ACORN Closing up Shop

[Ibanez]

The national group ACORN is folding, an official there, Kevin Whelan, said in an emailed statement:

The ACORN Association Board met on Sunday March 21 and approved a set of steps to responsibly manage the process of bringing its operations to a close over the coming months. These include:

* Closing ACORN’s remaining state affiliates and field offices by April 1st; and
* Developing a plan to resolve all outstanding debts, obligations and other issues.

ACORN’s members have a great deal to be proud of--from promoting to homeownership to helping rebuild New Orleans, from raising wages to winning safer streets, from training community leaders to promoting voter participation—ACORN members have worked hard to create stronger to communities, a more inclusive democracy, and a more just nation.

ACORN was always a very decentralized group, with a great deal of its activity and power concentrated in local chapters from New York to Arkansas -- the strongest of which will survive. The collapse of the national group, though, reflects the impact of a conservative assault that never prompted any prosecutions.

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[AZGrizFan]

Well, it only stands to reason: The last step in the completion of America's conversion to a total Nanny State was completed with yesterday's vote on healthcare. Welfare, food stamps, indefinite unemployment, subsidized (and in many cases FREE) housing, and now free healthcare for the unemployed. There really IS no more need for this crooked, strong-arming organization of "community leaders".

They've accomplished exactly what they set out to do. Rape and pillage from those who worked their asses off to get where they're at, and give to the lazy, criminal, scum-sucking underbelly of the country....oh, and scrape off a nice bit off the top for themselvs in the process...

[Ibanez]

Well, it only stands to reason: The last step in the completion of America's conversion to a total Nanny State was completed with yesterday's vote on healthcare. Welfare, food stamps, indefinite unemployment, subsidized (and in many cases FREE) housing, and now free healthcare for the unemployed. There really IS no more need for this crooked, strong-arming organization of "community leaders".

They've accomplished exactly what they set out to do. Rape and pillage from those who worked their asses off to get where they're at, and give to the lazy, criminal, scum-sucking underbelly of the country....oh, and scrape off a nice bit off the top for themselvs in the process...

Don't fear. We're with the Government and we're here to help.

[danefan]

Well, it only stands to reason: The last step in the completion of America's conversion to a total Nanny State was completed with yesterday's vote on healthcare. Welfare, food stamps, indefinite unemployment, subsidized (and in many cases FREE) housing, and now free healthcare for the unemployed. There really IS no more need for this crooked, strong-arming organization of "community leaders".

They've accomplished exactly what they set out to do. Rape and pillage from those who worked their asses off to get where they're at, and give to the lazy, criminal, scum-sucking underbelly of the country....oh, and scrape off a nice bit off the top for themselvs in the process...

Jesus - you really are in full doomsday mode.

[native]

Well, it only stands to reason: The last step in the completion of America's conversion to a total Nanny State was completed with yesterday's vote on healthcare. Welfare, food stamps, indefinite unemployment, subsidized (and in many cases FREE) housing, and now free healthcare for the unemployed. There really IS no more need for this crooked, strong-arming organization of "community leaders".

They've accomplished exactly what they set out to do. Rape and pillage from those who worked their asses off to get where they're at, and give to the lazy, criminal, scum-sucking underbelly of the country....oh, and scrape off a nice bit off the top for themselvs in the process...

Jesus - you really are in full doomsday mode.

Naw, the doomsday is what unfolds over the next several years. AZG is talking about current events.

[AZGrizFan]

Jesus - you really are in full doomsday mode.

Naw, the doomsday is what unfolds over the next several years. AZG is talking about current events.

Exactly.

[travelinman67]

"Buh, buh??? I dunno why? Theyz wuz doin good for us. N' theyz was legulz. Duh NBC sayz so."