Las Vegas Review-Journal — EDITORIAL: Reid blocks ACORN probe, Tracking abuse by political allies could be ‘distracting’
Saturday, September 26th, 2009ACORN — the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now — is stinking up Washington.
And this is far more significant than if a suspiciously large number of operatives for a purely “private” outfit had been found systematically bending and breaking the law, because ACORN receives and spends taxpayer money — lots of it — and had carried the imprimatur of official partnerships with the IRS, the Census Bureau … the kind of “cred” that in the political world comes only from “who you know.”