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Republican Lawmakers Turn Up the Heat on ACORN
FoxNews.com ^ | 09/14/09 | Joshua Rhett Miller

Posted on 09/14/2009 12:44:38 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway

A growing number of Republican lawmakers are calling for congressional hearings and IRS audits of ACORN following the release of three videotapes that show the group's employees offering advice to a "pimp" and a "prostitute" on how to skirt the law. Rep. Steve King, R-IA, said a video released Monday that shows filmmaker James O'Keefe, 25, and Hannah Giles, 20, getting advice from ACORN employees in Brooklyn, N.Y., on how to launder their earnings and avoid detection while running a prostitution business is "another reason to turn it up" on ACORN. Four ACORN employees -- two in Baltimore and two in Washington -- were fired late last week after videos showed the "pimp" and "prostitute" getting similar advice in those cities. In those videos, O'Keefe and Giles told the ACORN workers that they intended to bring underage girls into the country to work as prostitutes.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: acorn; hannahgiles
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ACORN chief organizer Bertha Lewis said the videos capturing her former workers were "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."

ACORN is ground zero to get the whack left radicals out of Washington and our pockets!

1 posted on 09/14/2009 12:44:38 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Defund hell, its time to prosecute under the RICO Act.


2 posted on 09/14/2009 12:45:28 PM PDT by Natural Law
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

HHHHmm, no Hannah Giles article on Wikipedia yet.


3 posted on 09/14/2009 12:46:17 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Big Ears + Big Spending --> BigEarMarx, the man behind TOTUS)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

It’s time to start putting these criminals in jail.


4 posted on 09/14/2009 12:46:42 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Americans! "Behaving badly" since April 19, 1775!)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

I contacted my Representative demanding he support the calls for ACORN being investigated and ending any federal funding. I suggest everyone put pressure on their Congress critters for the same reasons.


5 posted on 09/14/2009 12:46:56 PM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it! FairTaxNation.com)
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To: Natural Law

Each of those offices should be sealed and searched for evidence of other criminal activity.


6 posted on 09/14/2009 12:47:19 PM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

A third video is out today about another seperate incident and CNN is urging us to “remember, this is a CONSERVATIVE journalist.”


7 posted on 09/14/2009 12:48:07 PM PDT by subterfuge (BUILD MORE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS NOW!!!)
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It’s time to start putting these criminals in jail.

Starting at the top.

8 posted on 09/14/2009 12:48:13 PM PDT by bgill (The framers of the US Constitution established an entire federal government in 18 pages.)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Congress should step in and shut this ongoing criminal enterprise down. The rot goes all the way from the roots to the top. Cut the tree down and then burn the stump.


9 posted on 09/14/2009 12:48:20 PM PDT by shankbear (Al-Qaeda grew while Monica blew)
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To: Oldexpat
"Each of those offices should be sealed and searched for evidence of other criminal activity."

This has to become a mantra with a constant drum beat for the politicians and media to take notice.

10 posted on 09/14/2009 12:49:46 PM PDT by Natural Law
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

” Republican Lawmakers Turn Up the Heat on ACORN “

Where were they *before* Breitbart and Beck did their jobs for them, and turned up the heat??

There was certainly no shortage of indicators before this....


11 posted on 09/14/2009 12:49:53 PM PDT by Uncle Ike (Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
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To: shankbear

The rot goes all the way from the roots to the top. Cut the tree down and then burn the stump.

To use Obango’s words....IT SMELLS FISHY!


12 posted on 09/14/2009 12:52:04 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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“Cut the tree down and then burn the stump.”

Yes, and then salt the earth where the stump was!


13 posted on 09/14/2009 12:52:22 PM PDT by Sola Veritas (Trying to speak truth - not always with the best grammar or spelling)
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To: Man50D
You are so right. I just phoned my rep and said not only do they need to defund ACORN, they need to prosecute.
14 posted on 09/14/2009 12:52:32 PM PDT by Shannon
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To: Uncle Ike

Where were they *before* Breitbart and Beck did their jobs for them, and turned up the heat??

I think seeing “a few” voters turn up in Washington on Saturday may have gotten them off their collective asses!


15 posted on 09/14/2009 12:53:53 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Yeah?

Where were they till now? It’s not like no one knew how corrupt they were before. The only difference now is the films.

Isn’t that just the way all pols are? They race to a microphone AFTER something happens or gets uncovered, then they claim their “deep copncern”, etc.


16 posted on 09/14/2009 12:54:53 PM PDT by Pessimist (u)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

It’s really not ACORN that’s feeling the heat,

it’s the democRats.

They’re going to have to throw ACORN (and their fraud machine) under the bus,

or face the prospect of defending them.


17 posted on 09/14/2009 12:55:29 PM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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I agree!...Only when the evidence is obvious to a stump, do they show up....


18 posted on 09/14/2009 12:55:58 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Are all these people liars? Seriously, is there no longer any shame in telling lies? It seems like everyone lies now; the media, the President, Congressmen, Senators, heads of political organizations. There is no lie too big. They’ll get away with whatever they can.

What I especially don’t get though, is why the gullible public allows them to get away with it.


19 posted on 09/14/2009 12:58:49 PM PDT by KansasGirl (I hate the media.)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Don’t forget, ACORN can just rename and regroup and continue to get funds. We have to watch out for this.
We can only hope that the investigation goes right to the very core.
These are cockroach organizations and the best way to smack them out is to turn on the lights.


20 posted on 09/14/2009 1:05:17 PM PDT by two23 (czars are for commies)
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