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Old 10-29-2008, 01:32 PM   #42
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Originally Posted by 92bDad View Post
Mavsdog,

Are you willing to give ACORN any Negative Responsibility for events that have taken place?

I have read a few different items that ACORN is implicated to being a part of the Lending/Financial collapse and the voter registration fraud. Yes their are other entities also responsible and deserving of being called out...and they have been. Banks and Contractors...however ACORN was and is also involved with these other parties, yet you appear to be unwilling to acknowledge the part that ACORN plays in these negative activities.

If we site sources, you discredit those sources...you give the appearance that you are unwilling to scrutinize when it comes to ACORN.

Is this a wrong perception?

If you were to list off the questionable activities by ACORN, what would they be?
first of all, it's MAVDOG, no "s", and named after the lovable dog mascot that once graced us in the ole reunion arena. remember how mavdog would be up on the screen? yep, those were good times....

yes, you have the wrong "perception".

as others have pointed out, acorn is obligated by law to forward to the registrar ALL voter registrations that the contract workers (that means they are not employees of acorn) turn in.

as a matter of record, acorn staff examine these registrations and put those that they deem to be suspicious under wrap with a designation for the registrar to look closely at those specific ones. so they are clearly doing what they can to identify and stop the fraudulent registrations these contract workers turn in.

as for the "lending/financial collapse", if the situation was borne on the back of low income or affordable housing lending than yes they would have some role; however, that is not the case, and the mortgage mess is much more widespread than merely in these segments. it is inaccurate to place the blame on acorn, on the cra, or on affordable housing.

the blame for the mortgage meltdown is not solely on any one group, it is shared by the underwriters of the mbs, the lenders who made stupid loans, borrowers who thought that the home values would keep going up and up, and mortgage brokers who put borrowers into loans that were structered in such a way to induce the borrower to complete the loan today when they couldn't afford it tomorrow. that is not acorn btw.

as for what acorn does that I would change, it is the process of paying contract workers for the registrations. paying them by the registration card is just an invitation for fraud imo.

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