Hey, I like talking about ACORN, O.K.? If it bores you, just keep scrolling on down…
Today I thought I would just post a real quick round-up of some ACORN-related news to H&B. A big h/t to for all of these links to Binks at Free Canuckistan.
First off, by Michael McCray, from Big Government: Fraud, Embezzlement, and Cover-Ups: A Brief History of ACORN:
In the wake of a series of embarrassing hidden-camera exposes and mounting congressional pressure to cut off its federal funding, Bertha Lewis, CEO of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now announced that ACORN will seek independent review. However, the ACORN review which followed the million dollar Rathke embezzlement was merely a smokescreen; eight former ACORN board members previously sought a complete forensic examination of ACORN and its related entities followed by an independent audit from a Big Four accounting firm.
Lewis noted that ACORN’s advisory council would assist her in choosing an outside auditor, former Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger. The ACORN advisory council includes John Podesta, head of the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank; Andrew Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union; and former Maryland Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend.
“As a result of the indefensible action of a handful of our employees,” Lewis said in a statement, “I am, in consultation with ACORN’s Executive Committee, immediately ordering a halt to any new intakes into ACORN’s service programs until completion of an independent review.” Mind you, these are the same senior staff and executive committee members who concealed and covered up a million dollar embezzlement, but who themselves were never terminated.
Read the rest here. Also from Big Government: Is ACORN’s Bertha Lewis Even Capable Of Telling The Truth?; and ACORN is About Power; Pittsburgh Trib-Review Nails it.
Second, there’s another video. Sigh… From Big Government:
More at Ace of Spades.
There, that was relatively painless, wasn’t it?
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