The Ellis County Press: ACORN trespasses mans property ACORN
trespasses mans property =======================================
========================================= Editor on 12/31/2009
13:23:00 JOEY G. DAUBEN The Ellis County Press BOYCE - C.J. Gorn
lives off of FM 879 outside of Palmer and the unincorporated
area of Boyce. He's an unemployed junk collector who sells items
at auctions, so he thought it was a bit strange when an out-of-
state Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
(ACORN) worker visited his property several months ago. Gorn,
who lives with his wife in the farm-rich area between Ennis and
Waxahachie north of Highway 287, spotted the worker - who he
describes as someone as a white male in his late 20s having
Montana license plates on his Jeep Renegade and the clipboard
with the ACORN decal affixed to it. "When I saw that [decal], I
told him you're trespassing, and in Texas, I can shoot you,"
Gorn said, who was also wearing a firearm at the time he saw the
ACORN worker. "He asked