Everything for Youns

The attack on ACORN (The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) is shaping up to be the most vicious of the 2008 election. The problem is, we will have to suffer the consequences long after the election is over. This video about ACORN debunks the outrageous lies:

ACORN is accustomed to opposition. They’ve been educating, organizing, and empowering low-income communities for nearly 40 years. When you advocate with and for poor people against policies and practices that discriminate and keep communities from thriving, you make some enemies. But they’ve never seen anything like this.

When John McCain’s presidential campaign began sinking in the polls, they looked for a scapegoat. They picked ACORN. And now, in the past few weeks alone, ACORN staffers have received death threats in Ohio and Rhode Island, and offices have been vandalized in Washington and Massachusetts. Numerous threatening and racist phone calls have been made to ACORN offices across the country.

And then there’s FOX news, accusing ACORN of all kinds of criminal activity hundreds – HUNDREDS – of times during the past few days. You know what FOX news isn’t reporting? This: Just two years ago, John McCain himself stood in solidarity with ACORN, saying of our members, “they are what makes America special.”

McCain’s attacks have to stop. They are wrong, and the results for hundreds of thousands of people with whom we work will be disastrous.