Posted on 09/12/2009 12:27:26 PM PDT by psychopuppy
Conservatives have cheered the Census Bureau's decision to sever ties with ACORN because it had lost confidence in the group, but the hidden-camera videos that prompted ACORN to fire four workers this week could raise more questions about the federal funding ACORN receives for housing outreach....
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The need to prosecute the leaders or ACORN will just reappear with another name.
That and prison time.
ACORN has a lot of support from the left and from the media and government no matter how crooked they are. Like Charlie Rangel we have to keep pushing for justice to be done.
The answer is:
Because ACORN supporters are running the government
Bump to that!
They cut ties with the Census bureau as well thank god.
Looks good devolve
I seem to have missed working on that right shoulder area after I painted in the grey!
Don’t hold your breath.
Remember -
“It depends on what your definiton of Is is”
“No controlling legal authority”
At least Lou Dobbs gave this story some time. He’s probably the only one on CNN.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0909/11/ldt.01.html
[snip]PILGRIM: There is more trouble tonight for the left-wing activist group ACORN. Two more employees have been fired after the release of a second videotape showing workers illegal giving advice to filmmakers who were posing as a pimp and a prostitute. Now, this is the second tape made public in two days. It’s just the latest chapter where ACORN appears to be on the wrong side of the law. Bill Tucker has our report.
BILL TUCKER, CNN NEWS CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): For the second time in as many days, a video has been posted on the internet of ACORN Employees appearing to give illegal tax advice to a prostitute who’s looking to establish a brothel using underaged prostitutes from El Salvador.
The latest video was secretly recording at the Washington, D.C. offices of ACORN a group that says its overriding mission is providing housing assistance to the poor. in a statement issued Friday by the head of the ACORN D.C. office, it was announced that the employees in the video had been fired. “We have fired them and are initialing an internal review of practices reminding all staff of their obligations to uphold the highest legal and ethical standards.”
On Thursday, a similar scenario was shown in a video shot in the Baltimore office of ACORN
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Your business is a performing artist. Which you are, OK, so you not lying, we’ll play on words.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It’s kind of boosting my ego.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: But you’re a performing artist, OK? So, stop saying “prostitute.”
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK.
TUCKER: The two employees in that video were described as “part time” by the head of the ACORN office in Baltimore. They no longer work for ACORN
SONYA MARCHANT, ACORN BALTIMORE: The two employees that were filmed in the video were immediately dismissed because they did not follow the protocol of this organization.
TUCKER: ACORN’s legal council says the woman in the video denies ever giving tax advice to a pimp or a prostitute. ACORN’s spokesman Scott Levenson vehemently denounces the Baltimore taping saying, “Our position is that this film is doctored. It is not an accurate portrayal of what happened in our Baltimore office and we are likely to take legal action. In fact, we already have legal opinions that it is likely that a felony was committed.”
ACORN, which is active in hundreds of neighborhoods in 41 states, claims that the two activist filmmakers responsible for posting the videos tried the same thing at their offices in San Diego, Los Angeles, Miami, New York and Philadelphia and failed.
ACORN gave CNN a copy of the police complaint filed against the filmmakers In Philadelphia. The filmmakers, James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles are not commenting and Giles was a no-show for an agreed-to interview with CNN. Congressman Steve King of Iowa wants a federal investigation of ACORN.
REP STEVE KING (R), IOWA: We’ve got to audit them completely, every single affiliated corporation that they have. There should be a Deportment of Justice complete forensic audit. We need to do congressional investigations and we need to shut off every dime going to ACORN until such time as they can have a clean bill of health.
TUCKER: The latest episodes come the heels of a variety of charges of voter registration fraud.
ACORN is under investigation in at least 10 states for voter registration fraud and just this week, arrest warrants for 11 ACORN voter registration workers were sworn out on charges of registration fraud in Florida in an investigation that ACORN did help initiate. In Nevada, ACORN officials are fighting criminal charges for creating a voter registration incentive program base on the number of voters registered, which is illegal under Nevada law.
Now, ACORN has called those charges political grandstanding by the secretary of state and the attorney general there, who, Kitty, both happen to be not Republicans, but Democrats.
PILGRIM: Bill, tonight we’re also learning that the Census is cutting ties with ACORN for the 2010 Census. What do you know about that?
TUCKER: A letter went out this evening from the Census Bureau to the president of ACORN announcing they no longer wish to be affiliated with them and they’re ending a partnership arrangement with them. ACORN has responded saying there was never any funding at stake in this, there were no programmatic relationships or commitments that needed to be made and that they are going to connote to encourage people to participate in the Census. But this has got to be just another big blow to ACORN, Kitty, it’s been a rough week for good reason and it ends with the Census Bureau saying thanks, but no thanks.
More on this at link, with talking heads weighing in.
Wheres the RICO act?
They never spent much of our money on offices.
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Yup
Nice work potlatch
That will haunt him forever
I’ll work on the shoulder later, lol.
Had to redo the eyes in a larger head. When you enlarge things they get stray pixels all around them and that involves a lot of cleanup too.
Yeah, the clown joker face won’t go away now, lol.
Heard his rally got 15 thousand but the estimates on the Tea Party are wild in range - but HUGE!!
They've got to wait long enough for them to get the $8.5 billion of our tax money from the Stimulus package.
Can you believe we're working to give money to these low-life thugs?
They need to go after COI [Community Organizations International] (ACORN’s new name) with RICO.
With this bunch, I can. Otherwise, no way in Hades.
Thank heaven the census has woken up on this cabal, if they truly have.
ACORN must be defunded, and nobody who works for it now should ever be allowed to hold a government job again.
ACORN is a corrupt criminal organization. They deserve an FBI investigation on RICO violations. I’ll wait, with baited breath, for Eric Holder to jump right on this.
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