Was the largest radical group in America, with more than 400,000 dues-paying member families and more than 1,200 chapters in 110 U.S. cities as of 2008. ACORN, an acronym for Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, was widely implicated in voter-registration fraud, vote-rigging, voter intimidation, and vote-for-pay scams; pressured banks to lend money to underqualified minority borrowers; maintained close ties to organized labor; opposed capitalism; favored a government monopoly in healthcare; and advocated an open-door immigration policy. ACORN disbanded as a national entity in 2010, but continued thereafter, in the form of state-level groups bearing a variety of different names, to pursue its radical agendas. Continue Reading HERE.
Chronological History of Events Related to ACORN
