ACORN…to help shape the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America. ACORN.
via Flopping Aces
Discussion over at Hot Air – the meeting was organized by the Center For Community Change…not ACORN. However, as you will see in the comments, there is overlap between the two organizations, ideological and otherwise…
Monday, Mar 10, 2008
Former Women’s Union President Assumes New Managing Director PositionWashington, DC- The Board and Staff of the Center for Community Change is pleased to announce the appointment of Mary Lassen to the new position of Managing Director of the organization. Ms. Lassen has stepped down as the Board Chair of Center for Community Change and assumed her new role March 10, 2008.
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Ms. Lassen is an experienced community organizer working at ACORN, where she served as Head Organizer in Missouri and Texas, and at the Committee for Boston Public Housing. She also has significant experience in local and state policy advocacy, partnership building, and communications. For three decades, Ms. Lassen has had extensive experience managing organizations, building teams, and developing staff and leaders. She is the former President of The Women’s Union in Boston and served as Senior Fellow at the Boston Foundation where she worked on strategies to improve education and economic opportunities in Massachusetts’ community colleges.
What’s interesting about this video is that it blames the Community Reinvestment Act for the sub-prime crisis, yet even Business Week (by no means a liberal magazine) acknowledges that the CRA is not to blame. The majority of sub-prime loans were made by institutions who are not even regulated by the CRA. And Robert Gordon, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, even said “It’s telling that, amid all the recent recriminations, even lenders have not fingered CRA. That’s because CRA didn’t bring about the reckless lending at the heart of the crisis.” http://straighttalkonmccain.blogspot.com/
By: sean harrington on October 12, 2008
at 9:32 pm
Interesting that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac collapsed then, hmmm? CRA paved the way for sub-prime loans – made them legitimate.
By: crazybengal on October 12, 2008
at 11:22 pm