Posted on 10/15/2008 12:37:47 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Frank rebuffs GOP calls for ACORN hearings By Jackie Kucinich Posted: 10/15/08 03:00 PM [ET] House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) on Wednesday dismissed GOP calls for immediate hearings regarding a grassroots groups alleged abuse of government funds as a political tactic to help John McCain.
His comments come in response to an Oct. 14 letter, signed by Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio), Financial Services ranking member Spencer Bachus (R-Ala.) and Republican members of the committee, requesting that Frank call hearings on the activities of the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now (ACORN) and the groups alleged ties to fraudulent voter registration.
Recent press accounts have listed allegations of voter fraud in Ohio, Nevada and Florida among others, the letter said. Given the reliance of ACORN on millions of dollars of federal funding from the housing GSE's [sic] and grants from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, it is imperative that the Financial Services Committee use its oversight authority to determine the accuracy of these reports.
Frank disagreed.
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Yeah....like we TRUST Barney Frank on anything!!! We live in BIZARRO world....
Hell our troops fighting in Iraq and Afkanistan and hold free elections in those countries and in the USA vote fraud may damn well decide this election
bring the troops home and put them at our polls
Bush and the RNC should have been on this since Jan 2001
Thank you, (blank)(blank)(blank) Barney Frank. Don’t want to show how the Democrats play dirty, do you?
Frank’s known ACORN for a while.
http://web.archive.org/web/20010421194739/www.acorn.org/acorn-reports/acornrep.politics.content.html
(Search for Frank, Obama, CRA in it.)
Barney Frank will have Freepers investigated before ACORN.
No legislation passed by the House has authorized or appropriated funds for ACORN.
Uhm, isn’t that a flat-out lie? Not that I’d be surprised, but all I’ve been hearing on Beck and elsewhere is how, just this summer, they passed legislation that gives money to ACORN.
Jackie Kucinich’s father is Dennis Kucinich.
McCain tonight needs to DEMAND an investigation of ACORN and exhort the public to back him on it, while reminding them ACORN was largely responsible for the financial mess we are in, while, Oh-by-the-way, informing us all that Obama has financial tiles to that criminal organization. But will McCain make a deal of it? Probably not, except for some mundane rambling of how he is “deeply concerned, my friends, about these reports of some people voting unlawfully.”
financial TIES to that criminal organization...
If Boehner can be brow beat by Pelosi and Barney Fag again, then it is time to throw in the towel.
Past behavior is the best indicator of future behavior, so here you go Congressman Boehner.
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Barney Frank is a skidmark on the underwear of Life. He serves no useful function whatsoever.
Unfortunately this turd sandwhich will never suffer any consequences whatsoever for anything he’s ever done, including his refusal to look into ACORN. He should be dragged into the witness stand of a Senate hearing, but it will never happen.
Prediction: Frank will look for ways to funnel MORE taxpayer money to ACORN.
ACORN has received TENS OF MILLIONS of taxpayer dollars...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122394051071230749.html?mod=djemEditorialPage
The entire organization should be investigated under the RICO statutes.
I'm sure you meant: "Barney and the democrats are now going to do to our election system what they have done to our economy and financial system..., marriage institution, family values, sanctity of life, religious institutions, unions, free enterprise, entreprenneurship, and glowbull worming. "
You spelled felon wrong, it's not teflon, it's f e l o n.
Pres.Bush says he’l get right on it,big time.
If you want him to be quiet just give barbie fwank a bottle of baby oil, a thick pair of knee pads, a good looking young and a sound proof room and he’ll go away for a while.
It's almost funny, its sooo sad and was predicted!!!
Get the US Attorney’s on the cases. It would help our cause a bunch if they could indict a bunch before election day.
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