ACORN's problems long were evident even before ACORN members were
giving advice on how to take tax deductions for employing
underage El Salvadoran prostitutes. So serious are those
problems that--wonder of wonders!--even the Washington
Post now has noticed.
Reports the Post:
The liberal political organizing group ACORN faced internal
chaos and allegations of financial mismanagement and fraud long
before two young conservatives embarrassed the group with
undercover videos made at field offices in Washington and
across the country.
Internal ACORN documents show an organization in turmoil as
last year's presidential election approached, with a board torn
over how to handle embezzlement by the founder's brother and
growing concern that donor money and pension funds had been
plundered in the insider scheme.
Minutes from a meeting ACORN held in Los Angeles last summer
reveal a group then on the brink of financial collapse.
"Currently owe over $800k to IRS," the minutes note. "Haven't
paid medical bills of over $300k. We are essentially 'broke'
nationally and lots of offices are struggling."
Some top ACORN officials tried to shield the scheme, which
involved Dale Rathke, the brother of ACORN founder Wade Rathke.
"Leadership has no faith in staff. Wade betrayed them," the
minutes said.
There's something almost too delicious for words about a
self-styled "social justice" organization which does not pay the
medical bills of its workers. Or its taxes--its
contribution supposedly for our collective good. A few
years ago ACORN even sued the state of California attempting to
avoid paying the minimum wage because, well, they said they were
so busy promoting social justice that they
just couldn't afford to take care of their own
workers. Rather like unions which attempt to prevent their
own workers from unionizing.
You know ACORN is bad when,
as Matthew Vadum points out, even Jon Stewart points to the
mainstream media's enormous failure in discovering the facts and
covering the story.
