“A dozen protesters walked into a downtown bank branch at noon Thursday to demand greater action in relieving the county’s housing foreclosure crisis.” from The Sun
Now I mostly use a bank branch located in a grocery store, so there’s only a counter and not much floor space and my first mental image of a dozen protesters clambering over the counter and cramming in the limited floor space made me laugh. All they wanted was for the bank to put a six month moratorium on homeowner foreclosures and adjust all delinquent loans to lower fixed payments, they weren’t demanding world peace or anything else not normally handled on the branch level.

This was nothing more than an attempt to gain a little local publicity with absolutely no chance of any benefit deriving from their action.  Acorn has done some good things in the past, I’m hoping this is just an incident that won’t be repeated in other places.

“We showed the public (how) uncooperative the bank is at the local level, which is consistent with their national stance toward this crisis,” said Bobbi Jo Chavarria, lead organizer for ACORN’s local chapter.

You go into a bank branch that can’t do what you’d like, call them uncooperative, then state the whole bank is uncooperative on a national basis.  Well, Bobbi Jo, you got your name in the paper, but you certainly did not do anything for distressed homeowners either in the Inland Empire or nationally.