ACORN's official response to McCain ad:

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ACORN Statement

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For Immediate Release: October 12, 2008
Contact: Brian Kettenring, [phone] or [e-mail]


ACORN Response to Senator McCain's Smear Ad
ACORN President Maude Hurd released the following statement today in response to the McCain campaign's new ad claiming that, among other things, ACORN is responsible for the mortgage crisis:

"For almost a decade, ACORN, a community organization of 400,000 families in neighborhoods across the country, has been fighting against the predatory lending practices that have robbed our members of their homes, destabilized neighborhoods, and roiled the global economy."

"In his newest ad, John McCain's campaign bizarrely claims, "ACORN forced banks to issue risky home loans, the same types of loans that caused the financial crisis we're in today." Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, ACORN has worked successfully to help working class families get good home loans on fair terms from legitimate banks and has fought vigorously against predatory lenders who have ripped off families in our communities. These predatory loans caused the crisis."

"For more than a decade, ACORN members have held protests, released reports, and advocated for regulations to protect homeowners from predatory lenders. ACORN organizers and volunteers have been working day and night to help victims of the GOP economic meltdown to save their homes from foreclosure. In fact, ACORN has brought class action lawsuits against several predatory lenders, and has lobbied the Federal Reserve and Congress in support of regulations against predatory lending. ACORN has even been successful in convincing many lenders to treat homeowners more fairly and help families be able to make their mortgage payments and save their homes."

"Unfortunately, the Bush administration and Congressional Republicans like John McCain have blocked the sensible regulations that ACORN and others proposed that would have averted the mortgage meltdown. If John McCain thinks that community organizers caused the foreclosure crisis, he knows even less about the economy than previously thought."

"John McCain and the Republicans are desperately trying to shift the blame for the economic crisis they caused with a philosophy of deregulation and indifference to homeowners. All the grainy footage and creepy music in the world can't cancel out some simple, basic facts, and the facts about the economy are not on John McCain's side."

[underpants]

1. SMACK!

DOWN!

Excellent

[dkf]

2. Acorn needs a 527 or a Soros to help rehabilitate their rep.

They have been smeared and smeared and smeared again.

[BR_Parkway]

3. No kidding, a few weeks back I'd never even heard of them - and I

consider myself one who stays up with info more than a lot of others (hence, DU) plus I was in real estate for 15 years.

Then all of a sudden, reports are coming out that ACORN is everywhere - and that everything they touch is designed to rip off a Republican somewhere - votes in OH, mortgages in the South.

It took me a couple of days to figure out - ACORN helps poor people, mostly people of color. If those white folks can be made "very afraid" of ACORN, then they'll also be "very afraid" of voting for Obama.

I wonder if the fact that I'm gay will be blamed on ACORN in the next week or so - that's the only thing the Religious Reich has left up their sleeve....ACORN is part of the Radical Homosexualist Agenda^TM - you heard it here first folks.

[ppenelope]

4. I hope Soros hears you

[bvar22]

5. What I really like about Acorn's response:

Acorn includes "The Republicans" in their response.
Too often, attacks are made against just McCain, or Bush, or Palin.
It would be beneficial and more correct to always include the "Republican" namebrand in each and every attack.....

John McCain and the Republicans are desperately trying to shift the blame...

Neither McCain nor Bush is responsible for the Imperial Occupations or the Economic meltdown.
The Republicans are.
McCain and Palin are just more Republicans!

Always including "The Republicans" will help downticket Democrats WIN in November.

[bleever]

6. Everybody knows the banks are helpless against poor people.

How DARE the poor people bring down the global monetary system?

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