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ACORN Muscles Out Local Leadership

By Matthew Vadum
Tuesday, October 20, 2009

ACORN’s national leadership has taken over the Louisiana chapter of the group after ousting its leader, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reports.

ACORN boss Bertha Lewis canned Beth Butler, the common law wife of disgraced ACORN founder Wade Rathke, as leader of ACORN’s state-level operation in the Crescent City last week.

ACORN’s national organization held a hush-hush meeting in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., this past weekend.

At the meeting, apparently, ACORN national President Maude Hurd appointed Stephen Bradberry, former Louisiana head organizer as chief administrator of the local operation. The newspaper reports that “[a]n ad-hoc committee of five national board members, none from Louisiana, will have oversight of the new structure, which is described under ACORN bylaws as a ‘provisional administratorship.’â€