NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The activist group ACORN fires its longtime Louisiana chapter director.ACORN’s chief executive officer, Bertha Lewis, announced former state director Beth Butler’s dismissal Monday.Lewis’ statement doesn’t specify why she fired Butler but says it was “too important to not have full accountability” in a region recovering from Hurricane Katrina in 2005. An ACORN spokesman declined to elaborate.Butler said she was fired because she refused to fire members of a land trust board whom national ACORN leaders wanted ousted.
ACORN fires longtime Louisiana chapter head
By The Associated Press
October 11, 2009