Community organizers close down after scandals

ACORN CEO Calls Right Wing Reaction To Fraud "McCarthyism"

Conservative activists got another reality check on their
potency when ACORN shut down its operations in an
announcement from Chicago.

Referring to "a series of well-orchestrated, relentless,
well-funded right wing attacks that are unprecedented since
the McCarthy era," ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis announced that the
board decided to close all remaining field office by April
1.

Stymied by falling revenues since the release of videos of a
Baltimore couple posing as a pimp and prostitute receiving
counseling from an ACORN operative, the executive accused
the originators of the videos of manufacturing them as a
"sensational story that led to rush to judgment and an
unconstitutional act by Congress."

The most successful operation undertaken by the community-
based organization was its work in registering hundreds of
thousands of low-income voters, a process beset by
allegations of fraud.

Though a Federal judge removed the organization from a
blacklist, citing the move as unconstitutional, the group
could no longer attract investors and thus reached a
decision to close its doors nationwide.