ACORN disbanding.

[tallahasseedem]

This is a true shame. All because of a lie.


http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gwChs9C8z5xzc-emeL97pt0tnL-wD9EJVG3G0

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CHICAGO — The once mighty community activist group ACORN announced Monday it is folding amid falling revenues — six months after video footage emerged showing some of its workers giving tax tips to conservative activists posing as a pimp and prostitute.

"It's really declining revenue in the face of a series of attacks from partisan operatives and right-wing activists that have taken away our ability to raise the resources we need," ACORN spokesman Kevin Whelan said.

Several of its largest affiliates, including ACORN New York and ACORN California, broke away this year and changed their names in a bid to ditch the tarnished image of their parent organization and restore revenue that ran dry in the wake of the video scandal.

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[BrklynLiberal]

1. I heard this announcement on NPR today & was incensed that while

describing the activities that led to this situation, they never once mentioned the true story of the doctored video and lies that were told by its creators!!!!

[nc4bo]

3. Chuck Todd on Hardball did exactly the same thing this evening.

Basically told the RW lies....tax tips to a pimp and prostitute and that ACORN got caught. He never once mentioned that the entire thing was a setup and ACORN did nothing wrong.

Bastards.

[That Is Quite Enough]

2. Now who will be the boogeyman organization feared by Republicans far and wide?

[drm604]

4. You cannot imagine how pissed off I am about this.

It is so wrong that they got away with these smears. :grr:

[laughingliberal]

5. Just damn it! nt

[Mr. Sparkle]

6. The Democratic politicians didn't support them when they needed it, now they are going to get fucked

in the next few elections. It is a crime to let this happen to one of the Democrats biggest organizing base and they are going to feel it in the next 10 years. Cowardly P*****!

[JanMichael]

7. HUD released a memo today saying that the injunction was wrong.

Or something to the effect that entitlement communities could now start funding ACORN program again.

So now the conservimorans win?

[applegrove]

8. They complain they don' t like poor people but the GOPers support

actions that will make for even more poor people. Getting rid of acorn will fuck up the lives of many.