Posted on 09/14/2009 5:45:08 AM PDT by RDTF
The scandal surrounding the left-wing activist organization ACORN has spread to New York, with employees at its Brooklyn office caught on video helping supposed ladies of the night get loans for their dream houses of ill repute.
Rather than reminding the women that prostitution is dangerous and illegal and advising them to change their careers, counselors at the social-services group shockingly offer suggestions on how they can launder their earnings.
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(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
more?
Bury your money in the backyard...
ACORN is now into bait and switch.
ACORN has changed its name over the weekend to COI (Community Organizations International). I wonder if the Census Bureau will be working with COI now that they gave ACORN the boot.
How many videos is this, three? Baltimore, DC, and NY, now?
It’s coming on FOX!!!!!
I love it. Catch the b-tards and throw them in jail. Oh, no, not the journalists, the ACORN NUTS. (We all can figure out which will be the ones to serve jail time, huh?)
??? Is this the third catch of an “isolated incident”???
I think what the stingers have done has been in response to ACORN’s tactics of “firing the offenders”, as if they were the only bad apples in the entire organization.
They went to several, who knows how many, locations and got the same response on tape, showing a ubiquitous culture of illegality and immorality.
They dropped the first tape, waited for the ACORN “fire the bad apples” response, then dropped all the other tapes from all the other locations on them.
LOL! A statement from ACORN regarding the video(s)......(they’re a victim)
The relentless attacks on ACORN’s members, its staff and the policies and positions we promote are unprecedented. An international entertainment conglomerate, disguising itself as a “news” agency (Fox), has expended millions, if not tens of millions of dollars, in their attempt to destroy the largest community organization of Black, Latino, poor and working families in the country. It is not coincidence that the most recent attacks have been launched just when health care reform is gaining traction. It is clear they’ve had these tapes for months.
We are their Willy Horton for 2009. We are the boogeyman for the right-wing and its echo chambers. If ACORN did not exist, the right-wing would have needed to create us in order to achieve their agenda, their missions, their ideal, retrograde America. This recent scam, which was attempted in San Diego, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia to name a few places, had failed for months before the results we’ve all recently seen. I am appalled and angry; I cannot and I will not defend the actions of the workers depicted in the video, who have since been terminated. But it is clear that the videos are doctored, edited, and in no way the result of the fabricated story being portrayed by conservative activist “filmmaker” O’Keefe and his partner in crime. And, in fact, a crime it was - our lawyers believe a felony - and we will be taking legal action against Fox and their co-conspirators.
We will not be intimidated by this international conglomerate, which has made as its mission the destruction of our organization. ACORN members are committed to the empowerment of their communities - Black, Latino, poor, and working families – at the deepest level. We are an organization committed to halting the foreclosure crisis and keeping people in their homes. We are an organization committed to ensuring quality, affordable health care for every American. We are an organization that will not be stopped in our commitment to our members and our communities which has included:
Helping hundreds of thousands of African-American and Latino voters register to vote and get to the polls in recent years;
Preparing, since 2004, approximately 150,000 free tax returns totaling $190 million in refunds and increased earned income tax credit participation;
Providing effective foreclosure prevention advocacy saving thousands of American families from losing their homes to foreclosure.
ACORN = Obama
Say it over and over and over,
Make it stick.
Out in 2012 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If I were a betting man, I would lay money on Boston for tomorrow’s video.
Obama IS ACORN.
ACORN has to be shut down and every last thing they’ve had their hands on needs a complete and thorough audit.
At the very least, NO MORE TAXPEYER FUNDS can make their way to ACORN.
Not one penny!
Can you believe these skunks are saying they are going to sue FOX and the producers of this video..And guess who’s money they are going to use..if you said the moneys that Obama and his criminal congress and senate gave them you would be right ..To bad they will lose they said they were guilty by firing the scum that worked at these ACORN places.. Past time for the investigations Democrats..Oh but you don’t want to do that because these criminals got you elected on false voters.. Let us not forget that Obama taught these criminals all they know..
Slightly off-topic but is anyone else having trouble accessing biggovernment.com ?
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