The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, lately has earned a bad reputation among a wide range of benefactors. Given the New Orleans-based radical nonprofit network's involvement in a wide range of confirmed and suspected crimes, that's no surprise. The IRS and the Census Bureau each recently terminated their relationship with ACORN, while the House and Senate voted to cut off funds. Yet prior to these actions, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, better known by its acronym, FEMA, had announced plans to issue a $997,402 grant to an ACORN affiliate, the ACORN Institute of New Orleans, Louisiana. Subsequent revelations of this award triggered requests among certain Republican members of Congress to rescind the grant. FEMA soon obliged them, freezing not simply this grant, but all others to the group as well.
