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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Representatives must be flooded with mails,messages,letters,phone calls...
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ACORN workers charged with forging voter registrations
postgazette.com | Thursday, May 07, 2009 | Dennis B. Roddy
Posted on 05/07/2009 8:54:07 AM PDT by evets
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2246147/posts
ACORN Members Facing Voter Registration Fraud
KDKA.com
Posted on 05/07/2009 1:42:08 PM PDT by Deaner59
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2246376/posts
Ex-Democratic Fundraiser Pleads Guilty in NYC (Norman Hsu)
AP | JONATHAN DIENST | LARRY NEUMEISTER
Posted on 05/07/2009 11:21:19 AM PDT by nickcarraway
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2246274/posts
He needed to clear the way so that that orgnization can infest the Census operation...
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Preachin’ to the choir, Fishtalk, preachin’ to the choir!
*sigh*
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America is doomed and 99.9 percent of the sheeple have no clue....which is really sad.
I’m only surprised that he outright killed it.
I fully expected him to get a lot more mileage out of it. I suppose they didn’t negotiate a price and just gave Conyers what he wanted.
GOOD!
When ACORN is finally nailed to a cross, he can go down as well for his duplicity and conspiracy to cover up the frauds.
Reid,Conyers and Pelosi need to be called upon to resign immediately!
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This sounds all to familiar:Remember when Fannie/Freddie chairman Raines was lauded by the Dem. House members:Franks and Maxene Waters. The Dems. gave Raines and the whole Community Reinvestment Act a pass not so long ago and we’re still suffering from the results.
We’ve got Conyer’s Loony Tunes wife here on the Detroit City Council so we feel the same pain the yahoos in Washinton must feel with the husband, John Conyers.
The whole Conyer’s political family are leftist radicals, no doubt!
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