Unmasking ACORN: Former Leaders Reorganize with New Groups
Tina Korbe /
ACORN might have disbanded, but the risk of vote fraud in the November 2010 elections is still real.
“Desperate men and women will do desperate things to maintain power when the public threatens to take that power away from them,” said David Keene, chairman of the American Conservative Union. “That means that, more so than in other years, [some candidates] are going to be relying on whatever kind of assistance they can get from whatever quarter that assistance might come.”
That assistance will come from ACORN-like groups, Keene explained at yesterday’s Bloggers Briefing at Heritage. Keene said the people who were a part of ACORN and who used that organization to mobilize on behalf of their favorite politicians “aren’t going away, haven’t gone away, and can’t really be expected to go away.”
To track and expose former ACORN leaders and the various reincarnations of ACORN, Keene and the ACU recently launched the ACU ACORN Action Center.