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Conyers suggests probe of ACORN - Calls fraud charges 'serious'
Washington Times ^ | March 20, 2009 | S.A. Miller

Posted on 03/20/2009 11:27:34 AM PDT by Jim Robinson

In an startling partisan shift, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. on Thursday proposed holding hearings on claims the liberal activist group ACORN engaged in a pattern of crimes ranging from voter fraud to a mob-style “protection” racket.

Mr. Conyers, Michigan Democrat and fierce partisan, suggested a congressional probe after scathing testimony about the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) during a hearing on various voting issues related to the 2008 presidential election.

Mr. Conyers called the accusations “a pretty serious matter.”

“I think that it would be something that would be worth our time,” he said during Thursday's hearing. “We've never had one person representing ACORN before the committee. ... I think in all fairness we ought to really examine it.”

The testimony by Pittsburgh lawyer Heather Heidelbaugh accused the nonprofit group of violating tax, campaign-finance and other laws by, among other things, sharing with the Barack Obama campaign a list of the Democrat's maxed-out campaign donors so ACORN could use it to solicit them for a get-out-the-vote drive.

She also testified that the Democrat-allied group provided liberal causes with protest-for-hire services and coerced donations from targets of demonstrations through a shakedown it called the “muscle for the money” program.

Ms. Heidelbaugh, a member of the executive committee of the Republican National Lawyers Association, spearheaded an unsuccessful lawsuit last year seeking a court injunction in Pennsylvania against ACORN's voter-registration drive for the 2008 presidential campaign. She appeared as a witness at the request of Republican committee members.

Mr. Conyers, who is known for his drive to continue investigating the Bush administration, previously defended ACORN. In October, he condemned an FBI voter fraud investigation targeting the group. He questioned whether it was politically motivated to hamper a voter-registration drive targeting groups likely to support Mr. Obama's candidacy.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 111th; acorn; bho44; census; conyers; corruptdems; democrats; electionfraud; elections; fraud; obama; votefraud; voterfraud
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To: Jim Robinson

The Democrats are neck deep in crapOla and their disaster of a leader Obama has led them into the swamp.

Conyers and few more who will step out of the box and
try the “I am shocked” routine to CYA.

To little to late. The Republicans can say, I told you so.


21 posted on 03/20/2009 11:40:14 AM PDT by SoCalPol (Reagan Republican for Palin 2012)
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To: prismsinc; Jim Robinson
What of this, JR? Is this more grandstanding? ACORN “investigation” just a deflection for some other tyrannical motion by Conyers?

Nope!

It is a serious attempt to sweep all the ACORN malfeasance under the rug before the republicans retake the house in 2010.

22 posted on 03/20/2009 11:40:21 AM PDT by Bigun ("It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." Voltaire)
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To: txnativegop

I think, by the way it is written, that it is to be an investigation of the ACCUSATIONS against ACORN, not of ACORN.


23 posted on 03/20/2009 11:40:42 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Cancel liberal newspaper, magazine & cable TV subscriptions (Free TV-dtv.gov). Stop funding the MSM.)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; george76; ...

...and I’m *sure* Conyers is *really serious* about getting to the bottom of it.

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24 posted on 03/20/2009 11:40:43 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: ConservativeMind

That sounds a lot more like the Democrats that I know and love (NOT!).


25 posted on 03/20/2009 11:41:57 AM PDT by txnativegop (God Bless America! (NRA-Endowment))
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To: Jim Robinson

What’s in this for Conyers?


26 posted on 03/20/2009 11:42:24 AM PDT by Doctor Raoul (New Obama Mantra, "Screw World Peace, I'll Buy You A Pony.")
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To: Jim Robinson

Window Dressing “hearings” coming up - then we file it all under “old news”.


27 posted on 03/20/2009 11:43:13 AM PDT by ErnBatavia (Here's hoping the Kennedy family trust is in deep....with Madoff)
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To: Jim Robinson
The investigation will go like this:

Conyers: ACORN,did you guys do something wrong?
ACORN: Of course not...don't be silly.
Conyers: Very good. This concludes the investigation.
28 posted on 03/20/2009 11:45:34 AM PDT by gimme1ibertee ("No pale pastels,but bold colors".....RAISE HOLY HELL!)
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To: Jim Robinson

I wonder if discovered that Acorn actually registered some republican or maybe conservative voters.


29 posted on 03/20/2009 11:46:10 AM PDT by brydic1
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To: 70th Division

This is almost funny! In Trinidad a cobo is a black vulture. Cobo is also used as a slang term for blacks. The saying goes like this, “Play dead to catch cobo live.”


30 posted on 03/20/2009 11:47:01 AM PDT by WellyP (obama must go!)
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To: Jim Robinson
At the end of this circus... Race trumps all.
31 posted on 03/20/2009 11:47:01 AM PDT by JDoutrider
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To: Ann Archy

That’s better than investigating the “Bush” Administration!!


32 posted on 03/20/2009 11:47:37 AM PDT by noah (noah)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
I think we all know that any “probe” will consist of a series of fake hearings filled with softball questions, followed by “nothing to see here, move along.”

BINGO! This is exactly what will happen!

33 posted on 03/20/2009 11:47:40 AM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: grellis

Ping.


34 posted on 03/20/2009 11:48:07 AM PDT by Springman (Rest In Peace YaYa123)
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To: Jim Robinson

Conyers??? Seriously????


35 posted on 03/20/2009 11:48:23 AM PDT by rintense (Go Israel!)
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To: Jim Robinson

LOLOL. Imagine Conyers investigating ACORN.

Laugh a minute. The committee will commend them for all their good works. Declare the entire organization pure as the driven snow, er coal.


36 posted on 03/20/2009 11:52:50 AM PDT by Carley (President Obama Dropped a MOAB on America)
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To: Jim Robinson
Conyers is calling for an official cover up. Their conclusion is already written. “We investigated thoroughly, and found no evidence of wrong doing”.
37 posted on 03/20/2009 11:55:41 AM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: Jim Robinson

My guess would be, all the dems would throw softballs at ACORN people and then clear them of any wrong-doing. End of story.


38 posted on 03/20/2009 11:56:42 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: kempster

“Dog & pony show from the master.”

That’s how I see it also.

The Democrats would create the illusion of investigation. By the time the Dems are finished “investigating” ACORN, one would wonder how we ever survived to the 21st Century without them.


39 posted on 03/20/2009 12:02:05 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists...Call 'em What you Will, They ALL have Fairies Living In Their Trees.)
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To: Jim Robinson
Conyers will say anything. Any. Thing.

That doesn't mean he believes it, and it doesn't mean he'll do anything.

Actually, it means just the opposite.

40 posted on 03/20/2009 12:04:02 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Only after disaster can we be resurrected." -- Tyler Durden)
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