HERE,and for Cadillac cars with handicap tags hanging from the rear view mirror.
Posted on 09/18/2009 7:40:10 AM PDT by 50mm
The director of ACORN in Ohio says neither she nor other employees of the social-justice group have ever offered to help pimps or prostitutes ply their trade in the state. But the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now and would-be clients in poor, black and Latino neighborhoods are paying a price nonetheless, said Amy Teitelman, the group's Ohio leader.
ACORN, which says it has about 7,500 dues-paying members in Ohio and operates offices in Columbus, Cincinnati and Cleveland, has temporarily stopped offering help to clients in the wake of an undercover video shot by self-styled investigators.
From conservative standard bearers such as Glenn Beck to the administration of President Barack Obama, ACORN has been ripped over employees offering advice on ducking federal laws to buy and operate a home as a brothel.
"We obviously don't tolerate anything close to what is portrayed on those videos," Teitelman said. "This just takes away from the work we are doing."
Meanwhile, the U.S. House voted yesterday to deny all federal funds for ACORN. The action comes just three days after the Senate took similar action.
"ACORN has violated serious federal laws, and today the House voted to ensure that taxpayer dollars would no longer be used to fund this corrupt organization," said second-ranked House Republican Eric Cantor of Virginia.
The vote was 345-75, with Democrats supplying all the "no" votes.
On Monday, the Senate voted 83-7 to deny housing- and community-grant funding to ACORN.
The Senate and House initiatives to cut funding for ACORN won't take effect until the bills to which they are attached clear Congress and are signed by Obama.
In Ohio, the group will not offer client services for up to a month while getting training and procedures "to make sure we are not vulnerable to the kind of attacks we are seeing," Teitelman said.
"There are obviously people who would like to catch us doing things that look bad or could be perceived as unseemly. We need to be aware people coming into our offices may not be friendly."
ACORN, which has earned conservative scorn over earlier voter-registration efforts, helps low-income people preserve their homes from foreclosure and lobbies on social issues such as health-care reform.
The current controversy has attracted racist, profane and threatening phone calls and e-mails to ACORN's Ohio offices, said Teitelman, of Cincinnati.
"It's the same right-wing machinery that attacked Obama," she said. "ACORN has kind of become the new target for dog-whistle racism. It's sort of a way to be racist without being overtly racist."
ACORN has attracted conservative ire because it typically rallies support for Democrats, including Obama, who as a lawyer represented ACORN in 1995 in a lawsuit that sought enforcement of the "motor voter" law in Illinois.
In Columbus, ACORN has a three-employee office off Mount Vernon Avenue on the Near East Side. On the local group's Web site, it says it has 1,000 families as members in chapters in Franklinton, the South Side, the Hilltop, the Mount Vernon Avenue area and the Main/Miller streets corridor.
Barbara Clark, the head organizer of the Columbus office, said the flap has attracted both scorn and support. "We've had a few nasty e-mails, but we're getting a lot of support from the community," she said.
Some ACORN-paid solicitors turned in some questionable voter-registration applications that were rejected in Franklin County in 2004 and 2006, said Michael Stinziano, director of the Board of Elections.
"Our staff took steps to communicate more with ACORN upfront and we had no problems in 2008 with registrations. In terms of current practice, they are not a concern in Franklin County," he said.
She intends to train workers to not get caught as opposed to training them to not commit crimes.
“to make sure we are not vulnerable to the kind of attacks we are seeing,”
ACORN TRAINING PROGRAM:
BEWARE OF WHITE PEOPLE...
Got it...
The CEO of ACORN was on CSPAN this morning. She said they only get seven to ten percent of their funding from the Federal government. So, the funding cutoff is not a big deal for them. Why close then? You obviously have enough funds to carry on at 90% or better of you current service level.
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So helping those in the human trafficking/sex slavery/underage prostitution rackets is not being racist but preventing it is? Things that make you go HMMMMMMMMMMMM.
Does one pay dues to ACORN? And they get all that federal, state and United Way money too? Where does all that money go?
She should be in jail. This vermin will lay low for a while and come out with a new name. I heard they already have a new name.
How much are the dues that the poor people pay to be a member?
Man!! That would look great on a resume.
‘Dog-Whistle Racism”
For those of you who don’t know, this is a catch-all term for ANYTHING that makes a Democrat look bad.
“Dog-Whistle Racism is political campaigning or policy-making that uses coded words and themes to appeal to conscious or subconscious racist concepts and frames.
For example, the concepts ‘welfare queen,’ ’states’ rights,’ ‘Islamic terrorist,’ ‘uppity,’ ‘thug,’ ‘tough on crime,’ and ‘illegal alien’ all activate racist concepts that that have already been planted in the public consciousness and now are being activated by purposeful or accidental campaign activities, media coverage, public policy and cultural traditions.”
These people are so buried in thier own racial hatred, that basicly anything that opposes the minority position is now RACIST!
Per Wiki, even ‘STATES RIGHTS’ is ‘Dog-Whistle Racism’!
I’m sure the dues are used to support socialist/commie political candidates. I’m also pretty sure that the funds that go to candidates greatly exceed the dues collected. In other words tax payer dollars go to the campaign coffers of ‘rats.
The alphabet networks and/or the Justice Department will investigate that. /s
Gee, has all the incriminating paperwork from ACORN offices all over the country been sent to Ohio for shredding? That would certainly take hours and hours.
HERE,and for Cadillac cars with handicap tags hanging from the rear view mirror.
FReep mail me if you want on/off the list.
Shred, baby, shred!
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http://www.sanantoniolightning.com/acis.html
Ohio Ping list please :)
"It's the same right-wing machinery that attacked Obama," she said. "ACORN has kind of become the new target for dog-whistle racism. It's sort of a way to be racist without being overtly racist." ACORN has attracted conservative ire because it typically rallies support for Democrats, including Obama, who as a lawyer represented ACORN in 1995 in a lawsuit that sought enforcement of the "motor voter" law in Illinois.
LOL! Nope! Certainly no bias on the part of this knucklehead!!
I shouldn't have to say this, but...
ATTENTION all Federal, State and/or Local Law Enforcement:
Put the down the damn donuts, and get in there before ALL of the evidence is shredded and degaussed ...
... and all of their stories are made to "match".
Here - let me HELP you!:
Cleveland ACORN office
1814 E 40th St
Cleveland, OH 44103
(216) 431-3905
Columbus ACORN office
379 N 20th St
Columbus, OH 43203-1526
(614) 258-8854
Cincinnati ACORN office
1025 Central Ave
Cincinnati, OH 45202
(513) 221-1737
My guess is that they’re afraidof being stung, so they’re even now making plans as to how to “disband” ACORN, put all its resources and people into a “new” organization, and get their funding back. They just need to figure out another cutesy acronym.
They didn't offer to help [real] pimps or prostitutes, because the pimps and hookers already new how to beat the system. Criminals work with criminals.
“dues paying members”, you mean they charge the poor and downtrodden in order to screw them?
The racism charges is just a trial ballon because in 2012 when zero is up for reelection, it will be the only thing the MSM will talk about, you know “If you don’t reelect obama, then you are a racist”.
One office doing this is isolated but FIVE offices spread out over the U.S. is a RICO case.
ACORN had to have a training guide for ALL their employees since ALL the employees that got caught were giving the SAME advice.
I saw a lot of black people in pics of the 9/12 rally. Some of those folks can do a world of good going undercover with citizen journalism like this.
(Alleged) Cincinnati Acorn Office Prostitute Caught Offering Sex For Money In 2008
"Our staff took steps to communicate more with ACORN upfront and we had no problems in 2008 with registrations. In terms of current practice, they are not a concern in Franklin County," he said.
Actually the big difference in 2008 was they had Secretary of State, Jennifer Brunner making sure none of the "questionable" voter registrations were scrutinized. Now Brunner is running for Senate in 2010. Hopefully, ACORN won't be able to manufacture enough fraudulent votes to get her elected.
Good find. I guess they know the sex trade business pretty well.
Yep, and there are still more videos to come. I'm waiting for one from Chicago, leading straight to the top... fingers crossed.
I agree. ACORN needs to be investigated by the FBI as a multi-state crime organization. Oh wait, the FBI is under ‘rat control. Oh well.
So the videos weren't undercover reporting or whistleblowing.....
....they were attacks.
All this means is OHIO ACORN has a lot to hide.
See post 29.
I’ve heard $5-10 a month.
Our Secretary of State here in Ohio, Jennifer Brunner has deep ties to ACORN. Karyn Gillette (Project Vote development director) is her campaign consultant. Jennifer Brunner is the one who defied a court order to investigate ACORN voter fraud in Ohio last year saying there was no evidence. She’s now running for retiring George Voinovich’s Senate seat.
Indict all of them!
Unfortunately the loser we have a governor here in Ohio likely won’t do anything like that...
Maybe Mike but, the idea is to turn Alinsky's tactics around on them and overwhelm them...in this case with emails.
She has a flickr photostream. Scroll down for ACORN.
Her pics need some comments, don’t you agree? ;-)
Hit piece on a prosecutor who was investigated Amy and ACORN for voter fraud and trading cigarettes and booze for votes:
She’s a real piece of ............work!
Neither would I. It could happen. The internet is sooooooo risky.
She thinks its 1961 and she’s a freedom rider. What a loser.
Thanks its been forwarded to all i know interested in Freedom
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