ACORN is Cracking

The community organizing group ACORN called for an internal investigation after their employees were caught on tape giving advice about how to get help with taxes to a couple posing as a prostitute and a pimp. The move to investigate was also fueled by allegations that the group committed voter fraud in last year's election. All operations have been temporarily shut down for the company as they claim to get down to the bottom of the problem themselves.

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ACORN may have taken the initiative to halt company operations, but the call for an internal investigation may have been the wrong move for the organization. With intense public distrust and billions of dollars of federal aid on the line, the better PR move would have been to put the investigation in the hands of a higher authority. The calamity has grown to larger and larger proportions thanks to some bad public relations on ACORN's part.