If the GOP Had Listened to ACORN's Advice, the Mortgage Industry Wouldn't Be in Meltdown

By Peter Dreier and John Atlas, The Nation
Posted on October 27, 2008, Printed on October 27, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/story/104726/

An increasingly desperate Republican attack machine has recently identified the community organizing group ACORN as Public Enemy Number One. Among ACORN's alleged crimes, perhaps the most serious is that it caused, nearly single-handedly, the world's financial crisis. That's the fantasy. In the reality-based world, it was ACORN that sounded the alarm about the exploitative lending practices that led to the current mortgage meltdown and financial crisis.