Good riddance to bad trash
ACORN is gone -- Chapter 7 gone.
From
FOX News:
ACORN�s Troubled Past Leads to Stunning Election Day Announcement
On this election night, there is a stunning turn from ACORN.
It has filed for bankruptcy.
In an announcement on its website, Bertha Lewis, the CEO of the troubled activist group, says that ACORN has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, the reason stemming from the legal troubles surrounding numerous voter registration investigations across the country. The scandals led Congress to vote to cut off federal funding, and the group also lost some government support.
"The ongoing political onslaught caused irreparable harm," wrote Lewis, who blames "a right-wing media blitz." She says "allegations and reports will continue to try to undermine all that ACORN has done, "but says that "ACORN will live on in the hearts of the people it served, and as those of us who fight for justice know, �THE PEOPLE UNITED WILL NEVER BE DEFEATED'."
In the last three years, dozens of ACORN workers were accused of, and numerous pleaded guilty to, voter fraud related charges. The investigations began in 2007, when King County prosecutors charged 7 ACORN workers with felony counts for allegedly submitting 1,800 phony voter registration forms. One ACORN worker admitted to prosecutors that it was "hard work making up all those cards," and another would sit at home filling out the bogus forms, while smoking marijuana.
The most recent case came on October 15th, when a former ACORN worker in Milwaukee pleaded guilty to voter fraud related charges of submitting multiple voter registration applications. The felony charges could bring up to 3 and � years in prison when the defendant, 27 year old Kevin Clancy, is sentenced the week after next.
Of course, ACORN is just another head of the
Hydra -- when one is cut off, another grows to replace it. The 200+ comments are almost uniformly like this one:
Do we really care? No. It's one less corrupt, George Soros created, and backed agitator group. Love those "Community Organizers", thanks Barrack for the good times.
Posted by DaveH at November 2, 2010 10:02 PM