I really don't understand. Republicans are smearing ACORN on a daily (if not hourly!) basis. And now two of their offices have been vandalized:
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/...
And while progressives blogs dutifully report this, their focus is on how bad Republicans are, with little or no thought to helping out the organization that is getting slammed here.
As a matter of basic decency, liberal blogistan should be calling for donations to ACORN to help them out. You can donate here: www.acorn.org
A few thoughts on why we all should give:
- ACORN is one of the good guys. They aren't perfect, but they are doing hard, thankless work organizing poor communities which gets little or no attention.
- They are part of a progressive infrastructure which needs to be supported and built upon. We progressives talk about the need to build up our own infrastructure to compete against the conservative infrastructure to capture the heart and soul of America.
- We need to show republicans that efforts to smear ACORN (or any other progressive organization) will only backfire. If ACORN ends up getting good press and - more importantly - lots of donations, then Republicans might think twice about attacking progressives orgs in the future.
- ACORN is part of the long term election solution. If nothing else, ACORN amazing efforts to register low income voters ensures that Democrats will maintain an electoral advantage for years to come. That is an investment well worth making.
I've made a similar pitch already, but I'm making it again in light of the vandalism and threats of violence being made against ACORN. We need to step up now...
www.acorn.org