Serve.gov Scrubs ACORN Listings from Its Site

Since first reporting that Serve.gov was listing activist positions with ACORN it seems now that all ACORN listings have been scrubbed from the taxpayer-funded site without any explanation as to why they were on it in the first place. The government was using our taxpayer dollars to advertise for volunteer opportunities to promote the president’s partisan agenda via a corrupt organization under investigation for voter registration fraud, among other things.

Initially you could type “ACORN” into the search field on Serve.gov and various listings from planting trees to volunteering to get out the vote in Ohio, for ACORN, would appear in the results. It’s important to note that several ACORN positions were listed directly on the federally-funded Serve.gov – not just on the AllforGood.org website.

The act of removing these listings indicates that Serve.gov knew it was a) wrong to use a federal website to funnel volunteers to campaign for the president and DNC and, 2) bad for them to be seen further associating with ACORN in light of the recently released videos combined with ongoing investigations. (more…)

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Tags: acorn scandal, AllforGood.org, Buffy Wicks, nea, Nell Abernathy
Posted Sep 22nd 2009 at 1:54 pm in ACORN, News, Politics | 6802142 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/dloesch/2009/09/22/serve-gov-scrubs-acorn-listings-from-its-site/Serve.gov+Scrubs+ACORN+Listings+from+Its+Site2009-09-22+20%3A54%3A04Dana+Loesch