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Republican blasts ACORN reprieve
Political Intellignece ^
| November 27, 2009
| Foon Rhee
Posted on 11/28/2009 5:07:54 AM PST by yoe
A top House Republican today blasted a (ruling by the Justice Department) that allows the Obama administration to pay ACORN for services provided under contracts signed before Congress passed a law banning the community advocacy group from receiving taxpayers money.
Republicans have been on the warpath against ACORN since its voter registration efforts came under scrutiny during the 2008 presidential campaign. After conservative activists, who posed as a prostitute and pimp, released videos appearing to show ACORN staffers advising them how to skirt the law, Democrats joined in the outrage, leading to the congressional funding ban that Obama signed on Oct. 1.
Since 1994, ACORN, which stands for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, has received about $53 million in federal aid, much of it in grants to help poor people obtain affordable housing. The Justice Department asked whether the funding ban applied to prior contracts. In a ruling first reported by the New York Times, a department lawyer said the payments under prior contracts should continue because the language of the law did not expressly wipe them out.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: acorn; barrysoetoro; criminalenterprise; obama; taxpayers; votefraud; voterfraud
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ACORN & SEIU are part of the Obama Army with Erick Holder as it's main General. We're in the process of being overthrown by Marxists.
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posted on
11/28/2009 5:07:54 AM PST
by
yoe
To: yoe
Blue helmets, SEIU and acorn shirts all are very visible aiming points.
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posted on
11/28/2009 5:14:11 AM PST
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: yoe
AMEN, brother!
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posted on
11/28/2009 5:15:24 AM PST
by
Aevery_Freeman
(Been collecting pitchforks for years - now I know why!)
To: yoe
Every other country knows what is going on, but
there appears to be few adults in DC.
Breaking: Obama's White House ACORN Operative Fined $775,000 For Election Violations
- Used Rapists & Burglars in Door-to-Door Registration Drives
ACORN's Recent History With Prostitution (who'd have thought..)
Perhaps we shouldn't have been completely surprised by the videos we've seen of ACORN workers offering assistance to prostitution rings.
I mean, there was Cincinnati . . .
Shari Bell, 41, of Walnut Hills was arrested Wednesday night by Cincinnati police, reported WCPO, NewsChannel5's Cincinnati sister station.
Bell allegedly approached an undercover officer's car in Evanston and offered him sex for money. Police also said they found a crack pipe in Bell's coat pocket.
Bell told police she works for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now at the time of her arrest.
And then there was Cleveland:
An Ohio man who cast an illegal early ballot after being caught registering to vote several times with ACORN is a longtime scammer who was arrested last year as a woman.
The bizarre tale of Darnell Nash a k a Serina "Sexy Slay" Gibbs came to light after Cuyahoga County election officials charged him with voter fraud and this week turned him in to prosecutors.
It turns out that Nash, 24, who has a criminal record as a man, is now a transsexual escort who claims to make $150 an hour turning tricks as the self-proclaimed "Queen of Cleveland Gender Benders."
Maybe this really is just another day at the office for the folks at ACORN . . .
UPDATE: Then there's Milwaukee:
At least seven felons convicted of crimes including cocaine possession and robbery were recruited by a liberal group to register voters in Milwaukee,
raising fears they may have committed voter fraud . . .
Along with the seven felons, court records show one special registration deputy has a pending felony charge for heroin possession and another is facing a misdemeanor prostitution charge. A third was convicted of misdemeanor prostitution.

"ACORN Funded Prostitution Zone")."
ACORN Prostitution Scam Moves to Brooklyn

Now, I guess, we know what a community organizer does, because today we learned, an ACORN Brothel Grows in Brooklyn.
When we last saw our fake pimp and hooker, they were in our nation's capitol trying to
find out how ACORN would deal with people looking for a home mortgage so they can open open up a brothel using under-aged girls. "
"US ACORN SCANDAL: International Press Roundup (RUSSIA); Balt. Libs Recommend to Establish Brothel.

Liberal Benefactors in Baltimore gave recommendations to establish a brothel
В США опубликован видеоролик с участием сотрудников либеральной некоммерческой
организации, которые с энтузиазмом дают советы по организации противозаконного бизнеса -
детской проституции. In the United States published a video with the participation of staff of the liberal non-profit organization,
who enthusiastically give advice on the organization of an illegal business - child prostitution.
Как передает CNN, запись сделана двумя консервативными активистами,
один из которых изображал сутенера, а другая - проститутку.
According to CNN, entry was made by two conservative activist, one of which
depicted the pimp and the other - a prostitute.
Объектом успешной провокации стала влиятельная Ассоциация местных
организаций за немедленные реформы (ACORN)."
"ACORN SCANDAL: International Press Roundup (MEXICO) Girls
from Mexico/E.S. to U.S. for Prostitution
"Trabajo encubierto exhibe ilícitos de empleados de la ACORN;
Llevan a EU niñas de México y El Salvador para prostituirlas"
They have girls from Mexico to the United States and El Salvador for Prostitution
Antonio Heras Antonio Heras Corresponsal Correspondent Mexicali, BC, 17 de
septiembre. Mexicali, BC, Sept. 17. An undercover work done by Hannah Giles and
James O'Keefe, activists, human rights advocates, revealed illegal actions of
employees of the Association of Community Organizations for the New Reform
(ACORN, for its acronym in English), who advise the import United States of girls
from Mexico and El Salvador for prostitution in the neighboring country and profit
from it.
The ACORN, nongovernmental organization dedicated to the support of migrants and
highly marginalized people to acquire home ownership in the U.S., announced it will
initiate an independent investigation to determine responsibilities of its employees."
"ACORN SCANDAL: International Press Roundup (NORWAY): "Obama-Support Group Helps Fake Whore/Pimp" "Obama-Støttegruppe Felt Av Falsk Hore Og Hhallik"
a video camera has revealed how people in the U.S. umbrella organization Acorn has
been willing to provide support to illegal projects.
Obama-aid Lobby group, which supports low-and middle-income groups in the housing
wage and tax issues, was under the election campaign last year, accused of election
fraud after a sub-organization had a mission to register voters worth 800 000 dollars
for Obama. "
"Unearthed! Obama's twisted ACORN roots
"Obama's task was to help far South Side residents press for improvement," the Times article explained. "
"The E. F. Hutton of Prostitution: When ACORN Talks, Pimps and Hookers Listen.
The radical activist group ACORN is the E. F. Hutton of prostitution. It stands ready to provide discreet advice
on setting up a brothel and engaging in other, associated acts of criminality. When ACORN talks, pimps and hookers listen.
In Baltimore, ACORN staff assured OKeefe and Giles that the group doesnt discriminate i.e., has no standards whatsoever.
Giles is told if she makes $96,000 a year selling sex, she should tell the government she only makes $9,600.
OKeefe notes that they want a house for 13 underage girls who will be imported from El Salvador to work as prostitutes.
Only three not all 13 of the girls can be listed as dependents, ACORN prudently advises. "
"ACORN Prostitution Scandal:San Bernardino VIDEO This Time W/Politicians and Murder
When we last saw our fake pimp and hooker, they were in Brooklyn, with the usual scenario,
trying to find out how ACORN would deal with people looking for a home mortgage
so they can open open up a brothel using under-aged girls.
Today's stop is San Bernardino, California. In this Acorn office we find out the woman who runs the office is also a poll dancer
who may turn tricks on the side. ACORN's is supposedly non political but acording to Teresa,
the woman on the tape helping the pair, she speaks with Congressman and Senators every day because
she is lobbying for the Obamacare bill. She names Barbara "Call Me Senator "Boxer and Senator McCleod,
and 62nd district Assemblywoman Wilmer Amina Carter as people with whom she deals.
Theresa says that Edens prostitution money would be an asset to James in his quest to become a Senator or Representative.
Also the person who was helping the alter egos of James O' Keefe and Hannah Giles with the prostitution scam
also talks about how she first planned the cover-up then shot and killed her husband."
James OKeefe and Hannah Giles visited one of ACORNs New York offices in August,
where they picked up handy tips on how to lie on housing forms to cover up a prostitution business
(Honesty is not going to get you the house, one ACORN official advises) and how to hide cash
from their illicit business (When you buy the house with the backyard, you get a tin
and you bury it down in there
cover it
and put the grass over it
).
In 1994 the ACORN Housing Corporation (AHC) was awarded a $1.1 million grant
by AmeriCorps, a program of the Corporation for National Service (CNS). The money was intended
to fund the training of 42 AmeriCorps members in 13 cities. The workers were expected to identify
low-income families hoping to purchase a first home, to assist them in finding suitable housing, and to
advise them in securing the necessary financing.
AHCs initial subterfuge pales in comparison to the illegal fundraising scheme it subsequently operated,
using its AmeriCorps grant to increase ACORNs membership.
According to Jordan, one ACORN member in the Dallas regional office stated that the only reason
for having the AmeriCorps program was to gain new ACORN members, and that if AmeriCorps loan
counseling clients did not start becoming ACORN members, she could and would halt the AmeriCorps project.
Jordan found that this understanding was not limited to the Dallas office.
Using government funds to solicit membership in an organization that like ACORNparticipates in
direct political advocacy is a violation of federal guidelines."
"ACORN: Big Apple, Big Pimping (another shoe drops)
It was just a fluke, ACORN insisted the first time that James OKeefe and Hannah Giles
published their undercover video showing their office in Baltimore helping a pimp evade taxes
and get a mortgage by deceit for a brothel. They fired a couple of bad apples in that office,
and a couple of more bad apples in Washington DC when that office got caught on hidden camera
doing the same thing. In fact. ACORN went so far as to brag that the pair had tried the same thing
and failed in San Diego, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia to name a few places."
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posted on
11/28/2009 5:15:27 AM PST
by
Diogenesis
("Those who go below the surface do so at their peril" - Oscar Wilde)
To: yoe

The underage children in our brothels were inspected by DOJs Holder, himself.
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posted on
11/28/2009 5:18:31 AM PST
by
Diogenesis
("Those who go below the surface do so at their peril" - Oscar Wilde)
To: yoe
I guess Bond holders of companies don’t have any rights but ACORN does.
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posted on
11/28/2009 5:19:15 AM PST
by
bmwcyle
(When do they collect and jail the homeless when they don't buy their health care?)
To: yoe
It’s ok to pay ACORN for contracts signed before Congress defunded them. But it’s not ok to pay AIG bonuses that were contracted before TARP.
These people are destroying our country.
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posted on
11/28/2009 5:19:33 AM PST
by
iceskater
(The "public option" in government run health care means no option at all.)
To: yoe
Republicans have been on the warpath against ACORN The GOP or Republican voters? The GOP, as usual, hasn't done anything. It took a couple of voters and a video camera to make a crack in them. It wouldn't surprise me if ACORN launched their own taxpayer funded candidate next time.
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posted on
11/28/2009 5:20:16 AM PST
by
bgill
(The framers of the US Constitution established an entire federal government in 18 pages.)
To: yoe
Holder is an incompetent a$$ clown!The sooner we send this administration down the toilet the better .Hopefully we can prevent a lot of socialist damage to this country before the 2010 elections. BTW, We WILL NOT be overthrown by Marxists without one hell of a fight .
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posted on
11/28/2009 5:20:28 AM PST
by
Renegade
(You go tell my buddies)
To: yoe
FINALLY in the 4th, or second to last, paragraph we learn WHO the republican is.
But Representative Darrell Issa ... said "the bipartisan intent of Congress was clear -- no more federal dollars should flow to ACORN."
"It is telling that this administration continues to look for every excuse possible to circumvent the intent of Congress,"
"Taxpayers should not have to continue subsidizing a criminal enterprise that helped Barack Obama get elected president."
The politicization of the Justice Department to payback one of the presidents political allies is shameful.....
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posted on
11/28/2009 5:21:15 AM PST
by
Just A Nobody
( (Better Dead than RED! NEVER AGAIN...Support our Troops! Beware the ENEMEDIA))
To: yoe
I don’t know what a Marxist is, but if they are communists, I agree with your statement.
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posted on
11/28/2009 5:23:13 AM PST
by
Just A Nobody
( (Better Dead than RED! NEVER AGAIN...Support our Troops! Beware the ENEMEDIA))
To: Renegade
The good news is that acorn and seiu are made up of fat, lazy losers.I agree about the Clinton’s bag boy!!
To: yoe
Most Americans are too busy being distracted by TV shows, movies, sports events, and other means of self-gratification to be paying attention.
The Americans who are paying attention are relatively few. Soon, there will be no way out.
The TV shows and sports events and liquor and scratch tickets will still be there, so most Americans won’t care that they are imprisoned in a communist gulag. They will be comfortable enough.
The totalitarian statists have learned how to pacify the populace while enslaving them and monitoring them. They are tweaking their methodologies daily, creating the delicate balance between enslavement and the perception of some kind of “freedom”.
It is not a coincidence that the only choices the statists support are those involving sexual license and recreational drugs.
As Liberty is morphed into License, real freedoms can be replaced by things that gratify various lusts.
Most Americans will go along to get along, parroting the prevailing groupthink on the global crises du jour, as fabricated by their overlords, who will devise all the correct policies to protect them from the crises.
When the time comes for them to “take the mark” in order to buy and sell, they will have no problem with it.
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posted on
11/28/2009 5:25:26 AM PST
by
Westbrook
(Having more children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
To: yoe
Darrell Issa is a fighter. I’d like to see him run for higher office...or be the next Attorney General.
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posted on
11/28/2009 5:25:38 AM PST
by
SueRae
To: yoe
IF said services rendered under said prior contracts contained illegal practices in order to achieve results....ACORN isn’t owed a dime of our money. I don’t doubt that’s why most of the Porkulus funds havne’t been distributed yet : they’re earmarked for ACORN (and Chinese contracters getting multi-billion dollar infrastructure project contracts to pay (via Porkulus) for the debt they bought up after Porkulus was passed.
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posted on
11/28/2009 5:25:38 AM PST
by
cake_crumb
(Can we impeach him yet?)
To: Just A Nobody
To: bmwcyle
I guess Bond holders of companies dont have any rights but ACORN does. As long as we all understand this simple truth, everything is A-OKAY!
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posted on
11/28/2009 5:27:14 AM PST
by
Just A Nobody
( (Better Dead than RED! NEVER AGAIN...Support our Troops! Beware the ENEMEDIA))
To: manonCANAL
Thanks...I’ve looked into them and have friends who are members.
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posted on
11/28/2009 5:32:06 AM PST
by
Just A Nobody
( (Better Dead than RED! NEVER AGAIN...Support our Troops! Beware the ENEMEDIA))
To: Westbrook
I wish Glenn Beck would start his OWN TV Network; just this ACORN stuff is something you could report on 24/7.
It would be great to have a Conservative Network kind of like EWTN has their Catholic programming.
A channel that has all conservative like-minded programming
is desperately needed because it IS how people pay attention these days-sad-but that’s how it is.
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posted on
11/28/2009 5:48:23 AM PST
by
homegroan
(Proud to be a Palinite!)
To: yoe
The Democrats/Obama administration are, for all of the world to see, funding an organization that clearly breaks the law in action and in spirit. All we can do is sit and watch. I’m going to contact Chet Edwards and let him know that I hold him responsible for what his party and this administration are doing. Chet, your job is in jeopardy. (He’s the only Democrat that represents me.)
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