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Acorn Faces More Funding Pressure Over Video Incidents
The Wall Street Journal ^ | 09-16-09 | JAKE SHERMAN

Posted on 09/15/2009 7:59:22 PM PDT by GOP_Lady

WASHINGTON -- Federal and local authorities are considering pulling back on funding Acorn, a leading community organizing group, after videos showed employees at a number of Acorn offices allegedly advising a filmmaker how to evade taxes in operating a brothel.

New York City is "treating this very seriously," a spokesman for Mayor Michael Bloomberg said, adding that the city will await an investigation by the Brooklyn district attorney before deciding whether to curtail funding the city channels to Acorn. The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or Acorn, is the landlord for some of the city's affordable housing units. One of the hidden-camera videos was shot at an Acorn office in Brooklyn.

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A video recently posted on YouTube
ws a former Acorn employee offering
advice to a filmmaker posing as a prostitute.

1 posted on 09/15/2009 7:59:22 PM PDT by GOP_Lady
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To: GOP_Lady

Lets run them out of business, and then force the President to make a statement about them and explain himself and his connections with this discredited organization.


2 posted on 09/15/2009 8:01:19 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (For only donating $100 bucks online to JOE WILSON, I sure feel like *A MILLION BUCKS* myself. Try it)
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To: GOP_Lady

is the house going to vote to stop funding to acorn? how do we get an audit of acorn and subsidiaries


3 posted on 09/15/2009 8:02:40 PM PDT by dalebert
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To: GOP_Lady
General question to the forum:

In the USA, once paper trash (ie documents, etc) is laid outside of an office in most states for refuse take-away, is it then public property at that point?

I suggest some Freepers who dont mind getting a little dirty, see if any documents or what not are being thrown out in the alleyways behind ACORN offices around the country. I know those be dangerous neighborhoods at night, so take a few people and be prepared to explain to the police what you are doing poking around. Might be some gems and nuggest gained; I suspect most of these people are dumb as hammers and will just throw incriminating information out without shredding or burning.

4 posted on 09/15/2009 8:04:28 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (For only donating $100 bucks online to JOE WILSON, I sure feel like *A MILLION BUCKS* myself. Try it)
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To: dalebert

funding, shmunding ... kick ‘em out of the country.


5 posted on 09/15/2009 8:05:01 PM PDT by knarf
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To: GOP_Lady

>Acorn, is the landlord for some of the city’s affordable housing units.

A simple check of how many taxes these slumlords have not paid
would likely be enough to make them cry racism some more.


6 posted on 09/15/2009 8:05:54 PM PDT by soycd
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To: GOP_Lady

Just imagine how many billions of our tax dollars were channeld by ACORN and HUD into buying imaginary houses.


7 posted on 09/15/2009 8:08:18 PM PDT by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

>see if any documents or what not are being thrown out in the alleyways behind ACORN offices around the country. I know those be dangerous neighborhoods at night

Odds would give a white person(s) on that mission about 5 minutes of remaining life and limb - and an armed one about
20 to life.

And the acorn thugs could get off scott free under obama.


8 posted on 09/15/2009 8:11:57 PM PDT by soycd
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To: soycd

They are finally going to be tossed under the bus now that they are bringing too much heat on Obama.


9 posted on 09/15/2009 8:15:23 PM PDT by MiltonFriedmanFan
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To: GOP_Lady
BrothelCare

brought to you by Brothel ( aka Barrak ) Obama.


BROTHEL OBAMA !!

10 posted on 09/15/2009 8:16:55 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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To: GOP_Lady

O’Keefe announced on Hannity tonight, that a new (5th) video, from yet a new location, would be released tomorrow (16th) showing yet more ACORN criminal conspiracies.


11 posted on 09/15/2009 8:19:56 PM PDT by DGHoodini (Iran Azadi!)
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To: GOP_Lady
"...did not return calls for comment..."

Silence speaks volumes..
12 posted on 09/15/2009 8:21:09 PM PDT by Dallas59
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To: DGHoodini

I LOVE the way they are releasing the videos.


13 posted on 09/15/2009 8:22:59 PM PDT by madison10
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To: soycd

I bet they are shredding like crazy!


14 posted on 09/15/2009 8:27:33 PM PDT by notaliberal (Right-wing extremist)
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To: GOP_Lady

I just hope that one of these films comes from ACORN Chicago, ground zero for the COIC!

(COIC - Community organizer in chief)


15 posted on 09/15/2009 8:27:46 PM PDT by aShepard
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To: soycd

that is why the individuals chosen for this mission will meet certain requirements.


16 posted on 09/15/2009 8:30:36 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (For only donating $100 bucks online to JOE WILSON, I sure feel like *A MILLION BUCKS* myself. Try it)
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To: GOP_Lady

Thanks James and Hanna AND THANK YOU GLENN BECK!

OUTSTANDING!


17 posted on 09/15/2009 8:32:23 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: dalebert

Only 7 voted to continue funding.

They are on the ropes (for now)


18 posted on 09/15/2009 8:32:39 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: Travis McGee

8 billion funneled to them by Obama


19 posted on 09/15/2009 8:33:33 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: notaliberal

Yeah, they can make cat litter for the next yer out of all the shredding going on around the country.


20 posted on 09/15/2009 9:00:54 PM PDT by Wisconsinlady
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