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2010-03-23 -Lurid Crime Tales-

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Posted by Fred 2010-03-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Acorn ~~folds~~ relocates

FTFY.

Posted by gorb 2010-03-23 00:34|| 2010-03-23 00:34|| Front Page Top

#2 April Fools joke?

Posted by 3dc 2010-03-23 00:57|| 2010-03-23 00:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Old news, and incorrect at that.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2010-03-23 01:37|| 2010-03-23 01:37|| Front Page Top

#4 Sniff, sniff...yes indeed, a thinly vieled disinformation campaign.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-03-23 06:02|| 2010-03-23 06:02|| Front Page Top

#5 conservative assault that never prompted any prosecutions.

Thereby proving there was nothing to it. And had there been prosectution, but no convictions? Or some convictions, but not all?

Is my spin detector getting better, or is the MSM getting sloppier?

Posted by Bobby 2010-03-23 06:06|| 2010-03-23 06:06|| Front Page Top

#6 But now, ACORN has reached a settlement under the Ohio Corrupt Activities Act, similar to the federal RICO Act the same law thats used to prosecute mobsters and drug kingpins. Under the settlement, ACORN, along with Project Vote, agreed to file a certificate permanently surrendering its business license in Ohio by June 1, according to The Columbus Dispatch.

The next part of the settlement was critical: it bars ACORN from simply changing its name and moving back into the state. From the Dispatch:

The centers lawyer, Maurice A. Thompson, said the settlement is mostly confidential but permanently bars ACORN from doing business in Ohio or reconstituting as another group and perpetuating its practices - source

Posted by Gloger Sforza8278 2010-03-23 07:21|| 2010-03-23 07:21|| Front Page Top

#7 Ooops, Gloger was me with too fast of a finger on the mouse button.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-03-23 07:23|| 2010-03-23 07:23|| Front Page Top

#8 it bars ACORN from simply changing its name and moving back into the state

I may be wrong, I thought that I read that a "company" with basically the same functionality popped up all of a sudden and that most of the employees suddenly showed up with that brand new employer. And whatever happened to the companies ~~Corruption~~ Chief Executive Officer? Is she out, or did she show up there, too?

Posted by gorb 2010-03-23 08:17|| 2010-03-23 08:17|| Front Page Top

#9 They'll all be picked up as census employees.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2010-03-23 09:30|| 2010-03-23 09:30|| Front Page Top

#10 Barry & the Dems aren't going to let such a valuable tool wither on the vine. This is a ruse to get Fox News off their case for awhile.

Posted by Jefferson 2010-03-23 09:56|| 2010-03-23 09:56|| Front Page Top

#11 New name for ACORN

Phoenix

a person or thing that has become renewed or restored after suffering calamity or apparent annihilation.

Posted by Willy 2010-03-23 10:29|| 2010-03-23 10:29|| Front Page Top

#12 Pimps and Democrats hardest hit.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2010-03-23 12:17|| 2010-03-23 12:17|| Front Page Top

#13 "Acorn by any other name..."

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-03-23 13:55|| 2010-03-23 13:55|| Front Page Top

#14 ACORN SWAP?

"I don't think we are done with this," Iowa Republican Congressman Steve King, a noted ACORN critic, told Fox News. "This is a big step in the right direction because I believe they are a corrupt, criminal enterprise."

King calls the move "a downsize of ACORN," but believes its operations will be shifted to state organizations that "may well grow." He says tigers dont change their stripes and neither to people who are operating in a corrupt fashion.

Posted by tipper 2010-03-23 14:11|| 2010-03-23 14:11|| Front Page Top

#15 a cancer often seems in remission only to be reborn in other organs. Keep an eye out - they'll be back

Posted by Frank G 2010-03-23 19:13|| 2010-03-23 19:13|| Front Page Top

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