New ACORN video: Murder in California?

posted at 4:52 pm on September 15, 2009 by Allahpundit

I’ve been checking Big Government since 4 p.m. for the new clip but it looks like they’re going to wait and roll it out simultaneously with Beck’s show on Fox, which I assume pretty much all of you will be watching. Here’s your thread to comment. The rumors of what’s on this new one are scandalous, but they’re still only rumors — for a few more minutes at least. I’ll post the clips here as soon as they’re available.

Over/under on how many questions the community-organizer-in-chief gets about ACORN during his Sunday morning media blitz: One. Stand by for updates.

Update: Here we go.

Looks like we’ve got a confession to either murder or manslaughter in the very first minute here. Can’t wait for that House vote on whether to keep funding this syndicate.

Update: And now, within the second minute, we’ve got a death threat from the murderer/manslaughterer.

Update: I’m not even halfway through and this woman’s spitting out names of California pols she claims to regularly “lobby.” Boxer is among them.

Update: The first clip ends with her confessing to having run a prostitution ring of her very own and, naturally, not declaring a dime of the proceeds to the IRS. Presumably ACORN’s defense will be that this woman’s full-blown nuts and is spinning a yarn to impress her clients, but (a) she sure is specific about dollar amounts, and (b) San Bernardino PD will have something to say about her ex, I’m guessing. Stand by while we wait for the next clip, which I’ll post below.

Update: It’s 6 p.m. and they still haven’t posted the next vid. Maybe they’re saving it for tomorrow? If so, two parting thoughts for now. One: Giles dropped a big hint in her BG post this afternoon that this isn’t the last office they visited. Which makes sense. Why go to the trouble of flying out to the coast to visit only San Bernardino? Two: As sensational as the details about murder are, don’t let that swallow up the larger story about the pattern of conspiracy in covering up sex trafficking that O’Keefe and Giles keep finding at ACORN offices. The murder stuff might not be true or she might already have done her time or, although it sounds unlikely, it might have been a legitimate case of self-defense. ACORN apologists are desperate to change the subject and this may end up giving them a chance. As O’Keefe reminds us, Alinsky Rule #8: “Keep the pressure on. Never let up.”

Update: A clever point from Goldfarb. If ACORN believes all these videos are doctored, why are they firing the employees involved?

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U.S. Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign paid more than $800,000 to an offshoot of the liberal Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now for services the Democrat’s campaign says it mistakenly misrepresented in federal reports.

An Obama spokesman said Federal Election Commission reports would be amended to show Citizens Services Inc. — a subsidiary of ACORN — worked in “get-out-the-vote” projects, instead of activities such as polling, advance work and staging major events as stated in FEC finance reports filed during the primary.

FEC spokeswoman Mary Brandenberger said it is not unusual for campaigns to amend reports, even regarding large sums of money.

But, said Blair Latoff, spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee: “Barack Obama’s failure to accurately report his campaign’s financial records is an incredibly suspicious situation that appears to be an attempt to hide his campaign’s interaction with a left-wing organization previously convicted of voter fraud. For a candidate who claims to be practicing ‘new’ politics, his FEC reports look an awful lot like the ‘old-style’ Chicago politics of yesterday.”

from Michelle Malkin’s site above.

What did Stephanie Strom know about Obama campaign and ACORN?
What connections were there, if any, and did those connections break any laws.

ted c on September 16, 2009 at 5:54 AM

ms on September 16, 2009 at 2:48 AM

Well, there you go. I’m not sure why people think it was up to O’Keefe and the young woman to prove one way or the other her claims of murder. Her mouth; her problem.

Blake on September 16, 2009 at 6:16 AM

AP:

Presumably ACORN’s defense will be that this woman’s full-blown nuts

MS:

“As far as her murdering an ex-husband, that’s news to me,” Ronald Kaelke said. “She’s definitely got problems and goes off the wall sometimes.”

and

“She’s a nut, Andy!”
–Deputy Barney Fife

BigAlSouth on September 16, 2009 at 6:54 AM

Blake on September 16, 2009 at 6:16 AM

Exactly. Its not up to them to prove anything. This woman is an ACORN employee and offered to help them just like the others.

O’Keefe took 48 hours of video. There will be more to come, I bet!

dogsoldier on September 16, 2009 at 6:55 AM

If acorn’s defense is that this woman is nuts, have they removed her? You can’t fire her for being nuts but you don’t keep her as a credit consular and as an employee interacting with the public. I guess that they won’t do a thing to her. Therefore, no defense.

Or, if she isn’t nuts, she shd be fired.

Blake on September 16, 2009 at 9:25 AM

ACORN sure has attracted lotsa squirrels.

Akzed on September 16, 2009 at 9:29 AM

Uh oh! Looks like our Stimulus supporting governor, soon to be Senator, Charlie Crist may have some splainin to do!

“Crist breaks with Republicans over ACORN voter fraud charges”

http://www.miamiherald.com/516/story/727793.html

Just one juicy tidbit:

“Echoing Browning and other county elections supervisors, Mary Cooney, a spokeswoman for Broward County Election Supervisor Brenda Snipes, said the office had a good working relationship with ACORN.

But Cooney said the office began tracking ACORN registrations after noticing about 10 percent of the 16,000 registration cards it submitted were returned by the post office as undeliverable. In 80 percent of those cases, she said, the elections office couldn’t find the registrant.

Cooney said the returned mail wasn’t suspicious, but it was worthy of note. Cooney said that, if the office had suspected real fraud, it would have turned the matter over to the state attorney’s office. But it didn’t.”

cat in FL on September 16, 2009 at 9:36 AM

One.

Yes, and it will be open ended so that he can distance himself and set the “record” straight with no follow up question and a dismissing of Big Government being racist.

Sultry Beauty on September 16, 2009 at 2:32 PM

Obama to Acorn: We’re Goin’ to be Callin’ on You to Help Shape the Agenda

http://foxyurl.com/uYa

jjrakman on September 16, 2009 at 8:29 PM

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