberal activist group ACORN are remaking themselves in a desperate bid to ditch the tarnished name of their parent organization and restore federal grants and other revenue streams that ran dry in the wake of a video scandal.
The letters A, C, O, R and N are coming off office doors from New York to California. Business cards are being reprinted. New signs with new names are popping up in front of offices.
The breakaways are trying to shed the scandal that emerged six months ago when videos showed some ACORN workers giving tax tips to conservative activists posing as a pimp and prostitute. But while their names are different, most groups have kept the same offices and staff.
One of the latest groups to adopt a new name is ACORN Housing, long one of the best-funded affiliates. Now, the group is calling itself the Affordable Housing Centers of America. (jd- yeah, crank up that pressure for more subprime lending!)
California ACORN is now Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, and New York ACORN has become New York Communities for Change.
A distinguishing feature of ACORN for years has been its complex web of affiliates, some of which shared money and manpower without ever assuming ACORN's name, said Frederick Hill, spokesman for Republicans on the U.S. House oversight and government reform committee.
"The idea that some ACORN organizations are trying to obscure who they really are should be troubling to Americans," he said.
A recent report on ACORN compiled by the House Republicans whom Hill represents describes ACORN as a "shell game" with a structure "designed to conceal illegal activities, to use taxpayer and tax-exempt dollars for partisan political purposes, and to distract investigators." (lots more scandal in article)
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