{"id":11892,"date":"2009-06-22T07:48:18","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T12:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=11892"},"modified":"2009-06-22T07:48:18","modified_gmt":"2009-06-22T12:48:18","slug":"acorn-by-any-other-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=11892","title":{"rendered":"ACORN by any other name&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So what if your company was involved in scandals and took a huge hit reputation-wise, do you think you could fix things just by changing it&#8217;s name? Well, ACORN thinks it&#8217;s their silver bullet cure for their piss-poor reputation according to Kevin Mooney of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/blogs\/beltway-confidential\/ACORN-drops-tarnished-name-and-moves-to-silence-critics-48730537.html\">Washington Examiner<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe\u2019ve known for many months now that the name ACORN is going to be retired,\u201d Reid said. \u201cThe name has been so damaged to the point where the leadership knows it simply can\u2019t go on as it has with the ACORN label out front and center, especially after all of the reporting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the process has already begun, she noted. Wade Rathke, who founded the organization, announced on his blog that ACORN International has officially changed its name to \u201cCommunity Organizations International.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reid also said ACORN is in the process of dismantling Citizen\u2019s Consulting Inc. (CCI), a New-Orleans based non-profit, which has been used to maintain centralized financial control, ACORN 8 activists claim. Tax records show that CCI is interlinked with several ACORN affiliates. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So that ought to clear their name, huh? I mean the same corrupt boards, the same corrupt members and the same corrupt ideology, but the gilded turd will certainly smell better&#8230;right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So what if your company was involved in scandals and took a huge hit reputation-wise, do &hellip; <a title=\"ACORN by any other name&#8230;.\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=11892\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ACORN by any other name&#8230;.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberals-suck","category-usual-suspects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}