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.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com:80 ...
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.
Nope!
It is a serious attempt to sweep all the ACORN malfeasance under the rug before the republicans retake the house in 2010.
I think, by the way it is written, that it is to be an investigation of the ACCUSATIONS against ACORN, not of ACORN.
...and I’m *sure* Conyers is *really serious* about getting to the bottom of it.
Hillary Clinton, George Soros, ACORN Tied
to Working Families Party Targeting AIG Workers at Home
Friday, March 20, 2009 | Kristinn
Posted on 03/20/2009 11:23:20 AM PDT by kristinn
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2210905/posts
That sounds a lot more like the Democrats that I know and love (NOT!).
What’s in this for Conyers?
Window Dressing “hearings” coming up - then we file it all under “old news”.
I wonder if discovered that Acorn actually registered some republican or maybe conservative voters.
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.”
That’s better than investigating the “Bush” Administration!!
BINGO! This is exactly what will happen!
Ping.
Conyers??? Seriously????
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.
My guess would be, all the dems would throw softballs at ACORN people and then clear them of any wrong-doing. End of story.
“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.
That doesn't mean he believes it, and it doesn't mean he'll do anything.
Actually, it means just the opposite.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.