ACORN Stands For...

Oh what a group. If I hear one more person bag on the filmmakers I am going to scream. It is ridiculous. I did see today that ACORN is suspending some programs and they are doing mandatory training for 48 hours. Super!

Here is the blurb from the New York Post:
ALBANY – The embattled community organization ACORN abruptly suspended some programs and ordered new training for its workers this afternoon in effort to stem growing outrage over its activities.

ACORN announced the steps one day after top city and state officials moved to freeze funding to the sprawling community group while Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes probes questionable conduct by its employees.

The furor was ignited last week when two employees in ACORN's Brooklyn office were caught in an nationwide hidden-camera sting giving illicit financial advice to a young couple who said they wanted to start a brothel.

"We have all been deeply disturbed by what we’ve seen in some of these videos," Bertha Lewis, CEO of the national ACORN group, said in a statement. "We will go to whatever lengths necessary to reestablish the public trust. We must get this process right, so the good work can go forward."

Lewis said an independent advisory council appointed earlier this year by ACORN would name an outside investigator "to conduct a thorough review of all of the organizations relevant systems and processes."

The organization has also ordered new training for all "frontline" workers in the next 48 hours for its grant-funded loan advice, foreclosure counseling and tax preparation services. In the meantime, ACORN has suspended all new intakes for the programs.

ACORN has received at least $1.5 million in pork barrel grants from city and state lawmakers in the last four years to fund the services.

Dear Bertha...you can do it without my money!

Did you hear Bertha playing the race card with regard to the honest concerns over Acorn employees conduct in the investigative videos? I am sick of liberals slandering people with honest concerns about Acorn and the agenda of our present administration. Moreover I am sick of CNN, ABC, CBS, and MSNBC bending over backwards to not cover this story properly. Is it conservative and racist to be outraged over immoral and unethical business practices?

Of course they are "deeply disturbed by what we've seen in some of these videos." They're disturbed that their organization got CAUGHT doing their thing!

You know...if the media had actually done their job before the election, they would have been discovered and exposed long before now.

There was letter to the editor today in my local paper that made sense. If this is racism then when a black criticizes a white politician are they racist?

No kidding...;) these people have been braking the law using our tax dollars for years! They would still be doing it if they hadn't been caught. You are exactly right.

Here's my answer to Bertha "give the taxpayers money back, and close down this fraudulent "organization" now!

NMTDFAN: No More Tax Dollars For ACORN Now!