States aim at ACORN, but little money at stake
Associated Press – September 23, 2009 4:14 AM ET
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – Republican governors and other state officials have moved quickly to sever ties with scandal plagued community activist group ACORN.
But it turns out the group has been doing little state business.
ACORN’s loss of federal contracts will cost it millions. But an Associated Press survey finds 37 states with no known active ties to the group and just one current contract.
Officials in five other states still were checking their databases.
Still, analysts say conservative politicians have little to lose by going after ACORN since employees were caught on video telling a couple posing as a prostitute and pimp how to lie to get government help.
ACORN also has been accused of voter registration fraud and lost $1 million to embezzlement by the founder’s brother.
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