Are those brown lumps ACORNS or ......? Hard to tell.
Posted on 09/16/2009 12:54:21 PM PDT by Clinging Bitterly
UPDATED:
ACORN, calling the actions of some of its employees "indefensible," has suspended advising new clients as part of its service programs and is setting up an independent review to see what happened.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Thank you Glenn Beck, Brietbart, James O’Keefe & Hannah Giles!
In addition, she said, "ACORN's independent Advisory Council will help select an independent auditor/reviewer no later than September 18th to review all of the systems and processes called into question by the videos." In early 2009, ACORN set up an independent Advisory Council to help put together a new management team under Lewis. Lewis was appointed to the job in the fall of 2008 after disclosure of a set of improper management decisions by the founder of the organization.
The Advisory Council includes John Podesta, president of the liberal Center for American Progress; Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, a former lieutenant governor of Maryland; Andrew Stern, international president of Service Employees International Union; Henry Cisneros, a former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; John Banks, vice president of Government Relations Con Ed; and Eric Eve, senior vice president of Global Consumer Group, Community Relations, of Citigroup.
Gang of rogues & thieves.
Given that the fish rots from the head down, I’d say it’s probably time for Ol’ Bertha to decide to spend more time with her family.
Here's what happened. You got caught.
That's a curious statement after ACORN's leadership spent the last several days defending it employees.
We all knew they’d try the “few bad apples” tactic.
That’s what they’ve always done.
Keep the vids coming.
That is unacceptable.
Who here is dumb enough to believe any of this? The 300 ACORN crime organizations will simply rename themselves, get new corporate charters, and go on as they had before.
ACORN investigating itself?
Sounds like.....Congress investigating itself...
Something tells me, nothing will come of their investigations. Pfffft
Can you say Fox guarding Hen House?
Oh how responsible of this fine upstanding institution...
I thought it was just suspending the new applicant’s for housing.
As I understood it, everything else was still a GO.
Am I wrong?
Hey, why don’t they throw Jamie Garelick in there for good measure! We can always count on her to get at the truth. /sarc
I thought they were going to sue Fox and everyone concerned?
Reposting from another thread:
This is the most important moment in this effort. Acorn is trying a desperate public relations strategy: “You see, we’re conducting an audit of ourselves, so you don’t have to have any other investigation by outside law enforcement or regulators”. The RATS will try like the dickens to help them in this.
It is important to keep the heat on and for Republican leaders to stay hot on the message that this organization needs a colonoscopy, defunding and, hopefully, permanent shutdown of all its entities, offshoots, subsidiaries and shell corporations. A lot of people should be going to jail over this, too.
Sucks to get caught, don’t it? I guarantee you there would be absolutely NO changes in operating procedure had it not been for these two brave young people, James and Hanna. God bless them.
Nah, scapegoats won’t do this time. Break up ACORN.
Translation:
ACORN will hide all their activities even more in the future. These employees will be transferred to other locations, where we will pay all their relocation costs, and any other costs they might incur with the transfer.
America will continue to get screwed by ACORN and NObama.
To late there are any number of people who are going to be all over them from here on and there are a lot of dems who are going to be tired of trying to explain this.
Expect more rhetoric than anything else unless their feet are held close to the fire.
Sure they are. /sarc
It is obvious that the videos shown so far are not just flukes, as it would be impossible for the video makers to have just randomly picked the only bad emploiyees out of the whole group. The thug mentality is inherent in this organization, and some of these fired employees are going to rear up and publicly spill the beans on how they were trained to think it’s OK to turn a blind eye to nefarious activities. Doesn’t excuse them in any way, but they are not all going to just go away quietly.
Is this the new ploy now to avoid RICO charges? “We’re trying to clean up our own mess...don’t hurt us poor ACORN workers!”
That was 2 or 3 videos ago. And it was an idle threat even then.
HMMMMMMM????????
HENRY CISNEROE is going to help investigate ACORN !!!
LOLOLROTFLMAO
The Henry Cisneros payments controversy was a lengthy investigation begun in 1995 into allegations that Henry Cisneros, United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development during the Presidency of Bill Clinton, had lied to the FBI background check investigators about payments he had made to his former mistress. Independent Counsel David Barrett was appointed to investigate the matter. In 1995 Cisneros was indicted; in 1997 he pleaded guilty to some of the charges against him but served no jail time; in 2001 he was pardoned by President Bill Clinton. The Independent Counsel investigation continued, however, focusing on allegations of obstruction of justice by the Clinton administration. It issued a final report, known as the Barrett Report, in 2006 that did little to resolve matters.
In March 1995, Attorney General of the United States Janet Reno secured the appointment of an Independent Counsel, David Barrett to investigate allegations that Cisneros had lied to FBI investigators during background checks prior to being named Secretary of HUD. He had been asked about payments that he had made to former mistress Linda Medlar, also known as Linda Jones. The affair had been 'public knowledge' for a number of years—during the 1992 presidential campaign, U.S. Treasurer Catalina Vasquez Villalpando publicly referred to Cisneros and candidate Clinton as "two skirt-chasers"—but Cisneros lied about the amount of money he had paid to Medlar. The investigation continued for three and a half years.
In December 1997, Cisneros was indicted on 18 counts of conspiracy, giving false statements and obstruction of Justice. Medlar used some of the Cisneros hush money to purchase a house and entered into a bank fraud scheme with her sister and brother-in-law to conceal the source of the money. In January 1998, Medlar pleaded guilty to 28 charges of bank fraud, conspiracy to commit bank fraud and obstruction of justice.
In September 1999, Cisneros negotiated a plea agreement, under which he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of lying to the FBI, and was fined $10,000. He did not receive jail-time or probation. He was pardoned by President Clinton in January 2001 (see: List of people pardoned by Bill Clinton). The independent counsel investigation continued after the pardon focusing on alleged obstruction of justice. In May 2005, Senator Dorgan (D-ND) proposed ending funding for the investigation; negotiators refused to include the provision in a bill funding military operations in Afghanistan. The funding at that point for the investigation totaled $21 million.
According to a New York Daily News report on October 3, 2005, "lawyers are fighting to suppress a potentially embarrassing final report from the probe that found Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros lied to the FBI about paying $250,000 in hush money to his ex-mistress... Lawyers at the Washington firm Williams & Connolly who work for Cisneros and both Clintons have argued to judges overseeing the case that allegations of illegal activity, for which no charges were filed, should be snipped before the report is made public."[1]
On January 19, 2006, the New York Times reported that the independent counsel is finally closing his investigation with a report accusing the Clinton administration of thwarting the inquiry into Cisneros.[2]
An accurate title for the Report could be, What We Were Prevented from Investigating. After a thorough reading of the Report it would not be unreasonable to conclude as I have that there was a coverup at high levels of our government and, it appears to have been substantial and coordinated. The question is why? And that question regrettably will go unanswered. Unlike some other coverups, this one succeeded.[3]
The Independent Counsel's report has been a source of partisan bickering because it was heavily redacted with an estimated 120 pages removed by court order.[4]
Barrett wrote what was rumored to be a damning report. Release of the report was blocked for a time by parliamentary maneuvers by Clinton's personal attorney David Kendall.
Columnist Emmett Tyrrell wrote the following about the report: "When Barrett completed his report the Clintons' lawyers, led by that legendary Clinton pettifogger, David Kendall, tried to kill off the report either by gutting it with redactions or by getting it buried altogether. Kendall entered some 140 motions pursuant to this goal. The report has been ready for publication since August 2004, but Kendall's nuisance tactics have worked, and now what do we hear from the Clintonistas? They complain that Barrett has cost too much and taken too long. As they are themselves are the reason for much of the cost and delay, advocates of good government should be up in arms. This stratagem has been used too frequently by the Clintonistas to smear an officer of the court."
Prior to his appointment as White House Press Secretary, Tony Snow wrote, "By all accounts, the 400-page Barrett report is a bombshell, capable possibly of wiping out Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential prospects. At the very least, it would bring to public attention a scandal that would make the Valerie Plame affair vanish into comical insignificance."[5]
In April 2005, Senators John Kerry (D-Mass.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) tried to end the $22 million investigation, including $1 million for the first six months of 2005 - by cutting Barrett's budget, saying "it's a waste of money."[1]
Barrett's report was released in January 2006, but three judges -- David Sentelle (D.C.), Thomas Reavley (Texas) and Peter Fay (Florida) -- blacked 120 pages worth of redactions. Barrett's investigation was far and away the longest independent counsel investigation in history. After agreeing to permit Cisneros - the target of his investigation - to plead guilty to a misdemeanor with no jail sentence, Barrett thereafter spent six years investigating whether the Department of Justice and the Internal Revenue Service had impeded his investigation.
Journalist Robert Novak reported on the release in his January 19, 2006 column: "The long-awaited final report by Independent Counsel David Barrett, to be released today [Thursday], was severely censored by court order but not enough to sufficiently obscure its importance. As long forecast, it alleges serious corruption in the Clinton administration's Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The question is what was contained in 120 pages removed by the judges."[6]
First they were going to sue.
Then they were just going along with the joke.
Now, they're going to investigate.
Question: Can ACORN use our taxes to pay for its investigation or was earmarked exclusively to fund prostitution?
No mystery, the big dog stepped out on the WH porch and started woofin’. The small bitches at ACORN got the message.
That’s right.
They’re just not advising new clients. Otherwise business as usual, they hope.
I hope not.
I CALL BS!!!
Anyone who has ever dealt with organizations like this, knows that this is just how and who these groups are, from top to bottom. These are not isolated incidents, its fundamentally and structurally what and who they are.
Society is the enemy, do whatever you want, use and abuse it however you want, laws are for whitey, etc etc etc.
This is systemic not only of ACORN but of all these types of groups.
It is so sad that one as good as Tony had to be taken from us.
Demand RICO Investigation of ACORN!
Nah. If they really want to clean house they need Sandy Berger!
Defunding. They can do what they want, get out the vote (real votes, that is), whatever. But not with taxpayer money or other non voluntary sources (like union dues - hopefully the next shoe to drop).
Who is going to do the audit, SEIU and Charlie Rangel?
The Advisory Council includes John Podesta, president of the liberal Center for American Progress; Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, a former lieutenant governor of Maryland; Andrew Stern, international president of Service Employees International Union; Henry Cisneros, a former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; John Banks, vice president of Government Relations Con Ed; and Eric Eve, senior vice president of Global Consumer Group, Community Relations, of Citigroup.
Dems, unions (SEIU), bailout recipients (Citigroup).
Note the tagline.
At this point, only a full-bore repudiation of Malcom “X” will do.
SEIU is on the Advisory Board.
Even Jon Stewart is embarrassed!
http://freedomlibertyshow.com/2009/09/even-jon-stewart-is-embarrassed/
“Suspends operations”
No, “suspends advising new clients.” After all, new clients now equals sting operations for the foul organization.
Acorn will temporarily suspend advising new clients (cuz you never know who they might be and you could get caught!)and audit themselves (hoping that way no one else will order an external audit cuz you could get caught!).
This is so fun!!
we need to send some black undercover teams out and see what they get!
ACORN TO LAUNCH 'INDEPENDENT REVIEW' AFTER VIDEOS EXPOSE WORKERS ADVISING FAKE PIMP AND PROSTITUTE ON HOW TO LIE TO GET LOANS
The fox will investigate the chicken coup!
Read this:
Anatomy of a Shakedown (ties between ACORN and SEIU)
Anita Moncreif
http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2009/09/09/anatomy-of-a-shakedown/?print=1
A quote:
“Current and former Acorn employees say the problems in Kansas City and St. Louis are no accident. ‘There’s no quality control on purpose, no checks and balances,’ says Nate Toler, currently head organizer of an Acorn campaign against Wal-Mart in Merced, Calif. In 2004 he worked on an Acorn voter drive in Missouri, and says Acorn statements aren’t to be taken at face value: ‘The internal motto is “We don’t care if it’s a lie, just so long as it stirs up the conversation.”
And your point is? /just kidding/
Don't it just make ya sick? ;-)
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