San Jose Adult Entertainment: ACORN’s Moonbeam
When asked whether “[t]he rich, the corporations, Republicans in general, may still regard a highly publicized VISTA program and your volunteers as a threat,” he replied, “I assume they will, and they ought to; if they don’t, then I’m not doing my job.”
Sounding like ACORN founder Wade Rathke, Brown added that VISTA “ought not to be just a bunch of low-paid social workers. It ought to be people helping to get themselves together to build new institutions.”
Meanwhile, the fact that Brown, who may yet again be governor, has a close working relationship with ACORN is important because he is investigating the group. ACORN has been in hot water since September when undercover videos surfaced showing its employees in California and elsewhere bending over backwards to counsel clients to break the law. In the videos filmmaker James O’Keefe portrayed a pimp and Hannah Giles portrayed a prostitute.