Posted on 05/07/2009 1:15:51 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
[T]he House Judiciary Committee chairman's May 4 statement exonerating ACORN couldn't have come out at a worse time. "Based on my review of the information regarding the complaints against ACORN, I have concluded that a hearing on this matter appears unwarranted at this time," Conyers said in a statement aired that night on CNN's "Lou Dobbs Tonight."
Just hours earlier his fellow Democrats in Nevada, Secretary of State Ross Miller and Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto dropped a bombshell. ACORN and two former senior ACORN employees in the state, they announced, had been charged with a total of 39 felony counts related to voter registrations.
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When on Wednesday this reporter asked Conyers spokesman Jonathan Godfrey to explain the decision not to move forward with a probe, he declined to do so and instead emailed the same statement that was aired on CNN earlier in the week.
It's unclear what exactly crystallized Conyers's thinking, but his reversal is all the more puzzling given the enthusiasm the 23-term congressman showed for holding an ACORN hearing mere weeks ago.
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It was always hard to believe that the ultra-liberal Conyers, who is very sympathetic to ACORN's policy goals and who as recently as October called the radical group "a longstanding and well regarded organization that fights for the poor and working class," really wanted to investigate his longtime ally in the leftist movement.
Conyers, who received a 100% rating from ACORN in its 2006 legislative scorecard, showed how truly in sync he was with ACORN when he spoke at the group's national convention last June 22.
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The dems are a bunch of criminals.
I guess he decided the whitewash he was planning wouldn’t be credible.
“I have concluded that a hearing on this matter appears unwarranted at this time,”
Of course. Democrats are in power.
Scandals are only investigated in election years when Republicans hold high office.
May 7th, 8:00:01 EST, the Congressional Investigation into Acorn concludes.
Bastards!
If anyone thought Conyers would actually do anything meaningful vis a vis an ACORN investigation was fooling themselves anyway.
No, it’s going to be up to some dedicated state attorneys general and local grassroots organizations, as well as the GOP to expose these people. They are so brazen and open about it that it shouldn’t be too hard.
I was surprised he had hearings in the first place. I see he oozed back into his usual pattern.
Posted on Thursday, May 07, 2009 11:51:26 AM EDT by ETL:
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“The Dems are a bunch of criminals.”
An understatement, and much worse.
IMHO
Bucking fastard!
I see he oozed back into his usual pattern.
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And slithered.
That says it all!!!
A fig leaf.
Anyhow why is this a Congressional issue. Oughtn’t it to be an FBI issue?
Dems can’t win elections without voter fraud. And media fraud. If every voter was asked to produce evidence of residence and citizenship, Republicans would win most elections. Even with the media fraud.
ACORN is a criminal organization and like the unions which are also criminal organizations, are arms of the Democrat National Committee or DNC. Unfortunately the porkulus provided for $5 billion to be paid to ACORN to pay for their criminal activities. This is where they are criminal. Stealing taxpayer money to commit voter fraud and steal elections. They will also be heavily involved in the next census which will help with redistricting.
No conflict of interests to see here, folks... move along.
IMO, the tentacles of ACORN lead to someone the left will never allow the public to know about. Hence the impossibility of a full investigation.
Hint: Community Organizer
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