When Is Obama Going To Give The “This Is Not The ACORN” I Knew Speech?
Sub prime loans, voter fraud, child prostitution, tax evasion and human trafficking. It’s absolutely stunning that Obama hasn’t issued the ‘This is not the ACORN I knew’ speech.
Via The Washington Times:
ACORN, calling the actions of some of its employees “indefensible,” has suspended advising new clients as part of its service programs and is setting up an independent review to see what happened.
ACORN chief executive Bertha Lewis said in a written statement that she was “ordering a halt to any new intakes into ACORN’s service programs until completion of an independent review.”
The actions were taken, she said, “as a result of indefensible action of a handful of our employees.”
Videos of ACORN workers giving tax advice to people posing as prostitutes and other revelations have led to growing criticism of the organization in recent days.
Only a handful of employees were turning a blind eye to child prostitution, human trafficking and tax evasion. The story continues:
ACORN stands for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. It advocates for poor people. It conducted a large voter registration effort last year and some employees were accused of submitting false registration forms with names such as “Mickey Mouse.” ACORN has said only a handful of employees submitted false registration forms.
Only a handful of employees were accused of voter fraud. I’m sure this happens all the time, no big deal. Right?
Speaking of community organizing, wasn’t Obama a community organizer and a big supporter of ACORN and ACORN a big supporter of Obama?
Via The WSJ:
There is a chance the latest scandals will convince Democrats that Acorn is too toxic a political partner. And President Barack Obama, who once ran a voter-registration program for an Acorn partner (Project Vote) and then worked for Acorn as a lawyer on key cases, has every incentive to distance himself further from the organization.
Former Acorn board members tell me the group has always been confident it will be protected. After the Nevada voter-registration fraud indictment last May, Bonnie Greathouse, Acorn’s chief organizer in the state, told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that “we’ve had bad publicity before” and survived. “People always come forward to our defense. We’re just community organizers, just like the president used to be.”
ACORN was a big supporter of Obama:
But, you can’t say we weren’t warned:
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