# ACORN workers caught on tape apparently advising on child prostitution **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [September 11, 2009, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acorn-workers-caught-on-tape-apparently-advising-on-child-prostitution/509681 "2009-09-11T13:19:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 712
**Author:** ![yorick73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/b5a626/32.png) [@yorick73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yorick73)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2009, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acorn-workers-caught-on-tape-apparently-advising-on-child-prostitution/509681/712 "2009-09-28T18:18:54Z")
> [@Lightnin](#): > > _Investigate_, sure. I believe that any entity which receives public funds should be put under the microscope every so often- keeps 'em honest. > > However, there’s a difference between an investigation and a witch hunt- and it’s a witch hunt we’re seeing with ACORN right now. The Right has been looking for something, _anything_, with which to destroy ACORN. And what’s more, you guys are \*proud \*of it. > > How proud do you think you’d be if it was one of your pet organizations that was being so threatened? > > And you know what’s really funny? I don’t give a damn about ACORN. I’d never heard of them at all until two months before the election. I just have a feeling that the Right’s hard on for ACORN investigation might not be for the right reasons, you know? This is no witch hunt. ACORN workers were shown to have turned in falsified voter registrations and dumped them a short time before the deadline. Dale Rathke embezzled $1M which was covered up by ACORN executives. ACORN workers seem willing to help people hide income from the IRS and help a pimp and hooker set up a brothel. The Senate Finance Committee report definitely suggests that money from the tax-exempt arms of ACORN is being used by the political arms. The wrongdoing of the individual workers does not necessarily mean that ACORN as a whole is at fault. But the workers wrongdoing, along with potential wrongdoing by ACORN, suggests that the organization should be investigated if they want to continue to receive tax dollars. They can do whatever they want to do, just don’t use tax money. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acorn-workers-caught-on-tape-apparently-advising-on-child-prostitution/509681)._