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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Acorn folds
2010-03-23
The national group ACORN is folding, an official there, Kevin Whelan, said in an emailed statement:
The ACORN Association Board met on Sunday March 21 and approved a set of steps to responsibly manage the process of bringing its operations to a close over the coming months. These include:

* Closing ACORN's remaining state affiliates and field offices by April 1st; and
* Developing a plan to resolve all outstanding debts, obligations and other issues.

ACORN's members have a great deal to be proud of--from promoting to homeownership to helping rebuild New Orleans, from raising wages to winning safer streets, from training community leaders to promoting voter participation--ACORN members have worked hard to create stronger to communities, a more inclusive democracy, and a more just nation.
ACORN was always a very decentralized group, with a great deal of its activity and power concentrated in local chapters from New York to Arkansas -- the strongest of which will survive. The collapse of the national group, though, reflects the impact of a conservative assault that never prompted any prosecutions.
Posted by:Fred

#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  

#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 don’t change their stripes and neither to people who are operating in a corrupt fashion.”
Posted by: tipper   2010-03-23 14:11  

#13  "Acorn by any other name..."
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2010-03-23 13:55  

#12  Pimps and Democrats hardest hit.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2010-03-23 12:17  

#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  

#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  

#9  They'll all be picked up as census employees.
Posted by: BrerRabbit   2010-03-23 09:30  

#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  

#7  Ooops, Gloger was me with too fast of a finger on the mouse button.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2010-03-23 07:23  

#6  But now, ACORN has reached a settlement under the Ohio Corrupt Activities Act, similar to the federal RICO Act – the same law thatÂ’s 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 centerÂ’s 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  

#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  

#4  Sniff, sniff...yes indeed, a thinly vieled disinformation campaign.
Posted by: Besoeker   2010-03-23 06:02  

#3  Old news, and incorrect at that.
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2010-03-23 01:37  

#2  April Fools joke?
Posted by: 3dc   2010-03-23 00:57  

#1  Acorn folds relocates

FTFY.
Posted by: gorb   2010-03-23 00:34  

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