[Alumni-chat] ACORN

[YAZZ ALLEN]

August 30, 07
   
  Hi Dave Coldren!
   
  Hello from Yazz Allen (YazzAllen at Yahoo.Com!
   
  You mentioned ACORN negatively in a recent post, and I wanted to quote words about ACORN (for which I worked in the past, briefly) from THE NATION, mentioning the unfair attacks the right wing media has leveled at ACORN.
   
  (The Right Wing media has recently attacked) "the good work of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) – the largest community-based organization of low- and moderate-income people in the nation. 
   
  "ACORN has been highly effective in voter registration drives and ballot initiatives but it was unfairly tainted recently when conservative news outlets and right-wing bloggers widely circulated allegations by a fired employee. 
   
  "When a staffer was fired for suspicion of an illegal check cashing scheme, he filed a whistle blower lawsuit alleging that ACORN was withholding Republican registration cards, registering ineligible felons, selling voter lists for profit, and "knowingly [submitting] thousands of invalid registration cards." 
   
  "The right-wing media made it a big story but then ACORN countersued the former employee for defamation and libel. Not only was the individual's case dismissed by a federal judge but ACORN won its defamation case. However the ending to this story received far less attention than the initial trumped-up charges, and ACORN opponents continue to claim that the organization is engaged in voter fraud – even citing the bogus case described above." 
   
  Defamation of organized efforts to counter the current domination of the USA by will financed right wing forces is to be expected by the right wing media....but not taken seriously.
   
  Best,
  Yazz


 
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