From Boston.com:

Republican state Senator Scott Brown sent a letter to Governor Deval Patrick and Attorney General Martha Coakley yesterday demanding the state stop doing business with ACORN, the community organizing group whose tactics have sparked a national controversy.

Brown, who is running for Edward M. Kennedy’s US Senate seat, appears to be looking to taint Bay State Democrats – namely Coakley, a leading contender for Kennedy’s seat – with ACORN’s problems. ACORN is an acronym for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.

A branch of the group, ACORN Housing, received a $33,000 grant last April from the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation to counsel first-time homebuyers and homeowners facing possible foreclosure.

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