ACORN embezzlement was $5m, report says Oct 7, 2009
Bertha Lewis, chief executive officer of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, said the new embezzlement allegation is completely false. She said she would comment further after she and ACORN attorneys have a chance to review the subpoena. (Boston Globe)
Read the 'News Watch' transcipt Oct 6, 2009
SCOTT: Just one of the many clips there from a couple of freelance journalists who exposed problems at ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. Since these first aired, ACORN has lost all kinds of funding, backing and support from government and private sectors. (Fox News)
Adam Hasner: Dem's 'Holocaust' Gibe Outrageous Oct 6, 2009
On the scandals surrounding the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now: Whether ACORN continues to exist after this controversy or not, they may morph, or these same people will morph, into another group. And we need to crack down on the behavior. (Newsmax)
Despite wrongs, ACORN provides voice for the poor Oct 6, 2009
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, known as ACORN, is in the news again, and conservative politicians are going for the jugular vein. They smell blood and sense an opportunity to keep the ultraliberal, left-wing scoundrels at bay. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
House votes to defund ACORN (5) Oct 5, 2009
On Monday the Senate voted 83-7 to deny housing and community grant funding to ACORN, which stands for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. Republicans accelerated their attacks on the liberal-leaning group a year ago when ACORN, in conducting a massive voter registration drive, was accused of submitting some false registration forms. (Park Hills Daily Journal, MO)
Pitts: ACORN's nutty response to 'pimp' video Oct 5, 2009
You surely are familiar with the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. It's a nonprofit group, founded in 1970, that advocates for a higher minimum wage and more money for urban schools and also offers free tax preparation, voter registration and mortgage counseling for the poor. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Junior League celebrates Oct 2, 2009
Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, further fuels the controversy surrounding ACORN, formally known as the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now ... Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, further fuels the controversy surrounding ACORN, formally known as the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
Jackson Lee Bringing ACORN to CBC Meeting Oct 1, 2009
Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) wants to clear up any tension that may exist between the Congressional Black Caucus and the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, the charity group that has become a favorite target of GOP attacks. LOG IN NOT A SUBSCRIBER. (Roll Call)
On Deadline, Senate Works to Avoid Gov't Shutdown Oct 1, 2009
ACORN, short for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, has come under fire over a set of videotapes made by conservative activists that show employees offering advice about how to establish a brothel with underage prostitutes. The underlying legislation is a $4. (Newsmax)
Vegas judge binds ACORN, former employee for trial Oct 1, 2009
He set arraignment for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now and former regional supervisor Amy Busefink for Oct. 14 in Clark County District Court. "I think the statute is clear," Jansen said. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Crime)
Vegas Judge Sends ACORN Case to Trial Oct 1, 2009
A former Nevada supervisor for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now testified Tuesday. Christopher Edwards told Las Vegas Justice of the Peace William Jansen that quotas were common and no one at ACORN stopped him from awarding $5 "blackjack" bonuses to canvassers who collected more than 21 voter registration cards per shift during last year's presidential campaign. (KLAS-TV.com, NV)
SEIU and ACORN are tight Oct 1, 2009
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now and the Service Employees International Union are tight as Heidi Klum and a new pair of jeans. You don't think about one without the other. (Brainerd Daily Dispatch)
FBI investigates Burbank police Oct 1, 2009
Lamar Smith, R-Texas, Inspector General Glenn Fine also said that his office would review whether the Justice Department has audited any money that ACORN (the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) might have received. According to Republican lawmakers and a top ACORN official, the grassroots organization has received some $53 million in federal funding since 1994. (Fresno Bee -- State)
LEONARD PITTS JR.: A simply nutty response from ACORN Oct 1, 2009
By now most Americans are familiar with the acronym, ACORN -- the un-pithily named Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now -- and all its attendant problems: charges of voter registration fraud, embezzlement, tax arrears, corruption and, now, accusations of aiding and abetting illegal immigration, prostitution, tax evasion and child abuse ... When you put it that way, it's hard to say no. That explains the lopsided votes last week - 83-7 in the U.S. Senate and 345-75 in the House -... (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
Miss. records show payment to ACORN Sep 30, 2009
The review by the Department of Finance and Administration showed no state money is going this year to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. Mississippi's Republican governor, Haley Barbour, ordered the review of state contracts last week. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Brown demands state end doing business with ACORN Sep 30, 2009
ACORN is an acronym for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. A branch of the group, ACORN Housing, received a $33,000 grant last April from the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation to counsel first-time homebuyers and homeowners facing possible foreclosure. (Boston Globe)
Your views: Letters to the editor Sep 30, 2009
Now that ACORN Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now funding is being cut off, why not use that money and apply it to the NASA budget and save some jobs in Brevard County. Pam Day. (Florida Today)
Liberals, cut your losses Sep 30, 2009
ACORN -- the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now -- has long served as a walking parody of the poverty pimp popularized by the right. Ten years ago, the brother of ACORN's founder was caught embezzling $1 million from the organization. (Casper Star-Tribune, WY)
Ex-ACORN organizer describes voter signup bonuses Sep 30, 2009
"No one in ACORN knew that this was illegal, up until December," Christopher Howell Edwards testified during an evidentiary hearing before a judge set to decide Wednesday whether the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now and a former regional supervisor will stand trial in state court on felony charges. "I was never told to stop the 'blackjack' program," Edwards said. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Crime)
House passes bill to prevent gov't shutdown Sep 26, 2009
Given the controversy swirling about ACORN, officially the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, Democrats inserted language saying the group could not receive funding under the stopgap measure or any prior legislation. The stopgap funding measure would extend funding for the operating budgets of Cabinet departments and other agencies at current levels through Oct. 31. (MSNBC -- Politics)
Vitter: Reid 'Thumbing His Nose' at Calls to Investigate ACORN Sep 25, 2009
TV's Ashley Martella noted that Vitter has been "locking horns" with Democrat Reid over ACORN Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. Congress recently voted to cut off federal funds to the group after the videos came to light showing ACORN workers giving tax and other advice to the couple, who were posing as a prostitute and a pimp trying to open a brothel. (Newsmax)
GOP staff: ACORN misusing contributions Sep 25, 2009
Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, further fuels the controversy surrounding ACORN, formally known as the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. The GOP staff memo says ACORN-affiliated charities are being used to raise money which is then funneled to other charities or other organizations for purposes other than what a donor may have intended. (MSNBC -- Politics)
Congress defunds ACORN Sep 25, 2009
Ultimately, the decision to withdraw funding for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now or ACORN was a no-brainer. Even supporters found it hard to justify giving federal money to a group whose members told a pimp and his prostitute how to evade taxes and mortgage rules. (Herald Online, SC -- Opinion)
Editorial: Cleaning up the mess at ACORN Sep 25, 2009
A year or so ago, few people outside a handful of urban areas had heard of ACORN, whose full name is the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. Its current notoriety owes much to its association with the nation's most famous former community organizer, Barack Obama, whose presidential campaign hired ACORN to handle voter registration efforts in some states. (Wakefield Daily Item, MA)
An interview with apostate Sep 25, 2009
ACORN - the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now - was founded in 1970 by a 21-year-old organizer who wanted to try a new way of lifting up low- and moderate-income workers ... By now most Americans are familiar with the acronym, ACORN -- the un-pithily named Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now -- and all its attendant problems: charges of voter registration fraud, embezzlement, tax arrears, corruption and, now, accusations of aiding and abetting illegal... (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
Weiner: public option is essential on healthcare Sep 25, 2009
Friday September 25, 2009. Anthony Weiner is pessimistic about the chances for success in healthcare reform, as well as the conflict in Afghanistan, and wants more from the president on both. (Queens Chronicle, NY)
Two Cheers for Andrew Breitbart Sep 24, 2009
Last week, thanks to the sponsorship of Andrew Breitbart's new site , self-described activist filmmaker James O'Keefe, 25, and his colleague Hannah Giles, 20, brought national scrutiny to the progressive Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, with a series of guerilla videos that are one part 60 Minutes, two parts Punk'd, three parts Ali G, and four parts Michael Moore, all bubbling under a whipped topping of yellow journalism. If you're late to the story, Andrew... (Slate)
ACORN sues over secretly recorded videos Sep 24, 2009
ACORN -- the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now -- said O'Keefe and Giles also attempted to capture similar videos at ACORN offices in other cities but failed. T. (CNN)
Is ACORN too big for its own good? (13) Sep 24, 2009
The school was formed in 1996 in a partnership between ACORN, Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, and the New York City Board of Education ... ACORN short for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now began in Little Rock, Ark. (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)
How the 'pimp and hooker' videos came to be... Sep 24, 2009
O'Keefe and Giles insist that no one helped them conceive, execute or finance their video project, which with remarkable speed has devastated the activist community service group Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, commonly known as ACORN.. They have said a shoestring $1,300 budget was all it took to shoot video in at least five ACORN offices. (The Drudge Report)
ACORN sues filmmakers... Sep 24, 2009
ACORN which stands for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now bills itself as the nation's largest advocacy group for the poor. It started in 1970 in Arkansas and is now a a national, multimillion-dollar conglomerate. (The Drudge Report)
For ACORN, controversy now a matter of survival Sep 24, 2009
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now was born of 1960s idealism and grew into a national political force. It calls itself the nation's largest grass-roots community-organizing group and says its goal is "social justice and stronger communities.". (Florida Today)
IRS and ACORN split Sep 24, 2009
ACORN, which is short for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, has long been a target of conservative activists. A hidden-camera video surfaced earlier this month showing ACORN employees in Brooklyn, N.Y., advising a couple posing as a prostitute and pimp to lie to get housing aid. (Athens Banner-Herald)
* US anti-poverty group hit by conservative sex sting Sep 23, 2009
Congress has cut off tens of millions of dollars in funding to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), which has been targeted by the Right for its work in helping the poor with housing and mobilizing disenfranchised communities to vote, who then tend to support the Democrats. Obama once acted as a lawyer for ACORN and volunteered for a group funded by the organization. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
ACORN: Tax Cheats Sep 23, 2009
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now has been in boiling water lately for far sexier charges. Conservative filmmakers James O Keefe, 25, and Hannah Giles, 20, posed, respectively, as a pimp and prostitute. (Human Events Online)
ACORN names internal investigator Sep 23, 2009
ACORN is short for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. More from msnbc. (MSNBC -- Politics)
States aim at ACORN, but little money at stake Sep 23, 2009
Analysts said conservative politicians have nothing to lose by going after 00004000 ACORN, short for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, after employees were caught on video telling a couple posing as a prostitute and pimp how to lie to get government help. Republicans criticized the group to connect with their conservative base long before the U.S. House and Senate voted last week to sever ACORN's federal funding. (Anchorage Daily News)
Census survey has something to rile everyone Sep 23, 2009
The Census Bureau severed ties with ACORN (the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now), a national group that had been one of 80,000 unpaid partners to help the agency promote participation. The relationship was attacked by conservatives, including Fox News talk show host Glenn Beck. (Florida Today)
Justice Department plans internal ACORN probe Sep 22, 2009
WASHINGTON The Justice Department's inspector general announced Monday that he plans a review into whether the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) ever applied for or received grant funds from the department and if so, whether Justice has ever reviewed how such funds were spent. Maryland's top law enforcement officer also moved to launch an investigation into ACORN. Attorney General Douglas Gansler announced Monday that he had asked for and received permission from... (Honolulu Advertiser)
EDGAR HILBERT AND AMY SCHUR: ACORN moves forward Sep 22, 2009
ACORN - the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now - was founded in 1970 by a 21-year-old organizer who wanted to try a new way of lifting up low- and moderate-income workers. It grew over the years, mushrooming from a one-man operation in Arkansas to 400,000 members working in 105 cities - the largest community organizing group in the nation. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
Justice Department to see whether ACORN got department funding Sep 22, 2009
Latest Political Stories. Latest World Stories. (Fresno Bee)
Obama agrees ACORN probe warranted Sep 22, 2009
ACORN - short for Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now - started in 1970 in Arkansas to help the poor and today is a national, multimillion-dollar conglomerate. ACORN's political action committee endorsed Obama for president, and his campaign paid an ACORN subsidiary $832,000 to help get out the vote. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Politics)
LOCAL ACORN BRANCHES LIKELY NOT AFFECTED BY UPROAR Sep 22, 2009
Videos showing conservative activists posing as a pimp and a prostitute recently played on national television as the two entered several offices of ACORN which stands for Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now and allegedly were given information on to how complete illegal activities. Last week, Congress voted to cut funding for ACORN.. (Pine Bluff Commercial, AR)
ACORN was a story, but bigger news happened locally Sep 22, 2009
It wasn't until Wednesday that we ran an Associated Press article about the dustup surrounding the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now - AKA ACORN; AKA the lefty organization where President Obama cut his teeth as a Chicago community organizer and which continues to have influence in his administration. We missed the story because the T-N is a nest of biased socialists - and perhaps worse - and we want to protect our man in the White House from guilt by association, right. (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
On TV, Obama talks health care Sep 21, 2009
ACORN - which stands for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now - has come under fire after videotapes showing field office employees giving tax advice to two conservative activists who posed as a pimp and prostitute. Congress voted last week to cut off federal funding for the organization, and House Republicans are pursuing investigations of the group s financial activities. (Boston Globe)
Obama Backs ACORN Investigation Sep 21, 2009
ACORN - short for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now - started in 1970 in Arkansas to help the poor and today is a national, multimillion-dollar conglomerate. ACORN's political action committee endorsed Obama for president, and his campaign paid an ACORN subsidiary $832,000 to help get out the vote. (CBS News)
As Acorn Falls, Democrats Would Be Wise to Duck: Kevin Hassett Sep 21, 2009
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now is no fringe organization. It is woven into the political firmament at the highest levels. (Bloomberg -- Columnists)
For ACORN, video is only latest crisis Sep 21, 2009
ACORN, or Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, was founded in 1970 and is supported in part by government grants. It has forged relationships with banks, federal and state agencies, and nonprofit groups that have made it a major force in helping low-income families buy homes and in bringing marginalized voters to the polls. (MSNBC -- Politics)
Kathryn Lopez: ACORN scandal has some very deep roots Sep 21, 2009
ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, is a scandal. This story has become breaking news lately thanks to some recent guerilla journalism. (Auburn Citizen, NY)
Obama Supports Probe Of ACORNs Activities Sep 21, 2009
ACORN, which stands for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, has ordered its own independent investigation of the incidents. More Stories. (KWTX.com, TX)
Obama: Health insurance mandate no tax increase Sep 21, 2009
Brittanicus wrote on Sep 18, 2009 7:17 PM:" Now that E-Verify is becoming a nationwide verification application to extract 20 million plus illegal immigrants from businesses. It is now growing in aggressive performance for placing true US workers in the job line and outing illegal labor. This operation should now extend to certainly more purposeful uses? That means not just federal contractors but everybody who draws a pay check? Should a health care reform pass all obstacles in the House and... (Longview Daily News, WA)
Kosmas, Posey OK ACORN fund cut Sep 20, 2009
The latest: All of Brevard County's U.S. representatives and senators voted last week to cut off federal funding to the liberal group whose acronym stands for Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. ACORN would no longer receive about $10 million per year in grants from the Department of Housing and Urban Development for mortgage counseling, fair-housing education and "outreach" for welfare programs. (Florida Today)
Other opinion: Acorn Sep 20, 2009
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The Week in Review Sep 20, 2009
- Seven Republican state legislators held a news conference slamming embattled ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, and a few hours later Gov. Sonny Perdue canceled the only contract the organization had with this state. ACORN, which is under fire for criminal allegations in several states, isn t suspected of any wrongdoing in Georgia and the contract to publicize food stamps would have expired in less than two weeks anyway. (Athens Banner-Herald)
ACORN Story Grows But Mainstream Media Reluctant to Cover It Sep 20, 2009
And the controversy was so laughably bad that the Census Bureau cut off all ties to the group known formally as the "Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now." They called it the tipping point to shed themselves of ACORN. More nuts for someone else, I guess. And yet. (Townhall.com)
What others say: ACORN must prove it's not a bad seed Sep 20, 2009
Without batting an eye, counselors for ACORN - the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now - offer suggestions for obtaining a mortgage and tax breaks and for laundering the girls' earnings. Watching the ACORN employees blithely navigate around towering legal and moral obstacles, it's hard to imagine a client whose circumstances would stump them, or even give them pause. (Athens Banner-Herald)
ACORN temporarily suspends Ohio services Sep 19, 2009
Ohio director Amy Teitelman says ACORN - or the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now - is under attack from people who want to make the group look bad. So, it has suspended taking on new clients while it puts in place new procedures and training that Teitelman says will make ACORN less vulnerable. (FOX19.com, OH)
More fights ahead in Congress over health care Sep 19, 2009
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform now is under state and federal investigations at this very moment. Other involved institution impacted both Freddie Mac/Freddie Mae and a scheme incorporating underhand minority lending practices. (Longview Daily News, WA)
ACORN's hard growth Sep 19, 2009
ACORN -- the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now -- was founded in 1970 by a 21-year-old organizer who wanted to try a new way of lifting up low- and moderate-income workers ... What is stands for: The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. (News & Observer)
ACORN May Drop Voter Registration Drives Sep 19, 2009
Thats because ACORN (the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) says it submitted more than 1 million voter-registration applications for low-income people and minorities in the 2008 election, The Wall Street Journal reports. Most of those groups vote Democratic. (Newsmax)
CQ: Democrats run away from embattled ACORN Sep 19, 2009
Majorities of Senate and House Democrats voted Thursday in favor of separate Republican proposals to block federal funding for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. The group has come under heavy criticism following the release Monday of a video showing ACORN employees apparently advising a couple, posing as a prostitute accompanied by her pimp, about how to conceal their line of work, evade taxes and handle undocumented, under-age sex workers. (MSNBC -- Politics)
Are the News Media Scared of ACORN Sep 19, 2009
" is the title of a July 2009 U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform report by Congressman Darrell Issa. The report draws some shocking conclusions: "The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now has repeatedly and deliberately engaged in systemic fraud ... "uhh, what is "yes", Alex?~~"The report draws some shocking conclusions: "The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now has repeatedly and deliberately engaged in systemic fraud. Both structurally and... (Townhall.com)
Rep. Steve King: Investigate ACORN Sep 18, 2009
The Senate voted Monday to block the Housing and Urban Development Department from giving grants to ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now), and the Census Bureau last week severed its ties with the group for the 2010 national head count. See Video: Rep. (Newsmax)
Issa, Boehner and Johanns to Receive 'Nutcracker Award' Sep 18, 2009
Mike Johanns (R-NE), the "Nutcracker Award" for their leadership in the effort to sever federal ties with the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). The physical award will be delivered to the Members' offices later this month. (PR Newswire)
San Diego ACORN officials fire worker over video Sep 18, 2009
On Monday the Senate voted 83-7 to deny housing and community grant funding to ACORN, which stands for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. NATIONAL CITY, Calif. (Fresno Bee -- Nation)
