ACORN "it's alive...It's Alive!...IT'S ALIVE!!" Posted: 03 Apr 2010 08:04 PM PDT
Acorn plans to release a letter next week clarifying its path forward and stating that its local chapters may be closed, but the national organization is alive and well. Anti-family? Hey, they are trying to steal the conservative lines! The letter, which says the organization will continue working for health care reform, immigration reform and affordable housing, comes after Acorn announced last month its plans to close all of its local chapters and field operations by April 1. Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA) would disagree. He released a report examining the supposedly new organizations that came out of ACORN's demise. The report takes a look at the corporate paperwork the new organizations: "Based on review of these corporate filings, Committee investigators have discovered that Affordable Housing Centers of America, Inc. maintains the same Tax Identification Number as ACORN Housing, Inc., its predecessor," the Issa-released Report found. "This means that, for tax purposes, Affordable Housing Centers of American and ACORN Housing are the same. Additionally, Committee investigators found that several new ACORN affiliates maintain the same boards, staff and Employer Identification Numbers as former ACORN offices. This reflects the lack of true change or reform between these new organizations and their predecessors." Doesn't sound very independent to me. "Acorn is attempting to rebrand itself without instituting real reforms or removing senior leadership figures that need to be held accountable for wrongdoing," Representative Issa said. "These newly renamed organizations are like career criminals who adopt aliases without changing their criminal lifestyles." The Times disagrees with Issa's assessment, they say that ACORN is using all new people, but then again the Times also admits that they are using a document distributed by ACORN and obtained by The Times. Sounds like ACORN is lying the draw attention away from the Issa investigation and the NY Times is swearing by it. Please email me at yidwithlid@aol.com to be put onto my mailing list. Feel free to reproduce any article but please link back tohttp://yidwithlid.blogspot.com |
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