ACORN Shuts Down

Months after a blistering exposé showed its staff members giving tax and other advice to a pimp and his hooker, the national group of ACORN has announced it will close its doors.

In an e-mailed statement, ACORN official Kevin Whelan laid out the groundwork for closing the left-leaning activist group, whose national Nevada leader plead guilty to voter fraud and Barack Obama called his time there “the best education” he’s ever had:

The ACORN Association Board met on Sunday March 21 and approved a set of steps to responsibly manage the process of bringing its operations to a close over the coming months. These include:

* Closing ACORN’s remaining state affiliates and field offices by April 1st; and
* Developing a plan to resolve all outstanding debts, obligations and other issues.

ACORN’s members have a great deal to be proud of–from promoting to home ownership to helping rebuild New Orleans, from raising wages to winning safer streets, from training community leaders to promoting voter participation—ACORN members have worked hard to create stronger to communities, a more inclusive democracy, and a more just nation.

As Politico notes, ACORN was always a very decentralized group, with a great deal of its activity and power concentrated in local chapters from New York to Arkansas – the strongest of which will survive.

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