The End of ACORN?

I am not sure if many of you have heard about recent scandals involving ACORN. There is a really good possibility you have not because unless you watch Fox news or read the Wall Street Journal, almost every national news outlet chose to ignore this huge problem. ACORN which stands for Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now advocates for low- and moderate-income families by working on neighborhood safety, voter registration, health care, affordable housing, and other social issues. The real issue is the amount of taxpayer money they receive for several of their programs which is in the $100 billion. And for the past two years they have been found of fraudulently register voters and more recently give tax advice to a couple undercover as a pimp and prostitute. What makes the videos even more shocking is not only how blatantly ACORN employees give advice to start a brothel and claim underage illegal aliens on taxes but that they were caught in four different regions of the country. It was thing to have an isolated incident but from east to west coast indicates to me that this far greater than a small percentage of workers acting on their own. This stems from a more systemic problem, in which the organizational goals have been perverted from their original intent. With the recent video exposure, many state attorneys’ are filing investigations into ACORN activities and even the DOJ has launched an investigation into the internal dealings of ACORN. They were dropped from the US Census task force and BOFA dropped them as a corporate sponsor. I just do not think ACORN will be able to survive the firestorm and scrutiny that they will face over the next 6 months.