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Frank rebuffs GOP calls for ACORN hearings
The Hill ^

Posted on 10/15/2008 12:37:47 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

Frank rebuffs GOP calls for ACORN hearings By Jackie Kucinich Posted: 10/15/08 03:00 PM [ET] House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) on Wednesday dismissed GOP calls for immediate hearings regarding a grassroots group’s alleged abuse of government funds as a political tactic to help John McCain.

His comments come in response to an Oct. 14 letter, signed by Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio), Financial Services ranking member Spencer Bachus (R-Ala.) and Republican members of the committee, requesting that Frank call hearings on the activities of the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now (ACORN) and the group’s alleged ties to fraudulent voter registration.

“Recent press accounts have listed allegations of voter fraud in Ohio, Nevada and Florida among others,” the letter said. “Given the reliance of ACORN on millions of dollars of federal funding from the housing GSE's [sic] and grants from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, it is imperative that the Financial Services Committee use its oversight authority to determine the accuracy of these reports.”

Frank disagreed.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: 2008; acorn; barneyfrank; democratcongress; democrats; electionfraud; elections; voterfraud
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To: Liberty Valance; Dahoser

Yeah....like we TRUST Barney Frank on anything!!! We live in BIZARRO world....


21 posted on 10/15/2008 12:56:03 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Socialism is great until you run out of someone else's money (M. Thatcher))
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To: Sub-Driver

Hell our troops fighting in Iraq and Afkanistan and hold free elections in those countries and in the USA vote fraud may damn well decide this election

bring the troops home and put them at our polls

Bush and the RNC should have been on this since Jan 2001


22 posted on 10/15/2008 1:02:07 PM PDT by uncbob
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To: Sub-Driver

Thank you, (blank)(blank)(blank) Barney Frank. Don’t want to show how the Democrats play dirty, do you?


23 posted on 10/15/2008 1:04:31 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Government, liberals, leftists: Just get off our backs!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Frank’s known ACORN for a while.

http://web.archive.org/web/20010421194739/www.acorn.org/acorn-reports/acornrep.politics.content.html

(Search for Frank, Obama, CRA in it.)


24 posted on 10/15/2008 1:04:48 PM PDT by polymuser (God bless and keep America.)
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To: uncbob

Barney Frank will have Freepers investigated before ACORN.


25 posted on 10/15/2008 1:05:01 PM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Sub-Driver

“No legislation passed by the House has authorized or appropriated funds for ACORN.”

Uhm, isn’t that a flat-out lie? Not that I’d be surprised, but all I’ve been hearing on Beck and elsewhere is how, just this summer, they passed legislation that gives money to ACORN.


26 posted on 10/15/2008 1:08:09 PM PDT by AnglePark
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To: MinuteGal

Jackie Kucinich’s father is Dennis Kucinich.


27 posted on 10/15/2008 1:15:55 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus

McCain tonight needs to DEMAND an investigation of ACORN and exhort the public to back him on it, while reminding them ACORN was largely responsible for the financial mess we are in, while, Oh-by-the-way, informing us all that Obama has financial tiles to that criminal organization. But will McCain make a deal of it? Probably not, except for some mundane rambling of how he is “deeply concerned, my friends, about these reports of some people voting unlawfully.”


28 posted on 10/15/2008 1:36:24 PM PDT by ScottinVA
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To: ScottinVA

financial TIES to that criminal organization...


29 posted on 10/15/2008 1:37:09 PM PDT by ScottinVA
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To: pissant

If Boehner can be brow beat by Pelosi and Barney Fag again, then it is time to throw in the towel.

Past behavior is the best indicator of future behavior, so here you go Congressman Boehner.

L

30 posted on 10/15/2008 1:56:33 PM PDT by Lurker (She's not a lesbian, she doesn't whine, she doesn't hate her country, and she's not afraid of guns.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Barney Frank is a skidmark on the underwear of Life. He serves no useful function whatsoever.

Unfortunately this turd sandwhich will never suffer any consequences whatsoever for anything he’s ever done, including his refusal to look into ACORN. He should be dragged into the witness stand of a Senate hearing, but it will never happen.

Prediction: Frank will look for ways to funnel MORE taxpayer money to ACORN.


31 posted on 10/15/2008 2:04:29 PM PDT by navyguy (The National Reset Button is pushed with the trigger finger.)
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To: AnglePark

ACORN has received TENS OF MILLIONS of taxpayer dollars...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122394051071230749.html?mod=djemEditorialPage

The entire organization should be investigated under the RICO statutes.


32 posted on 10/15/2008 2:07:29 PM PDT by navyguy (The National Reset Button is pushed with the trigger finger.)
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To: Sub-Driver
By Jackie Kucinich ! nephew or niece?
33 posted on 10/15/2008 2:08:09 PM PDT by CRBDeuce (here, while the internet is still free)
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To: silverleaf
Barney and the democrats are now going to do to our election system what they have done to our economy and financial system...

I'm sure you meant: "Barney and the democrats are now going to do to our election system what they have done to our economy and financial system..., marriage institution, family values, sanctity of life, religious institutions, unions, free enterprise, entreprenneurship, and glowbull worming. "

34 posted on 10/15/2008 2:13:23 PM PDT by CRBDeuce (here, while the internet is still free)
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To: Unam Sanctam
Frank, like Obama, is teflon

You spelled felon wrong, it's not teflon, it's f e l o n.

35 posted on 10/15/2008 2:15:40 PM PDT by CRBDeuce (here, while the internet is still free)
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To: Sub-Driver

Pres.Bush says he’l get right on it,big time.


36 posted on 10/15/2008 2:31:43 PM PDT by Unicorn (Too many wimps around.)
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To: SpaceBar

If you want him to be quiet just give barbie fwank a bottle of baby oil, a thick pair of knee pads, a good looking young and a sound proof room and he’ll go away for a while.


37 posted on 10/15/2008 3:33:33 PM PDT by chiefqc
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To: RummyChick
This is what happens when conservatives try to “teach Republicans a lesson”, and handed Chairmanships over to the UnAmerican Democrat Party, lol.

It's almost funny, its sooo sad and was predicted!!!

38 posted on 10/15/2008 3:36:46 PM PDT by roses of sharon (When the enemy comes in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD will put him to flight (Isaiah 59:19)
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To: Sub-Driver

Get the US Attorney’s on the cases. It would help our cause a bunch if they could indict a bunch before election day.


39 posted on 10/15/2008 4:10:08 PM PDT by elpadre (nation)
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