Tuesday, September 15, 2009

ACORN Updates

- One major victory... The Census Bureau drops ACORN from doing the 2010 Census next year.

- The Brooklyn, NY ACORN office is being investigated by the DA, their tax exempt status is now in question.

- Senate votes 83-7 to end ACORN housing funding. HUD money blocked. Who are the seven who voted against this? Sens. Roland Burris, D-Ill.; Dick Durbin, D-Ill.; Bob Casey, D-Pa.; Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y.; Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.; Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.; and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., voted against the Senate measure. If these are your Senators, be wary, they obviously don't have a problem with corruption.

- Arrests in Florida of 11 ACORN workers accused of voter registration fraud.

- ACORN Illegally Operating in Maryland: by Mike Roman
Last week, we saw some pretty disturbing activities revealed in the undercover footage from ACORN Housing’s Baltimore office. By any measure of conduct, the actions of ACORN’s employees should never have happened. It turns out the actions shouldn’t have happened for another, very simple, reason: ACORN can’t legally operate in the state of Maryland.

According to the following documents, ACORN, Inc.–the parent organization of all things ACORN–forfeited its corporate charter in Maryland in 2006. ACORN Housing forfeited its corporate charter in 2008. Any ACORN office in the state of Maryland is potentially operating illegally.

The Maryland Attorney General has made noise about prosecuting the intrepid journalists who undercovered the misdeeds of ACORN employees. Perhaps he should focus instead on how ACORN was able to operate without a license in his state.










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