[Hoot Gibson]

Already under fire for employees in offices across the nation offering to facilitate child prostitution, ACORN decided to get rid of 20,000 sensitive documents to avoid disclosing them during litigation or an investigation. So, how did they get rid of them? Shredding? Fire? Dumping them into deep waters? Nope. That would have been too much work. ACORN just carried the documents to the nearest dumpster and made a large deposit.

Unfortunately, a private investigator employed by Andrew Breitbart just happened upon ACORN's trash stash. Breitbart has been sued by ACORN for his part in exposing the criminal nature of ACORN's housing subsidiary. Now, he has begun publishing the discarded documents on his web site.

Is there any reason that ACORN should ever receive another dime of taxpayer funding? I think not.

[INDENT]ACORN Document Dump: California Voters, Prepare to Be ACORNed

Dumping 20k sensitive documents in a public dumpster isn’t anyone’s idea of smart. Even though the Attorney’s General office was about to visit the ACORN San Diego office, ACORN employees should have taken some steps to protect the information they were dumping. There are extensive federal and state laws in play here, with very serious civil and criminal penalties.

But, one shouldn’t take this to mean that ACORN is always and everywhere incompetent. You don’t build an international organization with offices in hundreds of US cities through incompetence. Part of ACORN’s secret is that it is really shrewd politically. Below is a plan for a 2-year ACORN campaign to repeal California’s Prop 13. That initiative, passed in 1979, restricts government’s power to increase taxes. One of its toughest provisions requires a 2/3rds vote of the legislature to raise taxes. ACORN, naturally, wants to scrap that.[/INDENT]