ACORN officials scramble, firing workers and shredding papers after exposed as OWSers

[Little-Acorn]

As always, revealing the truth about what the left is doing, is extremely damaging to them. Their survival depends on fooling voters into thinking they're not doing what they're doing.

Now they're runninng in panic, covering up ACORN logos, blaming imaginary enemies, firing the ones who told the truth, etc.

ANYTHING but admit that the story from a few days ago, about the former ACORN organization hiring homeless people to come down to OWS and protest, is true. See that story here ( https://www.houseofpolitics.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14092 )

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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/11/0...orkers-and-shredding-documents-after-exposed/

ACORN Officials Scramble, Firing Workers and Shredding Documents, After Exposed as Players Behind Occupy Wall Street Protests

By Jana Winter
Published November 03, 2011
FoxNews.com

Nov. 1, 2011: Jonathan Westin, organizing director, New York Communities for Change, attends a protest in New York City.

Officials with the revamped ACORN office in New York -- operating as New York Communities for Change -- have fired staff, shredded reams of documents and told workers to blame disgruntled ex-employees for leaking information in an effort to explain away a FoxNews.com report last week on the group’s involvement in Occupy Wall Street protests, according to sources.

NYCC also is installing surveillance cameras and recording devices at its Brooklyn offices, removing or packing away supplies bearing the name ACORN and handing out photos of Fox News staff with a stern warning not to talk to the media, the sources said.

Occupy Wall Street Tied to Former ACORN Officials

New questions about protest

“They’re doing serious damage control right now,” said an NYCC source.

NYCC Executive Director Jon Kest has been calling a series of emergency meetings to discuss last week’s report—and taking extreme measures to identify the sources in their office and to prevent further damage, a source within NYCC told FoxNews.com.

Two staffers were fired after NYCC officials suspected them as the source of the leaks, a source told FoxNews.com. “One was fired the day the story came out, the other was fired on Friday. (NYCC senior staff) told everyone that they were fired because they talked to you,” a source said.


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[Little-Acorn]

Re: ACORN officials scramble, firing workers and shredding papers after exposed as OW

The fumbling, contradictions, and outright doublespeak from these renamed ACORN officials is getting hilarious.

And they are apparently working overtime to rig cameras and recording devices in their own offices, to check up on what their own employees are saying and doing. While at the same time forbidding those employees from recording ANYTHING themselves.

George Orwell was right... only he was 27 years early. The Left is ramping up their operations, and Big Brother is definitely watching. The Party of Compassion is showing its true colors, bigtime, as their facade unravels.

More details, excerpted from an expanded version of the article:

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A source said that immediately following publication of the FoxNews.com report staff were called into the Brooklyn office for meetings headed by NYCC’s organizing director, Jonathan Westin. Westin handed out copies of the article and went through it line-by-line, the source said.

Staffers were also given copies of photos of Senior Fox News Correspondent Eric Shawn and three other Fox News staff members, including this reporter.

“They reminded us that we can get fired, sued, arrested for talking to the press,” the source said. “Then they went through the article point-by-point and said that the allegation that we pay people to protest isn’t true.”

“‘That’s the story that we’re sticking to,’” Westin said, according to the source.

The source said staffers at the meeting contested Westin’s denial:

“It was pretty funny. Jonathan told staff they don’t pay for protesters, but the people in the meeting who work there objected and said, ‘Wait, you pay us to go to the protests every day?’ Then Jonathan said ‘No, but that’s your job,’ and staffers were like, ‘Yeah, our job is to protest,’ and Westin said, ‘No your job is to fight for economic and social justice. We just send you to protest.’

“Staff said, ‘Yes, you pay us to carry signs.’ Then Jonathan says, ‘That’s your job.’ It went on like that back and forth for a while.”

During the meetings, NYCC Deputy Director Greg Basta provided Westin with the copied photos of Fox News reporters to hand out to staff members, the source said. Basta told staffers they might be asked about the article when out in communities working on campaigns or when calling people by phone, the source said.

“They told us if people bring up the article, we’re supposed to say the source and all the stuff in there came from a disgruntled ex-employee who’s not working with us anymore.”

NYCC is also monitoring its staff’s behavior, cracking down on phone use and socialization. Officials have ordered all papers -- even scraps -- to be shredded every night, the source said.

“And all the supplies—everything around the office that said ‘ACORN’ -- is now all in storage until this blows over,” the source said. “People literally have to cover up the cameras on the back of their cellphones in the office.”

“Now there’s no texting in the office, no phone calls in the office. They tell us to take our phone calls out into the waiting room where there’s an intercom, and then they turn on the intercom to hear our conversations. They’re installing new cameras and speakers around the building so they can hear everything.

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When asked if a staff member was fired because people thought he’d talked to the press, Westin said, “I have no idea.” When asked about handing out photos of Fox News employees, he said, “I have been? No, I don’t think I have been. That wasn’t me.”

He also deflected a question about the allegation that staffers were being told to blame the report on disgruntled staffers, telling this reporter to contact him later via email.

Westin later did not reply to two emails asking for follow-up.

 

[dogtowner]

Re: ACORN officials scramble, firing workers and shredding papers after exposed as OW

I don't know why there are not a whole pack of these vermin in ths slammer.