Posted on 09/12/2009 12:27:26 PM PDT by psychopuppy
Conservatives have cheered the Census Bureau's decision to sever ties with ACORN because it had lost confidence in the group, but the hidden-camera videos that prompted ACORN to fire four workers this week could raise more questions about the federal funding ACORN receives for housing outreach....
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We must demand an audit of Acorn!!!
ALL “voter” registrations EVER submitted by ACORNs must be deemed as being not valid, RIGHT NOW!
Every last housing loan application in the past two years ought to be traced to see just what happened to those tax dollars.
The brilliant young film-maker and the young woman did not actually fill out the forms, so ACORN can say no harm was done. But let’s find out who did fill out the forms and where the money actually was spent.
Someone should go to jail. The government got Al Capone for far less than ACORN has done.
Just think about how well off we would be if we followed the Constitution and didn't redistribute wealth without want and have most of it skimmed away in Washington.
Tea party's wouldn't be necessary would they.
Write your reps and senators. Those suckers need to earn the money that they get paid and so do their aides.
I emailed my congressman months ago and got a response the next day, I emailed him a 3 days ago and still haven’t gotten a reply, I think they’re backed up. Let’s back them up even further.
You dont think ACORN coached people on how to get a subprime mortgage that they were totally unqualified for, do you?
/sarc
Yes!!
One leg of the table has been knocked off and now its wobbly.
There’s no telling how much in government “grants” ACORN has been given to purchase T-shirts for it’s members.
May? Good Lord...
KEEERIST!
After all that has come to light with ACORN, the block that contains the house that has the table should be obliterated!
“After Census Severs Ties, ACORN May Face Scrutiny of Housing Grants”
Good luck.
Getting an audit of an organization that has in the past represented
by the current President of The United States.
But...then again, he has no problem throwning folks under the
bus in order to “maintain my political viability”.
I will believe ACORN is out of the census picture when I find out who WILL do it. I am betting it will be another shadow group under the ACORN father group. IOW, the same corrupt black power type of thug organization.
Now that ACORN has been granted $billions in stilumi money as well as housing loan money, the statists probably will claim that they are too big to fail.
De-fund it
Abolish it
Prosecute it
Absolutely! They receive OUR MONEY, now where is it or where did it go!
******
R I C O!
Last night on Red Eye, Hannah Giles, the undercover wonder from the ACORN videos said that the organization is probably scared right now when she was asked about the possibility of more videos.
There might be even more to come.
RICO their asses while they’re at it.
The need to prosecute the leaders or ACORN will just reappear with another name.
That and prison time.
ACORN has a lot of support from the left and from the media and government no matter how crooked they are. Like Charlie Rangel we have to keep pushing for justice to be done.
The answer is:
Because ACORN supporters are running the government
Bump to that!
They cut ties with the Census bureau as well thank god.
Looks good devolve
I seem to have missed working on that right shoulder area after I painted in the grey!
Don’t hold your breath.
Remember -
“It depends on what your definiton of Is is”
“No controlling legal authority”
At least Lou Dobbs gave this story some time. He’s probably the only one on CNN.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0909/11/ldt.01.html
[snip]PILGRIM: There is more trouble tonight for the left-wing activist group ACORN. Two more employees have been fired after the release of a second videotape showing workers illegal giving advice to filmmakers who were posing as a pimp and a prostitute. Now, this is the second tape made public in two days. It’s just the latest chapter where ACORN appears to be on the wrong side of the law. Bill Tucker has our report.
BILL TUCKER, CNN NEWS CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): For the second time in as many days, a video has been posted on the internet of ACORN Employees appearing to give illegal tax advice to a prostitute who’s looking to establish a brothel using underaged prostitutes from El Salvador.
The latest video was secretly recording at the Washington, D.C. offices of ACORN a group that says its overriding mission is providing housing assistance to the poor. in a statement issued Friday by the head of the ACORN D.C. office, it was announced that the employees in the video had been fired. “We have fired them and are initialing an internal review of practices reminding all staff of their obligations to uphold the highest legal and ethical standards.”
On Thursday, a similar scenario was shown in a video shot in the Baltimore office of ACORN
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Your business is a performing artist. Which you are, OK, so you not lying, we’ll play on words.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It’s kind of boosting my ego.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: But you’re a performing artist, OK? So, stop saying “prostitute.”
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK.
TUCKER: The two employees in that video were described as “part time” by the head of the ACORN office in Baltimore. They no longer work for ACORN
SONYA MARCHANT, ACORN BALTIMORE: The two employees that were filmed in the video were immediately dismissed because they did not follow the protocol of this organization.
TUCKER: ACORN’s legal council says the woman in the video denies ever giving tax advice to a pimp or a prostitute. ACORN’s spokesman Scott Levenson vehemently denounces the Baltimore taping saying, “Our position is that this film is doctored. It is not an accurate portrayal of what happened in our Baltimore office and we are likely to take legal action. In fact, we already have legal opinions that it is likely that a felony was committed.”
ACORN, which is active in hundreds of neighborhoods in 41 states, claims that the two activist filmmakers responsible for posting the videos tried the same thing at their offices in San Diego, Los Angeles, Miami, New York and Philadelphia and failed.
ACORN gave CNN a copy of the police complaint filed against the filmmakers In Philadelphia. The filmmakers, James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles are not commenting and Giles was a no-show for an agreed-to interview with CNN. Congressman Steve King of Iowa wants a federal investigation of ACORN.
REP STEVE KING (R), IOWA: We’ve got to audit them completely, every single affiliated corporation that they have. There should be a Deportment of Justice complete forensic audit. We need to do congressional investigations and we need to shut off every dime going to ACORN until such time as they can have a clean bill of health.
TUCKER: The latest episodes come the heels of a variety of charges of voter registration fraud.
ACORN is under investigation in at least 10 states for voter registration fraud and just this week, arrest warrants for 11 ACORN voter registration workers were sworn out on charges of registration fraud in Florida in an investigation that ACORN did help initiate. In Nevada, ACORN officials are fighting criminal charges for creating a voter registration incentive program base on the number of voters registered, which is illegal under Nevada law.
Now, ACORN has called those charges political grandstanding by the secretary of state and the attorney general there, who, Kitty, both happen to be not Republicans, but Democrats.
PILGRIM: Bill, tonight we’re also learning that the Census is cutting ties with ACORN for the 2010 Census. What do you know about that?
TUCKER: A letter went out this evening from the Census Bureau to the president of ACORN announcing they no longer wish to be affiliated with them and they’re ending a partnership arrangement with them. ACORN has responded saying there was never any funding at stake in this, there were no programmatic relationships or commitments that needed to be made and that they are going to connote to encourage people to participate in the Census. But this has got to be just another big blow to ACORN, Kitty, it’s been a rough week for good reason and it ends with the Census Bureau saying thanks, but no thanks.
More on this at link, with talking heads weighing in.
Wheres the RICO act?
They never spent much of our money on offices.
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Yup
Nice work potlatch
That will haunt him forever
I’ll work on the shoulder later, lol.
Had to redo the eyes in a larger head. When you enlarge things they get stray pixels all around them and that involves a lot of cleanup too.
Yeah, the clown joker face won’t go away now, lol.
Heard his rally got 15 thousand but the estimates on the Tea Party are wild in range - but HUGE!!
They've got to wait long enough for them to get the $8.5 billion of our tax money from the Stimulus package.
Can you believe we're working to give money to these low-life thugs?
They need to go after COI [Community Organizations International] (ACORN’s new name) with RICO.
With this bunch, I can. Otherwise, no way in Hades.
Thank heaven the census has woken up on this cabal, if they truly have.
ACORN must be defunded, and nobody who works for it now should ever be allowed to hold a government job again.
ACORN is a corrupt criminal organization. They deserve an FBI investigation on RICO violations. I’ll wait, with baited breath, for Eric Holder to jump right on this.
Y’all, here’s a GREAT vid about ACORN in Cleveland I ran across:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llOAUsybm8c&feature=related
All I can say is - Bwaaahahaha!!!! Couldn’t happen to a nicer group of folks. >:)
I’m stunned a group like this could receive federal funding.
Look at you! You’re a pro. Congratulations! Well done!
Exactly! Obama=Acorn and visa-versa
These “advisors” from Acorn are just the tip of the iceberg.
How many “low income(or no income)mortgage applications”were prepared by Acorn to be submitted to their friendly mortgage lenders?
Hud,Fannie and Freddie were pushing for better than 50%of their loans to go to low income people and minorities.
Housing bubble anyone?
The money given directly to Acorn is only a drop in the bucket compared to the total cost they create for the American taxpayer.
But Barney,Chris Dodd and many other Democrats love them.
who bunch of people working there couldn’t get a real job if it hit them over the head.
“May” is the operative word. It means there is some probability that the event will happen. Unfortunately, I would guess that the probability is pretty low.
Obamacorn
I agree. One of our sons applied to be a census taker in the previous census. They claimed they were hiring lots of people, but at the last minute our son’s application was rejected. He is white; everyone he talked to at the local level was black. I’m not being racist; it’s a matter of drawing congressional districts to increase Dem power. The goal is to give minority voters, who seem to be owned by the Dems, more clout.
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