Extra, Extra--Read All About ACORN BY KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL
On Christmas Eve, buried on page A24 of my edition of the New York
Times, was this story: "The controversial community organizing group
Acorn has not broken any laws in the last five years, according to a
Congressional Research Service report released Tuesday evening."
Indeed, the CRS report--requested in September by House Judiciary
Committee Chairman John Conyers and House Financial Services Committee
Chairman Barney Frank--finds no instances in which ACORN "violated the
terms of federal funding in the last five years," and no instances of
individuals allegedly registered to vote improperly by ACORN
"attempting to vote at the polls."