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The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) is a community-based organization in the United States that advocates for low- and moderate-income families by working on neighborhood safety, voter registration, health care, affordable housing, and other social issues. ACORN has over 400,000 members and more than 1,200 neighborhood chapters in over 100 cities across the U.S.,[1] as well as in Argentina, Canada, Mexico, and Peru. ACORN was founded in 1970 by Wade Rathke and Gary Delgado.[2] Maude Hurd has been National President of ACORN since 1990.
ACORN's priorities have included: better housing and wages for the poor, more community development investment from banks and governments, better public schools, and other social justice issues. ACORN pursues these goals through demonstration, negotiation, lobbying for legislation, and voter participation.[3] ACORN comprises a number of legally distinct non-profit entities including a nationwide umbrella organization established as a 501(c)(4) that performs lobbying; various local organizations established as 501(c)(3) nonpartisan charities; and the ACORN Housing Corporation. These entities champion liberal and labor-oriented causes.
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14 comments // About Acorn

  • JohnA
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      JohnA  
    • Can low income and working people not find a more reputable representation than ACORN? Apparantly it wouldn't be that hard.

    • 2 years ago
  • unimatrix0
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      unimatrix0  
    • Acorn is a casualty in the larger culture wars. It is a blow to low income and working people, but other organizations will take their place.

      They have served as a diversion for the crazy right wing fringe, which might be a good thing.

      The entrapment is obvious, and will become more apparent as the right wing heat cools off.

      In the end this will simply contribute to the bad reputation of Fox News and the far right.

      It will ultimately strengthen the position and coalition of moderates and progressives.

    • 2 years ago
  • kennymotown
  • JohnA
  • JohnA
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      JohnA  
    • I'll tell you about ACORN. They got busted wide open. Those two kids deserve a Pulitzer Prize. Not one person in the media even thought twice about investigating them after they were caught red handed commiting voter fraud. Goes to show you the media are just tools, they report what they think the masses should know.

    • 2 years ago
  • hunzedog
  • Denica_Cassandra
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      Denica_Cassandra  
    • What's bad is that the demonization of ACORN by the rabid right is actually considered valid by mentally viable adults -
      One instance of weird entrapment doesn't change the fact that ACORN helps average Americans fight for their homes in the wake of the ARM loan scams and housing bubble that exposed the predatory lending.

    • 2 years ago
  • JohnA
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      JohnA  
    • Denica_test:

      Try four incidents, in four different cities. How many incidents of fraud on a daily basis are not caught on tape? I don't want this group getting one dime of my tax money.

    • 2 years ago
  • My_America
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      My_America  
    • Denica_test:

      Five incidents if you are just counting the released tapes over the past week. This virus starts at the top of ACORN. I actually feel sorry for the lower level idiots drinking the Kool-Aid of this corupt organiztion.

      The fraud from this organization dates back to 1986 when 12 ACORN members were convicted of voter fraud. Other convictions occurred in 1990, 2001, 2005, 2006, 2007. All of this was just in Missouri.

      Over a dozen states are investigating the organization already. Here is a complete list of the ongoing investigations:

      North Carolina — State Board of Elections officials have found at least 100 voter registration forms with the same names over and over again. The forms were turned in by ACORN. Officials sent about 30 applications to the state Board of Elections for possible fraud investigation.

      Ohio — The New York Post reported that a Cleveland man said he was given cash and cigarettes by aggressive ACORN activists in exchange for registering an astonishing 72 times. The complaints have sparked an investigation by election officials into the organization, whose political wing has supported Barack Obama. Witnesses have already been subpoenaed to testify against the organization.

      Nevada — Authorities raided the headquarters of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now on Tuesday October 7, 2008, after a month-long investigation. The fraudulent voter registrations included the Dallas Cowboys starting line-up.

      Indiana — More than 2,000 voter registration forms filed in northern Indiana’s Lake County filled out by ACORN employees turned out to be bogus. Officials also stopped processing a stack of about 5,000 applications delivered just before the October 6 registration deadline after the first 2,100 turned out to be phony.

      Connecticut — Officials are looking into a complaint alleging ACORN submitted fraudulent voter registration cards in Bridgeport. In one instance, an official said a card was filled out for a 7-year-old girl, whose age was listed as 27. 8,000 cards were submitted in Bridgeport.

      Pennsylvania — Officials are investigating suspicious or incomplete registration forms submitted by ACORN. 252,595 voter registrations were submitted in Philadelphia. Remarkably, 57,435 were rejected — most of them submitted by ACORN.

      Wisconsin — In Milwaukee ACORN improperly used felons as registration workers. Additionally, its workers are among 49 cases of bad registrations sent to authorities for possible charges, as first reported by the Journal Sentinel.

      Florida — The Pinellas County Elections supervisor says his office has received around 35 voter registrations that appear to be bogus. There is also a question of 30,000 felons who are registered illegally to vote. Their connections with ACORN are not yet clear.

      Texas — Of the 30,000 registration cards ACORN turned in, Harris County tax assessor Paul Bettencourt says just more than 20,000 are valid. And just look at some of the places ACORN was finding those voters. A church just next door is the address for around 150 people. More than 250 people claim a homeless outreach center as their home address. Some listed a county mental health facility as their home and one person even wrote down the Harris County jail at the sheriff’s office.

      Michigan — ACORN in Detroit is being investigated after several municipal clerks reported fraudulent and duplicate voter registration applications coming through. The clerk interviewed said the fraud appears to be widespread.

      New Mexico – The Bernalillo County clerk has notified prosecutors that some 1,100 fraudulent voter registration cards were turned in by ACORN.

    • 2 years ago
  • hunzedog
  • bailey78
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      bailey78  
    • I have been reading some on this Acorn. They are not a bad group over all. Yes they have some bad Apples in the bunch. Clean them out regroup and start applying for Goverment funding again.Besides if your going to judge the whole by the Mistakes of a few. then I say dismantle the Republican party and start fresh there. I still want to see the unedited video the two people made. When will that be made available? I have seen what can be done in editing. Some people can work Magic with just a few sound bites.

    • 2 years ago
  • JohnA
  • bailey78
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      bailey78  
    • bailey78:

      Ok dismantle both parties and start fresh. The more I read the more I like the green party. But they have some nuts over there to. No one comes to mind right now but I will get back with you after some more reading.

    • 2 years ago
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