"The Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE), a new statewide grassroots activist group, opened its doors this week in the wake of California ACORN's inability to function. ACCE’s creation, and the process of developing a new organization in California, ensures that working families will continue to have a powerful voice in Sacramento, dashing the hopes of Fox News and other right-wing media who hoped to weaken grassroots power by de-funding ACORN. A number of former California ACORN staff are now working for ACCE, but the new organization has installed a series of strict financial and oversight controls whose absence long plagued ACORN nationally. Among these oversight bodies is an Advisory Council headed by Keith Rohman, president of the Los Angeles City Human Relations Commission. Rohman is also the founder and president of Public Interest Investigations, Inc., which is retained by public entities and nonprofits to investigate allegations of misconduct. Amy Schur, one of the nation’s top grassroots organizers with years of experience throughout California and in the world of Sacramento politics, will be ACCE’s first Exec"
