03-20-2010, 03:53 AM
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So Fucking Lame
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ACORN likely to file for bankruptcy
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/20/us...0acorn.html?hp
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Over the last six months, at least 15 of the group?s 30 state chapters have disbanded and have no plans of re-forming, Acorn officials said.
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This week, the Maryland chapter announced that it would not reopen its offices, which were shuttered in September in the wake of a widely publicized series of video recordings made by two conservative activists, posing as a prostitute and a pimp, who secretly filmed Acorn workers providing them tax advice. In the videos, Acorn workers told one of the activists, James E. O?Keefe III, how to hide prostitution activities from the authorities and avoid taxes, raising no objections to his proposed criminal activities.
After the activists? videos came to light and swiftly became fodder for 24-hour cable news coverage, private donations from foundations to Acorn all but evaporated and the federal government quickly distanced itself from the group.
The Census Bureau ended its partnership with the organization for this year?s census, the Internal Revenue Service dropped Acorn from its Voluntary Income Tax Assistance program, and Congress voted to cut off all grants to the group.
A network that once included more than 1,000 grass-roots groups, Acorn, which stands for Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, was created in 1970 and has fought for liberal causes like raising the minimum wage, registering the poor to vote, stopping predatory lending and expanding affordable housing.
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They had probably been giving out "advice" like that in the videos since the 70's.
ACORN's star rose and fell seemingly overnight.
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