Reply #75: "...the reality is that ACORN has thousands of employees...." ?

[Petrushka]

Reality? Thousands?!
According to Bertha Lewis,
ACORN has 700 employees. See:


http://i3.democracynow.org/2009/9/17/acorn_head_bertha_lewis_vows_action


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JUAN GONZALEZ: But when you started getting these visits from these strange people, did you put out any kind of a memo to the rest of your organization: “Be on the lookout for these folks who are visiting our offices”? What was the sort of internal communications that you had that might have been able—or didn’t have—that might have been able to avoid these four or five people that you say that acted inappropriately?


BERTHA LEWIS: Well, first of all, Juan, that’s a very—you know, that’s a very good observation, because these visits were spread out throughout the summer, and they were random all over. And so, we probably could have done a better job saying, “Did you see these crazy-dressed people in your office?” I think a lot of folks took it as a joke. And we didn’t—you know, again, we have 700 employees and over sixty-some offices. So there was a little breakdown to say that maybe people ought to watch out for it. That’s why we’re doing this review, so that anything that’s out of the ordinary, we’ll now have a system to say, “Whoa, wait a minute!”


We know that the right is doing a relentless campaign against us. We have to step up our procedures to make sure that we protect ourselves, because we don’t even know what the right wing can think of next. We never would have thought that they could have thought this up, but they did.

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