From WSJ.com:

Acorn CEO Bertha Lewis called the uproar over hidden-camera videos “Acorn McCarthyism.”
And as for the threatened cutoff of federal funding, she said the community organizing and housing group will survive without it.
Lewis, who addressed reporters at the National Press Club today, sought to focus attention on the group’s work with minority and low-income groups, and away from the videos that have dominated headlines in recent weeks; the videos feature two people posing as a prostitute and pimp getting information from Acorn workers about how to avoid taxes. Many politicians in Washington — both Republicans and Democrats — and several states have moved to sever ties with the group and block it from receiving funds.
Lewis said many conservatives have used the videos to act on a longstanding grudge against Acorn. “I think you make some powerful enemies…when you organize poor people to have power,” she said.
Switching topics, Lewis said Acorn fired its founder, Wade Rathke, after his brother was alleged to have stolen almost $1 million from the group. She said the Louisiana attorney general’s estimate of $5 million embezzled from the group was inflated.

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