ACORN: Big Apple, Big Pimping
posted at 8:48 am on September 14, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
It was just a fluke, ACORN insisted the first time that James O’Keefe 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.”
Really? New York’s ACORN office was too sophisticated to fall for that scam? The video at Big Government today indicates that ACORN’s Big Apple office is equally as heartless and corrupt as DC and Baltimore, as two of their staffers advise O’Keefe and Giles how to cover up a child-prostitution ring and evade taxes:
When you get a house with a backyard … you get a tin and put the money in it … and bury it.
ACORN has access to billions of dollars in federal funding through Porkulus, and already gets hundreds of millions a year in federal funding through other programs, mainly through HUD. It’s time — it’s well past time — for Congress to suspend any payments to ACORN for any purposes.
One incident may have been a fluke, and two a coincidence, but three times makes a pattern. These aren’t offices in the sticks, either, but offices in some of the most important American cities. Does ACORN train its people on how to screw the American people on income taxes while getting federal funds, or just look to hire the most heartless people in the world to help pimps hide child prostitution rings?
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Wasn’t it Community Organization International Through the US–or COITUS for short?
Now we’re seeing COITUS Interruptus….
ted c on September 14, 2009 at 10:59 AM
these roachees need to be followed back to their hole, then burn the hole.
ted c on September 14, 2009 at 11:00 AM
Where are our beloved trolls? All we got is some weak defense that it was “just Baltimore” and who cares about Baltimore earlier in this thread.
Even though this one was about New York City’s ACORN office…..
Our trolls are weak on this one. WEEEAAAKKK…
mjk on September 14, 2009 at 11:02 AM
If only.
petunia on September 14, 2009 at 11:03 AM
I’ve found that poisoned bait traps are the only way to get rid of roaches.
Just sayin’.
Count to 10 on September 14, 2009 at 11:04 AM
once is bad luck, twice it’s coincidence, but three times is enemy action.
Fighton03 on September 14, 2009 at 11:04 AM
what do we bait these guys with? Meth, crack…certainly not job applications.
ted c on September 14, 2009 at 11:05 AM
Will the trolls stand for this one. A travesty I say…simply a travesty. Baltimore, DC, now NYC…. Hmmph. Can’t a hooka get a house ‘roun heah!?
ted c on September 14, 2009 at 11:06 AM
This is the most BEAUTIFUL sting I have ever seen, and I am laughing my buns off.
John the Libertarian on September 14, 2009 at 11:06 AM
HEY! Everybody knock it off. This is obviously an Obama campaign/post election promise that was kept. Having seen months of his agenda and these videos, it is obvious that the citizen-activist-organizers DID help him form his agenda.
CC
CapedConservative on September 14, 2009 at 11:07 AM
What kind of organization would hire these criminal enablers? They barely make sense when they talk.
shick on September 14, 2009 at 11:09 AM
This has got to make it to the big screen. Some titles…
“Pimpin’ aint easy”
“ACORN aint’ be fallin too faahh from da tree”
“Troof Police”
“Mama’s Backyahhd”
“Just say Yo! to Pimpin’”
“Got Tin?”
“We be Houses n’ Stuff”
“Bury it where Tom Jones can’t find it!”
that’s it, i’m tapped out….
ted c on September 14, 2009 at 11:10 AM
Objectively, anyone with a mouthpeice/bully pulpit who does not decry this as immoral and illegal is, at the least, morally complicit.
The virtual silence over has much to do with Obama. They cannot say a damn word about it because everyone KNOWS this organization is his baby. It’s a massive blow to his credibility. NO ONE wants to deal with this.
I wonder when HE will say something about the very group he helped train?
Diane on September 14, 2009 at 11:10 AM
From your keyboard to God’s ear!
petunia on September 14, 2009 at 11:11 AM
What are the chances that a random sampling of big city ACORN offices would produce the same results? I go with what Ed said…this is a case of corruption at the level of ‘troops on the ground’, but suggests at a minimum that employees at this level are not trained to deal truthfully and with integrity. That is a management problem.
Hold on to your hat, Bertha. You may be next!
LEBA on September 14, 2009 at 11:12 AM
Tomorrow’s another day… for another tape.
Akzed on September 14, 2009 at 11:12 AM
Just wait until the investigations start and we find out what ACORN has been doing in areas more “demographically rich” like Detroit, Cleveland, and New Orleans.
highhopes on September 14, 2009 at 11:13 AM
Consider it a “shovel-ready project”.
The Monster on September 14, 2009 at 11:14 AM
Ridonkulous! If this doesn’t get the media and Congress on board we need to get out the pitchforks and storm the studios in New York before we move on to the Capitol.
Check out this little graphic I made:
http://woody.typepad.com/Graphics/icon_acorn_acronym.jpg
Fits ‘em to a T.
Woody on September 14, 2009 at 11:15 AM
Off topic…
Jim DeMint just said, “Over a quarter of a million people in Washington last Saturday..”
LEBA on September 14, 2009 at 11:15 AM
Holder and Obama may be able to stop a full scale RICO investigation but they have also set the precedent of going after former Presidents people in court. Hopefully this will be dealt with someday. Although, Republicans do show so little courage when going after the left. Too much fear of the smear machine.
Speaking of smear machine… with all Beck’s past drinking he no doubt has one or two skeletons and they are likely being magnified even now to show what a untrustworthy man he is… We simply cannot let what ever they come up with shock us because it will only be a distraction.
petunia on September 14, 2009 at 11:16 AM
Well Obama was the 99.9% favorite of prostitutes and pimps in the last election.This is simply payback.
Jeff from WI on September 14, 2009 at 11:17 AM
If this were an instance of one ACORN office getting burned, I’d agree with you but this is a systemic problem and suggests the opposite to be true. Specifically, ACORN trains its employees to be dishonest without any sort of ethical standards in what they are doing. Their mission is to get that brothel up and running and beholden to ACORN so that in 2012 the “HO’s for Change” will be out there registering the vermin of society to vote for the filthy liar in the White House.
highhopes on September 14, 2009 at 11:20 AM
Exactly! And the only thing on Obama’s resume for the years prior to the Illinois Senate was:
Training ACORN
These people learned how to put brothels of child sex slaves into our neighborhoods directly from our illustrious President himself.
This IS bigger than Nixon or Clinton. Yet I don’t know how you touch him.
I guess that is the difference between really well thought out criminal enterprises and sloppy sex addicts and over zealous paranoids.
petunia on September 14, 2009 at 11:21 AM
Pimp out little girls, evade taxes, defraud the government of “stimulus” money, but remember: vote Democrat. Welcome to Obama’s America.
spmat on September 14, 2009 at 11:22 AM
Related question: What kind of an community help organization wants to attract brothels? Certainly not a legitmate one that is looking to better a community.
highhopes on September 14, 2009 at 11:22 AM
It’s not simply the connection to Obama — it’s the credo of the MSM itself: people of color can do no wrong. So it is written. So shall it be.
As long as the visible face of ACORN is black or brown, so shall it remain, for the media.
See “Coloring the News: How Crusading for Diversity Has Corrupted American Journalism,” William McGowan, Encounter Books, 2001.
Nichevo on September 14, 2009 at 11:22 AM
Ask ACORN’s most notable TRAINER who TRAINED these tirds.
Akzed on September 14, 2009 at 11:23 AM
This has got to be HUGE! It looks as if Obama’s redistribution of wealth and reparations has been exposed. Is there any law that hasn’t been broken? I’ll bet if we scrounge around we will find murder, too.
I have had such a bad feeling about Obama from the minute he stepped on the national stage. He is just a regular crime wave all by himself. Now we see that he has attatched himself to ACORN with far reaching illegalities all over the country, and most probablly the entire world. This is bigger than Watergate and it is impeachable.
BetseyRoss on September 14, 2009 at 11:24 AM
I keep saying it, and I’ll say it again:
ACORN does not look for professionalism in their hirelings, the want people who are cheap, dumb, amoral, and most of all expendable.
Random Numbers (Brian Epps) on September 14, 2009 at 11:24 AM
To better the community?!! LOL…you’re right, I doubt that’s their goal.
Jeff from WI on September 14, 2009 at 11:26 AM
Incidentally–that picture of Obama on Drudge is totally Hiltersque. That could be on a sign with a little mustache added… I’m just saying.
petunia on September 14, 2009 at 11:26 AM
I’ve repeated the into to the first video four times now. That Hannah chick is a major babe… nice shorts!
Woody on September 14, 2009 at 11:26 AM
Scrubbed! Click on a link to go to a blank page.
I guess they have nothing to hide (except their contact info).
Akzed on September 14, 2009 at 11:26 AM
I think it certainly should be but I don’t think anyone can directly connect Obama to doing these acts himself. Just encouraging others. And I think he has had to create some kind of arms length record to be able to funnel all the money to them. I think he has protected himself legally.
Popular opinion should be another thing. I personally don’t think anyone I know of any political stripe would think this kind of thing is what they want for this country. Even the deepest kool-aid drinkers have to have pause over this.
petunia on September 14, 2009 at 11:31 AM
Here’s to hoping there is another video like this tomorrow.
Browncoatone on September 14, 2009 at 11:31 AM
You can’t rake a few leaves and presume to have cleared the ground of the corrupt root cause that yet stands as a huge tree covering more corruption, producing more corruption.
ACORN should systematically be taken down whole, prosecute the entire organization for having permitted so much illegal activity, knowingly or not. It doesn’t require federal tax dollars or federal agents to privately investigate local ACORN members and produce records of local ACORN corruption where you all live. With our own local records uncovered and produced to authorities, we then demand ACORN MEMBERS be prosecuted for corruption in our locales. Nationally, we need to take on Holden and Loretta King who’ve been enabled by Obama to completely corrupt our Department of Justice. As part of their personal and professional responsibility to uphold our Constitutional Government, it would be within the rights of our Supreme Court Justices, AS PRIVATE CITIZENS, to clarify legal means to oppose the corruption running our nation from the Office of the Attorney General, and the Acting Assistant Attorney General charged to protect our civil rights.
maverick muse on September 14, 2009 at 11:31 AM
To start this, we are publishing an internal quasi-employee manual Big Government has obtained. Given to all ACORN employees, it isn’t your normal manual. It doesn’t discuss things like sick leave or vacation time, but, rather, as the title states, the “Principles and Foundations of ACORN.” How an organization communicates with the public is important. How it communicates to its own employees, however, provides a richer understanding of an organization’s nature.
The whole thing is worth a read. I draw your attention to just one sentence (ACORN emphasizes it with italics):
ACORN’s lifeblood is conflicts with targets outside the organization.
Think about that. ACORN’s lifeblood isn’t empowering disadvantaged communities nor lifting people out of poverty. It isn’t concerned about increasing economic growth to improve the lives of its members. It’s lifeblood is conflict. Conflict with targets. It actually thinks of the world outside itself as targets.
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/11270423/Principles-and-Foundations-of-Acorn
———————————-
This is a close to a mob manual as you can make! They should retitle the sections as follows:
____Section 1: Exploit the vulnerable. (ACORN “must” bring new membership each month)
__Section 2: Exploit the poor for your wealth. (You’ve got to get good at bringing in money so you can have the wealth you deserve)
__Section 3: Don’t get Caught. (Coordinated autonomy allows the top to deny any wrongdoing in what its subsidiaries do.)
__Section 4: Include everyone [even prostitutes] (A multi-issue organization with “diverse” members)
__Section 5: Act… Or Else! (They speak of cardiac arrest. What methods do they use as the analagous defribillator?)
__Section 6: Act like a leader, even if you can’t. (Most of our members have no leadership experience)
__Section 7: ACORN now owns your life. (Not having enough time is no excuse for not working and ensuring others are working)
__Section 8: Lie, Lie, Lie (Every ACORN member must learn to “improvise” when knocking on doors.)
I hope this was an adequate analyzation…
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ms on September 14, 2009 at 11:33 AM
Who is the head of acorn,board of directors?WE need a list to submit to the AG so he can issue warents. We can haul em into court in TEXAS for RICO
Col.John Wm. Reed on September 14, 2009 at 11:34 AM
I sent the following to members of my Congressional delegation this morning:
ya2daup on September 14, 2009 at 11:35 AM
Supreme Court Justices lifetime appointments were so designed in order to protect them from political backlash, including progressive backlash, or backlash from either/both of the other branches, Executive and Legislative. It is the responsibility of the Supreme Court Justices to do their part to keep their own Judicial Branch clean, to promote and preserve our citizens’ Constitutional Rights within the Judicial Branch, and to call out the Attorney General for subverting the Justice Department.
maverick muse on September 14, 2009 at 11:40 AM
Holden should be forced to step down.
This needs a special prosecutor if anything does. But who in the world could be trusted. If the Obamaites choose anyone they are suspect.
ACORN has penetrated every inch of the Democratic Party. And the Democrats have every interest in minimizing the damage this should do to them.
Culture of corruption indeed. Bannana Republic indeed.
Oh America how did we let these criminals gain so much power?
petunia on September 14, 2009 at 11:41 AM
On Friday night the ‘pimp’ and ‘whore’ were asked “any more such tapes?” and they said, very nonchalantley, perfectly, “maybe yes, maybe no”.
May ACORN and their real PIMP in CHIEF, with our tax money, pee in their pants, wondering.
Schadenfreude on September 14, 2009 at 11:42 AM
I am just baffled. Counting three cities now…
How many more ACORN videos are there? How come noone else investigated the fraud organization before now?
How many more organizations that get stimulus money are similarily corrupt?
nyx on September 14, 2009 at 11:42 AM
Excellent question. “Community Organizing” should be banned. I have always questioned the wisdom of busing people to the polls. There is just something crooked about the whole idea of pressuring people to vote who would’nt normally do it on their own.
This should cause everyone to stop anything more than educating people about where to find forms on their own and fill them out. Voting should be completely voluntary and it isn’t with ACORN breathing down your neck.
petunia on September 14, 2009 at 11:50 AM
Is ACORN Intentionally Structured As a Criminal Enterprise?
Staff Report
U.S. House of Representatives
111th Congress
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
July 23, 2009
Has anyone else seen this report? (It’s a pdf)
Dusty on September 14, 2009 at 11:51 AM
Maybe Michael Moore’s next documentary should investigate something relevant to today? Like this. As opposed to AIG….
mjk on September 14, 2009 at 11:51 AM
9 billion dollars’ worth of stimulus money, for THIS?
Keep this in the news, every single day. Expose the very top, their Pimp in Chief.
Schadenfreude on September 14, 2009 at 11:52 AM
it will be interesting to see how this develops. IF there truly is a “bombshell” in the wings, i would hope it’s an expose of offices in Chicago. Possibly where teh One was a trainer.
It would be amusing to watch ACORN take after dear leader and start throwing their budding movie stars under the bus, only to have new tape pop up a day or two later. All of it ending with a tape from teh Ones people in Chicago.
Oh, I’d bring the popcorn AND the redvines for that show.
Fighton03 on September 14, 2009 at 11:52 AM
Wouldn’t it be great if Acorn had training tapes of The Won teaching the Acorn minions how to evade taxes and helps pimps, and Beck got his hands on them?
SouperConservative on September 14, 2009 at 11:58 AM
Emailed my Senators, what else can be done to stop the flow of tax dollars to these people and bring about an investigation?
A little voter fraud in multiple states was hardly even a bump in the road for these people. Will these stings force the issue?
joedoe on September 14, 2009 at 12:00 PM
Anyone else think ACORN might be having a teleconference this morning trying to figure out which office is next? LOL
joedoe on September 14, 2009 at 12:02 PM
“We gonna sue you for makin’ all this stuff up about all those people we fired last week.” ROFLMAO
joedoe on September 14, 2009 at 12:03 PM
Anyone read the blog on big government supporting Acorn? geesh…talk about a nasty liberal woman.
becki51758 on September 14, 2009 at 12:04 PM
IIRC he taped these starting a year ago. I bet he has a very large tin of videos buried in the back yard.
- The Cat
MirCat on September 14, 2009 at 12:05 PM
Sounds like she was covering the Democratic talking points on shovel ready projects.
trollkiller on September 14, 2009 at 12:08 PM
Several weeks ago Beck warned that the ACORN Home Defender program is designed to create widespread domestic disorder, and that it may take the country into turmoil.
petefrt on September 14, 2009 at 12:09 PM
I know this makes me out to be a huge racist, but do white people work at Acorn?
Hening on September 14, 2009 at 12:10 PM
This is a scream! O’Keefe spent all weekend letting them shoot their mouths off about how no other ACORN folks went for the bait, etc. Then they threaten to sue and to prosecute O’Keefe and what do you know.. there’s ANOTHER office that fell for it. I just bet he’s got DOZENS of tapes of ACORN offices that fell for this thing and as they ramp up the rhetoric and feign outrage at HIS behavior, more and more tapes are going to appear.
This guy covered his behind REAL well. They’re going down on this one unless BO Boy intervenes, which I bet he will.
Mad Mad Monica on September 14, 2009 at 12:10 PM
Please tell me they did this in Chicago…
Black Adam on September 14, 2009 at 12:14 PM
“peaceably” remaining in their foreclosed homes, by hacking down locked doors and remaining on site 24/7… but remember folks, RICO only applies to a conspiracy to block abortion clinic driveways.
Chris_Balsz on September 14, 2009 at 12:15 PM
Search for ACORN on Google, click on the Cached link associated with pages of interest. Nothing dies (quickly) on the internet.
ya2daup on September 14, 2009 at 12:16 PM
I’d expect Chicago will be drawn into focus toward the end. They would get all the other stuff out first, to lay the groundwork. Then Chicago –> Obama will be the finale’.
petefrt on September 14, 2009 at 12:16 PM
I’m still waiting on our trolls to come and explain this whole situation to us.
Actually, I’m reaching out with an open hand in diplomacy in other threads so that they don’t feel so intimidated to explain their opinions on ACORN.
It’s not working.
mjk on September 14, 2009 at 12:16 PM
haha, I found a website with the ACORN office locations
faraway on September 14, 2009 at 12:16 PM
I read (washington examiner) over the weekend that the Teachers’ Unions gave $1.3 Million to ACORN since 2005.
Is there anyone on capitol hill who will investigate now?
TN Mom on September 14, 2009 at 12:17 PM
And the MSM turns it’s head…
d1carter on September 14, 2009 at 12:18 PM
Dollar to donut says you’re right. Q is how and how soon. Probably their first target is Beck/FNC?
petefrt on September 14, 2009 at 12:19 PM
Not really since Joe Biden is an idiot and any tapes like that would make the filthy liar’s tenure in office problematic at best. There’d be a lot of screaming of racism, that it doesn’t matter, etc. but in the end the filthy liar’s credibility would be so tainted he would have to go.
It’s all academic anyway, there is no way that the filthy liar would allow himself to be taped in such a way.
highhopes on September 14, 2009 at 12:27 PM
All on taxpayers money.
the_nile on September 14, 2009 at 12:32 PM
Eric Holder will put the brakes on any serious investigation of these people. He had the New Black Panthers on video, plus a default judgement, but he still dropped the case. He only investigates Bush/Cheney and defends terrorist, domestic and otherwise.
joedoe on September 14, 2009 at 12:34 PM
They do. I was living in New Orleans post Katrina and most of the ACORN people down there (attempting to keep the Lower 9th Ward population counted as part of the voter base even though they mostly were living elsewhere) were white. They are just as radical as your black ACORN worker.
highhopes on September 14, 2009 at 12:35 PM
Well, according to Beck, they’re the ones running the “plantation”.
RepubChica on September 14, 2009 at 12:37 PM
Statement from Bertha Lewis, Chief Organizer, ACORN Regarding Recent News Reports
September 12, 2009
The relentless attacks on ACORN’s members, its staff and the policies and positions we promote are unprecedented. An international entertainment conglomerate, disguising itself as a “news” agency (Fox), has expended millions, if not tens of millions of dollars, in their attempt to destroy the largest community organization of Black, Latino, poor and working families in the country. It is not coincidence that the most recent attacks have been launched just when health care reform is gaining traction. It is clear they’ve had these tapes for months.
We are their Willy Horton for 2009. We are the boogeyman for the right-wing and its echo chambers. If ACORN did not exist, the right-wing would have needed to create us in order to achieve their agenda, their missions, their ideal, retrograde America. This recent scam, which was attempted in San Diego, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia to name a few places, had failed for months before the results we’ve all recently seen. I am appalled and angry; I cannot and I will not defend the actions of the workers depicted in the video, who have since been terminated. But it is clear that the videos are doctored, edited, and in no way the result of the fabricated story being portrayed by conservative activist “filmmaker” O’Keefe and his partner in crime. And, in fact, a crime it was – our lawyers believe a felony – and we will be taking legal action against Fox and their co-conspirators.
We will not be intimidated by this international conglomerate, which has made as its mission the destruction of our organization. ACORN members are committed to the empowerment of their communities – Black, Latino, poor, and working families – at the deepest level. We are an organization committed to halting the foreclosure crisis and keeping people in their homes. We are an organization committed to ensuring quality, affordable health care for every American. We are an organization that will not be stopped in our commitment to our members and our communities which has included:
Helping hundreds of thousands of African-American and Latino voters register to vote and get to the polls in recent years;
Preparing, since 2004, approximately 150,000 free tax returns totaling $190 million in refunds and increased earned income tax credit participation;
Providing effective foreclosure prevention advocacy saving thousands of American families from losing their homes to foreclosure.
Black Adam on September 14, 2009 at 12:37 PM
“In every political community there are varying shades of political opinion. One of the shadiest of these is the liberals. An outspoken group on many subjects. Ten degrees to the left of center in good times. Ten degrees to the right of center if it effects them personally.” — Phil Ochs
calbear on September 14, 2009 at 12:37 PM
Ditto that.
Fishoutofwater on September 14, 2009 at 12:40 PM
The Justice Department will stop any investigation into ACORN…the Congress must block any funding of ACORN. It will not survive on its own.
d1carter on September 14, 2009 at 12:42 PM
Anybody find it funny ACORN’s attorneys are part of the “Schwartz, Lichten, & Bright” (German for “Black, Lighten, and Bright)?
Black Adam on September 14, 2009 at 12:43 PM
Oh C’mon! This is the same type of crap they tried in Chicago. If we keep digging deeper, I’m sure we’ll find the evidence needed to bring a case.
Sad thing is, the most experienced man for the task of taking Chicago Thugs to court is out of a job (courtesy of Obama). Obama promised he wouldn’t interfere with Pat Fitzgerald’s investigation into Rod Blagojevich, so that’s ANOTHER Obama promise wearing concrete shoes at the bottom of the Michigan.
Maybe we should start a fund to help him in his new investigation, now that he’s part of the private sector. What’s he gonna do now? Fire him again?
Chaz706 on September 14, 2009 at 12:44 PM
Would this not be hysterical if Jay Leno did an Acorn spoof on his “premiere” tonight? A girl can dare to dream…
ucantbserious on September 14, 2009 at 12:52 PM
man is she HOT!
kara26 on September 14, 2009 at 12:53 PM
Dream on, baby. I tuned Jay out a while back, when it became obvious how in the tank he was for Obama. I’d bet you money he still does some more tired-ass Bush jokes tonight. I was a very loyal Leno fan from the time he first started guest-hosting for Carson, but now, I wouldn’t walk across the street to see him for free. He plays here in Vegas frequently, and I get free tix to a lot of stuff here, but I’ll pass on Leno every time, as long as he refuses to ridicule Obama the way he did and still does, ridicule Bush. F*ck him.
Fishoutofwater on September 14, 2009 at 1:05 PM
Besides, Leno is still on NBC. Any surprise he won’t do any sketches? None.
Fishoutofwater on September 14, 2009 at 1:06 PM
I don’t watch him either BUT since he’s “prime time” now, I’m wondering just what he will and won’t spoof….
ucantbserious on September 14, 2009 at 1:10 PM
From ACORN Housing, enough sites for a whole season’s worth of television:
Albuquerque
Baltimore
Bridgeport CT
Chicago
Dallas
El Paso
Fresno
Houston
Kansas City MO
Las Vegas
Los Angeles
Miami
Milwaukee
New Orleans
New York City
Oakland
Orlando
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Portland
Providence RI
Sacramento
San Antonio
San Jose
Seattle
Springfield MA
St. Paul
Tampa
Washington DC
ya2daup on September 14, 2009 at 1:15 PM
LOL…gotta love the HOEIN’ THE GARDEN advice!
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Christien on September 14, 2009 at 1:18 PM
The Justice Dept.is as crooked as ACORN. So is the FBI.
I believe the Attorney General is a crooked too. It’s like most big city police departments. They’re like the mafia with a badge. They’ll do anything they have to to protect their “union brothers”.
Jeff from WI on September 14, 2009 at 1:22 PM
Part of the $1.3 million was intended for a campaign that would feature a variation on a favorite National Education Association slogan: “If you signed an adjustable rate mortgage with a teaser introductory rate and didn’t understand the terms… thank a teacher!”
/sarc
ya2daup on September 14, 2009 at 1:35 PM
NEWS FLASH!!
Ted Kennedy and Michael Jackson have been revived in Chicago, and are eligible to vote in the next election.
Cybergeezer on September 14, 2009 at 1:37 PM
I admire the way BigGovernment.com releases these videos one by one, at intervals. One can see the progression from Baltimore, to Washington, D.C., and to New York. I wonder if Chicago is the size-13 EE shoe, waiting to be dropped. Look up, Mr. President, look up!
Kralizec on September 14, 2009 at 1:44 PM
Two of the five members of the board of directors are former teachers.
SouperConservative on September 14, 2009 at 1:53 PM
WOW! Is this how they do it in Chicago?
BigMike252 on September 14, 2009 at 1:53 PM
Hillary is warning about the depredations of ACORN today! :)
Dusty on September 14, 2009 at 1:57 PM
I predicted at my DC ACORN scandal post that there would be at least one more and probobly more than one; not that that was a difficult prediction. I stand by that same prediction in my NY ACORN scandal post despite another one coming to light. The constant ‘drip, drip, drip’ is putting ACORN in a tough spot, but it is one they have gotten themselves into.
BermanPost on September 14, 2009 at 2:02 PM
Mr. O’Keefe and Ms. Giles should get a Pulitzer prize for journalism. Give all the so called journalists in all the liberal rags something to which to aspire. The brillance of this escapade is something short of stunning. They obviously knew that they would be accused of baiting their targets so they release one tape to the excuse of ACORN that it is isolated. Then the release of the second – again ACORN excuses and righteous indignation – THEN THE THIRD – brilliant! Thank you James and Hannah you should make these other journalists ashamed of themselves.
AusTex girl on September 14, 2009 at 2:11 PM
Why is no one talking about the fact that the Brooklyn office is where Bertha Lewis works. How did she not know what was going on with employees that have been there for years.
Yes the teachers union paid ACORN $1.3 million since 2005 – WE have paid ACORN $1.4 million (through FEMA) since 2008!
http://speakmymindblog.com/2009/09/14/honesty-is-not-going-to-get-you-the-house-acorn/
sherryande on September 14, 2009 at 2:12 PM
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