ACORN story grows ---

[colonelbuckrobely]

but the lamestream media refuses to cover it and these pukes are receiving tax dollars while Mr. ACORN himself not only turns a blind eye but has supported these actions.

tinyurl.com/netzel

[hasset]

My husband has been complaining about Acorn for years. I can not understand how they can get away with their dishonesty year after year. I meet so many people who are honest. How come the dishonest ones are in our government and they turn a blind eye? I figure there must be a lot of dishonest ones in Congress and they do not blow the whistle for fear someone will investigate them too. There needs to be a big house cleaning. I feel sorry for the few honest ones.

[colonelbuckrobely]

Finally, ABC is noticing. It's about time but probably won't amount to anything more than a popcorn fart.

blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/09/senate-votes-to-keep-housing-funds-from-acorn.html#comments

[colonelbuckrobely]

And yet still more.

biggovernment.com/2009/09/15/exclusive-acorn-illegally-operating-in-maryland/

Now I am hearing that there will be more from California where politicians were actually named. I hope one was Peelosi.

[hasset]

Can you imagine Charlie Gibson says he has never heard any of the problems with ACORN? Where has he been? I have heard of the dishonesty with ACORN for nearly ten years. Obama took Acorn people to the white house. Certainly Charles knows that and is telling lies again.

[colonelbuckrobely]

More tapes are surfacing. Be watching for one from San Diego shortly. The wheels are beginning to fall off their barrow. I will bet the libs will be running for cover very soon. Best of all, someone from ACORN made the comment today that Barry was an organizer just like them. I'll bet he loves that.

[nobama]

Gibson claiming he never heard is just another lie !!! We the People,,have been turning up the heat on Obama and all the libtards,,and things are turning,,,slowly,,,but turning. I think the MSM has got to be included and they have got to have the pressure on them. Some of the editorials and articles written by some of these left-wing creeps is scary,,to think some people (see jackpine and RWN on a local level) still believe and fall for the rhetoric and policies put forth by this administration.

[hasset]

www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/18/caught-on-tape/

How rogue conservative filmmakers
took down ACORN

James O'Keefe and his partner in crime, Hannah Giles, are the ones who went to various Acorn offices and pretended to be a pimp and his prostitute. They got the whole thing filmed.

How come it was so easy for these two to get this exposure of Acorn when the organization has been known to be dishonest and a waste of tax payers' money for years and years and years? The answer is that no one wanted to check them out, at least not the right people. Obama and Pres. Emanuel were part of Acorn. HmmmmWhat does this tell you?

This story isn't being covered much in some of the TV stations and newspapers. They are afraid of losing ground with their beloved Obama.

[hasset]

www.acorn.org/index.php?id=12439&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=22584&tx_ttnews[backPid]=12346&cHash=f9240e1083
ACORN Announces Major Steps to Address Issues Raised by Videos
September 16, 2009

In response to recently released videos of frontline ACORN staff, ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis made the following announcement Wednesday morning:

* No new intakes will be accepted into ACORN's offices for service programs, effective immediately;

* An immediate in-service training for all frontline staff has been ordered within 48 hours;
(How can you train someone to be honest?)

* ACORN's independent Advisory Council will help select an independent auditor/reviewer to review what was called into question by the videos.
(How can this be an independent Advisory Council? Look at the names on the list!!!!)

    In early 2009, ACORN set up an independent Advisory Council to help facilitate a transition to a new management team under the leadership of CEO Bertha Lewis.  ACORN's Advisory Council includes:

* John Podesta, President and CEO, Center for American Progress

* Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Board Member, RFK Foundation, former MD Lt. Governor

* Andrew Stern, International President, Service Employees International Union

* Henry Cisneros, Executive Chairman, Cityview

* John Banks, Vice President of Government Relations Con Ed

* Eric Eve, Senior VP of Global Consumer Group, Community Relations, Citigroup

* Harvey Hirschfeld, President, Lawcash

* Dave Beckwith, Executive Director, Needmor Fund

(They are planning to gain the public's trust. How can they when they are too dishonest to begin with and all the players are the same?)

[hasset]

September 19, 2009
I watched Rep. Darrell Issa (CA-49) discuss ACORN with the CEO of ACORN Bertha Lewis on Fox News Sunday at 9:00 am (EST) this morning. In July, Issa released a report detailing the systematic fraud and theft of taxpayer funds by the ACORN organization.

Boy, was Lewis mad!!!!!! She never looked at Rep. Issa once during the whole discussion this morning. If looks could kill, she did lots of killing today. She insists the whole thing is or will be taken care of and that Acorn is a wonderful organization that poor people depend on. She is mad that they were caught. What I want to know is:

How many Acorn offices were visited by the "pimp and prostitute"? If they had visited a hundred and only 4 or 5 were doing the dishonest stuff, I may have some sympathy for Lewis. I hope Acorn does go after the film makers because then ACORN will have to open up their records EVERYWHERE in the country. I bet every office in the country was bad and I will tell you why.
I have had experience with working in an office where some dishonest financial stuff was going on. The lower level people were doing it because the ones above them were doing it and so on up. It is "trickle up dishonesty" and it goes right up to the top where there were people like Obama and R. Emanuel "working" for Acorn and we know they weren't honest. The whole organization has never had any respect for the people who paid their hard earned cash for that organization. I heard that Acorn will be divided up and renamed so people will not recognize it. I am hoping one of you know something about the new names of that crummy organization.

Lewis seems to think Fox news was behind the filming but it was totally independent. That is flaterring to Fox. It must mean that Fox is going to show both sides of an issue, that is more than the other stations so it is commendable.