Reid blocks ACORN probe
ACORN — the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now — is stinking up Washington.
And this is far more significant than if a suspiciously large number of operatives for a purely “private” outfit had been found systematically bending and breaking the law, because ACORN receives and spends taxpayer money — lots of it — and had carried the imprimatur of official partnerships with the IRS, the Census Bureau … the kind of “cred” that in the political world comes only from “who you know.”
Yes, ACORN has friends in high places — friends who are still stonewalling attempts to trace where all that tax money went … perhaps because they know who still has cookie crumbs all over their hands.
It didn’t start with those undercover videos made by a couple of independent filmmakers posing as a prostitute and her pimp, visiting various ACORN offices around the country and getting helpful advice on how to hide their income and “qualify” for a tax-subsidized mortgage to set up a house of ill repute, declaring three of their dozen (albeit imaginary) underage illegal immigrant prostitutes as “dependents.”
That was just a final shoe dropping loudly enough that the problem could no longer be ignored.
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Joe Says:
The joke is on ACORN. They are trying to sue the two journalists but by so doing they have laid themselves open to investigation. The pair’s lawyers will now have access to every document in the ACORN library and can can obtain testimony from any ACORN employee under oath.
Oh what tangled webs we weave…..
Posted on September 26th, 2009 at 11:01 am
Jack Says:
I think you nailed it, Joe. There is world of heartache coming in this lawsuit and the judge should be screaming “I want to hear this tomorrow. I can’t wait.”
Posted on September 26th, 2009 at 4:34 pm