"Looks good to me."
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 ...
Standard lib BS.
The result will be broadcast across America.”
Precicely. Watch what they do, not what they say. Words are cheap with these hyenas.
Don't get excited. This is merely an attempt to white wash any crimes by ACORN.
I don’t think so. He could be up to something. But if Republicans don’t investigate this, they can stay in the minority until the end of time for all I care.
Republicans have NO POWER to do much investigating....sadly.
If a liberal Democrat is after ACORN, then they have some leverage here.
"Looks good to me."
Maybe the Tea Parties are scaring the Congress Critters a bit?
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Ms. Dorothy Amadi, Vice President: Ms. Amadi, a long time activist and resident of East New York Brooklyn, NY, has been a critical player in the construction and rehabilitation of affordable housing in very poor New York neighborhoods.She has been the President of the Mutual Housing Association of New York (MHANY) since 1995. MHANY owns over 150 properties and over 500 units of affordable housing throughout Brooklyn.
Ms. Gwen Adams: Ms. Adams, a longtime resident of New Orleans Lower 9th Ward lost her home to Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Her many efforts include the ongoing community rebuilding process of her hometown.
Mr. Lewis Jenkins: Mr. Jenkins is a retired refinery worker from JT Thorpe Corporation. He was a former active Local 18 Union member. Mr. Jenkins was also a carpenter laborer working on the construction of Bush Intercontinental Airport. Mr. Jenkins is a native of Houston living in Acres Homes for over 30 years.
Mr. Guilermo Loaiza: Mr. Loaiza is a Mortgage Officer with J.P. Morgan Chase & Company. He has been in the mortgage industry for 10 years. He is the president of the Arizona ACORN Housing Corporation, and member of ACORN. He attended Phoenix College. He has been a resident of the South Mountain Village community for over a decade where he lives with his family. Prior to moving to Phoenix, Mr. Loaiza lived in New York City.
Smoke screen
Just like the hand-wringing over the AIG bonuses, which had the approval of Yo-Mama all along!
This is a good possibility. Even in Conyers’s district his office could be getting a flood of e-mails and phone calls from constituents angry and bewildered over Obama’s bizarre policies.
A lot of House Democrats may be feeling like the White House led them over a political cliff after the Obama inspired AIG-48-Hours-of-Hate Festival.
This is a ploy to bring an ACORN slug up, ask him some softball questions and then say “Hey all of these right wing charges and slurs against this fine American grassroots group are bogus: Case closed.”
...but yet they’ve contracted with them to “assist” with the census.
Just watch. This “investingation” will drag on forever, and never find anything of consequence. In the meantime anyone in the administration that would be implicated will use it as an excuse to dodge questions, saying they can’t comment on it because there’s an “ongoing investigation”.
BIBGO! He’s investigating the horrible accusations against Acorn by those nasty rotten republicans and their attack machine. You just have to read these press releases carefully.
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