Posted on 09/22/2009 11:57:04 AM PDT by Kieri
U.S. Reps, John Conyers (D-Detroit) and Barney Frank (D-Mass.) on Tuesday wrote a letter to the Congressional Research Service requesting an investigation of ACORN, the anti-poverty group whose employees in Baltimore recently were caught on hidden camera offering questionable advice to conservative activists posing as a prostitute and pimp.
In the letter, Conyers and Frank ask the nonpartisan research group to look into ACORN's alleged misbehavior, including funding violations and alleged voter registration irregularities.
But they also question whether Congress' swift move to cut the group's funding was unconstitutional.
Specifically, Conyers and Frank ask whether the funding cuts qualify as "bills of attainder," which according to The Hill are legislative acts that punish an individual or group without trial.
The Detroit Free Press reports the letter also called for an investigation into the now-famous hidden camera videos (one of which you'll find below): "Conflicting allegations have been made about the propriety of these activities. Please research and report on the federal and state laws that could apply to such videotaping and distribution of conversations without the consent of all parties."
Oh good Lord, make it stop.
LOL! Conyers and Fwank investigate whether to restore ACORN funding and to criminally prosecute the undercover videographers.
This post is gay....
I mean Barney Frank is gay.
"Questionable" advice? If my Accountant gave me that kind of 'advice' the IRS would toss him into prison. "Questionable"?
WTF is that?
Maybe the Martian constitution, where is it in the constitution to fund anything like this in the first place?
So, by Conyers and Fwank’s logic, once the federal government engages the services of a group like ACORN to provide services of some sort, that arrangement can never be terminated. Makes perfect sense to me.
If they really were to cut funding to ACORN, the cash cow that Conyers, Frank Nadler and others have enjoyed for a long time will disappear. The Democraps will not let this happen. The vote to remove funding was a joke on all the chumps (Americans in fact) out there. See...told ya so....
For some reason ‘gag order’ suddenly popped into my mind.
The same John Conyers who ended investigation because the ‘powers that be’....
The enemy within.
What he really means is “Let’s indict, convict and incarcerate these bastiges before they can squeal on the shady crap I’ve been into with them!”
Conyers is one of my Senators (I am ashamed to admit), but I refuse to vote for a RINO ever again, and this man will NOT receive me vote.
He stopped sending me his requests for funds and support, because I told him what a useful idiot he is for the Democrats!!!
And I pray that Kay Bailey is SOUNDLY beaten by Perry so she too is out of the woodwork! Both of these fools need to either go conservative or go away!!
Only if it also puts ACORN leaders in prison without a trial, idiots.
Frank investigating ACORN is like Frank investigating the YMCA.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/25/conyers-abandons-plan-probe-acorn/
House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. has backed off his plan to investigate wrongdoing by the liberal activist group ACORN, saying “powers that be” put the kibosh on the idea.
The first thing they ever worry about being unconstitutional??? Free money for a communist front group. PERFECT.
For Hyper-Commie Conyers this is no surprise, nor is it for hyper-fag-Commie Frank. Conyers had no credibility before this and Frank enjoyed only a sliver of credibility, based on his often pompous pretending to want to understand how the capitalist system works and claiming he is not mindlessly Marxist and wedded to racial spoils. But the evidence here is incontrovertible. To claim the wrongdoing is “allege” when it’s caught on tape and the people were fired. Well, talk about living in fantasy land. They probably expect the Congressional Research Service to exonerate ACORN. It wouldn’t surprise me if they did, since they are an arm of Congress. So, let me say in advance, any finding by the study that ACORN is anything more than a criminal enterprise should be immediately rejected.
Ummm. Sure. We could take this a step further and say tax laws are the equivalent to "Bills of Attainder".
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John Conyers (D-Detroit) and Barney Frank (D-Mass.) on Tuesday wrote a letter to the Congressional Research Service requesting an investigation of ACORN... But they also question whether Congress' swift move to cut the group's funding was unconstitutional. Specifically, Conyers and Frank ask whether the funding cuts qualify as "bills of attainder," which according to The Hill are legislative acts that punish an individual or group without trial.Strange thing to put into a "request" for an "investigation"...
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