This is from the ACORN website, this is what they provide:

Service delivery: ACORN and its allied organizations provide extensive services to our members and constituency. These include free tax preparation focusing on the Earned Income Tax Credit; screening for eligibility for federal and state benefit programs; and, through the ACORN Housing Corporation, first time homeowner mortgage counseling and foreclosure prevention assistance, and low income housing development.

Ballot initiatives: ACORN-backed ballot-initiative campaigns in 2006 helped raise the minimum wage in Ohio, Arizona, Missouri and Colorado, working with community-faith-labor coalitions on successful campaigns in each state.

What I don't understand is, why are they radical ? Did they blow up some buildings? They seem to be providing valuable services to the poor and working with local churches.

They are being investigated for voter fraud, this maybe true. Isn't Palin being investigated also ? Sen Ted Stevens from Alaska ? Why is ACORN guilty b4 being proven so ? By that reasoning isn't Sarah Palin guilty also ?

If a company pays off cause they're afraid of bad press for Civil Right violations, who's fault is that really ?
It's like Bill O'Reilly paying off that producer for sexual harrassment.
Wal-Mart never seems to mind about what's said about them.

Can you provide your sources for your claim about their
"longstanding history of engaging in and convictions" ?

Thanks