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</div><div style=""><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna31750700" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna31750700</a><p class="" publico="Publico" text="Text" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" baskerville="Baskerville" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; box-sizing: border-box;"> week before her Senate hearings, Republicans are floundering in their efforts to trip up Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, unable to find an effective message about why she's not fit to serve.<p class="" publico="Publico" text="Text" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" baskerville="Baskerville" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1.5rem 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Blame the tricky politics of opposing the woman who would be the first Hispanic justice, especially for a party struggling to broaden its base and whose chief spokesman on Sotomayor has a troubled history of racism allegations.<div id="taboolaReadMoreBelow" publico="Publico" text="Text" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" baskerville="Baskerville" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="" publico="Publico" text="Text" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" baskerville="Baskerville" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1.5rem 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Add to that the mathematical impossibility of Republicans' rejecting President Barack Obama's first high court nominee, and it's a recipe for a weak-kneed response.<p class="" publico="Publico" text="Text" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" baskerville="Baskerville" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1.5rem 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Conservative activists have noticed, and they're not happy.<p class="" publico="Publico" text="Text" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" baskerville="Baskerville" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1.5rem 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">"Too many Republicans and conservatives planned to lose instead of planning to win" the debate over Sotomayor, said Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch. His group has mounted strong opposition to the federal appeals court judge.<p class="" publico="Publico" text="Text" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" baskerville="Baskerville" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1.5rem 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">About half the Senate's Republicans are willing to raise serious questions about Sotomayor and there's "a sizable minority who — partly because she's Hispanic — just want this to go away," said Curt Levey of the Committee for Justice.<p class="" publico="Publico" text="Text" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" baskerville="Baskerville" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1.5rem 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Conservative groups have sought to convince Senate Republicans that they can benefit politically by strongly opposing Sotomayor. But many of their leaders complain the message isn't getting through.<p class="" publico="Publico" text="Text" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" baskerville="Baskerville" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1.5rem 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">During recent confrontations, some activists have told GOP senators, "Don't throw away yet another conservative agenda item when it's a successful one for you. Your base cares about this and you should, too," said former Rep. David McIntosh, R-Ind., who's advising some outside groups on Sotomayor's nomination. "It was kind of a blunt message."<p class="" publico="Publico" text="Text" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" baskerville="Baskerville" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1.5rem 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">There are good reasons for Republicans to be holding back, wondering what their best approach is to opposing a nominee who's broadly acknowledged to be qualified and whose past rulings make it difficult to pigeonhole her as a liberal crusader.<p class="" publico="Publico" text="Text" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" baskerville="Baskerville" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1.5rem 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">The GOP has just 40 votes in the Senate — well short of the majority they would need to defeat Sotomayor or to sustain a drawn-out effort to block a final vote to confirm her.<p class="" publico="Publico" text="Text" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" baskerville="Baskerville" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1.5rem 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Even if they could stall Sotomayor's nomination, though, it's evident that many Republicans don't think it's politically prudent to take on a Hispanic woman, given the GOP's low standing in the polls and its efforts to appeal to women and minorities. Those groups traditionally have shunned the party.<div class="recommended-intersection-ref" publico="Publico" text="Text" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" baskerville="Baskerville" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="" publico="Publico" text="Text" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" baskerville="Baskerville" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1.5rem 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">The issue of race and ethnicity has proven a toxic one for the key Republican carrying the party message on Sotomayor: Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, the senior GOP member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which begins hearings on Sotomayor on July 13....Sessions' own nomination for a federal judgeship in 1986 was scuttled by allegations that he made racist comments and targeted black civil rights leaders as a federal prosecutor in Alabama....denied those charges. But he did acknowledge making what he called some off-color "jokes," such as calling civil rights groups such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People "un-American."<p class="" publico="Publico" text="Text" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" baskerville="Baskerville" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1.5rem 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Sessions has spoken in similar terms recently about a Puerto Rican legal advocacy group on whose board Sotomayor sat from 1980 until 1992."This is a group that has taken some very shocking positions with respect to terrorism," Sessions said of LatinoJustice PRLDEF, citing its defense in 1990 of Puerto Rican nationalists who 36 years earlier had wounded five lawmakers during an attack on the House while it was in session....Sessions said Thursday the group's stances on issues from capital punishment to race were "extreme." His staff raised concern about its ties with the community organizing group ACORN, which Republicans routinely describe as a radical organization.<p class="" publico="Publico" text="Text" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" baskerville="Baskerville" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1.5rem 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Democrats said the GOP was grasping at straws.<p class="" publico="Publico" text="Text" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" baskerville="Baskerville" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1.5rem 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">It's not that Republicans aren't criticizing Sotomayor. Early on, they went out of their way to treat her gently, trying to distinguish themselves from party firebrands such as radio host Rush Limbaugh and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich who called her a racist.<p class="" publico="Publico" text="Text" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" baskerville="Baskerville" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1.5rem 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">In recent days, GOP senators have faulted her for her stance on gun rights, her ruling against white firefighters who alleged reversed discrimination, and her participation in the Puerto Rican legal advocacy group. They've raised questions about her ability to be "colorblind."<p class="" publico="Publico" text="Text" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" baskerville="Baskerville" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1.5rem 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Still, they've had to reach to score points against Sotomayor.<p class="" publico="Publico" text="Text" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" baskerville="Baskerville" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1.5rem 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">For instance, Republicans recently banded together to raise concerns about her position on gun rights. They held a news conference about an appeals court decision Sotomayor joined that said the Second Amendment's protection against curbs on bearing arms applies only to the federal government — not to states.<p class="" publico="Publico" text="Text" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" baskerville="Baskerville" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1.5rem 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">That was in line with Supreme Court precedent on the issue, Sessions acknowledged, and presumably in keeping with GOP views that judges should be restrained.<p class="" publico="Publico" text="Text" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" baskerville="Baskerville" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1.5rem 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">But Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, criticized Sotomayor for taking a "cramped and restricted view of a basic civil liberty." At the same time, Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, said Sotomayor had been too expansive in her ruling on the right to keep and bear arms. "I wish Judge Sotomayor had been similarly restrained on these issues" as other courts that ruled differently, he said.<p class="endmark" publico="Publico" text="Text" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" baskerville="Baskerville" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1.5rem 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">The message was as clear as mud.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline;"></div></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">vadum</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="a-row" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 695.875px;" amazon="Amazon" ember="Ember" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px">Required Reading For Those Interested In The History Of Major Statist Developments</div><div class="a-row" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 695.875px;" amazon="Amazon" ember="Ember" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px">Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2016</div><div class="a-row a-spacing-top-mini" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 695.875px;" amazon="Amazon" ember="Ember" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" margin-top="margin-top" important="important">Excellent review of the operations of a most malignant organization. Explains much in terms of how Alinsky and his ilk suffused their poison through the culture (as planned by the Frankfurt school and Antonio Gramsci), Less analysis of the the feckless reactions to the tactics of ACORN but good coverage of the story of the organization's downfall via the actions of undercover reporters and released videos. Excellent discussion of the role played by ACORN in the subprime meltdown as enabled by the Community Redevelopment Act (CRA) (see also John Allison's "The Financial Crisis And The Free Market Cure" for more details on the the influence of the CRA and the role of Fannie/Freddie Mac). If you ever wondered "Where the hell is this coming from?!"...Here it is!</div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">----</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">documentary</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">BB&T ayn rand BS:</div><div style="">NEW YORK – (iCrowdNewswire) – Compass Films is making a documentary film called Subprime 2.0 – Doubling Down on Disaster that exposes the true causes of the financial crisis and warns that the same political culprits are using it to justify policies that are pushing America into the next and even greater crisis.Two national journalists have uncovered fresh SMOKING GUN evidence from recently disclosed Clinton administration documents that the federal government, not the private sector, caused the financial crisis that wiped out an average $123,000 in home equity and other wealth for each American household.An editorial in the Investor’s Business Daily titled “Clinton Housing Policy Wrecked Economy, Not 1%” says this about Subprime 2.0:“The Washington Examiner reports that a forthcoming documentary film — “Subprime 2.0: Doubling Down On Disaster,” which currently is crowdfunding on IndieGoGo.com — promises to expose the Clintons’ role in the crisis and their cozy ties to ACORN. It will present new evidence showing White House aides close to Hillary even met with ACORN lobbyists to draft the bad housing regulations and policies.Few Americans know that the Clintons and ACORN go way back — ACORN actually started in Little Rock, Ark., and the Clintons were in bed with these radical activists from Day One. Hillary gave several ACORN speeches in which she hailed their “movement.”Rest assured, their mortgage-busting lovefest will blossom anew in a Hillary White House.”And now the Obama administration is doubling down on those disastrous housing policies, injecting even greater risk into the financial system by, among other things:Effectively turning mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into welfare agencies.Degrading the consumer credit standards used in virtually every financial transaction in America.Shaking down banks and forcing them into settlements that will pay out huge amounts of money to favored activist groups, including ACORN front groups.Setting loose a frighteningly powerful new regulatory agency — the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, created from Obama’s “financial reforms” — on the entire financial sector, even though it is unaccountable to the American people, has no oversight and is not dependent on Congress for funds.According to former BB&T bank CEO John Allison, in an exclusive interview with Compass Films: “We treated the financial crisis as if it were de-regulation that caused it. Well, it wasn’t de-regulation that caused the financial crisis. The financial industry is the most regulated industry in the world… It was government policy, specifically errors by the Federal Reserve and Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the subprime lending policy that created the financial crisis.”“Well, we’re doing it again,” Allison warns.Compass Films wants to present this evidence to the American public in a big and powerful way — but it needs the help of the American public to do it.The filmmakers have already lined up interviews with key experts, including former major bank CEOs, Fannie Mae executives, Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission members and congressional banking committee officials, and they are working together with well-known Toronto-based illustrator Paul Rivoche who illustrated Amity Shlaes’ graphic novel “The Forgotten Man.” Rivoche created the branding image for Subprime 2.0.Starting March 16, Compass Films launched a crowdfunding campaign on www.indiegogo.com, one of the most popular and trusted crowdfunding sites in the world. The goal is to raise $150,000 for the production of the film which the filmmakers hope to show in theaters nationwide during the summer of 2016 to challenge the false narrative created by government propaganda.Here is the link to the Indiegogo campaign: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/subprime-2-0Watch their promotional video on their Indiegogo campaign site in which they air snippets of their interviews with Ed Pinto, Peter Wallison, John Allison and Barbara-from-Harlem. And take a look at Paul Rivoche’s poignant drawing depicting the true causes of the financial meltdown from which America has never fully recovered.They are asking for contributions of any size to their crowdfunding campaign. Compass Films has the knowledge, know-how, access, commitment and passion to make this important film – but it requires seed money to make it. There are many powerful people in Washington who do NOT want this story told. So it needs your help. Go to: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/subprime-2-0They will not be able to reach their crowdfunding goal but will use the money raised from Indiegogo to start production while raising additional funds from other sources.Compass Films of New York is based in Westchester County, New York. Its motto is “Navigating to a Freer America.” Compass Films was founded by Cornelia Mrose, producer of Subprime 2.0 and co-host of the Steve Mayo Show on WVOX 1460AM. Co-producers include Paul Sperry, an Investor’s Business Daily veteran, Hoover Institution media fellow and author of “The Great American Bank Robbery: The Unauthorized Report about What Really Caused the Great Recession.”Contact:Cornelia Mrose, 914-831-8252
cornelia.mrose@gmail.comSummary:</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">MMA blew whistle on jok pretty soon?</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 27px;"><div data-hveid="CAQQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwj32OfBz9TmAhWDKM0KHSZ8DJoQFSgAMAJ6BAgEEAA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.57;"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/breitbart-news/surprise-okeefe-edits-out-inconvenient-footage-new-biggovernment-video" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.mediamatters.org/breitbart-news/surprise-okeefe-edits-out-inconvenient-footage-new-biggovernment-video&ved=2ahUKEwj32OfBz9TmAhWDKM0KHSZ8DJoQFjACegQIBBAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><h3 class="LC20lb" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.3;"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/breitbart-news/surprise-okeefe-edits-out-inconvenient-footage-new-biggovernment-video" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.mediamatters.org/breitbart-news/surprise-okeefe-edits-out-inconvenient-footage-new-biggovernment-video&ved=2ahUKEwj32OfBz9TmAhWDKM0KHSZ8DJoQFjACegQIBBAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/breitbart-news/surprise-okeefe-edits-out-inconvenient-footage-new-biggovernment-video" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.mediamatters.org/breitbart-news/surprise-okeefe-edits-out-inconvenient-footage-new-biggovernment-video&ved=2ahUKEwj32OfBz9TmAhWDKM0KHSZ8DJoQFjACegQIBBAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Surprise! O'Keefe edits out inconvenient footage from new ...</a></h3>
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In the ten-minute video posted on Andrew Breitbart's BigGovernment.com, O'Keefe ... Breitbart's BigGovernment website -- are falsely titled, “ACORN NYC ...</a></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 27px;"><div data-hveid="CAMQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwj32OfBz9TmAhWDKM0KHSZ8DJoQFSgAMAN6BAgDEAA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.57;"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:agFgNIUr3Z0J:https://www.mediamatters.org/breitbart-news/surprise-okeefe-edits-out-inconvenient-footage-new-biggovernment-video+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:agFgNIUr3Z0J:https://www.mediamatters.org/breitbart-news/surprise-okeefe-edits-out-inconvenient-footage-new-biggovernment-video%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwj32OfBz9TmAhWDKM0KHSZ8DJoQIDACegQIBBAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"></a><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/breitbart-news/memo-media-do-not-trust-andrew-breitbart-and-james-okeefe" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.mediamatters.org/breitbart-news/memo-media-do-not-trust-andrew-breitbart-and-james-okeefe&ved=2ahUKEwj32OfBz9TmAhWDKM0KHSZ8DJoQFjADegQIAxAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><h3 class="LC20lb" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.3;"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/breitbart-news/memo-media-do-not-trust-andrew-breitbart-and-james-okeefe" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.mediamatters.org/breitbart-news/memo-media-do-not-trust-andrew-breitbart-and-james-okeefe&ved=2ahUKEwj32OfBz9TmAhWDKM0KHSZ8DJoQFjADegQIAxAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"></a><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/breitbart-news/memo-media-do-not-trust-andrew-breitbart-and-james-okeefe" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.mediamatters.org/breitbart-news/memo-media-do-not-trust-andrew-breitbart-and-james-okeefe&ved=2ahUKEwj32OfBz9TmAhWDKM0KHSZ8DJoQFjADegQIAxAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"></a><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/breitbart-news/memo-media-do-not-trust-andrew-breitbart-and-james-okeefe" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.mediamatters.org/breitbart-news/memo-media-do-not-trust-andrew-breitbart-and-james-okeefe&ved=2ahUKEwj32OfBz9TmAhWDKM0KHSZ8DJoQFjADegQIAxAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"></a><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/breitbart-news/memo-media-do-not-trust-andrew-breitbart-and-james-okeefe" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.mediamatters.org/breitbart-news/memo-media-do-not-trust-andrew-breitbart-and-james-okeefe&ved=2ahUKEwj32OfBz9TmAhWDKM0KHSZ8DJoQFjADegQIAxAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Memo to media: Do not trust Andrew Breitbart and James O ...</a></h3>
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Internet videos, O'Keefe was ... Giles' editing ACORN tape ... Government website -- are ... posted on Big Government ...</div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 1.57;">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="r" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.57;"><a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2009/09/acorn-mulls-suit-against-fox-news-027139" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.politico.com/story/2009/09/acorn-mulls-suit-against-fox-news-027139&ved=2ahUKEwj32OfBz9TmAhWDKM0KHSZ8DJoQFjAIegQIAhAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><h3 class="LC20lb" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.3;"><a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2009/09/acorn-mulls-suit-against-fox-news-027139" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.politico.com/story/2009/09/acorn-mulls-suit-against-fox-news-027139&ved=2ahUKEwj32OfBz9TmAhWDKM0KHSZ8DJoQFjAIegQIAhAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2009/09/acorn-mulls-suit-against-fox-news-027139" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.politico.com/story/2009/09/acorn-mulls-suit-against-fox-news-027139&ved=2ahUKEwj32OfBz9TmAhWDKM0KHSZ8DJoQFjAIegQIAhAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2009/09/acorn-mulls-suit-against-fox-news-027139" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.politico.com/story/2009/09/acorn-mulls-suit-against-fox-news-027139&ved=2ahUKEwj32OfBz9TmAhWDKM0KHSZ8DJoQFjAIegQIAhAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">ACORN mulls suit against Fox News - POLITICO</a></h3>
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cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">Sep 14, 2009 - BigGovernment.com, which launched last Wednesday, is a project of Andrew Breitbart, the founder of Breitbart.com. ... “It is clear that the videos are doctored, edited, and in no way the result of the fabricated ... portrayed by conservative activist 'filmmaker' O'Keefe and his partner in crime,' ACORN chief ...</a></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:7EcI4awQrQYJ:https://www.politico.com/story/2009/09/acorn-mulls-suit-against-fox-news-027139+&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:7EcI4awQrQYJ:https://www.politico.com/story/2009/09/acorn-mulls-suit-against-fox-news-027139%2B%26cd%3D9%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwj32OfBz9TmAhWDKM0KHSZ8DJoQIDAIegQIAhAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"></a></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:7EcI4awQrQYJ:https://www.politico.com/story/2009/09/acorn-mulls-suit-against-fox-news-027139+&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:7EcI4awQrQYJ:https://www.politico.com/story/2009/09/acorn-mulls-suit-against-fox-news-027139%2B%26cd%3D9%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwj32OfBz9TmAhWDKM0KHSZ8DJoQIDAIegQIAhAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">new?</a></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:7EcI4awQrQYJ:https://www.politico.com/story/2009/09/acorn-mulls-suit-against-fox-news-027139+&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:7EcI4awQrQYJ:https://www.politico.com/story/2009/09/acorn-mulls-suit-against-fox-news-027139%2B%26cd%3D9%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwj32OfBz9TmAhWDKM0KHSZ8DJoQIDAIegQIAhAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; 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</a></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy</a></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">resembles main acorn entry? not really, see bleow</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="">In 2009, workers at offices of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now" title="Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now</a> (ACORN), a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-profit_organization" class="mw-redirect" title="Non-profit organization" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">non-profit organization</a> that had been involved for nearly 40 years in voter registration, community organizing and advocacy for low- and moderate-income people, were secretly recorded by conservative activists Hannah Giles and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_O%27Keefe" title="James O'Keefe" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">James O'Keefe</a> – and the videos "heavily edited" to create a misleading impression of their activities.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-nymag1-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-NYT2010Newman-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-Salon2010Madden-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a>The edited videos were published on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Breitbart" title="Andrew Breitbart" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Andrew Breitbart</a>'s website <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BigGovernment.com" class="mw-redirect" title="BigGovernment.com" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">BigGovernment.com</a> from September through November 2009. They generated extensive, negative publicity for ACORN, and led to the U.S. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Census_Bureau" class="mw-redirect" title="Census Bureau" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Census Bureau</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_Revenue_Service" title="Internal Revenue Service" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">IRS</a> ending their contracts with ACORN, the U.S. Congress suspending its funding,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-FOX-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a> and ACORN losing most of its private funding. This was despite several independent investigations that by December 2009 began to reveal no criminal activity by ACORN staff had taken place.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-Salon2010Madden-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-CA_AG_Report-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-CA_AG_Release-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-cnn.com-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a>ACORN filed for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapter_7,Title_11,United_States_Code" title="Chapter 7, Title 11, United States Code" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Chapter 7</a> liquidation on November 2, 2010, effectively closing the organization.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[15]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[16]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-associated-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-times-acorn-lorber-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[18]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-AP-08-13-10-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[19]</a><div id="toc" class="toc" style="background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 7px; display: table;"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="direction: ltr; position: absolute; opacity: 0; z-index: -1; display: none;" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;">
</div><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#Hannah_Giles_and_James_O'Keefe" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1Hannah Giles and James O'Keefe</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#Hidden_camera_recordings_and_video_releases" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2Hidden camera recordings and video releases</a><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#September_2009" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.1September 2009</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#ACORN_response" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3ACORN response</a><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#October_2009" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3.1October 2009</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#November_2009" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3.2November 2009</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#Aftermath_for_ACORN" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">4Aftermath for ACORN</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#Response_by_government_and_state_authorities" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5Response by government and state authorities</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#Investigations_of_ACORN_and_the_videos" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">6Investigations of ACORN and the videos</a><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#Independent_external_investigation_by_Proskauer_Rose" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">6.1Independent external investigation by Proskauer Rose</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#Report_by_the_Congressional_Research_Service" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">6.2Report by the Congressional Research Service</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#Investigation_by_New_York_attorney_general" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">6.3Investigation by New York attorney general</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#Investigation_by_California_attorney_general" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">6.4Investigation by California attorney general</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#Investigation_by_the_U.S.Government_Accountability_Office" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">6.5Investigation by the U.S. Government Accountability Office</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-15" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#Media_controversy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">7Media controversy</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-16" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#Criticisms_of_the_undercover_videos" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">8Criticisms of the undercover videos</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-17" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">9References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-18" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">10External links</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Hannah Giles and James O'Keefe[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Hannah Giles and James O'Keefe" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>Hannah Giles (born March 15, 1989) is an American conservative activist. Her father is a conservative Christian pastor, Doug Giles. She came to national attention with James O'Keefe in the United States in September 2009 as a featured player in videos they had filmed secretly in encounters at offices of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now" title="Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now</a> (ACORN). At the time, Giles was studying journalism at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_International_University" title="Florida International University" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Florida International University</a>. Following the videos' release and extensive media coverage, she dropped out of college to "pursue demands to keep up with public appearances and job offers."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-20" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[20]</a> Giles and O'Keefe spent $1,300 to accomplish what Washington Post reporters called a "Mission to Fell ACORN".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-WAPost-21" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[21]</a><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;">Main article: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_O%27Keefe" title="James O'Keefe" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">James O'Keefe</a></div>James E. O'Keefe III (born June 28, 1984) is an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">American</a> conservative <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activist" class="mw-redirect" title="Activist" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">activist</a>-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filmmaker" class="mw-redirect" title="Filmmaker" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">filmmaker</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-Phone-22" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[22]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-nyt-55-23" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[23]</a> who came to national attention in the United States in September 2009 with the release of his ACORN undercover videos. O'Keefe worked for about a year at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leadership_Institute" title="Leadership Institute" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Leadership Institute</a>, led by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton_Blackwell" title="Morton Blackwell" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Morton Blackwell</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-npr-24" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[24]</a> O'Keefe has described his politics as "progressive radical”,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-los_angeles_times-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[25]</a> although media coverage and his own activities consistently paint him as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatism_in_the_United_States" title="Conservatism in the United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">conservative</a>. He has expressed admiration for the philosophies of British writer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.K.Chesterton" class="mw-redirect" title="G.K. Chesterton" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">G.K. Chesterton</a> and Soviet dissident writer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn" title="Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-Solzhenitsyn-26" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[26]</a> He has made additional secret videos since then, also found to have been heavily edited to misrepresent his subjects, or present them in the worst light.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-Folkenflik-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[27]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[28]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-29" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[29]</a> On January 26, 2010, O'Keefe was arrested with three colleagues, including Robert Flanagan, the son of the acting U.S. Attorney of the Eastern District of Louisiana, and initially charged with a federal felony for attempting to maliciously interfere with the office telephone system of U.S. Senator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Landrieu" title="Mary Landrieu" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mary Landrieu</a> and to tape conversations of her and her staff.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-Phone-22" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[22]</a> They later pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges and were given minor sentences including community service.<h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Hidden camera recordings and video releases[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Hidden camera recordings and video releases" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>In July and August 2009, Giles and O'Keefe visited ACORN offices in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore" title="Baltimore" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Baltimore</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,D.C." title="Washington, D.C." style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Washington, D.C.</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn" title="Brooklyn" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Brooklyn</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Bernardino,California" title="San Bernardino, California" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">San Bernardino</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego" title="San Diego" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">San Diego</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Philadelphia</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Los Angeles</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami" title="Miami" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Miami</a>. Giles dressed as a prostitute, while O'Keefe wore white khakis with a blue dress shirt and/or tie and claimed to be her boyfriend.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-TheLens-30" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[30]</a> Giles and O'Keefe recorded the encounters using hidden cameras<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-associated-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a> and pretended to be seeking advice on how to run an illegal business<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-autogenerated1-31" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[31]</a> that included the use of underage girls in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_worker" title="Sex worker" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">sex trade</a>.<h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">September 2009</h3><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">...</div><div style=""><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">ACORN response[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: ACORN response" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>In response to release of the first videos, ACORN CEO <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_Lewis(activist)" title="Bertha Lewis (activist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bertha Lewis</a> said on Fox News on September 20, 2009, "[i]n a way, this was good for us, so what it did was show up to us what weaknesses we have, and we have moved swiftly ... in order to correct that." She said that after viewing the tapes, she had fired all the employees featured and had begun a comprehensive external investigation.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-Fox_News_Sunday-75" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[75]</a> As ACORN learned more from its employees of what had taken place, it called the videos "false" and "defamatory".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-nytimesvideo-51" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[51]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-bmoresunvideo-52" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[52]</a> A spokesman accused O'Keefe of dubbing the audio on the videos.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-76" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[76]</a> On September 23, 2009, ACORN filed suit in a Baltimore court against the filmmakers,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-77" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[77]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-78" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[78]</a> citing "extreme emotional distress" of the ACORN workers and violation of two-party consent recording laws.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-79" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[79]</a> It later allowed the suit to lapse.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-80" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[80]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">October 2009[</h3>On October 21, O'Keefe and Giles released video footage of their visit to the Philadelphia office of ACORN at a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Press_Club(United_States)" title="National Press Club (United States)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">National Press Club</a> conference. They claimed it was to show they had received help there, after an ACORN spokesman had said that the pair had been asked to leave the Philadelphia office.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-PressClub-81" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[81]</a> The Washington Post "obtained a July 24 police report that showed police were called when O'Keefe and Giles attempted their sting at ACORN's Philadelphia offices—and that the couple were escorted out of those offices." Susan Kinzie of The Washington Post noted that "the heavily edited footage includes audio of the two conservatives but none of the ACORN Housing Corp. worker's responses to their questions."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-PressClub-81" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[81]</a> Junette Marcano, a board member of Philadelphia ACORN, said, "This is a targeted assault to disenfranchise our members because ... the right-wing agenda is to stop us from empowering people of low and moderate incomes. When you make the poor powerful, the powerful feel threatened."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-PressClub-81" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[81]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Leonnig" class="mw-redirect" title="Carol Leonnig" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Carol Leonnig</a>, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Post" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington Post" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Washington Post</a> staff writer who attended the press conference, said in an interview that day on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News" title="Fox News" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Fox News</a> that, in explaining why the audio portion did not include the worker's responses, O'Keefe said, "on the one hand, the pair are concerned about the legal ramifications."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-OntheRecord-82" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[82]</a> O'Keefe claimed secondly "that the tape battery died."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-OntheRecord-82" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[82]</a> Commenting on the Philadelphia video, Leonnig said "when you go to this office, and you see this tape, I don't think he's got the goods to say that ACORN lied."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-OntheRecord-82" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[82]</a> Both Giles and O'Keefe declined to answer questions after the release of the October video.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-PressClub-81" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[81]</a><table class="wikitable sortable jquery-tablesorter" style="background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); margin: 1em 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); border-collapse: collapse;"><caption style="font-weight: bold;">October press conference release</caption><thead><tr><th class="headerSort" tabindex="0" role="columnheader button" title="Sort ascending" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 21px 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); text-align: center; background-image: url(" w="w" resources="resources" src="src" jquery.tablesorter.styles="jquery.tablesorter.styles" images="images" sort_both.svg="sort_both.svg" b5ca="b5ca" cursor="cursor" pointer="pointer" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" background-position="background-position" right="right" center="center">ACORN Office Location</th><th class="headerSort" tabindex="0" role="columnheader button" title="Sort ascending" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 21px 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); text-align: center; background-image: url(" w="w" resources="resources" src="src" jquery.tablesorter.styles="jquery.tablesorter.styles" images="images" sort_both.svg="sort_both.svg" b5ca="b5ca" cursor="cursor" pointer="pointer" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" background-position="background-position" right="right" center="center">Video
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total time</th><th class="headerSort" tabindex="0" role="columnheader button" title="Sort ascending" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 21px 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); text-align: center; background-image: url(" w="w" resources="resources" src="src" jquery.tablesorter.styles="jquery.tablesorter.styles" images="images" sort_both.svg="sort_both.svg" b5ca="b5ca" cursor="cursor" pointer="pointer" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" background-position="background-position" right="right" center="center">Transcript</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Philadelphia</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-FoxNewsOct212009-83" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[83]</a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">2009-10-21<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-FoxNewsOct212009-83" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[83]</a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Not available</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">2009-07-24<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-FoxNewsOct212009-83" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[83]</a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">1 / Unknown</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Not released</td></tr></tbody><tfoot /></table><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">November 2009[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: November 2009" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>On November 16, 2009, the pair released a video from their visit to the Los Angeles office of ACORN.<table class="wikitable sortable jquery-tablesorter" style="background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); margin: 1em 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); border-collapse: collapse;"><caption style="font-weight: bold;">November video release summary</caption><thead><tr><th class="headerSort" tabindex="0" role="columnheader button" title="Sort ascending" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 21px 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); text-align: center; background-image: url(" w="w" resources="resources" src="src" jquery.tablesorter.styles="jquery.tablesorter.styles" images="images" sort_both.svg="sort_both.svg" b5ca="b5ca" cursor="cursor" pointer="pointer" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" background-position="background-position" right="right" center="center">ACORN office location</th><th class="headerSort" tabindex="0" role="columnheader button" title="Sort ascending" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 21px 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); text-align: center; background-image: url(" w="w" resources="resources" src="src" jquery.tablesorter.styles="jquery.tablesorter.styles" images="images" sort_both.svg="sort_both.svg" b5ca="b5ca" cursor="cursor" pointer="pointer" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" background-position="background-position" right="right" center="center">Video
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total time</th><th class="headerSort" tabindex="0" role="columnheader button" title="Sort ascending" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 21px 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); text-align: center; background-image: url(" w="w" resources="resources" src="src" jquery.tablesorter.styles="jquery.tablesorter.styles" images="images" sort_both.svg="sort_both.svg" b5ca="b5ca" cursor="cursor" pointer="pointer" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" background-position="background-position" right="right" center="center">Transcript</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Los Angeles</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-84" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[84]</a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Unknown</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">2009-11-16</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Unknown</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">2 / 15:28</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Not released</td></tr></tbody><tfoot /></table><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Aftermath for ACORN</h2>On March 19, 2010, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The New York Times</a> reported that ACORN was on the verge of filing for bankruptcy; 15 of the group's 30 state chapters had disbanded over the past six months, and other chapters (including the largest, in New York and California) had renamed themselves and severed all ties to the national organization.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-bankruptcy-85" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[85]</a> Two unnamed ACORN officials told the Times that the following weekend, a teleconference was planned to discuss a bankruptcy filing; "private donations from foundations to Acorn [had] all but evaporated." The federal government had ended contracts with the group related to organizing counts in urban areas for the Census and work for the IRS.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-bankruptcy-85" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[85]</a> "[L]ong before the activist videos delivered what may become the final blow, the organization was dogged for years by financial problems and accusations of fraud."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-bankruptcy-85" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[85]</a> Former co-chairwoman of ACORN's Maryland chapter Sonja Merchant-Jones said: "That 20-minute video ruined 40 years of good work. But if the organization had confronted its own internal problems, it might not have been taken down so easily."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-bankruptcy-85" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[85]</a>On March 22, 2010, National ACORN spokesman Kevin Whelan says the organization's board decided to close remaining state affiliates and field offices by April 1 because of falling revenues.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-86" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[86]</a> On April 20, the ACORN CEO <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_Lewis(activist)" title="Bertha Lewis (activist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bertha Lewis</a> reported that ACORN was "still alive. We're limping along. We're on life support."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-AP_4-20-87" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[87]</a> Lewis said that ACORN's annual budget had been reduced from $25 million to $4 million, and that its staff of 350 to 600 people had been reduced to four.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-AP_4-20-87" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[87]</a> Lewis explained the controversy had left a stain on ACORN, "sort of like a scarlet letter." It had forced the group to spend money to respond to "one investigation after another."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-AP_4-20-87" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[87]</a><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Response by government and state authorities</h2><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">President</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Barack Obama</a> stated the video content was "certainly inappropriate and deserves to be investigated."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-pritchard-88" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[88]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-obama-89" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[89]</a> [he had done some legal rep?] ACORN's partnership in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_United_States_Census" title="2010 United States Census" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">2010 United States Census</a> was terminated on September 11, 2009.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-wsjournal-90" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[90]</a> The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">United States Senate</a> voted to exclude ACORN from federal funding on September 14,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-associated-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[17]</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.House_of_Representatives" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. House of Representatives" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">House of Representatives</a> voted 345-75 to eliminate federal funding to ACORN on September 17.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-FOX-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[8]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-91" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[91]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Boehner" title="John Boehner" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">John Boehner</a>, the Republican leader of the House, introduced HR 3571 the "Defund ACORN Act" on September 15,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-92" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[92]</a> and Rep. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrell_Issa" title="Darrell Issa" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Darrell Issa</a> moved to incorporate that bill as an amendment to the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2009 (HR 3221).<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-93" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">[</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-93" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">93]</a> Both resolutions were later nullified in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_District_Court" class="mw-redirect" title="United States District Court" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">federal court</a> ruling by Judge <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Gershon" title="Nina Gershon" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Nina Gershon</a> that the measures were an unconstitutional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_attainder" title="Bill of attainder" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">bill of attainder</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-times-acorn-lorber-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[18]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-THRUSH-94" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[94]</a> On August 13, 2010, however, a federal appeals court reversed that decision, and upheld the Congressional resolutions that cut off federal funding for ACORN.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-AP-08-13-10-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[19]</a>On September 23, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_Revenue_Service" title="Internal Revenue Service" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Internal Revenue Service</a> removed ACORN from its <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRS_Volunteer_Income_Tax_Assistance_Program" title="IRS Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">volunteer tax-assistance program</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-95" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[95]</a> On September 24, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.Treasury_Department" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Treasury Department" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">U.S. Treasury Department</a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspector_General#United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Inspector General" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Inspector General</a> announced it would initiate a broader probe into "the government's oversight of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax-exempt" class="mw-redirect" title="Tax-exempt" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">tax-exempt</a> organizations like ACORN when they engage in political activities."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-96" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[96]</a><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Investigations of ACORN and the videos</h2><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Independent external investigation by Proskauer Rose[</h3>On September 16, 2009, ACORN suspended advising new clients and initiated an independent review process, headed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Harshbarger" title="Scott Harshbarger" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Scott Harshbarger</a>, an attorney from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proskauer_Rose" title="Proskauer Rose" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Proskauer Rose</a> firm and a former Massachusetts Attorney General.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-97" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[97]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-Rutenberg-98" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[98]</a> On September 16, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_Lewis(activist)" title="Bertha Lewis (activist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bertha Lewis</a>, ACORN's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_executive_officer" title="Chief executive officer" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">CEO</a>, froze admission to all of ACORN's service programs and instituted a review committee to implement organizational reforms.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-nbcwashington-99" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[99]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-reforms-100" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[100]</a> The independent external investigation found that while some of the counsel given by employees and volunteers was "unprofessional and inappropriate", the videos that had been released appeared to have been edited, "in some cases substantially", and ACORN employees had taken no illegal actions.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-101" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[101]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Report by the Congressional Research Service[</h3>On December 22, 2009, the Congressional Research Service (CRS) released a report on ACORN activities, commissioned by the House Judiciary Committee. It stated that ACORN has not been found to violate any federal regulations in the past five years. The report's other findings included that there were no instances of voter fraud by people who were allegedly registered to vote improperly by ACORN or its employees, and no instances where ACORN violated terms of federal funding in the last 5 years. The CRS found that O'Keefe and Giles may have violated Maryland and California laws banning the recording of face-to-face conversations without consent of both parties.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-102" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[102]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-103" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[103]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Investigation by New York attorney general[</h3>The New York <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attorney_General" class="mw-redirect" title="Attorney General" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Attorney General</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Cuomo" title="Andrew Cuomo" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Andrew Cuomo</a>, began an investigation on September 15, 2009, to ensure that state grants given to ACORN were properly spent.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-NEW_YORK_POST-104" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[104]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-NEW_YORK_DAILY-105" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[105]</a> The New York City Council suspended all ACORN grants while the Brooklyn <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_Attorney" class="mw-redirect" title="District Attorney" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">District Attorney</a>'s Office conducted an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the videos.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-106" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[106]</a> On March 1, 2010, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_Attorney" class="mw-redirect" title="District Attorney" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">District Attorney</a>'s office for Brooklyn determined that the videos were "heavily edited" to give a misleading impression,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-nymag1-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a> and concluded that there was no criminal wrongdoing by the ACORN Brooklyn staff filmed in the videos.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-NYT2010Newman-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a> A law enforcement source said, "They edited the tape to meet their agenda."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-Salon2010Madden-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-107" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[107]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Investigation by California attorney general[</h3>On September 25, 2009, in response to Governor Schwarzenegger's request to investigate the incidents, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Attorney_General" class="mw-redirect" title="California Attorney General" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">California Attorney General</a>'s office opened an investigation "into the controversy surrounding videos that purportedly show members of community organizing group ACORN giving advice on how to open a brothel."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-108" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[108]</a>On April 1, 2010, Attorney General <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Brown" title="Jerry Brown" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Jerry Brown</a> announced the office's findings, based on its review of new unedited videotapes recorded in the California offices of ACORN, as well as other evidence.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-CA_AG_Release-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a> The AG had granted O'Keefe and Giles immunity from prosecution in exchange for the raw videotapes. The report noted that the terms of the exchange did not exempt O'Keefe or Giles from being sued separately by the ACORN members filmed in the videos.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-CA_AG_Report-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a> Citing the 1967 Invasion of Privacy Act, Attorney General Office's report stated, "an application of these principles to the facts presented here strongly suggests that O'Keefe and Giles violated state privacy laws and provides fair warning to them and others that this type of activity can be prosecuted in California."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-CA_AG_Report-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a>The Attorney General Office criticized O'Keefe for not acting as a journalist trying to objectively report a story from the facts, noting instead that O'Keefe stated he "was out to make a point and to damage ACORN."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-CA_AG_Report-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a> The report said:<blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); overflow: hidden; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 40px;">The video releases were heavily edited to feature only the worst or most inappropriate statements of the various ACORN employees and to omit some of the most salient statements by O'Keefe and Giles. Each of the ACORN employees recorded in California was a low level employee whose job was to help the needy individuals who walked in the door seeking assistance. Giles and O'Keefe lied to engender compassion, but then edited their statements from the released videos.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-CA_AG_Report-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a></blockquote>For instance, one much-publicized recording had shown O'Keefe and Giles at the San Diego office. They show a worker purportedly seeking information from a contact in Mexico to help them smuggle underage girls from Mexico into the United States to work as prostitutes. The video did not show that the worker's "contact" in Mexico was a police official. The employee collected as much specific information from Giles and O'Keefe as possible during their visit. The worker then contacted Mexican police to warn them of the plot.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-Maddow-109" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[109]</a> The AG Office's report stated, "ACORN was not the criminal enterprise described by O'Keefe in his 'Chaos for Glory' statement – it did not receive billions in federal funds and did not control elections. ACORN is, however, disorganized and its operations were far from transparent, leaving it vulnerable to allegations of illegal activity and misuse of funds."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-CA_AG_Report-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a> The report also noted that despite O'Keefe's appearing in the released videos in "stereotypical 1970s pimp garb", in his actual taped sessions with ACORN workers, he was dressed in a shirt and tie, presented himself as a law student, and said he planned to use the prostitution proceeds to run for Congress, and never claimed he was a pimp.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-CA_AG_Report-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a>The report of the Attorney General Office concluded, "Even if O'Keefe and Giles had truly intended to break the law, there is no evidence that any of the ACORN employees had the intent to aid and abet such criminal conduct or agreed to join in that illegal conduct." While faulting a few of the recorded ACORN members for "terrible judgment and highly inappropriate behavior",<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-CA_AG_Report-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a> the investigation report also concluded that "ACORN could determine that the conduct of its employees in California was inappropriate, but that is an employment matter, which does not rise to the level of a law enforcement or governmental concern". The report determined that the employees did not commit prosecutable crimes in California. Regarding this contrast between the publicity related to the videos and what actually transpired, Attorney General Brown stated, "The evidence illustrates that things are not always as partisan zealots portray them through highly selective editing of reality. Sometimes a fuller truth is found on the cutting room floor."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-CA_AG_Release-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Investigation by the U.S. Government Accountability Office[</h3>On June 14, 2010, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released its findings on ACORN, by then disbanded. It said that there was no evidence that the group, or any of its related organizations, mishandled any of the $40 million in federal money that they had received in recent years.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-cnn.com-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-110" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[110]</a><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Media controversy[</h2>The right-wing media complained about alleged media bias throughout the weeks as the ACORN video controversy developed.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-111" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[111]</a> For instance, on September 15, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joshua_Rhett_Miller&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Joshua Rhett Miller (page does not exist)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Joshua Rhett Miller</a> of Fox News accused the "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainstream_media" title="Mainstream media" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">mainstream media</a>" of purposefully ignoring the story, and said that it was favoring the political left.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-nyt20090926-32" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[32]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-ReferenceA-112" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[112]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-news.aol.com-113" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[113]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-114" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[114]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Breitbart" title="Andrew Breitbart" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Andrew Breitbart</a> wrote in an article in The Washington Times that he had counseled Giles and O'Keefe to "offer Fox News the full footage of each video before each was released."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-Breitbart-115" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[115]</a> Breitbart said he developed a strategy to counter such presumed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_bias_in_the_United_States" title="Media bias in the United States" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">liberal media bias</a> by courting the Fox News Corporation: "We had to devise a plan that would force the [other news] media to see the evidence before they had enough time to destroy these two idealistic 20-something truth seekers."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-Breitbart-115" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[115]</a> Giles interviewed exclusively with Fox commentator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Beck" title="Glenn Beck" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Glenn Beck</a> on the day of the first video's release.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNN" title="CNN" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">CNN</a> began coverage of the story as early as September 9.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-news.turner.com-116" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[116]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS" title="CBS" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">CBS</a> began to cover the story on September 11,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-117" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[117]</a> the day after the story aired on Fox News.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-118" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[118]</a> Breitbart and reporters of Fox News stayed on message, complaining that the "mainstream media" did not respond promptly or cover the story in sufficient depth.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-ReferenceA-112" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[112]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-news.aol.com-113" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[113]</a> On September 11, 2009, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Beck" title="Glenn Beck" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Glenn Beck</a> was reported to have said, "FOX has had 133 reports on it, CNN, 90, MSNBC, 10. How's that possible? Hey, ABC, how's it working out for you with two?"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-119" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[119]</a>Breitbart and O'Keefe on September 11 announced that O'Keefe would not agree to be interviewed by CNN staff.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-120" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[120]</a> They said that CNN favored ACORN in its coverage. But, CNN had reported on ACORN-related issues of alleged voter registration fraud (which were not substantiated).<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-121" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[121]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-122" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[122]</a> O'Keefe said he felt CNN's early coverage had been slanted in favor of ACORN, because CNN had interviewed both ACORN staff members and defenders.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-BigGov110909-123" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[123]</a>FOX News said that, as late as September 15, the ABC anchor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Gibson" class="mw-redirect" title="Charlie Gibson" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Charlie Gibson</a> was unfamiliar with the story.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-124" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[124]</a> It did not report that ABC's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Tapper" title="Jake Tapper" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jake Tapper</a> had been covering the issue since September 11.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-125" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[125]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-126" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[126]</a> In a September 15 interview with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Hannity" title="Sean Hannity" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Sean Hannity</a> of FOX News, Breitbart said that O'Keefe and Giles "have been impugned in the media."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-foxnews.com-127" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[127]</a> Hannity said they had been "excoriated".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-foxnews.com-127" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[127]</a>On September 17, 2009, Turner.com posted a list of all CNN transcripts covering the ACORN scandal, from the day the story was first released.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-news.turner.com-116" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[116]</a> The transcripts showed there was no evidence that Giles or O'Keefe had been "impugned" or "excoriated" by news commentators.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-128" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[128]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-129" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[129]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-130" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[130]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-131" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[131]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-transcripts.cnn.com-132" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[132]</a> The listed transcripts include extensive, objective coverage and discussion by CNN reporters <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbie_Boudreau" title="Abbie Boudreau" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Abbie Boudreau</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_Blitzer" title="Wolf Blitzer" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Wolf Blitzer</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candy_Crowley" title="Candy Crowley" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Candy Crowley</a>, and others.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-transcripts.cnn.com-132" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[132]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Dobbs" title="Lou Dobbs" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Lou Dobbs</a> (then still at CNN) had offered an impassioned statement in support of Giles and O'Keefe on September 10, the day on which the videos were first aired.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-Dobbs100909-133" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[133]</a>In an interview with Alexandra Fenwick of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Journalism_Review" title="Columbia Journalism Review" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Columbia Journalism Review</a> on September 18, 2009, journalist Mark Bowden of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Atlantic" title="The Atlantic" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Atlantic</a> said about the case:<blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); overflow: hidden; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 40px;">The young woman and filmmaker who visited those ACORN offices were political activists, and they put together what is, in essence, a very effective political protest against an organization they would like to damage. And they've done a very effective job of doing that. But I think they're clearly not journalists.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-Fenwick-134" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[134]</a></blockquote>The next spring, on March 20, 2010, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark_Hoyt" title="Clark Hoyt" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Clark Hoyt</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ombudsman" title="Ombudsman" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">public editor</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">The New York Times</a>, wrote an op-ed column conceding some errors in the paper's reporting. ACORN and its supporters had complained "that The Times got the story wrong and, by failing to correct it, has played into the hands of a campaign that has pushed the group near extinction." Hoyt acknowledged that it was by then known that it was not likely that O'Keefe went into the ACORN offices dressed as a pimp, as at the beginning and end of most of the videos. O'Keefe had presented himself "as a clean-cut young man, sometimes a college student, trying to rescue his girlfriend and under-age girls from an abusive pimp."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-Hoyt-135" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[135]</a> But, Hoyt wrote:<blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); overflow: hidden; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 40px;">ACORN's supporters appear to hope that the whole story will fall apart over the issue of what O'Keefe wore: if that was wrong, everything else must be wrong. The record does not support them. If O'Keefe did not dress as a pimp, he clearly presented himself as one: a fellow trying to set up a woman — sometimes along with under-age girls — in a house where they would work as prostitutes.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-Hoyt-135" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[135]</a></blockquote>His article appeared before the release on April 1, 2010, of the California AG Report, which found that O'Keefe's videos had all been heavily edited to misrepresent the ACORN workers and present them in the worst possible light. The pair had set up the workers rather than doing investigative journalism.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-CA_AG_Release-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a> Investigations by the California AG, Brooklyn U.S. Attorney and the U.S. GAO found that ACORN workers had not participated in criminal activities.<h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Criticisms of the undercover videos</h2>In September 2009, before the investigations revealed the selective and heavy editing of the videos, Alexandra Fenwick of the Columbia Journalism Review described the video ensemble as a politically motivated piece that lacked context and did not present accurate information. She characterized the work as raw information instead of journalism. She said some elements of the ACORN videos seemed "shadows of journalism's muckraking past" and were commendable.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-CJR1-136" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[136]</a> The videos were criticized by MSNBC's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norah_O%27Donnell" title="Norah O'Donnell" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Norah O'Donnell</a>, who suggested the use of hidden cameras was a form of entrapment.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Post" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington Post" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Washington Post</a> staff writers <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Darryl_Fears&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Darryl Fears (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Darryl Fears</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_D.Leonnig" title="Carol D. Leonnig" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Carol D. Leonnig</a> wrote:<blockquote style="overflow: hidden; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 40px;">Giles and O'Keefe have been criticized for accuracy problems. Their videos include the oft-repeated conservative claim that ACORN is expected to get up to $8.5 billion in government funds. But that's a bold exaggeration, as it includes $3 billion in stimulus funds set aside for revitalization efforts nationwide, and $5.5 billion in federal community development grants.</blockquote>The more than $8 billion number was based on the false assumption that ACORN would apply for and win every project and grant in the country, and in fact ACORN did not apply for any of the stimulus funds.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-FearsLeonnig-137" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[137]</a> Leonnig also observed:<blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); overflow: hidden; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 40px;">the videos, in some cases, left out what I would call some <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exculpatory_evidence" title="Exculpatory evidence" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">exculpatory</a> material ... for example, in one, a San Berna[r]dino employee at ACORN explains that there is no way ACORN would support what the couple were proposing, and she asks if they are putting her on, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candid_Camera" title="Candid Camera" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">candid-camera</a> style.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-Leonnig1-138" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[138]</a></blockquote>During a September 14 television appearance on FOX, O'Keefe appeared dressed in a fur coat, sunglasses, and holding a cane. The host announced: "[O'Keefe] is dressed exactly in the same outfit that he wore to these ACORN offices up and down the eastern seaboard." He asked, "[I]s that what you think a pimp looks like?" O'Keefe answered yes. Within weeks, political journalist Mike Stark revealed that O'Keefe did not wear such clothing to the ACORN offices, but rather he wore subdued clothing and a tie, and in one instance posed as a candidate for Congress.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-HuffPOStark-139" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[139]</a> Stark said, "If they really wanted the truth out there, why do they need to edit these tapes in the first place? Why aren't the unedited videos already in the public domain?"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-HuffPOStark-139" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[139]</a>The Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes cleared ACORN employees in the local office of criminal wrongdoing on March 1, 2010, after a five-month investigation. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Daily_News" title="New York Daily News" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Daily News</a> quoted a law enforcement source saying that "They edited the tape to meet their agenda".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-NEW_YORK_DAILY-105" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[105]</a> The ACORN lawyer Arthur Schwartz commented that ACORN was "gratified that the DA has concluded something we knew all along." He said that O'Keefe and Giles had "used subterfuge to convince Congress and the media to vilify an organization that didn't deserve it."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy#cite_note-ABAJournal-140" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[140]</a><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">References</h2><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">...</div></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">NEW</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div>
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</div><div>ACORN KILLED 2009?</div><div>
</div><div>Texas Republicans back away from arrested activist who had targeted ACORN</div><div>By Stewart Powell on January 28, 2010 at 4:45 PM</div><div>
</div><div>Rep. Pete Olson</div><div>
</div><div>That was then.</div><div>
</div><div>And this is now.</div><div>
</div><div>A proposed resolution introduced in October by a Houston-area congressman and supported by seven fellow Texas Republicans called for the House to honor investigative videographer and conservative activist James O’Keefe III and girlfriend Hannah Giles for “fact-finding reporting” that brought to light allegedly “fraudulent and illegal practices” by ACORN, a community action organization that had received federal funding.</div><div>
</div><div>The young couple, posing as a pimp and a prostitute, made a hidden-camera video of ACORN employees allegedly counseling them on how to win tax breaks for a hypothetical brothel.</div><div>
</div><div>The secret video provoked a political firestorm last summer among critics of ACORN, whose full name is the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.</div><div>
</div><div>ACORN often recruits new inner-city and minority voters many of whom sign up as Democrats.</div><div>
</div><div>The resolution submitted to the House on Oct. 7 by Rep. Pete Olson, R-Sugar Land, had support from 31 Republican co-sponsors. Those included Texans Joe Barton, Louie Gohmert, Ralph Hall, John Carter, John Culberson, Kay Granger and Kenny Marchant.</div><div>
</div><div>The O’Keefe-Giles video “resulted in the potential annual savings of millions of taxpayer dollars” by prompting the House to vote to defund the organization, the resolution said.</div><div>
</div><div>The couple “displayed exemplary actions as government watchdogs and young journalists uncovering wasteful government spending,” the resolution continued.</div><div>
</div><div>On Monday, O’Keefe and three colleagues were arrested in New Orleans, accused of taking part in a conspiracy to wiretap the New Orleans office phone of Sen. Mary Landrieu, a Louisiana Democrat.</div><div>
</div><div>The four young men were charged by the FBI with a plot to allegedly “interfere with a telephone system” in Landrieu’s office.</div><div>
</div><div>If convicted, the four could face up to 10 years in prison and up to a $250,000 fine.</div><div>
</div><div>O’Keefe’s attorney, Michael Madigan, said his client did not engage in any illegal activity.</div><div>
</div><div>Olson, who sponsored the House resolution praising O’Keefe for his ACORN disclosure, said “individuals who lawfully expose wrongful activities by an entity like ACORN receiving federal tax dollars should be praised.”</div><div>
</div><div>But Olson said “if recent events conclude that any laws were broken in the incident in Senator Landrieu’s office, that is not something I condone. ”</div><div>
</div><div>“Citizens have an important role in helping to expose waste and/or fraud when their tax dollars are being spent, but it must be done in a lawful manner,” Olson added.</div><div>
</div><div>Megan Mitchell, spokeswoman for Culberson, responded to the charges against O’Keefe on behalf of her boss, a Houston Republican who co-sponsored Olson’s resolution.</div><div>
</div><div>Culberson “does not condone this behavior nor does he condone ACORN’s abuse of millions of taxpayer dollars,” Mitchell said.</div><div>
</div><div>In response to critics’ suggestions that sponsors withdraw the proposed House resolution, the sponsors checked with the House Parliamentarian.</div><div>
</div><div>According to the House Parliamentarian, once a resolution has been offered to the House, it can only be amended if it reaches committee action.</div><div>
</div><div>It cannot be withdrawn.</div></div><div></div></div><div></div><div><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/report-acorn-obsession-beck-hannity-obsess-over-acorn-while-virtually-ignoring-major?redirect_source=/research/2009/09/23/report-acorn-obsession-beck-hannity-obsess-over/154953">https://www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/report-acorn-obsession-beck-hannity-obsess-over-acorn-while-virtually-ignoring-major?redirect_source=/research/2009/09/23/report-acorn-obsession-beck-hannity-obsess-over/154953</a></div><div>
</div><div><header class="editorial-fullheader" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h1 class="editorial-fulltitle page-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 0.45455em; padding: 0px;">REPORT: ACORN OBSESSION: Beck, Hannity obsess over ACORN while virtually ignoring major corruption scandals</h1>WRITTEN BY <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/author/media-matters-staff" hreflang="en" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">MEDIA MATTERS STAFF</a><div class="dateline--group" style="box-sizing: border-box; align-items: center; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap;">PUBLISHED <time datetime="2009-09-23T16:33:54-0400" style="box-sizing: border-box;">09/23/09 4:33 PM EDT</time></div></header><div class="editorial-fullsummary" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 2.25rem; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 212, 221); border-top: 1px solid rgb(204, 212, 221); padding: 1.5rem 0px;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-content-summary field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;">In light of the recent attention Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity have devoted to a supposed corruption scandal involving ACORN, Media Matters for Americareviewed the coverage each host has provided on his respective television programs to a selection of well-documented political scandals and instances of corruption by companies that have received thousands of times more money from the government than ACORN has in the past 15 years. Our findings show that both hosts have been obsessed with ACORN, devoting a massively disproportionate amount of attention to the story in comparison to their coverage of controversies involving military contractors that have received billions of dollars in federal contracts and instances of Republican corruption at the highest levels of the U.S. government. Furthermore, since Beck joined Fox News, the amount of attention he has devoted to ACORN has skyrocketed, while his interest in other corruption scandals has remained limited.</div></div><div class="editorial-fullarticle" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 2.25rem;"><div class="field field--name-field-stories-content field--type-entity-reference-revisions field--label-hidden" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;">Key findings</h2>Number of times Beck's and Hannity's programs, combined, referenced ACORN, Abramoff, Blackwater, and Halliburton/KBR from May 8, 2006, to September 18, 2009 (NOTE: For the purposes of this study, a “reference” is defined as the specified topic having been mentioned by either a host or a guest on the program being studied.):<ul type="disc" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; clear: both; list-style: none; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;">ACORN: 1,502</li></ul><ul type="disc" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; clear: both; list-style: none; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;">Disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff and former Rep. Bob Ney (R-OH): 62</li></ul><ul type="disc" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; clear: both; list-style: none; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;">Blackwater/Xe: 4</li></ul><ul type="disc" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; clear: both; list-style: none; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;">Halliburton/KBR: 43</li></ul>Conclusions:<ul type="disc" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; clear: both; list-style: none; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;">Beck's and Hannity's programs were approximately 35 times more likely to reference ACORN than any of the military contractors.</li></ul><ul type="disc" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; clear: both; list-style: none; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;">Beck's and Hannity's programs were approximately 24 times more likely to reference ACORN than either Abramoff or Ney.</li></ul><img src="https://www.mediamatters.org/static/images/item/20090923-both1.jpg" border="0" width="590" height="392" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0pt none; display: block; height: auto; width: 632.078px;" />The numbers are equally shocking for each show individually:<ul type="disc" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; clear: both; list-style: none; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;">Beck's programs were approximately 50 times more likely to reference ACORN than any of the military contractors and approximately 149 times more likely to discuss ACORN than either Abramoff or Ney.</li></ul><img src="https://www.mediamatters.org/static/images/item/20090923-beck1.jpg" border="0" width="590" height="392" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0pt none; display: block; height: auto; width: 632.078px;" /><ul type="disc" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; clear: both; list-style: none; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;">Hannity's programs were approximately 18 times more likely to reference ACORN than any of the military contractors and approximately eight times more likely to discuss ACORN than either Abramoff or Ney.</li></ul><img src="https://www.mediamatters.org/static/images/item/20090923-hannity1.jpg" border="0" width="590" height="394" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0pt none; display: block; height: auto; width: 632.078px;" />What a difference Fox News makes -- after leaving CNN's Headline News and joining Fox in January, Beck's focus on ACORN skyrocketed, while his disinterest in major corruption scandals continued:References to ACORN on Beck's Headline News program:<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="486" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; caption-side: bottom; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; max-width: 100%; width: 632px;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr height="22" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td height="22" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 1rem; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 212, 221); vertical-align: top;">ACORN</td><td height="22" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 1rem; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 212, 221); vertical-align: top;">Abramoff/Ney</td><td height="22" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 1rem; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 212, 221); vertical-align: top;">Blackwater/Xe</td><td height="22" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 1rem; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 212, 221); vertical-align: top;">Halliburton/KBR</td></tr><tr height="21" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(224, 232, 240);"><td height="21" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 1rem; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 212, 221); vertical-align: top;">43</td><td height="21" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 1rem; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 212, 221); vertical-align: top;">7</td><td height="21" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 1rem; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 212, 221); vertical-align: top;">2</td><td height="21" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 1rem; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 212, 221); vertical-align: top;">11</td></tr></tbody></table>References to ACORN on Beck's Fox News program:<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="486" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; caption-side: bottom; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; max-width: 100%; width: 632px;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr height="22" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td height="22" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 1rem; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 212, 221); vertical-align: top;">ACORN</td><td height="22" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 1rem; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 212, 221); vertical-align: top;">Abramoff/Ney</td><td height="22" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 1rem; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 212, 221); vertical-align: top;">Blackwater/Xe</td><td height="22" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 1rem; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 212, 221); vertical-align: top;">Halliburton/KBR</td></tr><tr height="21" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(224, 232, 240);"><td height="21" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 1rem; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 212, 221); vertical-align: top;">1,002</td><td height="21" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 1rem; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 212, 221); vertical-align: top;">0</td><td height="21" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 1rem; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 212, 221); vertical-align: top;">0</td><td height="21" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 1rem; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 212, 221); vertical-align: top;">8</td></tr></tbody></table><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;">Reporting on ACORN, Beck and Hannity claim to be concerned with government waste and corruption</h2>Beck implores viewers to “take a stand” because "[t]his is clear-cut, unadulterated, taxpayer-funded corruption" at ACORN due to its receipt of government funding. On the September 15 edition of his Fox News program, Beck aired portions of an undercover video at a California ACORN office and stated (from the Nexis database):<blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247); margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 1.5rem;">BECK: I am just asking you this -- please, take a stand. Take a stand. This is clear-cut, unadulterated, taxpayer-funded corruption. You love your children. You love your country just like I do. You must understand that what you've been seeing from ACORN on these tapes this past week isn't compassion, it's corruption!I'm asking you -- demand a full investigation from your representatives of everybody -- ACORN, all the way to the top, everybody in government, all the way to the top, in your cities, and in our nation. And until that corruption is brought under control, we must quarantine Washington, D.C. -- no legislation must come out of it.</blockquote>Hannity: “The only question that remains is, will this keep ACORN from receiving our tax dollars?” From the September 16 edition of Hannity (from Nexis):<blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247); margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 1.5rem;">HANNITY: Now the employees in five separate ACORN offices have now showed themselves willing to aid and in some cases participate in child prostitution. Now predictably, ACORN is retaliating by attacking the individuals who exposed them and threatening them with lawsuits.But the videos, they speak for themselves. The only question that remains is, will this keep ACORN from receiving our tax dollars?And here with reaction is the author of the best-selling book, “Culture of Corruption,” Michelle Malkin is back with us.You know, if you look at the money and follow the money, tens and tens of millions of taxpayer dollars to date, Michelle. And if you add the stimulus, you're looking, you know, at potentially $8.5 billion more. So there are -- there is an effort in Congress to stop it. Will it be successful?MICHELLE MALKIN, “THE CULTURE OF CORRUPTION” AUTHOR: Well, it already has, in some measure. And I think that cutting off ACORN from the Census Bureau partnerships was a big first step, and then of course in the Senate cutting off transportation and HUD appropriations money from ACORN and all of its affiliates.I think that's very important. I called up Senator Mike Johan's office the other day just to clarify and make sure that it's not just ACORN, the national umbrella group, but all of the web of its affiliates and entities under it that are nonprofit, tax exempt and supposedly nonpartisan.So all these are a good first step. But I think that the next step, Sean, obviously, is to crack open the books and take a look at how the money they currently have been allocated and allocated in the past is being spent. And that's going to be an incredible forensic undertaking. And hopefully it will be bipartisan.HANNITY: You talk about these umbrella groups. There's all these groups that would then, you know, sort of subcontract out to ACORN. So it's almost difficult to do the accounting. But the reality is, and I know Governor Tim Pawlenty and I know some others, Richard Shelby was on this morning, and he is working in Washington.They're saying they want to find a way to get to the real bottom line dollar figure of how much they are getting and cut off all funds because this is only part of the corruption. I mean it's bad enough every office they went to showed a connection, you know, to some of these scandals. But it goes a lot deeper, doesn't it?MALKIN: It's systemic. And I'll tell you, ACORN plays a game of throwing its rank and file operatives under the bus and then claiming that these were just the indefensible actions of a few, a handful. That's the phrase that Bertha Lewis and the ACORN brass are using.</blockquote><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;">Both hosts have largely ignored major scandals involving military contractors that have huge government contracts</h2>Halliburton, KBR, and Blackwater have received tens of billions of dollars in military contracts and have been connected to major scandals, some even resulting in death. Major controversies concerning work performed by Halliburton, Kellogg, Brown and Root (a Halliburton subsidiary), and Blackwater (now named Xe) broke between 2006 and 2009. According to news reports, <a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/103/story/20754.html" title="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/103/story/20754.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Blackwater</a>, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/25/washington/25contract.html?r=1&scp=91&sq=%22halliburton%22&st=nyt" title="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/25/washington/25contract.html?r=1&scp=91&sq=%22halliburton%22&st=nyt" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Halliburton, and KBR</a> have received a combined total of at least $25 billion dollars in federal contracts since 2001. By comparison, ACORN has received <a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/special-editorial-reports/ACORN-got-53-million-in-federal-funds-since-94-now-eligible-for-up-to-8-billion-more-44406217.html" title="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/special-editorial-reports/ACORN-got-53-million-in-federal-funds-since-94-now-eligible-for-up-to-8-billion-more-44406217.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">an estimated $53 million</a> in federal funding over the past 15 years, which is an average of $3.5 million per year.KBR's faulty work in Iraq allegedly killed U.S. soldiers and civilian contractors.For example, KBR, which received more than $24 billion in military contracts in exchange for performing a wide array of services related to the Iraq war, was allegedly responsible for the fatal <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/washington/01electrocute.html?scp=19&sq=%22KBR%22&st=nyt" title="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/washington/01electrocute.html?scp=19&sq=%22KBR%22&st=nyt" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">electrocutions of 13 U.S. service members</a>between the start of the war and July 2008 due to faulty electrical work. In July 2008, The New York Times reported that the Department of Defense ordered electrical inspections of all buildings in Iraq because of the deaths. In September 2006, a group of truckers who had worked for KBR <a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B06E1DC1031F93AA2575AC0A9609C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all" title="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B06E1DC1031F93AA2575AC0A9609C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">provided congressional testimony</a> against the company, claiming that its practices had unduly endangered them and contributed to the deaths of seven workers in an ambush.KBR and Halliburton allegedly took foreign bribes. In 2009, Halliburton and KBR <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/11/AR2009021103400.html" title="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/11/AR2009021103400.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">agreed to pay</a> a $579 million settlement to the federal government over charges that they took foreign bribes, reportedly the largest fine ever paid by a U.S. company in a foreign corruption case.Blackwater contractors were connected to the shooting death of 17 Iraqi civilians, and its founder has been named in a murder investigation. Blackwater, whose leadership had <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/03/opinion/03wed2.html?scp=20&sq=Blackwater&st=nyt" title="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/03/opinion/03wed2.html?scp=20&sq=Blackwater&st=nyt" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">well-established ties</a> to the Bush administration and <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/08/washington/08prince.html?scp=17&sq=Blackwater&st=nyt" title="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/08/washington/08prince.html?scp=17&sq=Blackwater&st=nyt" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">the conservative movement</a>, has received more than $1 billion in federal contracts since 2001. The company has faced mounting criticism following <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/08/world/middleeast/08iraq.html?scp=8&sq=Blackwater&st=nyt" title="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/08/world/middleeast/08iraq.html?scp=8&sq=Blackwater&st=nyt" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">the shooting death of 17 Iraqi civilians</a> in September 2007. At the time, Iraqi officials <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/08/world/middleeast/08blackwater.html?scp=16&sq=Blackwater&st=nyt" title="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/08/world/middleeast/08blackwater.html?scp=16&sq=Blackwater&st=nyt" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">accused Blackwater of murder</a>. More recently, there have been accusations of a <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?page=1&id=8258915" title="http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?page=1&id=8258915" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">murder plot directly involving</a> Blackwater founder Erik Prince.Despite their professed concern about corruption, Beck's and Hannity's programs have virtually ignored the controversies surrounding Blackwater, Halliburton, and KBR. Since May 2006, Beck's television programs have referenced the contractors only 21 times. Similarly, Hannity's programs have referenced them only 26 times.<h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;">Both have similarly ignored major developments in Abramoff and Ney corruption cases</h2>Both Abramoff and Ney were imprisoned after being convicted of corruption.In the summer of 2006, Ney, who was enmeshed in the Abramoff scandal, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/08/washington/08ney.html?scp=4&sq=Jack+Abramoff&st=nyt" title="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/08/washington/08ney.html?scp=4&sq=Jack+Abramoff&st=nyt" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">retired from office</a>. That fall, reports <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/29/washington/29abramoff.html?scp=3&sq=Jack+Abramoff&st=nyt" title="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/29/washington/29abramoff.html?scp=3&sq=Jack+Abramoff&st=nyt" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">revealed</a> extensive ties between Abramoff and the Bush White House and Republican congressional figures, threatening the electoral prospects of Republicans <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/27/us/politics/27scandal.html?scp=6&sq=Jack+Abramoff&st=nyt" title="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/27/us/politics/27scandal.html?scp=6&sq=Jack+Abramoff&st=nyt" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">throughout the country</a>. Ney soon <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/19/washington/19ney.html?r=1&scp=8&sq=Bob+Ney&st=nyt" title="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/19/washington/19ney.html?r=1&scp=8&sq=Bob+Ney&st=nyt" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">pleaded guilty</a> to corruption charges and was sentenced to a prison term. In September 2008, the Abramoff trial finally concluded with <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/05/washington/05abramoff.html?scp=2&sq=Jack+Abramoff&st=nyt" title="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/05/washington/05abramoff.html?scp=2&sq=Jack+Abramoff&st=nyt" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">a four-year sentence</a> for Abramoff himself.Beck and Hannity consistently ignored developments in these cases of high-level Republican corruption. Despite the fact that the scandal involving Ney and Abramoff received broad coverage and was politically significant, Beck and Hannity largely ignored it. Throughout all of 2006, Beck mentioned Abramoff only a handful of times, often simply to dismiss his significance. For instance, on his November 8, 2006, program, following a major midterm election that returned control of Congress to Democrats, Beck said the following regarding corruption's effect on the election: “According to yesterday's exit polls, voters said the most important issue to them was corruption and ethics. You know, I don't believe that they're talking about Mark Foley or Jack Abramoff. Ask somebody if they even know who Jack Abramoff is.” For his part, Hannity did not mention Abramoff once during the week of the 2006 midterm elections, and Ney has been mentioned only a handful of times during the entire course of his Fox News broadcast.<h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;">Yet Beck and Hannity have devoted disproportionate attention to ACORN</h2>Beck and Hannity mentioned ACORN 32 times more often than the military contractors. Between May 8, 2006, and September 18, 2009, ACORN was mentioned approximately 376 times as often on Beck's and Hannity's programs combined as Blackwater and approximately 35 times as often as Halliburton and KBR combined. In total, the two programs mentioned ACORN approximately 32 times as often as all of the military contractors combined.Beck and Hannity mentioned ACORN 24 times more often than Abramoff and Ney. Between May 8, 2006, and September 18, 2009, ACORN was mentioned on Beck's and Hannity's television programs 24 times as often as Abramoff and Ney combined.<h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;">Methodology</h2>Media Matters for America conducted a Nexis search for programs hosted by Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity between May 8, 2006, and September 18, 2009,* using the following terms:<ul type="disc" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; clear: both; list-style: none; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;">SHOW(Glenn Beck OR Hannity) AND (CAPS(ACORN) OR Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now)</li></ul><ul type="disc" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; clear: both; list-style: none; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;">SHOW(Glenn Beck OR Hannity) AND (Jack Abramoff OR Abramoff)</li></ul><ul type="disc" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; clear: both; list-style: none; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;">SHOW(Glenn Beck OR Hannity) AND (Blackwater OR Black Water OR CAPS(XE))</li></ul><ul type="disc" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; clear: both; list-style: none; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;">SHOW(Glenn Beck OR Hannity) AND (Robert Ney OR Bob Ney OR Ney)</li></ul><ul type="disc" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; clear: both; list-style: none; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;">SHOW(Glenn Beck OR Hannity) AND (Halliburton)</li></ul><ul type="disc" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; clear: both; list-style: none; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;">SHOW(Glenn Beck OR Hannity) AND (Kellogg Brown Root OR KBR)</li></ul>For each transcript, every mention of any of the searched terms by any person on the program was included in the study.*Glenn Beck was off the air between October 17, 2008, and January 18, 2009, during his program's transition from CNN Headline News to Fox News. Included in the results were both Beck's Headline News and Fox News programs, as well as Hannity & Colmes, Hannity, and Hannity's America.Justin Seidel is an intern at Media Matters for America.</div></div></div></div></div><div></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now</a></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="">The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) are an international collection of autonomous <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_organizing" title="Community organizing" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">community</a>-based organizations that advocated for low- and moderate-income families by working on neighborhood safety, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">voter registration</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care" title="Health care" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">health care</a>, affordable housing, and other social issues. They are affiliated under <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_International" title="ACORN International" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">ACORN International</a>.Founded in 1970 by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wade_Rathke" title="Wade Rathke" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Wade Rathke</a> and Gary Delgado,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[3]</a> at its peak ACORN had over 500,000 members and more than 1,200 neighborhood chapters in over 100 cities across the U.S.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-csm-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[4]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-about-acorn-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[5]</a> as well as groups in Argentina, Canada, Mexico, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peru" title="Peru" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Peru</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[6]</a> The rest of this article refers specifically to ACORN-USA (now organising as ACORN International<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[7]</a>), unless otherwise noted.Within the US, ACORN conducted voter registration drives, and worked to remove systemic barriers to registration of low and working-class voters. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">Republican Party</a> regularly accused ACORN of committing or encouraging <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_fraud" class="mw-redirect" title="Voter fraud" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">voter fraud</a>, but few cases have been found or prosecuted. The organization conducted its own audits and cooperated with investigations of employees, referring some cases to law enforcement.ACORN suffered an extremely damaging <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy" title="ACORN 2009 undercover videos controversy" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">nationwide controversy</a> beginning in the fall of 2009 after two <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatism_in_the_United_States" title="Conservatism in the United States" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">conservative</a> activists, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_O%27Keefe" title="James O'Keefe" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">James O'Keefe</a> and Hannah Giles, secretly made and released videos of interactions with low-level ACORN personnel in several of their offices, portraying the personnel as encouraging criminal behavior. Multiple investigations on the federal, state, and county level found that the released tapes were selectively edited to portray ACORN as negatively as possible, that nothing in the videos warranted criminal charges against ACORN or its employees, and that the clandestine recordings violated privacy laws in Maryland and California.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-CA_AG_Report-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[8]</a> In the meantime, however, the organization suffered an immediate loss of funding from government agencies with which it had contracts, and from private donors.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-bankruptcy-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[9]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-foxnewsvideo-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[10]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-cbs-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[11]</a>The loss of funds had been too damaging, and by March 2010, 15 of ACORN's 30 state chapters had already closed.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-bankruptcy-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[9]</a> ACORN announced it was closing its remaining state chapters and disbanding.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-acornfolds-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[12]</a> On November 2, 2010, its U.S. offices filed for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapter_7,Title_11,United_States_Code" title="Chapter 7, Title 11, United States Code" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Chapter 7</a> liquidation effectively closing the organization.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[13]</a>ACORN members and organizers formed new organizations in at least three states.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-ACCE-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[14]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-jsonline.com-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[15]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-bankruptcy-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[9]</a><div id="toc" class="toc" style="background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1;"><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;">
</div><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#Organization" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">1Organization</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#Issues_and_actions" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">2Issues and actions</a><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#Predatory_lending_and_affordable_housing" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">2.1Predatory lending and affordable housing</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#Living_wages" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">2.2Living wages</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#Hurricane_Katrina_relief" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">2.3Hurricane Katrina relief</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#Education" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">2.4Education</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#Voter_registration" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">2.5Voter registration</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#Gun_control" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">2.6Gun control</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#Home_Defender_Program" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">2.7Home Defender Program</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#History" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">3History</a><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#1970%E2%80%931975" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">3.11970–1975</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#1975%E2%80%931980" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">3.21975–1980</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#1981%E2%80%931989" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">3.31981–1989</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#1988%E2%80%931998" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">3.41988–1998</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-15" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#1998%E2%80%932009" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">3.51998–2009</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-16" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#Budget" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">4Budget</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-17" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#Controversies" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">5Controversies</a><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-18" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#2008" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">5.12008</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-19" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#2008%E2%80%932009" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">5.22008–2009</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-20" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#2009" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">5.32009</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-21" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#Defund_ACORN_Act" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">5.4Defund ACORN Act</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-22" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#2010" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">5.52010</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-23" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#ACORN-affiliated_groups" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">6ACORN-affiliated groups</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-24" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">7References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-25" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#Bibliography" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">8Bibliography</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-26" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">9External links</a></li></ul></div><h2 linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177);">Organization</h2>ACORN was composed of a number of legally distinct <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonprofit_organization" title="Nonprofit organization" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">nonprofit</a> entities and affiliates including a nationwide <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbrella_organization" title="Umbrella organization" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">umbrella organization</a> established as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501(c)(4)" class="mw-redirect" title="501(c)(4)" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">501(c)(4)</a> that performed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobbying" title="Lobbying" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">lobbying</a>; local chapters established as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501(c)(3)" class="mw-redirect" title="501(c)(3)" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">501(c)(3)</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonpartisan(American_organizations)" class="mw-redirect" title="Nonpartisan (American organizations)" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">nonpartisan</a> charities; and the national nonprofit and nonstock organization, ACORN Housing Corporation. ACORN's priorities included: better housing and wages for the poor, more community development investment from banks and governments, better public schools, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_union" class="mw-redirect" title="Labor union" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">labor-oriented</a> causes and social justice issues. ACORN pursued these goals through demonstration, negotiation, lobbying for legislation, and voter participation.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-r8144-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[16]</a><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Issues and actions[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Issues and actions" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2><h3 style="background: none; font-weight: bold; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Predatory lending and affordable housing</h3><h2 linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177);"><div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><div class="mw-parser-output" style="">ACORN investigated complaints against companies accused of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_lending" title="Predatory lending" style="font-weight: 400; background: none; text-decoration: none;">predatory lending</a> practices. ACORN also worked to support strict state laws against predatory practices, organized against <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreclosure_rescue_scheme" title="Foreclosure rescue scheme" style="font-weight: 400; background: none; text-decoration: none;">foreclosure rescue scams</a>, and steered borrowers toward loan counseling;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-ACORN_2003-17" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[17]</a> Following a three-year campaign, Household International (now owned by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSBC" title="HSBC" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">HSBC Holdings</a> and renamed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSBC_Finance" title="HSBC Finance" style="font-weight: 400; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">HSBC Finance Corporation</a>), one of the largest <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subprime_lending" title="Subprime lending" style="font-weight: 400; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">subprime lenders</a> in the country, and ACORN announced on November 25, 2003 a proposed settlement of a 2002 national <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class-action_lawsuit" class="mw-redirect" title="Class-action lawsuit" style="font-weight: 400; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">class-action lawsuit</a> brought by ACORN. The settlement created a $72 million foreclosure avoidance program to provide relief to household borrowers who were at risk of losing their homes.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-ACORN_2003-17" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[17]</a> The settlement came on the heels of an earlier $484 million settlement between Household, Attorneys General, and bank regulators from all 50 U.S. states.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[18]</a>ACORN and its affiliates advocated for affordable housing by urging the development, rehabilitation and establishment of housing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust(law)" class="mw-redirect" title="Trust (law)" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">trust funds</a> at the local, state, and federal levels.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-a44-19" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[19]</a> The group also pushed for enforcement of affordable-housing requirements for developers and promoted programs to help homeowners repair their homes and organize tenant demands.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-a44-19" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[19]</a> An ACORN official voiced support for a proposal <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton" title="Hillary Clinton" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Hillary Clinton</a> made during the 2008 presidential primary election to create a federal fund for distressed homeowners.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-20" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[20]</a></div></div></h2><h3 style="background: none; font-weight: bold; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Living wages</h3><h2 linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177);"><div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><div class="mw-parser-output"><div class="thumb tright" style="clear: right; float: right; margin: 0.5em 0px 1.3em 1.4em; width: auto; background-color: transparent;"><div class="thumbinner" style="min-width: 100px; border: 1px solid rgb(200, 204, 209); padding: 3px; background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); text-align: center; overflow: hidden; width: 222px;">
<div class="thumbcaption" style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 3px; text-align: left;"><div class="magnify" style="float: right; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:RoyalAcornSignL9W10Dec07.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="width" height="height" viewbox="%220" e="E" cg="Cg" id="%22smallbox%22" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%23000%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" d="%22M-1.499" h10.99v7.919h1.509z="h10.99v7.919H1.509z" h5.943v4.904h-5.943z="h5.943v4.904h-5.943z" c="C" g="g" display="display" block="block" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" user-select="user-select" none="none" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data" /></div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:RoyalAcornSignL9W10Dec07.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="width" height="height" viewbox="%220" e="E" cg="Cg" id="%22smallbox%22" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%23000%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" d="%22M-1.499" h10.99v7.919h1.509z="h10.99v7.919H1.509z" h5.943v4.904h-5.943z="h5.943v4.904h-5.943z" c="C" g="g" display="display" block="block" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" user-select="user-select" none="none" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">ACORN volunteers were among those making street and traffic signs in </a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans" title="New Orleans" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">New Orleans</a> to replace signage lost in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina" title="Hurricane Katrina" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Katrina</a> disaster.</div></div></div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_wage" title="Living wage" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Living wage</a> ordinances require private businesses that do business with the government to pay their workers a wage that enables them to afford basic necessities. ACORN has helped pass local living wage laws in 15 cities including <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago" title="Chicago" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Chicago</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Westminster,British_Columbia" class="mw-redirect" title="New Westminster, British Columbia" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">New Westminster, British Columbia</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland" class="mw-redirect" title="Oakland" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Oakland</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denver" title="Denver" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Denver</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">New York City</a>. ACORN maintained a website that provides strategic and logistical assistance on this issue to organizations nationwide.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">citation needed</a>]</div></div></h2><h3 style="background: none; font-weight: bold; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Hurricane Katrina relief</h3><h2 linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177);"><div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><div class="mw-parser-output" style="">ACORN members across the country, particularly in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_Coast" class="mw-redirect" title="Gulf Coast" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Gulf</a> region, organized fund-raising and organizing drives to ensure that victims of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina" title="Hurricane Katrina" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Hurricane Katrina</a> received assistance and will be able to return to affected areas.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">citation needed</a>] ACORN's home clean-out demonstration program has gutted and rebuilt over 1,850 homes with the help of volunteers. The ACORN Katrina Survivors Association formed in the aftermath of the storm is the first nationwide organization for Katrina survivors and has been working for equitable treatment for victims. Displaced citizens were bused into the city for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans" title="New Orleans" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">New Orleans</a> primary and general elections. By October 2007, ACORN said its Housing Services had helped more than 2,000 homeowners affected by the storm. The non-profit was officially working with the city on reconstruction.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[21]</a></div></div></h2><h3 style="background: none; font-weight: bold; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Education</h3><h2 linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177);"><div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><div class="mw-parser-output">ACORN supported <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_reform" title="Education reform" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">education reform</a>, usually in the form of organizing neighborhood groups and "community" or "ACORN schools". In <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago" title="Chicago" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Chicago</a>, ACORN has advocated for a certified teacher to be in every classroom. In <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California" title="California" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">California</a>, ACORN has documented the need for textbooks and school repairs. ACORN works with teachers unions to gain funding for school construction and more funding for schools.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-ACORN_school_overview-22" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[22]</a> ACORN also supports school reform and the "creation of alternative public schools" such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_school" title="Charter school" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">charter schools</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-ACORN_school_overview-22" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[22]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-a735-23" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[23]</a> ACORN opposed the privatization of some NYC schools, favoring its own Charter School plan.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-24" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[24]</a> The ACORN model for schools emphasizes small classes, parent involvement, qualified teachers and "community-oriented curricula".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-a735-23" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[23]</a></div></div></h2><h3 style="background: none; font-weight: bold; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Voter registration</h3><h2 linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177);"><div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><div class="mw-parser-output" style="">Since the 1980s, ACORN has conducted large-scale voter registration drives,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-25" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[25]</a> focusing primarily on registering poor and minority citizens.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-APMud-26" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[26]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-MiamiFuror-27" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[27]</a> During the 2008 election season, ACORN gathered over 1.3 million voter registration forms in 21 states. Some of these registration forms were flagged by ACORN's internal auditors for review by election officials. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Vote" title="Project Vote" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">Project Vote</a> estimated that 400,000 registrations collected by ACORN were ultimately rejected, the vast majority for being duplicate registrations submitted by citizens. (This is also a common problem at government voter registration services, according to reports on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Voter_Registration_Act" class="mw-redirect" title="National Voter Registration Act" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">National Voter Registration Act</a> by the U.S. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election_Assistance_Commission" title="Election Assistance Commission" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">Election Assistance Commission</a>). An unknown number of registrations were fraudulent, but Project Vote estimated that only a few percent were, based on past years and samples from some drives in 2008.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-NYTTally-28" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[28]</a> No official in states where voter registration drives were conducted has documented substantial numbers of fraudulent registrations. Project Vote estimated that 450,000 of the registrations collected by ACORN represented first-time voters, while the remainder were address changes submitted by citizens updating their addresses.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-NYTTally-28" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[28]</a>As required by law in most states, ACORN must submit all registration forms collected by its workers, including those flagged by ACORN as incomplete or suspicious. Fraudulent voter registrations are investigated at local, state, and federal levels, and have sometimes resulted in criminal convictions for ACORN employees. ACORN has fired employees for fraudulent registration practices and turned them over to authorities. As of 2006, ACORN was improving its fraud detection and reporting procedures, and cooperating with authorities in efforts to prosecute violators.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-KC_MO-29" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[29]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-SeattleTimes1-30" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[30]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-NYTIssues-31" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[31]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-32" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[32]</a> Jeff Ordower, ACORN's Midwest Director, observed, "There is no scenario where those people on problematic cards would show up at the polls."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-33" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[33]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-34" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[34]</a> Of 26,513 registrations submitted by ACORN over a nine-month period in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego_County,California" title="San Diego County, California" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">San Diego County, California</a>, 4,655 were initially flagged, but 2,806 of those were later validated. County officials said this resulted in a 7% error rate by ACORN, compared to usually less than 5% for voter drives by other organizations.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-san_diego_county-35" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[35]</a>In a 2007 case in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_state" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington state" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Washington state</a>, in which seven temporary employees of ACORN were charged with submitting fraudulent voter registrations, ACORN agreed to pay <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_County" class="mw-redirect" title="King County" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">King County</a> $25,000 for its investigative costs and acknowledged that the national organization could be subject to criminal prosecution if fraud occurs again. According to the prosecutor, the misconduct was done "as an easy way to get paid [by ACORN], not as an attempt to influence the outcome of elections."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-SeattleTimes1-30" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[30]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-36" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[36]</a> In August 2008, ACORN caught, fired and reported employees Maria Miles and Kevin Clancy of Milwaukee, who later pleaded guilty to repeatedly registering the names of the same registered voters.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-37" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[37]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-38" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[38]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-39" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[39]</a> In May 2009, six ACORN employees in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty to charges of a combined total of 51 counts of forgery and other violations while registering voters during the 2008 election cycle.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-40" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[40]</a>In plea deals in a 2009 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_Square(Las_Vegas)" title="Town Square (Las Vegas)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Las Vegas</a> case, former ACORN field director Amy Busefink and ACORN official Christopher Edwards pleaded guilty to "conspiracy to commit the crime of compensation for registration of voters," in connection with a quota system for paid registration staff.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-41" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[41]</a> Edwards was sentenced to a year's probation and agreed to testify for prosecutors in charges against ACORN and against Busefink. Busefink appealed her case to the Nevada Supreme Court, challenging the constitutionality of the statute.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-42" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[42]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-lvrj.com-43" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[43]</a> In April 2011, ACORN entered a guilty plea to one count of felony compensation for registration of voters, for which they were fined $5000,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-Fined-44" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[44]</a> but did not concede that the law was constitutional.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-lvrj.com-43" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[43]</a>In addition to conducting voter registration drives, ACORN has worked to remove systemic obstacles to voter registration. In 2006, it brought a lawsuit in federal court in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio" title="Ohio" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none;">Ohio</a> against the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_Secretary_of_State" title="Ohio Secretary of State" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none;">Ohio Secretary of State</a>, at that time <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Blackwell" title="Ken Blackwell" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none;">Ken Blackwell</a>, and the Director of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_Department_of_Job_and_Family_Services" title="Ohio Department of Job and Family Services" style="background: none; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none;">Ohio Department of Job and Family Services</a>. ACORN alleged that, during the period that included the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_United_States_election_voting_controversies" title="2004 United States election voting controversies" style="background: none; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none;">2004 United States election voting controversies</a>, the defendants had committed multiple violations of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Voter_Registration_Act_of_1993" title="National Voter Registration Act of 1993" style="background: none; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none;">National Voter Registration Act of 1993</a>. The district court dismissed the case, but that decision was reversed in 2008 by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Sixth_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit" style="background: none; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none;">United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-45" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[45]</a>After extensive fact discovery in 2009, the parties agreed to a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Settlement(litigation)" title="Settlement (litigation)" style="background: none; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none;">settlement</a>, under which the defendants agreed to implement several measures to facilitate registration of low-income voters to bring the state into compliance with the National Voting Rights Act.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-46" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[46]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-47" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[47]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-48" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[48]</a> The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayton_Daily_News" title="Dayton Daily News" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Dayton Daily News</a> characterized the settlement as "accepting the thrust of [ACORN's] complaint."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-49" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[49]</a></div></div></h2><h3 style="background: none; font-weight: bold; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Gun control</h3><h2 linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177);"><div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><div class="mw-parser-output">In 2006, ACORN intervened on behalf of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey_City" class="mw-redirect" title="Jersey City" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Jersey City</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jersey" title="New Jersey" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">New Jersey</a>, in a lawsuit brought against the city challenging a local ordinance that limited individuals' handgun purchases to one gun a month.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-toutant-50" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[50]</a> The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_County,New_Jersey" title="Hudson County, New Jersey" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Hudson County</a> Superior Court struck down the ordinance on the grounds that it violated the New Jersey Constitution's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Protection_clause" class="mw-redirect" title="Equal Protection clause" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Equal Protection clause</a>, and a state statute prohibiting towns and municipalities from enacting firearms legislation.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-toutant-50" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[50]</a> On September 29, 2008, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jersey_Superior_Court" title="New Jersey Superior Court" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">New Jersey Superior Court</a> Appellate Division denied ACORN's appeal of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_County" class="mw-redirect" title="Hudson County" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Hudson County</a> Superior Court's decision striking down Jersey City's ordinance.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-51" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[51]</a></div></div></h2><h3 style="background: none; font-weight: bold; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Home Defender Program</h3><h2 linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177);"><div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><div class="mw-parser-output">In 2009, ACORN advocated allowing homeowners delinquent in their mortgage payments to remain in their homes pending a government solution to the housing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreclosure" title="Foreclosure" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">foreclosure</a> crisis. ACORN introduced a program called the Home Defender Program, intended to mobilize people to congregate at homes faced with foreclosure to "defend a family's right to stay in their homes."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-52" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[52]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-53" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[53]</a> One ACORN Web page advocated <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience" title="Civil disobedience" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">civil disobedience</a> against foreclosure evictions stating that people in foreclosed homes should refuse to leave, and in some cases, move back in.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-54" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[54]</a></div></div></h2><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">History</h2><h2 linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177);"><div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><div class="mw-parser-output"><table class="vertical-navbox nowraplinks" style="float: right; clear: right; margin: 0px 0px 1em 1em; background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; border-spacing: 0.4em 0px; text-align: center; line-height: 1.4em; width: auto;"><tbody><tr><th style="padding: 0.2em 0.4em; line-height: 1.2em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squatting_in_the_United_States" title="Squatting in the United States" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; white-space: nowrap;">Squatting in
the United States</a></th></tr><tr><th class="navbox-title" style="padding: 0.1em; line-height: 1.5em; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(204, 204, 255);">International context</th></tr><tr><td class="plainlist" style="padding: 0.2em 0px 0.6em;"><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none none; line-height: inherit;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_housing" title="Right to housing" style="text-decoration: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">Right to housing</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><div style="padding: 0.2em 0.4em; line-height: 1.2em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights" title="Universal Declaration of Human Rights" style="text-decoration: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">Universal Declaration of
Human Rights</a></div></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><div style="padding: 0.2em 0.4em; line-height: 1.2em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Covenant_on_Economic,Social_and_Cultural_Rights" title="International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights" style="text-decoration: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">International Covenant on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights</a></div></li></ul></td></tr><tr><th class="navbox-title" style="padding: 0.1em; line-height: 1.5em; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(204, 204, 255);">Legal acquisition</th></tr><tr><td class="plainlist" style="padding: 0.2em 0px 0.6em;"><table class="vertical-navbox nowraplinks" style="float: right; clear: right; margin: 0px 0px 1em 1em; background: rgb(249, 249, 249); padding: 0.2em; border-spacing: 0.4em 0px; text-align: center; line-height: 1.4em; width: 226.094px; border: none;"><tbody><tr><th style="padding: 0.1em; background: rgb(231, 231, 255);">Principles</th></tr><tr><td style="padding: 0px 0.1em 0.4em;"><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none none; line-height: inherit;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweat_equity" title="Sweat equity" style="text-decoration: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">Sweat equity</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_principle" title="Homestead principle" style="text-decoration: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">Homestead principle</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_possession" title="Adverse possession" style="text-decoration: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">Adverse possession</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gift(law)" title="Gift (law)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">Gift</a></li></ul></td></tr><tr><th style="padding: 0.1em; background: rgb(231, 231, 255);">Programs</th></tr><tr><td style="padding: 0px 0.1em 0.4em;"><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none none; line-height: inherit;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_homesteading(housing)" title="Urban homesteading (housing)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">Urban homesteading</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0px;">1202a Nuisance Abatement Program</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordable_housing" title="Affordable housing" style="text-decoration: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">Low-income housing</a></li></ul></td></tr><tr><th style="padding: 0.1em; background: rgb(231, 231, 255);">Solution frameworks</th></tr><tr><td style="padding: 0px 0.1em 0.4em;"><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none none; line-height: inherit;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_cooperative" title="Housing cooperative" style="text-decoration: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">Housing cooperative</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_organization" title="Mutual organization" style="text-decoration: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">Mutual housing association</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_land_trust" title="Community land trust" style="text-decoration: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">Community land trust</a></li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><th class="navbox-title" style="padding: 0.1em; line-height: 1.5em; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(204, 204, 255);">Housing and justice</th></tr><tr><td class="plainlist" style="padding: 0.2em 0px 0.6em;"><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none none; line-height: inherit;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><div style="padding: 0.2em 0.4em; line-height: 1.2em;"><a class="mw-selflink selflink" style="text-decoration: inherit; background: none; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; white-space: nowrap;">Association of Community
Organizations for Reform Now</a></div></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homes_Not_Jails" title="Homes Not Jails" style="text-decoration: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">Homes Not Jails</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Union_of_the_Homeless" title="National Union of the Homeless" style="text-decoration: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">National Union of the Homeless</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squatting_in_the_United_States#Operation_Homestead" title="Squatting in the United States" style="text-decoration: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">Operation Homestead</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kensington_Welfare_Rights_Union" title="Kensington Welfare Rights Union" style="text-decoration: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">Kensington Welfare Rights Union</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Housers" title="Mad Housers" style="text-decoration: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">Mad Housers</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_Back_the_Land" title="Take Back the Land" style="text-decoration: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">Take Back the Land</a></li></ul></td></tr><tr><th class="navbox-title" style="padding: 0.1em; line-height: 1.5em; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(204, 204, 255);">Notable squats</th></tr><tr><td class="plainlist" style="padding: 0.2em 0px 0.6em;"><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none none; line-height: inherit;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_No_Rio" title="ABC No Rio" style="text-decoration: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">ABC No Rio</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dos_Blockos" title="Dos Blockos" style="text-decoration: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">Dos Blockos</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-Squat" title="C-Squat" style="text-decoration: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">C-Squat</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slab_City,California" title="Slab City, California" style="text-decoration: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">Slab City</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umoja_Village" title="Umoja Village" style="text-decoration: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">Umoja Village</a></li></ul></td></tr><tr><td style="text-align: right;"><div class="plainlinks hlist navbar mini" style="display: inline; font-weight: normal;"><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%23222%22/%3E" c="C" e="E" display="display" inline="inline" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" line-height="line-height" inherit="inherit" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li class="nv-view" style="margin: 0px; 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white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><div class="mw-parser-output"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wade_Rathke" title="Wade Rathke" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Wade Rathke</a> founded ACORN in 1970, after the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Welfare_Rights_Organization" title="National Welfare Rights Organization" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">National Welfare Rights Organization</a> (NWRO) sent him to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Rock,Arkansas" title="Little Rock, Arkansas" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Little Rock, Arkansas</a>, as an organizer.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-55" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[55]</a> Rathke had previously dropped out of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_College" title="Williams College" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Williams College</a> to promote <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft_resistance" class="mw-redirect" title="Draft resistance" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">draft resistance</a> for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_for_a_Democratic_Society" title="Students for a Democratic Society" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Students for a Democratic Society</a>. Gary Delgado and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Wiley" title="George Wiley" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">George Wiley</a> were also instrumental in its founding. ACORN's first campaign was to help welfare recipients attain their basic needs, such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clothing" title="Clothing" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">clothing</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furniture" title="Furniture" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">furniture</a>. This drive, inspired by a clause in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas" title="Arkansas" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Arkansas</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare(financial_aid)" class="mw-redirect" title="Welfare (financial aid)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">welfare</a> laws, began their effort to create and sustain a movement to assist welfare and lower-income working individuals; they developed the Arkansas Community Organizations for Reform Now, the beginnings of ACORN.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-Delgado-56" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[56]</a>ACORN's goal was to "unite welfare recipients with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_poor" title="Working poor" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">needy working people</a> around issues such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_School_Lunch_Act" title="National School Lunch Act" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">school lunches</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unemployment" title="Unemployment" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">unemployment</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_veteran" title="Vietnam veteran" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Vietnam veterans'</a> rights, and emergency room care."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-57" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[57]</a></div></div></h2><h3 style="background: none; font-weight: bold; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">1975–1980</h3><h2 linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177);"><div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><div class="mw-parser-output">In 1975, ACORN created branches in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas" title="Texas" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Texas</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Dakota" title="South Dakota" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">South Dakota</a>. On December 13, 1975, sixty leaders from the three ACORN states elected the first associate Executive Board and the first ACORN president, Steve McDonald, to deal with matters beyond the scope of the individual city and state boards. Each year thereafter ACORN chapters were established in three or more states, building to a total of 20 states represented by 1980. This expansion led to multi-state campaigns, beginning with a mass meeting of 1,000 members in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis,Tennessee" title="Memphis, Tennessee" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Memphis</a> in 1978. At the end of the conference, ACORN convention delegates marched on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Democratic_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Democratic Party" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Democratic Party</a> conference with the outline of a nine-point "People's Platform." When ratified in 1979, this became the foundation of ACORN's platform.ACORN was active in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_United_States_presidential_election" title="1980 United States presidential election" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">1980 Election</a> with the "People's Platform" serving as its standard.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-58" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[58]</a> It led <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demonstration(people)" class="mw-redirect" title="Demonstration (people)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">demonstrations</a> aimed at both major party candidates; demanded to meet with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter" title="Jimmy Carter" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">President Jimmy Carter</a>; marched on the president's campaign finance committee chair's home; and presented its platform to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Republican_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Republican Party" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Republican Party</a> platform committee.</div></div></h2><h3 style="background: none; font-weight: bold; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">1981–1989</h3><h2 linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177);"><div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><div class="mw-parser-output" style="">By 1980, ACORN's staff was stretched thin by the demands of meeting its expansion goals. Much of its resources and energy had been dedicated to the presidential primaries and national party conventions. ACORN launched <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squatting" title="Squatting" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">squatting</a> campaigns in an attempt to obtain affordable housing, and encouraged <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squatter" class="mw-redirect" title="Squatter" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">squatters</a> to refit the premises for comfortable living.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">citation needed</a>]In June 1982, ACORN sponsored "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Reagan</a> Ranches" in Washington, DC and more than 35 other cities, in reaction to its belief that the president was focused on military as opposed to social spending. These <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tent_city" title="Tent city" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">tent cities</a> were erected for two days on national park grounds; they were resisted by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Park_Service" title="National Park Service" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">National Park Service</a>, which tried repeatedly to evict the tenters. The protesters remained; they marched on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House" title="White House" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">White House</a> and members testified before a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress" title="United States Congress" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">Congressional committee</a> about what they described as the housing crisis in America. The last Reagan Ranch was held at the Republican Convention in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas,Texas" class="mw-redirect" title="Dallas, Texas" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">Dallas</a> in 1984.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">citation needed</a>]In addition to protesting, ACORN also developed and strengthened its <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_action_committee" title="Political action committee" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">political action committees</a> and encouraged its members to run for office. For the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_United_States_presidential_election" title="1984 United States presidential election" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">1984 election</a> ACORN wanted to endorse a candidate, setting a 75% support in polls among members as its requirement. No candidate reached that level, though there was strong support for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Jackson" title="Jesse Jackson" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Jesse Jackson</a>. ACORN also established a legislative office that year in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,DC" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington, DC" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Washington, DC</a>. During this period ACORN also focused on local election reform in a number of cities, including <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania" class="mw-redirect" title="Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Pittsburgh</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia,South_Carolina" title="Columbia, South Carolina" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Columbia, South Carolina</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sioux_Falls,South_Dakota" title="Sioux Falls, South Dakota" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Sioux Falls, South Dakota</a>. They encouraged cities to change legislative bodies whose members were elected <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-large" title="At-large" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">at-large</a> to electing members by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-member_district" title="Single-member district" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">single-member district</a>, which resulted in more participation by minorities, including women. At-large voting tends to favor candidates who can appeal to the majority and who can command more campaign funding, reducing participation by a wider variety of citizens.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-59" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[59]</a>By the end of Reagan's first term, ACORN operated in 27 states, adding chapters in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">New York City</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,DC" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington, DC" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Washington, DC</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago" title="Chicago" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Chicago</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-Delgado-56" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[56]</a> During the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_United_States_presidential_election" title="1988 United States presidential election" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">1988 Election</a>, ACORN held its National Convention in the same city as the Democratic Convention — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta" title="Atlanta" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Atlanta</a>.ACORN's membership grew to more than 70,000 in 28 states during this time. It increased its legislative lobbying efforts in Washington, DC, and strengthened its <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_Action_Committee" class="mw-redirect" title="Political Action Committee" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Political Action Committees</a> (PACs). It also developed what it called the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Affiliated_Media_Foundation_Movement&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Affiliated Media Foundation Movement (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Affiliated Media Foundation Movement</a> (AM/FM). Starting with station <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KNON" title="KNON" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">KNON</a> in Dallas, AM/FM established radio stations, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UHF" class="mw-redirect" title="UHF" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">UHF</a> television and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_television" title="Cable television" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">cable television</a> programming. It also sought and received appointments to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolution_Trust_Corporation" title="Resolution Trust Corporation" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Resolution Trust Corporation</a> (RTC), which was formed to dissolve the assets of failed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan" class="mw-redirect" title="Savings and loan" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Savings and Loans</a> resulting from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_Loan_crisis" class="mw-redirect" title="Savings and Loan crisis" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Savings and Loan crisis</a>.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">citation needed</a>]</div></div></h2><h3 style="background: none; font-weight: bold; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">1988–1998</h3><h2 linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177);"><div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><div class="mw-parser-output" style=""><div class="thumb tright" style="font-weight: 400; clear: right; float: right; margin: 0.5em 0px 1.3em 1.4em; width: auto; background-color: transparent;"><div class="thumbinner" style="min-width: 100px; border: 1px solid rgb(200, 204, 209); padding: 3px; background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); text-align: center; overflow: hidden; width: 222px;">
<div class="thumbcaption" style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 3px; text-align: left;"><div class="magnify" style="float: right; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Acorn_pred_lend.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="width" height="height" viewbox="%220" e="E" cg="Cg" id="%22smallbox%22" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%23000%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" d="%22M-1.499" h10.99v7.919h1.509z="h10.99v7.919H1.509z" h5.943v4.904h-5.943z="h5.943v4.904h-5.943z" c="C" g="g" display="display" block="block" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" user-select="user-select" none="none" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data" /></div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Acorn_pred_lend.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="width" height="height" viewbox="%220" e="E" cg="Cg" id="%22smallbox%22" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%23000%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" d="%22M-1.499" h10.99v7.919h1.509z="h10.99v7.919H1.509z" h5.943v4.904h-5.943z="h5.943v4.904h-5.943z" c="C" g="g" display="display" block="block" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" user-select="user-select" none="none" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">ACORN member demonstrating against </a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_lending" title="Predatory lending" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">predatory lending</a></div></div></div>While some of ACORN's most notable efforts were in the area of housing, it has counted health, public safety, education, representation, work and workers' rights and communications concerns among its victories. The 1990 ACORN convention in Chicago focused on the fast-breaking housing campaign. It featured a squatting demonstration at an RTC house. ACORN members demanded that banks provide loan data on low- and moderate-income communities and comply with the 1977 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Reinvestment_Act" title="Community Reinvestment Act" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Community Reinvestment Act</a> (CRA). ACORN fought weakening of the CRA in 1991, staging a two-day takeover of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Banking_Committee" class="mw-redirect" title="House Banking Committee" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">House Banking Committee</a> hearing room. It established ACORN Housing Corporation to assist people in moving into homes under the housing campaign, and to rehabilitate hundreds of houses addressed by the CRA.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-60" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[60]</a> The ACORN convention in New York in 1992, called the "ACORN-Bank Summit", was organized to make deals with giant banks. When <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citibank" title="Citibank" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Citibank</a>, the nation's largest bank, did not participate, conventioneers protested at its downtown <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan" title="Manhattan" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Manhattan</a> headquarters, and won a meeting to negotiate for similar programs.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">citation needed</a>]ACORN supported and lobbied for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Voter_Registration_Act_of_1993" title="National Voter Registration Act of 1993" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">"Motor Voter" Act</a>, which provided for voter registration at motor vehicle bureaus. After its passage, ACORN members attended <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton" style="font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; background: none;">President Clinton's</a> signing ceremony. ACORN worked for new voter registration laws in Arkansas and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts" title="Massachusetts" style="font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; background: none;">Massachusetts</a> and filed suit in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois" title="Illinois" style="font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; background: none;">Illinois</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana" title="Louisiana" style="font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; background: none;">Louisiana</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan" title="Michigan" style="font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; background: none;">Michigan</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri" title="Missouri" style="font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; background: none;">Missouri</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jersey" title="New Jersey" style="font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; background: none;">New Jersey</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania" title="Pennsylvania" style="font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; background: none;">Pennsylvania</a> against certain state practices as a result of the act.In 1993, ACORN also began a national campaign to fight <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurance" title="Insurance" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">insurance</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining" title="Redlining" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">redlining</a>, a practice that put the gains made in other housing campaigns at risk. The campaign targeted <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allstate" title="Allstate" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Allstate</a>, hitting sales offices in 14 cities and a stockholders meeting. Allstate agreed to negotiate and signed an agreement in 1994 for a $10 million partnership with ACORN and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NationsBank" title="NationsBank" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">NationsBank</a> for below-market mortgages to low-income home-buyers. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelers_Insurance" class="mw-redirect" title="Travelers Insurance" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Travelers Insurance</a> agreed to a Neighborhood and Home Safety Program, linking access to insurance and lower rates to public safety programs.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">citation needed</a>]</div></div></h2><h3 style="background: none; font-weight: bold; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">1998–2009</h3><h2 linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177);"><div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><div class="mw-parser-output" style="">ACORN has worked on supporting a "Living Wage" programs, voter registration, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grassroots_democracy" title="Grassroots democracy" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">grassroots political organization</a>.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">when?</a>]In 1998, ACORN helped form the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_Families_Party" title="Working Families Party" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Working Families Party</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York(state)" title="New York (state)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">New York</a>, which had made increasing the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage" title="Minimum wage" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">minimum wage</a> as its centerpiece issue.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">citation needed</a>]A March 27, 2003 decision of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Labor_Relations_Board" title="National Labor Relations Board" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">National Labor Relations Board</a> found that ACORN tried to thwart <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_union" class="mw-redirect" title="Labor union" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">union organizing</a> efforts within its own organization by laying off two workers who were trying to organize.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-nlrb-61" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[61]</a> The two workers, both field organizers with ACORN, began discussions with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_Employees_International_Union" title="Service Employees International Union" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Service Employees International Union</a> and later sought to organize under <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Workers_of_the_World" title="Industrial Workers of the World" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Industrial Workers of the World</a>, seeking to improve their $20,200 annual salary for a 54-hour work week.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-62" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[62]</a> The NLRB ordered the two employees be reinstated in their former jobs and that ACORN cease from interrogating employees about organizing activity.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-nlrb-61" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[61]</a>In 2004, Florida ACORN helped to raise Florida's minimum wage by $1.00 per hour, by lobbying for a minimum wage amendment to be placed on the ballot. Over 1 million Florida employees were affected by the raise, which is adjusted annually for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation" title="Inflation" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">inflation</a>. That year, ACORN became an international organization, opening offices in Canada, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peru" title="Peru" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Peru</a>, and beginning work in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic" title="Dominican Republic" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Dominican Republic</a>. Offices have subsequently been opened in Mexico and Argentina.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">citation needed</a>]<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_International" title="ACORN International" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">ACORN International</a> was created in 2004 by members and staff of the organizations.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">citation needed</a>]</div></div></h2><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Budget[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Budget" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2><h2 linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177);"><div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><div class="mw-parser-output" style="">Until the controversies of 2008 and 2009, ACORN had an annual budget of approximately US$25 million, with approximately 10% of those funds coming from federal sources, a smaller figure from state sources, and the rest coming from supporters and membership. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Housing_and_Urban_Development" title="United States Department of Housing and Urban Development" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">HUD</a> estimated that ACORN received $42 million in federal funds since the 2000 budget year; the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee estimated that ACORN received $53 million since 1994.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-msnbc-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[2]</a></div></div></h2><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Controversies</h2><h2 linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177);"><div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><div class="mw-parser-output">ACORN was a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonpartisan" class="mw-redirect" title="Nonpartisan" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">nonpartisan</a> organization, but its legally separate political action arm frequently endorsed causes and candidates, including the 2008 Democratic presidential nominee <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Barack Obama</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-about-acorn-5" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[5]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-wsj0731-63" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[63]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-64" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[64]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-endorse_obama-65" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[65]</a> ACORN lobbied every <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_National_Convention" title="Democratic National Convention" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Democratic National Convention</a> since <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Democratic_National_Convention" title="1980 Democratic National Convention" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">1980</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-a730-66" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[66]</a> and had members elected as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delegate(American_politics)" title="Delegate (American politics)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">delegates</a> to those conventions;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-a730-66" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[66]</a> ACORN also lobbied at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Republican</a> conventions.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-a730-66" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[66]</a> ACORN was criticized by Republicans for its support of Democratic candidates and for its general support of political positions that are more often favored by Democrats.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-wsj0731-63" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[63]</a>In a report released in October 2008, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.Department_of_Justice" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Department of Justice" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">U.S. Department of Justice</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspector_General" class="mw-redirect" title="Inspector General" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Inspector General</a> concluded that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.Attorney_General" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Attorney General" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">U.S. Attorney General</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Gonzales" title="Alberto Gonzales" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Alberto Gonzales</a> fired <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.Attorney" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Attorney" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">U.S. Attorney</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Iglesias(attorney)" title="David Iglesias (attorney)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">David Iglesias</a> (one of nine US attorneys removed in 2006) for political reasons after Iglesias failed to prosecute a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Mexico" title="New Mexico" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">New Mexico</a> ACORN chapter. The report said claims that Iglesias was fired for poor performance were not credible, and the "real reason for Iglesias's removal was the complaints from New Mexico Republican politicians and party activists about how Iglesias handled voter fraud [cases]."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-67" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[67]</a> Iglesias did not believe there was sufficient evidence to support prosecution by the government.During the debate on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Economic_Stabilization_Act_of_2008" title="Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008</a>, some commentators claimed that a draft provision (omitted in the adopted bill) to give money to funds run by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.Department_of_the_Treasury" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Department of the Treasury" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">U.S. Department of the Treasury</a> could potentially lead to money flowing to groups like ACORN.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-wsj0731-63" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[63]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-68" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[68]</a> When asked how much money ACORN or other community groups would get, a spokesman for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Committee_on_Financial_Services" title="United States House Committee on Financial Services" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Financial Services Committee</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chairman" class="mw-redirect" title="Chairman" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">chairman</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_Frank" title="Barney Frank" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Barney Frank</a>, said, "Absolutely none. All funds would go to state and local governments."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-cbs-11" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[11]</a> Critics also claimed that ACORN's complex organizational structure allowed it to escape public scrutiny.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-69" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[69]</a></div></div></h2><h3 style="background: none; font-weight: bold; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">2008</h3><h2 linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177);"><div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><div class="mw-parser-output" style="">ACORN was among groups conducting voter registration drives prior to the 2008 presidential election; Republicans alleged they were responsible for voter registration fraud and had a conflict of interest. During the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Democratic_Presidential_Primary" class="mw-redirect" title="2008 Democratic Presidential Primary" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2008 Democratic Presidential Primary</a>, ACORN's national <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_action_committee" title="Political action committee" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">political action committee</a>, ACORN Votes, endorsed Barack Obama.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-70" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[70]</a> Obama, with several other attorneys, had served as local counsel for ACORN more than a decade earlier in a 1995 voting rights lawsuit joined by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Justice" title="United States Department of Justice" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Justice Department</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Women_Voters" title="League of Women Voters" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">League of Women Voters</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-71" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[71]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-72" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[72]</a> Obama's campaign hired an ACORN affiliate for $800,000 to conduct a get-out-the-vote effort during that primary,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-davidbrown-73" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[73]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-yanooz-74" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[74]</a> but did not retain ACORN for the general presidential election.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-davidbrown-73" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[73]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-yanooz-74" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[74]</a>Throughout the election season, supporters of Republican candidates alleged that ACORN was responsible for widespread vote fraud. In October 2008, the campaign for Republican presidential candidate <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCain" title="John McCain" style="font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; background: none;">John McCain</a> released a Web-based advertisement claiming ACORN was responsible for "massive voter fraud," a point that Sen. McCain repeated in the final presidential debate. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FactCheck.org" title="FactCheck.org" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">FactCheck.org</a> called this claim "breathtakingly inaccurate," but acknowledged that ACORN had problems with phony registrations.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-75" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[75]</a> The ads also claimed that home loan programs ACORN promoted were partly responsible for the sub-prime mortgage crisis. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsweek" title="Newsweek" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Newsweek</a> and Factcheck.org also found these claims to be exaggerated and inaccurate.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-76" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[76]</a>A poll released in November 2009 by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Policy_Polling" title="Public Policy Polling" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Public Policy Polling</a> organization found that 52% of Republican Party members it surveyed, and 26% of respondents overall, believed in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theory" title="Conspiracy theory" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">conspiracy theory</a> that ACORN "stole" the election for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Barack Obama</a>. The Democratic polling organization commented that this was somewhat higher than belief in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birther" class="mw-redirect" title="Birther" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">birther</a> conspiracy theories.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-77" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[77]</a> (In a follow-poll in 2012, PPP found that 49% of Republicans, nearly the same percentage as in 2009, believed that ACORN had stolen the 2012 election for Obama, despite the fact that by then ACORN was no longer operating.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-78" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[78]</a>)</div></div></h2><h3 style="background: none; font-weight: bold; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">2008–2009</h3><h2 linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177);"><div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><div class="mw-parser-output"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The New York Times</a> reported on July 9, 2008, that Dale Rathke, the brother of ACORN's founder Wade Rathke, was found to have <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embezzlement" title="Embezzlement" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">embezzled</a> $948,607.50 from the group and affiliated charitable organizations in 1999 and 2000.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-nytstrom-79" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[79]</a> ACORN executives decided to handle it as an internal matter, and did not inform most of the board members or law enforcement, and instead signed an enforceable restitution agreement with the Rathke family to repay the amount of the embezzlement. $210,000 has already been repaid, and a donor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drummond_Pike" title="Drummond Pike" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Drummond Pike</a>, has offered to pay the remaining debt.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-80" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[80]</a> The Times reported that, according to Wade Rathke, "the decision to keep the matter secret was not made to protect his brother but because word of the embezzlement would have put a 'weapon' into the hands of enemies of ACORN, a liberal group that is a frequent target of conservatives who object to ACORN's often strident advocacy on behalf of low- and moderate-income families and workers." A whistleblower revealed the embezzlement in 2008. On June 2, 2008, Dale Rathke was dismissed, and Wade stepped down as ACORN's chief organizer, but he remains chief organizer for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_International" title="ACORN International" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Acorn International L.L.C.</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-nytstrom-79" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[79]</a>In September 2008, following revelations of Dale Rathke's embezzlement, two members of ACORN's national board of directors filed a lawsuit seeking to obtain financial documents and to force the organization to sever ties with Wade Rathke.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-81" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[81]</a> ACORN's executive committee voted unanimously to remove the two, "because their actions—such as releasing a confidential legal memo to the press—were damaging the organization."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-82" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[82]</a>In October 2009, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana" title="Louisiana" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Louisiana</a> Attorney General <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Buddy_Caldwell&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Buddy Caldwell (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Buddy Caldwell</a> claimed in a subpoena that ACORN's board of directors found that a larger amount—$5 million—had been embezzled from the organization. Bertha Lewis, ACORN's CEO, said the allegation is false.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-83" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[83]</a> On November 6, following up on the subpoena, Caldwell served a search warrant at the ACORN headquarters in New Orleans.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-84" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[84]</a> Caldwell stated, "This is an investigation of everything—Acorn, the national organization, the local organization and all of its affiliated entities."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-85" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[85]</a></div></div></h2><h3 style="background: none; font-weight: bold; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">2009</h3><h2 linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177);"><div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><div class="mw-parser-output" style=""><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable" style="padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;">Main article: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy" title="ACORN 2009 undercover videos controversy" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">ACORN 2009 undercover videos controversy</a></div>In September 2009, conservative activists <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Giles" class="mw-redirect" title="Hannah Giles" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Hannah Giles</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_O%27Keefe" title="James O'Keefe" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">James O'Keefe</a> publicized selectively edited<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-86" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[86]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-87" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[87]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-CA_AG_Release-88" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[88]</a> hidden camera recordings through <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News" title="Fox News" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Fox News</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Breitbart" title="Andrew Breitbart" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Andrew Breitbart's</a> website <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BigGovernment.com" class="mw-redirect" title="BigGovernment.com" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">BigGovernment.com</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-CA_AG_Report-8" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[8]</a> In the videos, Giles posed as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution" title="Prostitution" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">prostitute</a> and O'Keefe posed as her boyfriend in order to elicit damaging responses from employees of ACORN.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-CA_AG_Report-8" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[8]</a> The videos were recorded over the summer of 2009 while visiting ACORN offices in eight cities,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-89" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[89]</a> and purported to show low-level ACORN employees in several cities providing advice to Giles and O'Keefe on how to avoid taxes and detection by the authorities with regard to their plans to engage in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_evasion" title="Tax evasion" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">tax evasion</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_smuggling" class="mw-redirect" title="Human smuggling" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">human smuggling</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_prostitution" title="Child prostitution" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">child prostitution</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-NYT20090919shane-90" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[90]</a> After the videos were made public, the U.S. Congress voted to eliminate federal funding to ACORN. Although the resolutions were later nullified in a federal court ruling that the measure was an unconstitutional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_attainder" title="Bill of attainder" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">bill of attainder</a>, on August 13, 2010, a federal appeals court upheld the congressional act that cut off federal funding for ACORN.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-times-acorn-lorber-91" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[91]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-TAYLOR-92" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[92]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-FOX-93" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[93]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-autogenerated1-94" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[94]</a> In March 2010, ACORN announced it would be closing its offices and disbanding due to loss of funding from government and private donors.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-95" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[95]</a>On December 7, 2009, the former <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Attorney_General" title="Massachusetts Attorney General" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Massachusetts Attorney General</a>, after an independent internal investigation of ACORN, found the videos that had been released appeared to have been edited, "in some cases substantially". He found no evidence of criminal conduct by ACORN employees, but concluded that ACORN had poor management practices that contributed to unprofessional actions by a number of its low-level employees.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-Proskauer-96" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[96]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-97" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[97]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-98" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[98]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-99" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[99]</a> On March 1, 2010, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_Attorney" class="mw-redirect" title="District Attorney" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">District Attorney</a>'s office for Brooklyn determined that the videos were "heavily edited" and "many of the seemingly crime-encouraging answers were taken out of context so as to appear more sinister",<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-100" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[100]</a> and concluded that there was no criminal wrongdoing by the ACORN staff in the videos from the Brooklyn ACORN office.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-NYT2010Newman-101" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[101]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-Salon2010Madden-102" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[102]</a> On April 1, 2010, an investigation by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Attorney_General" class="mw-redirect" title="California Attorney General" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">California Attorney General</a> found the videos from Los Angeles, San Diego and San Bernardino to be "heavily edited,"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-CA_AG_Report-8" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[8]</a> and the investigation did not find evidence of criminal conduct on the part of ACORN employees.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-CA_AG_Report-8" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[8]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-CA_AG_Release-88" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[88]</a> On June 14, 2010, the U.S. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Accountability_Office" title="Government Accountability Office" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Government Accountability Office</a> (GAO) released its findings which showed that ACORN evidenced no sign that it, or any of its related organizations, mishandled any federal money they had received.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-103" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[103]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-104" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[104]</a></div></div></h2><h3 style="background: none; font-weight: bold; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Defund ACORN Act[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Defund ACORN Act" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3><h2 linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177);"><div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><div class="mw-parser-output">In late 2009, after various allegations of criminal activity due to the videos, a number of Democrats who once advertised their connections to ACORN began to distance themselves, as Republicans began to use the ACORN allegations to portray Democrats as corrupt.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-105" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[105]</a> In immediate response to the 2009 video controversy, the United States House and Senate, by wide margins, attached amendments to pending spending legislation that would temporarily prohibit the federal government from funding ACORN, or any agency that had been involved in similar scandals — including money authorized by previous legislation. President Obama signed the bill into law on October 1.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-Barron-106" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[106]</a>ACORN sued the United States Government in the United States District Court in Brooklyn over the measure, known as the "Defund ACORN Act", claiming it was a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_attainder" title="Bill of attainder" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">bill of attainder</a>, and therefore unconstitutional. Experts varied on the merit of the case, which was styled ACORN v. United States. One argument was that while government funding choices do not generally qualify as bills of attainder, the lack of a non-punitive regulatory purpose for the legislation may give a court "sufficient basis to overcome the presumption of constitutionality."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-suit-107" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[107]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-CRS-108" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[108]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-heritage-109" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[109]</a> The court issued a preliminary injunction that nullified the act.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-times-acorn-lorber-91" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[91]</a>In response to an inquiry from a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Housing_and_Urban_Development" title="United States Department of Housing and Urban Development" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Housing and Urban Development Department</a> lawyer, David Barron, the acting assistant attorney general for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Legal_Counsel" title="Office of Legal Counsel" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Office of Legal Counsel</a>, wrote a five-page memorandum concluding that the law does not prohibit the government from paying ACORN for services already performed.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-Barron-106" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[106]</a> On December 11, U.S. District Judge <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Gershon" title="Nina Gershon" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Nina Gershon</a> issued a preliminary injunction blocking the government from enforcing its temporary spending ban, a week before it was set to expire.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-WSJ-110" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[110]</a> The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Accountability_Office" title="Government Accountability Office" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Government Accountability Office</a> (GAO) opened an investigation of ACORN in December 2009.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-Politico-111" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[111]</a> In June 2010, the GAO released a preliminary report stating the investigation has found no sign the group or related organizations mishandled the $40 million in federal money they received from nine federal agencies.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-112" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[112]</a>On August 13, 2010 the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed Judge Gershon's decision.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-AP-08-13-10-113" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[113]</a> The appeals court cited a study finding that only 10% of ACORN's funding came from federal sources, and stated, "We doubt that the direct consequences of the appropriations laws temporarily precluding ACORN from federal funds were so disproportionately severe or so inappropriate as to constitute punishment."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-AP-08-13-10-113" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[113]</a> The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Constitutional_Rights" title="Center for Constitutional Rights" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Center for Constitutional Rights</a>, which had argued the case on ACORN's behalf, was considering a request for a rehearing by more judges of the 2nd Circuit.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-AP-08-13-10-113" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[113]</a></div></div></h2><h3 style="background: none; font-weight: bold; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">2010[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: 2010" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3><h2 linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177);"><div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><div class="mw-parser-output">On March 19, 2010, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The New York Times</a> reported that ACORN was on the verge of filing for bankruptcy; 15 of the group's 30 state chapters had disbanded over the previous six months, and other chapters (including the largest, in New York and California) renamed themselves and severed all ties to the national organization.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-bankruptcy-9" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[9]</a> Two unnamed ACORN officials told the Times that the following weekend, a teleconference was planned to discuss a bankruptcy filing; "private donations from foundations to Acorn [had] all but evaporated," and the federal government had distanced itself from the group.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-bankruptcy-9" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[9]</a> "[L]ong before the activist videos delivered what may become the final blow, the organization was dogged for years by financial problems and accusations of fraud."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-bankruptcy-9" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[9]</a> "That 20-minute video ruined 40 years of good work," said Sonja Merchant-Jones, former co-chairwoman of ACORN's recently closed Maryland chapter. "But if the organization had confronted its own internal problems, it might not have been taken down so easily."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-bankruptcy-9" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[9]</a>On March 22, 2010, National ACORN spokesman Kevin Whelan says the organization's board decided to close remaining state affiliates and field offices by April 1 because of falling revenues.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-114" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[114]</a> Other national operations continued operating for another several weeks before shutting for good.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-Politico-111" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[111]</a> On April 20, ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis reported that ACORN was "still alive. We're limping along. We're on life support."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-AP_4-20-115" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[115]</a> Lewis said that ACORN's annual budget had been reduced from $25 million to $4 million, and that its staff of 350 to 600 people had been reduced to four.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-AP_4-20-115" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[115]</a> Lewis explained the controversies had left a stain on ACORN, "sort of like a <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/scarlet_letter" class="extiw" title="wikt:scarlet letter" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">scarlet letter</a>," forcing the group to spend money defending itself against "one investigation after another."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-AP_4-20-115" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[115]</a></div></div></h2><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">ACORN-affiliated groups</h2><h2 linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177);"><div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><div class="mw-parser-output" style="">Some chapters continued operations by severing ties with the national organization:<ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%23222%22/%3E" c="C" e="E" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Members and staff of California ACORN founded a new organization, the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-ACCE-14" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[14]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">New York ACORN founded <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Communities_for_Change" title="New York Communities for Change" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">New York Communities for Change</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-bankruptcy-9" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[9]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">A Milwaukee offshoot of ACORN called Acorn Housing changed its name to Affordable Housing Centers of America<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-jsonline.com-15" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[15]</a> yet has retained the same tax and employee identification numbers that it held under its former name.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-116" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[116]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Popular_Democracy" title="Center for Popular Democracy" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Center for Popular Democracy</a> includes many of the old chapters of ACORN.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_note-journal-117" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[117]</a></li></ul></div></div></h2><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">References</h2><h2 linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177);"><div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><div class="mw-parser-output"><div class="reflist columns references-column-width" style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; 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Farrell (September 16, 2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2009/09/16/what-is-the-acorn-controversy-about/" style="text-decoration: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"What is the ACORN controversy about?"</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Science_Monitor" class="mw-redirect" title="Christian Science Monitor" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Christian Science Monitor</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=What+is+the+ACORN+controversy+about%3F&rft.date=2009-09-16&rft.au=Michael+B.+Farrell&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Ffeatures.csmonitor.com%2Fpolitics%2F2009%2F09%2F16%2Fwhat-is-the-acorn-controversy-about%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAssociation+of+Community+Organizations+for+Reform+Now" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-about-acorn-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;">^{ }<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_ref-about-acorn_5-0" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:a</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_ref-about-acorn_5-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">b</a> <cite class="citation web" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=12342" style="text-decoration: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"Who is ACORN? 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Retrieved September 15, 2009.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Who+is+ACORN%3F+%28organization+homepage%29&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.acorn.org%2Findex.php%3Fid%3D12342&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAssociation+of+Community+Organizations+for+Reform+Now" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_ref-6" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<cite class="citation" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=2617" style="text-decoration: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">What does ACORN do?</a>, ACORN, retrieved December 3, 2010</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=What+does+ACORN+do%3F&rft.pub=ACORN&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.acorn.org%2Findex.php%3Fid%3D2617&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAssociation+of+Community+Organizations+for+Reform+Now" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_ref-7" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">^{</a> }Joshua Akers, Eric Seymour, Diné Bulter and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wade_Rathke" title="Wade Rathke" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Wade Rathke</a>, '<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://radicalhousingjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/01_Long-Read_Akers-et-al_9-28.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; background: url(" upload.wikimedia.org="upload.wikimedia.org" wikipedia="wikipedia" commons="commons" icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif="Icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">Liquid tenancy: 'Post-crisis' economies of displacement, community organizing, and new forms of resistance</a>' in Radical Housing Journal, April 2019Vol 1(1): 9-28</li><li id="cite_note-CA_AG_Report-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;">^{ }<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_ref-CA_AG_Report_8-0" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:a</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_ref-CA_AG_Report_8-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">b</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_ref-CA_AG_Report_8-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">c</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_ref-CA_AG_Report_8-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">d</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_ref-CA_AG_Report_8-4" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">e</a> <cite class="citation web" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ag.ca.gov/cms_attachments/press/pdfs/n1888_acorn_report.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; background: url(" upload.wikimedia.org="upload.wikimedia.org" wikipedia="wikipedia" commons="commons" icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif="Icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">"Report of the Attorney General on the activities of ACORN"</a> (PDF). 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Retrieved May 12, 2011. <q style="quotes: " apos="apos">The leadership and staff that were working with ACORN in California made the decision to break off from ACORN and launch a new organization here in California called Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE).</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=January+13th+Statement&rft.pub=Alliance+of+Californians+for+Community+Empowerment&rft.date=2010-01-13&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.calorganize.org%2Fnode%2F683&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAssociation+of+Community+Organizations+for+Reform+Now" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-jsonline.com-15" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;">^{ }<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_ref-jsonline.com_15-0" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:a</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_ref-jsonline.com_15-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">b</a> <cite class="citation news" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/97339544.html" style="text-decoration: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"Milwaukee chosen to pilot program aimed at foreclosures"</a>. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. June 28, 2010. 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ACORN (press release). 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ACORN. 2003. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070928100304/http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=8500" style="text-decoration: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">Archived</a> from the original on September 28, 2007. 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ACORN. 2005. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071027035623/http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=9703" style="text-decoration: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">Archived</a> from the original on October 27, 2007. 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Retrieved December 3, 2010.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Detailed+History+of+ACORN%3ANew+Victories%2C+1995%E2%80%932002&rft.pub=ACORN&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.acorn.org%2Findex.php%3Fid%3D735&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAssociation+of+Community+Organizations+for+Reform+Now" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-24" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_ref-24" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<cite class="citation news" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Mark Walsh (March 14, 2001). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2001/03/14/26edison.h20.html" style="text-decoration: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"N.Y.C. 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Education Week.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=N.Y.C.+Parents+To+Vote+on+Edison+Charter+Plan&rft.date=2001-03-14&rft.au=Mark+Walsh&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.edweek.org%2Few%2Farticles%2F2001%2F03%2F14%2F26edison.h20.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAssociation+of+Community+Organizations+for+Reform+Now" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-25" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_ref-25" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">^{</a> }Christopher Hayes, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nation" title="The Nation" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The Nation</a>, September 1, 2008, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thenation.com/article/obamas-voter-registration-drive" style="text-decoration: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">Obama's Voter-registration Drive</a></li><li id="cite_note-APMud-26" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_ref-APMud_26-0" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<cite class="citation news" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Hastings, Deborah (October 18, 2008). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/2008-10-18-3995453887_x.htm" style="text-decoration: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"ACORN controversy: Voter fraud or mudslinging?"</a>. USA Today. Associated Press.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=USA+Today&rft.atitle=ACORN+controversy%3A+Voter+fraud+or+mudslinging%3F&rft.date=2008-10-18&rft.aulast=Hastings&rft.aufirst=Deborah&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.usatoday.com%2Fnews%2Fpolitics%2F2008-10-18-3995453887_x.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAssociation+of+Community+Organizations+for+Reform+Now" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-MiamiFuror-27" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_ref-MiamiFuror_27-0" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/campaign-2008/story/739642.html" style="text-decoration: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"Furor over ACORN allegations gaining momentum"</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_Herald" title="Miami Herald" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Miami Herald</a>,2008-10-24.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">dead link</a>]</li><li id="cite_note-NYTTally-28" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;">^{ }<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_ref-NYTTally_28-0" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:a</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_ref-NYTTally_28-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">b</a> <cite class="citation news" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Falcone, Michael; Moss, Michael (October 23, 2008). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/24/us/politics/24acorn.html" style="text-decoration: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"Groups Tally of New Voters Was Vastly Overstated"</a>. The New York Times. Retrieved March 27, 2010.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&rft.atitle=Groups+Tally+of+New+Voters+Was+Vastly+Overstated&rft.date=2008-10-23&rft.aulast=Falcone&rft.aufirst=Michael&rft.au=Moss%2C+Michael&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2008%2F10%2F24%2Fus%2Fpolitics%2F24acorn.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAssociation+of+Community+Organizations+for+Reform+Now" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-KC_MO-29" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_ref-KC_MO_29-0" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<cite class="citation news" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070625215229/http://www.thekansascitychannel.com/politics/10214492/detail.html" style="text-decoration: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"ACORN Workers Indicted For Alleged Voter Fraud"</a>. KMBC=TV. November 1, 2006. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thekansascitychannel.com/politics/10214492/detail.html" style="text-decoration: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">the original</a> on June 25, 2007.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=ACORN+Workers+Indicted+For+Alleged+Voter+Fraud&rft.date=2006-11-01&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thekansascitychannel.com%2Fpolitics%2F10214492%2Fdetail.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAssociation+of+Community+Organizations+for+Reform+Now" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-SeattleTimes1-30" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;">^{ }<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_ref-SeattleTimes1_30-0" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:a</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_ref-SeattleTimes1_30-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">b</a> <cite class="citation news" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Ervin, Keith (July 28, 2007). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003806904_webvotefraud26m.html" style="text-decoration: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"Felony charges filed against 7 in state's biggest case of voter-registration fraud"</a>. The Seattle Times. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071117153636/http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003806904_webvotefraud26m.html" style="text-decoration: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">Archived</a> from the original on November 17, 2007. Retrieved November 12, 2007.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Seattle+Times&rft.atitle=Felony+charges+filed+against+7+in+state%27s+biggest+case+of+voter-registration+fraud&rft.date=2007-07-28&rft.aulast=Ervin&rft.aufirst=Keith&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fseattletimes.nwsource.com%2Fhtml%2Flocalnews%2F2003806904_webvotefraud26m.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAssociation+of+Community+Organizations+for+Reform+Now" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-NYTIssues-31" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_ref-NYTIssues_31-0" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<cite class="citation news" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Strom, Stephanie (October 22, 2008). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/22/us/22acorn.html?r=1&sq=ACORN" style="text-decoration: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"Acorn Report Raises Issues of Legality"</a>. The New York Times. Retrieved November 19, 2007.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&rft.atitle=Acorn+Report+Raises+Issues+of+Legality&rft.date=2008-10-22&rft.aulast=Strom&rft.aufirst=Stephanie&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2008%2F10%2F22%2Fus%2F22acorn.html%3F_r%3D1%26sq%3DACORN&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAssociation+of+Community+Organizations+for+Reform+Now" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-32" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_ref-32" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">^{</a> }Sheffield, Reggie. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.pennlive.com/news/patriotnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1216864520180960.xml&coll=1" style="text-decoration: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"Former temp worker accused of bogus registrations"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081212014541/http://www.pennlive.com/news/patriotnews/index.ssf?%2Fbase%2Fnews%2F1216864520180960.xml&coll=1" style="text-decoration: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">Archived</a> 2008-12-12 at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Wayback Machine</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Patriot-News" title="The Patriot-News" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The Patriot-News</a> (Harrisburg, Penn.), July 24, 2008</li><li id="cite_note-33" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_ref-33" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<cite class="citation news" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Bill Dolan (October 2, 2008). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nwi.com/articles/2008/10/02/news/lake_county/doc5399904569d23a75862574d600010e55.txt" style="text-decoration: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"County rejects large number of invalid voter registrations"</a>. The Times Media Company.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=County+rejects+large+number+of+invalid+voter+registrations&rft.date=2008-10-02&rft.au=Bill+Dolan&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nwi.com%2Farticles%2F2008%2F10%2F02%2Fnews%2Flake_county%2Fdoc5399904569d23a75862574d600010e55.txt&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAssociation+of+Community+Organizations+for+Reform+Now" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-34" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_ref-34" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<cite class="citation news" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Bill Dolan (October 23, 2008). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nwi.com/articles/2008/10/23/news/top_news/doce273bd903d615e49862574ea00806d36.txt" style="text-decoration: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"ACORN defends fraudulent Lake voter drive"</a>. The Times Media Company.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=ACORN+defends+fraudulent+Lake+voter+drive&rft.date=2008-10-23&rft.au=Bill+Dolan&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nwi.com%2Farticles%2F2008%2F10%2F23%2Fnews%2Ftop_news%2Fdoce273bd903d615e49862574ea00806d36.txt&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAssociation+of+Community+Organizations+for+Reform+Now" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-san_diego_county-35" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_ref-san_diego_county_35-0" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<cite class="citation news" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Hiram Soto and Helen Gao (October 16, 2008). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20081016-1250-bn16acorn.html" style="text-decoration: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"ACORN active in voter registration in county"</a>. San Diego Union-Tribune.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=San+Diego+Union-Tribune&rft.atitle=ACORN+active+in+voter+registration+in+county&rft.date=2008-10-16&rft.au=Hiram+Soto+and+Helen+Gao&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.signonsandiego.com%2Fnews%2Fmetro%2F20081016-1250-bn16acorn.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAssociation+of+Community+Organizations+for+Reform+Now" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-36" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_ref-36" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<cite class="citation news" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Rachel La Corte (February 23, 2007). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.seattlepi.com/local/304877_acorn23.html" style="text-decoration: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"Reform group turned in 2000 suspicious voter registrations: County may make criminal inquiry"</a>. Seattle Post Intelligencer. 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Retrieved March 7,2012.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&rft.atitle=Acorn+Charged+in+Voter+Registration+Fraud+Case+in+Nevada&rft.date=2009-05-05&rft.aulast=Friess&rft.aufirst=Steve&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2009%2F05%2F05%2Fus%2F05acorn.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAssociation+of+Community+Organizations+for+Reform+Now" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-42" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_ref-42" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<cite class="citation news" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">McCoy, Cara (November 23, 2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/nov/23/ex-acorn-official-gets-probation-voter-registratio/" style="text-decoration: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"Ex-ACORN official gets probation for voter registration plan"</a>. Las Vegas Sun. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110611232846/http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/nov/23/ex-acorn-official-gets-probation-voter-registratio/" style="text-decoration: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">Archived</a> from the original on June 11, 2011. 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Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://acorn.org/index.php?id=12439&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=22521&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=12387&cHash=5ef36d5092" style="text-decoration: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">the original</a> on February 17, 2009.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Refusing+to+Leave%3A+ACORN+Members+Step+up+Fight+to+Stay+in+Homes&rft.date=2009-02-13&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Facorn.org%2Findex.php%3Fid%3D12439%26tx_ttnews%255Btt_news%255D%3D22521%26tx_ttnews%255BbackPid%255D%3D12387%26cHash%3D5ef36d5092&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAssociation+of+Community+Organizations+for+Reform+Now" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-55" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_ref-55" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<cite class="citation journal" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Stern, Sol (Spring 2003). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.city-journal.org/html/13_2_acorns_nutty_regime.html" style="text-decoration: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"ACORN's Nutty Regime for Cities"</a>. City Journal. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070127062301/http://www.city-journal.org/html/13_2_acorns_nutty_regime.html" style="text-decoration: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">Archived</a> from the original on January 27, 2007. 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Retrieved May 31, 2019.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=FactCheck.org&rft.atitle=ACORN+Accusations&rft.date=2008-10-18&rft.aulast=Henig&rft.aufirst=Jess&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.factcheck.org%2F2008%2F10%2Facorn-accusations%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAssociation+of+Community+Organizations+for+Reform+Now" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-71" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_ref-71" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<cite class="citation news" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Stephanie Strom (October 8, 2008). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/11/us/politics/11acorn.html" style="text-decoration: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"On Obama, Acorn and Voter Registration"</a>. The New York Times.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&rft.atitle=On+Obama%2C+Acorn+and+Voter+Registration&rft.date=2008-10-08&rft.au=Stephanie+Strom&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2008%2F10%2F11%2Fus%2Fpolitics%2F11acorn.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAssociation+of+Community+Organizations+for+Reform+Now" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-72" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_ref-72" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<cite class="citation news" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Barabak, Mark Z.; Seema Mehta (October 16, 2008). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-debate16-2008oct16,0,5385470.story" style="text-decoration: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"McCain, Obama duel in caustic debate finale"</a>. Los Angeles Times. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081019125354/http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-debate16-2008oct16,0,5385470.story" style="text-decoration: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">Archived</a>from the original on October 19, 2008. 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Retrieved April 3, 2010.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=California+Office+of+Attorney+General&rft.atitle=Brown+Releases+Report+Detailing+a+Litany+of+Problems+with+ACORN%2C+But+No+Criminality&rft.date=2010-04-01&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fag.ca.gov%2Fnewsalerts%2Frelease.php%3Fid%3D1888%26&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAssociation+of+Community+Organizations+for+Reform+Now" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-89" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_ref-89" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">^{</a> }According to the California Attorney General's investigation report, page 8, the recordings occurred in ACORN offices in eight cities: Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Brooklyn, Miami, Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Bernardino.</li><li id="cite_note-NYT20090919shane-90" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_ref-NYT20090919shane_90-0" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<cite class="citation news" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Shane, Scott (September 19, 2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/19/us/19sting.html" style="text-decoration: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"A Political Gadfly Lampoons the Left via YouTube"</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The New York Times</a>. 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Retrieved November 13, 2009.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&rft.atitle=Acorn+Sues+Over+Funding+Vote+in+House&rft.date=2009-11-12&rft.au=Kareem+Fahim&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2009%2F11%2F13%2Fnyregion%2F13acorn.html%3F_r%3D1&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAssociation+of+Community+Organizations+for+Reform+Now" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-CRS-108" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_ref-CRS_108-0" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<cite class="citation web" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Kenneth R. Thomas. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://volokh.com/files/acornattainder.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; background: url(" upload.wikimedia.org="upload.wikimedia.org" wikipedia="wikipedia" commons="commons" icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif="Icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">"The proposed "Defund ACORN Act": Is it a "Bill of Attainder?""</a> (PDF). Congressional Research Service. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091104183847/http://volokh.com/files/acornattainder.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; background: url(" upload.wikimedia.org="upload.wikimedia.org" wikipedia="wikipedia" commons="commons" icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif="Icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">Archived</a>(PDF) from the original on November 4, 2009. 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Wall Street Journal. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091215213228/http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126057881607388239.html" style="text-decoration: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">Archived</a> from the original on December 15, 2009. 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Retrieved December 17, 2009.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Politico.com&rft.atitle=GAO+Opens+ACORN+Investigation&rft.date=2009-12-17&rft.au=Jake+Sherman&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.politico.com%2Fnews%2Fstories%2F1209%2F30742.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAssociation+of+Community+Organizations+for+Reform+Now" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-112" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#cite_ref-112" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/06/14/congress.acorn/index.html" style="text-decoration: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">Preliminary report clears ACORN on funds</a>, CNN; 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background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"Federal appeals court in NY rules against ACORN"</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associated_Press" title="Associated Press" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Associated Press</a> (via <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTUU-TV" title="KTUU-TV" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">KTUU-TV</a> Alaska), August 13, 2010. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100815095239/http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=12975806" style="text-decoration: none; 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padding: 2px 0px 2px 0.9em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/30px-Commons-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="30" height="40" class="noviewer" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/45px-Commons-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/59px-Commons-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="1376" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /></td><td class="mbox-text plainlist" style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0.9em; width: 165.844px;">Wikimedia Commons has media related to <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:ACORN" class="extiw" title="commons:Category:ACORN" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">ACORN</a>.</td></tr></tbody></table><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%23222%22/%3E" c="C" e="E" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.acorn.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">ACORN website placeholder</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://firstrunfeatures.com/acornandthefirestormdvd.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">ACORN and the Firestorm 2018 Documentary</a></li></ul><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; 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border-top: 2px solid rgb(253, 253, 253); width: 103.375px;">Movements</th><td class="navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="line-height: 1.5em; border-color: rgb(253, 253, 253); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); border-top-width: 2px; border-top-style: solid; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; width: 1220px; padding: 0px;"><div style="padding: 0em 0.25em;"><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.125em 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%23222%22/%3E" c="C" e="E" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abahlali_baseMjondolo" title="Abahlali baseMjondolo" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">Abahlali baseMjondolo</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advisory_Service_for_Squatters" title="Advisory Service for Squatters" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">Advisory Service for Squatters</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a class="mw-selflink selflink" style="text-decoration: inherit; background: none; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; white-space: nowrap;">ACORN</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diggers" title="Diggers" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">Diggers</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurodusnie_Collective" title="Eurodusnie Collective" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">Eurodusnie Collective</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exodus_Collective" title="Exodus Collective" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">Exodus Collective</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homes_Not_Jails" title="Homes Not Jails" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">Homes Not Jails</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeless_Workers%27_Movement" title="Homeless Workers' Movement" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">Homeless Workers' Movement</a> (MTST)</li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_Not_Crisis" title="Justice Not Crisis" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">Justice Not Crisis</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landless_Workers%27_Movement" title="Landless Workers' Movement" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">Landless Workers' Movement</a> (MST)</li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Housers" title="Mad Housers" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">Mad Housers</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Union_of_the_Homeless" title="National Union of the Homeless" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">National Union of the Homeless</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Homes" title="Occupy Homes" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">Occupy Homes</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picture_the_Homeless" title="Picture the Homeless" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">Picture the Homeless</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plataforma_de_Afectados_por_la_Hipoteca" title="Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca</a> (PAH)</li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slum_Dwellers_International" title="Slum Dwellers International" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">Slum Dwellers International</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squatters%27_Action_for_Secure_Homes" title="Squatters' Action for Secure Homes" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">SQUASH</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_Back_the_Land" title="Take Back the Land" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">Take Back the Land</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_City_is_For_All" title="The City is For All" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">The City is For All</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Land_is_Ours" title="The Land is Ours" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">The Land is Ours</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Are_Here(collective)" title="We Are Here (collective)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">We Are Here</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Cape_Anti-Eviction_Campaign" title="Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="padding: 0.25em 1em; line-height: 1.5em; text-align: right; white-space: nowrap; background-color: rgb(221, 221, 255); border-top: 2px solid rgb(253, 253, 253); width: 103.375px;">In culture</th><td class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="line-height: 1.5em; border-color: rgb(253, 253, 253); background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 2px; border-top-style: solid; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; width: 1220px; padding: 0px;"><div style="padding: 0em 0.25em;"><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.125em 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%23222%22/%3E" c="C" e="E" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Squatter%27s_Tale" title="A Squatter's Tale" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">A Squatter's Tale</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Days(film)" title="Dark Days (film)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">Dark Days</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dear_Mandela" title="Dear Mandela" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">Dear Mandela</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_City:Lower_East_Side_Squatters_1992%E2%80%932000" title="Kill City: Lower East Side Squatters 1992–2000" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">Kill City</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lefties" title="Lefties" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">Lefties</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnificence(play)" title="Magnificence (play)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">Magnificence</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Lodgers" title="Night Lodgers" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">Night Lodgers</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Land!No_House!No_Vote!(book)" title="No Land! No House! No Vote! (book)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">No Land! No House! No Vote!</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squatter%27s_Rights(film)" class="mw-redirect" title="Squatter's Rights (film)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">Squatter's Rights</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Terrorist" title="The Good Terrorist" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">The Good Terrorist</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Harvest_Gypsies" title="The Harvest Gypsies" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">The Harvest Gypsies</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Silverado_Squatters" title="The Silverado Squatters" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">The Silverado Squatters</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Up,Two_Down" title="Two Up, Two Down" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">Two Up, Two Down</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_the_Invisible" title="We the Invisible" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">We the Invisible</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="padding: 0.25em 1em; line-height: 1.5em; text-align: right; white-space: nowrap; background-color: rgb(221, 221, 255); border-top: 2px solid rgb(253, 253, 253); width: 103.375px;">Connected topics</th><td class="navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="line-height: 1.5em; border-color: rgb(253, 253, 253); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); border-top-width: 2px; border-top-style: solid; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; width: 1220px; padding: 0px;"><div style="padding: 0em 0.25em;"><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.125em 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%23222%22/%3E" c="C" e="E" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_possession" title="Adverse possession" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">Adverse possession</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_social_centre" class="mw-redirect" title="Autonomous social centre" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">Autonomous social centre</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeganism" title="Freeganism" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">Freeganism</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; 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