See update at end of post below
Fox News is reporting that ACORN chief organizer (CEO) Bertha
Lewis lashed out at President Obama for choosing a finance
executive who refused to be bullied by the activist group to
be a fund manager in a toxic assets program:
"Given that the administration has invested a lot of political
capital and TARP funds into the creation of "Making Home
Affordable," we were shocked to see that one of the last
holdouts, "Home Wrecker" Wilbur Ross, has been selected by
Treasury to manage this effort designed to clean up banks'
balance sheets," ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis said in a statement.
"This is disappointing in the extreme, and calls into question
Treasury's commitment to preventing foreclosures when it
entrusts public funds to a corporate titan who has refused to
do the bare minimum in foreclosure prevention by joining the
administration's program."
ACORN said if Ross doesn't join the administration's program,
the Treasury Department should "yank his sweetheart deal."
"American homeowners and taxpayers demand nothing less than all
hands on deck to save the American dream and rescue the
economy," Lewis said. "Wilbur Ross has so far refused to do his
part. That must change, now."
Bear in mind this could all just be political theater and that
the president might secretly welcome the kick in the rear by
ACORN's Lewis in order to embarrass Invesco's Ross into getting
with the program.
Updated July 12: Ross's
company, American Home Mortgage Servicing, Inc., now says
it joined Obama's mortgage program on July 10.
