Tag: acorn

*Third* time on the ACORN Hooker Advisory Train.

(Via @JTlol)This time, it’s Brooklyn. Which, as Big Government gleefully points out, is part of New York, which is one of the places that ACORN claims that the producers tried this sting and failed.

Second part of the video at the site: your call if they failed or not. Continue reading *Third* time on the ACORN Hooker Advisory Train.

Census Bureau Fires ACORN.

Big Government 1, ACORN 0.

In the wake of devastating video reports revealing corruption at local offices of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, the U.S. Census Bureau has cancelled its agreement calling for ACORN to work on the 2010 census.

“The Census Bureau has established criteria for partnerships…and reserves the right to decline partnership or terminate an existing partnership agreement with any group that 1) may create a negative connotation for the Census Bureau; 2) could distract from the Census Bureau’s mission; or 3) may make people fearful of participating in the census,” wrote Census Director Robert Groves in a letter today to ACORN President Maud Hurd. “To that end…we are today terminating our Partnership Agreement with ACORN.”

(Via Instapundit) Further comment unnecessary, except of course for my pious hope that ACORN tries to fight this decision all the way to the White House.  That’s the only way that this situation could be improved upon.

Moe Lane

Crossposted to RedState.

ACORN seems to be having a hooker advisement problem.

Take two for Big Government‘s investigation into ACORN’s sideline in setting up tax fraud for illegal exploitation of women: this time, Washington DC.  Who the hell comes into these offices, to make illegal underage El Salvadoran brothel setup issues seem relatively normal?

Moe Lane

PS: There’s at least one more.  The hint is subtle, but…

PPS: Why are we giving these people federal money?

Crossposted to RedState.

Big Government, ACORN, and tax advice for underaged brothels.

[UPDATE]: Welcome Instapundit readers.

So, Andrew Breitbart’s new website Big Government wanted to start off with a splash – and they’ve certainly done so, thanks to the post Chaos to Glory. In it, James O’Keefe went with an associate to ACORN’s Baltimore office, with the story that the associate is a prostitute who needs to set up her income – and the income of a baker’s dozen of underage El Salvadoran illegal immigrant prostitutes – to fund O’Keefe’s political campaigns. ACORN of course immediately informs them that they are depraved abusive monsters, throws them out, and calls the cops…

Yeah, right. What actually happens is that they get a crash course in Tax Fraud and How To Set Up A Brothel 101: links are to videos, in case the above doesn’t load (their servers must be getting hammered, for some reason). Transcript here: you will find that your jaw steadily drops more and more as this goes on. They didn’t blink at the prostitute bit (just reclassified it as entertainer, and walked through useful deductions): they didn’t blink at the underaged El Salvadoran prostitutes thing (just worked out how many could be claimed as dependents without things getting flagged); and they didn’t blink on the request for advice on avoiding a former pimp (they just gave some, which didn’t include “Call the cops” and “Stop being a prostitute”).

After a certain point, you will ask yourself if this can possibly be for real. Breitbart did, himself. This, in fact, pushes the very limit of the Too Good to Be True envelope – but the videos are simply too good to miss. Plus, ACORN’s screams of outrage are diagnostic: they’re essentially claiming that when asked, other offices didn’t give out tax advice on running illegal underage brothels.

So there. Continue reading Big Government, ACORN, and tax advice for underaged brothels.

ACLU: Election fraud is a civil right.

Admittedly, attempting to do so has been done so many times in this country…

…that someone surveying the situation might be forgiven in thinking that it’s implicitly permitted: but no, we don’t actually want election fraud to happen. When it does – like it did in Pennsylvania – and we can catch them at it, we put the people who did it on trial.

And then, apparently, we have the ACLU wander in and pick the wrong side to defend (via No Sheeples Here).  They’ve decided that paying people to commit election fraud is constitutional:

PITTSBURGH — The community organizing and voter registration group Acorn filed a federal lawsuit here Wednesday claiming that a state statute that is being used to prosecute some of its former employees is unconstitutional.

[snip]

Acorn hopes the lawsuit will prevent criminal prosecution of its local leaders and office, which have been under investigation by Mr. Zappala’s office for eight months, said Witold Walczak, legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania, which is representing Acorn.

See also the American Spectator, which in another article notes the real estate links between the NYT and ACORN.  Just in case anyone was wondering why the sympathetic tone.

Continue reading ACLU: Election fraud is a civil right.

I’m surprised that Hamilton isn’t on the SCOTUS short list.

(H/T The Other McCain) Turns out that federal judge appointee David Hamilton – whose new ‘moderate’ tag is making Feddie over at Confirm Them wince – is also a former fundraiser for ACORN – a group that is, as the TribLIVE site put it, “now being scrutinized on myriad voter registration fraud allegations.”

Ah, vetting. When were they going to start doing that, anyway?

Crossposted to RedState.

The Great CWFP AIG Intimidation Run Round-Up.

[UPDATE]: Welcome, Hot Air, Instapundit, & Fausta readers. If you haven’t seen Jammie Wearing Fools’ post yet, go for it.

To review:

  • (Via Fausta, Hot Air) A group called “the Connecticut Working Families Party” planned to bus around people to visit AIG offices and their officials’ homes. This has alarmed New York Magazine sufficiently that they find themselves agreeing with Rush Limbaugh about how things are getting out of hand.
  • (Via Sweetness & Light, Instapundit)  It turns out that CWFP is yet another dummy group for ACORN.
  • ACORN was most recently in the news because of yet another call by a Congressman to investigate their role in what the Washington Times calls “in a pattern of crimes ranging from voter fraud to a mob-style ‘protection’ racket.”  What makes this news is that the Congressman in question is the Hon. John Conyers, Jr (D-MI).  His fellow-Democrats are being slightly more hampered in pushing back on this, mostly because they can’t use the standard reply of calling Conyers a racist.
  • (Via Heritage) Lastly, ACORN was second-to-last in the news for being made a “National Partner” in the 2010 Census.  The UK Telegraph succinctly summed this up as “Foxes guarding the chicken coop.”

So, to recap: the supposed ‘grassroots’ group of protesters making a big show of attempting to gin up faux-populist hysteria turns out to be a puppet of an election fraud group so blatant that it alarms partisan Democrats… and said group was one that this administration decided to have knock on your door next year and ask you all sorts of personal information.

Other than all of that, of course, there’s nothing of concern about this story.

Moe Lane

PS: Fortunately in this specific case, the event was/is a bust: they apparently pulled out the hard core and left the idiots to have their paradigm confused in an organic food store.

Crossposted to RedState.