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Acorn Goes Bye Bye
One more whipping boy out of the political agenda.
Given the probable corruption I’m not real sorry to see them go.
11 Responses to “Acorn Goes Bye Bye”
Good riddance.
Good grief, in the same week I have Jim and Elrod on my side ??
Wow… <G>
As I understand it, the organization is not going away: they are merely re-organizing as a plethora of incognito organizations. As I understand it: wheels are being greased to redirect and re-open the government fire hose which has, in past, spewed money at them. We shall see – neither easily nor clearly – but rather as if searching for Waldo. I suspect the NYT article provides limited information, and thus (unintentionally?) misleading information.
As small organizations, they won't have the clout to pull off some of the more corrupt actions of the past. You saw last week how hard it is to keep dems organized
It is good that they are gone.
No. it's not…
A) It's never good when Republicans take scalps…
B) Make a list of national organizations who explicitly represent the interest of poor people…
I agree with the majority opinion: 'Bye-bye, Miss American Lie.
Jeff Dreibus
Disagree…getting rid of corruption is good, no matter who is doing it.
The people at Acorn are not done helping people. They will continue to do so, outside of the corrupting influence of the larger Acorn organization.
The fact that they are in smaller groups now is a good thing.
shannonlee, did you read the article that this column is based on?
Patrick's link read:
This 'victory' is nothing more than a 'Rovien' 'Atwaterish' smear campaign that succeeded in eliminating one of the few resources available to the poor…
Hopefully they won't still ruin the Census or be still doing vote fraud in the years to come.
Why is it necessary, or even helpful, for an organization which helps poor people to be a) national, and b) explicitly dedicated to helping poor people? The purified parameters of your challenge are silly.
First, local organizations help poor people; local churches help poor people.
Second, excepting churches, is there some organization you know of which does not run at least partially on it's own self interest(and I don't even except churches, as churches have a self interest in remaining financially viable)? Do nonprofits ignore their own self interest? They do not – for then they would not have funding to continue on in their activities. Do nonprofits have employees who work for free? They do not: nonprofits are actually businesses; job applicants fight to be hired and paid by nonprofits; nonprofit employees send their kids to college on profits which they have earned from working for nonprofit organizations.
Third: consider Walmart. Via providing both jobs and affordable goods, Walmart does a thousand times more to help poor people than ACORN ever did. The only way that statement is wrong is if Walmart actually does 10,000 or 50,000 times more to help poor people than ACORN ever did. And, beyond Walmart: any business or corporation helps poor people via providing job opportunities.
The more people an organization represents, the more powerful it is, why do you think the Repugs went after it like a dog goes after a nice juicy bone…
ROTFLMAO… Only a conservative…
Walmart is a corporation whose sole purpose in life is to make a profit for it's shareholders, a handful of which happen to be the fourth to ninth wealthiest people in the US. If it's helps poor people today, it's purely coincidental, if there is more profit in f*cking them over tomorrow morning, it will do it without a second thought…
BTW Walmart is such a great employer that most of the people who work for it don't make a living wage and are dependent on Medicaid for their heath-care, they also enjoy locking the workers up the workers who clean their stores at night, wonder what would happen to those workers (Most of whom are illegals) if the store went up in flame…