Posted on 09/10/2009 6:32:04 AM PDT by outinyellowdogcountry
Note to the career types at the DOJ: This nation needs you. Don’t let us down.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/25/conyers-abandons-plan-probe-acorn/
House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. has backed off his plan to investigate wrongdoing by the liberal activist group ACORN, saying “powers that be” put the kibosh on the idea.
That was post 175 on the "Twitter from Glenn Beck" thread..............
Name calling...again. Now answer the question.
She "chose" that name on purpose, someone on Glenn's crew is a cosmic prankster !
Just checked and the videos are off the site now. Apparently Fox News and Beck will have exclusive airing before they post them back up.
Ok...great.
Conyers suggests probe of ACORN - Calls fraud charges ‘serious’
Washington Times, The (DC) - Friday, March 20, 2009
Author: S.A. Miller, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
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.
But Mr. Conyers ‘ shift was met by resistance from fellow Democrats on the committee, and it was unclear whether a hearing would be scheduled.
Rep. Jerrold Nadler, New York Democrat and chairman of the Judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution, civil rights and civil liberties that hosted Thursday's hearing, suggested there was not enough “credible evidence” to warrant a hearing focused exclusively on ACORN.
Rep. Melvin Watt said he would concede that ACORN and some of its members engaged in voter fraud. But he said voter fraud was already covered by existing law and Congress has not further role in the matter.
“I'm not coming to a hearing to have a trial on ACORN. That's not my job,” the North Carolina Democrat said.
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He is playing it right now on the radio.
I'm done with you...you have either sold out to the dark side and are stuck or you are an enemy of this Republic. One more time...Answer the question.
I guess Rangel was advising them... he sure knows how to cheat.
DO WE PAY THESE PEOPLE’S SALARIES?
$50MM to ACORN in the first stimulus package.
LOL....Good one!
You have no question, you only have your own childish misinterpretation.
I pray that you’re right! I heard that ACORN already is in the process of being reorganized and renamed to deflect some of the stigma. (That was a couple months ago when O’Reilly and Beck had Grif Jenkins dogging them at their HQ, the old funeral parlor.) We just want them, disassembled, gone and neutered — not back again with a name different from ACORN.
If we can take care of the group now, maybe there’s a chance for fair elections in 2010 and 2012. That would be so wonderful.
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