Atlanta Escorts: Despite wrongs, ACORN provides voice for the poor

Posted on October 18th, 2009 in Atlanta escorts

Despite wrongs, ACORN provides voice for the poor
By Jerry Chautin
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, known as ACORN, is in the news again, and conservative politicians are going for the jugular vein. They smell blood and sense an opportunity to keep the ultraliberal, left-wing “scoundrels” at bay. That is because of a now infamous videotape depicting a prostitute and her pimp allegedly receiving counseling from an ACORN representative about how to break the law.
Even liberals, progressives and independents are appalled. Accordingly, politicians on both sides of the aisle are scampering to denounce the grassroots community group and cut off its federal funding.
ACORN has offices in 110 cities and is the largest neighborhood-based, anti-poverty group in the country. I had an opportunity to observe ACORN close up and personal in the late 1980s. At the time I was a volunteer advisory council member for the Atlanta Mortgage Consortium. I was the only mortgage banker on the council.

See the full article from “Atlanta Journal Constitution”



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