This may already be in the comments -- these folks aren't just FRIENDS -- they are a PART of the organization. See Anita Moncrief's expose back in June.

Townsend, Cisneros, Podesta, Eve, Beckwith and Hirschfeldl ARE the Acorn Advisory Committee identified in a June 2009 poster promoting ACORN'S 39th Anniversayr celebration.

An "ADVISORY COMMITTEE" which CLEARLY was negligent in its "advisory" capacity, and who perhaps should be investigated themselves.