(Photo from Queens Crap)

Bertha Lewis of ACORN is a nasty, corrupt piece of work.

Just because Republicans lie about ACORN doesn't mean everything ACORN does is okay. Locally, ACORN's Bertha Lewis is solidly in the pocket of developers and has recently shown her nasty side but gleefully cheering on the eviction of a family from their homes thanks to eminent domain abuse. This is a letter Bertha Lewis sent out (I got it the day she sent it but only got around to posting it today):

> From: Bertha Lewis
> Date: Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 8:04 PM
> Subject: Daniel Goldstein and the 7 year itch
> To:  read more »

Today was the official groundbreaking ceremony for Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards, which former slave traders Barclays has the naming rights for. I was going to try and make the protests against this ceremony to mark the destruction of Central Brooklyn, the increased sewage load on an already over flowing sewage system and the increased gridlock in an already over crowded road system. But I couldn't skip work today. So I missed it. From what I hear, not that many elected officials made the groundbreaking either...perhaps realizing how unpopular the traffic, street closings and sewage overflows are going to be. And maybe when taxpayers realize how much people like Bloomberg, Marty Markowitz and Vito Lopez are making us pay for Ratner to make money, people will like it even less. But now the damage begins.

Here is the statement from Councilmember Tish James on the groundbreaking:

“He, who has money, has power, influence, and ultimately politicians.  read more »