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June 11, 2009
New York and Los Angeles Mayors Engage in Crisis PR for ACORN
Hot Air Green Room
by Anita MonCrief
"The world’s first full-service conservative Internet broadcast network" posts a commentary by the ACORN whistleblower.
After weeks of getting hammered in the press, the article is the sort of feel good puff piece that ACORN proudly splashes on its website. The only problem is that the two mayors mentioned by name happen to be Bloomberg and Villaraigosa. We will come back to Villaraigosa in a minute, but Mayor Bloomberg’s storied history with ACORN deserves a moment’s attention.
Bloomberg’s relationship with ACORN spans a number of years and goes back to when Bertha Lewis, ACORN’s CEO and Chief Organizer, was the Executive Director of the New York ACORN. Though Lewis and Bloomberg have engaged in the occasional street theater, they have managed to push through lucrative deals including the highly controversial Atlantic Yards project. A deal so financially lucrative to ACORN that it earned Bloomberg a kiss on the lips.
Speaking of Bloomberg, his mayoral re-election campaign has so much money to burn that it served up his ad at the top of the story page — a story critical of Bloomberg. Now that's synergy!
Posted by eric at June 11, 2009 9:00 AM