Time to start keeping track of “New York Communities for Change”. via ACORN ‘dissolved as a national structure’ – Ben Smith – POLITICO.com. Share on Facebook
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Time to start keeping track of “New York Communities for Change”. via ACORN ‘dissolved as a national structure’ – Ben Smith – POLITICO.com. Share on Facebook
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Brian Suozzo voted with an absentee ballot in the Working Families Party primary on Sept. 15 because, as his application stated, he was “at home recovering from medical procedure.” Jessica Boomhower’s application said she would be attending a “work conference in Boston.” Michael Ward couldn’t vote in person because he was “taking care of...
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YouTube – Rep. Bachmann Exposes Federal ACORN Refunding. Share on Facebook
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Acorn’s allies in Congress have long stopped every move to rein it in. Rep. Steve King R., Iowa, for example, has tried six times to get House floor votes restricting Acorn’s access to federal funds but has been blocked by Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s hand-picked Rules Committee members. Some Democrats have grumbled. Michigan’s John Conyers,...
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John Fund writing on WSJ.com:Only one of the five television networks that interviewed President Obama for their Sunday shows bothered to ask him about Acorn, the left-wing community organizing group whose federal funding was cut off last week by an overwhelming vote in Congress. “Frankly, it’s not something I’ve followed closely,” Mr. Obama claimed....
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… I don’t see how ACORN survives at this point; the IRS is the latest to pile on, severing ties with ACORN, and slapping a tax lien for unpaid payroll taxes on top of that blow. The lawsuit seems like an even worse attempt–less of a Hail-Mary Pass than an own-goal. At best, it...
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Word on the street is that the Left, the “equal pay, pro-women” left is desperately searching for lewd photos of Hannah Giles. Savor that bit of irony for a moment. The Left is seeking to employ sexism as a way to take down yet another young woman. A rationale after Ike Turner’s own heart!...
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… The seven senators voting “no” were Democratic Sens. Dick Durbin and Roland Burris of Illinois, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Robert Casey of Pennsylvania, Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, Patrick Leahy of Vermont and Independent Bernie Sanders of Vermont. In July, an 88-page staff report by Republicans on the Committee on Oversight and...
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The Senate voted to cut off ACORN Housing funds following the release of three videotapes that show employees of the activist group advising a “pimp” and “prostitute” on how to break the law. The amendment, offered by Nebraska Republican Sen. Mike Johanns, passed in a vote of 83 to7 and prohibits the Association of...
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The scandal surrounding the left-wing activist organization ACORN has spread to New York, with employees at its Brooklyn office caught on video helping supposed ladies of the night get loans for their dream houses of ill repute. Rather than reminding the women that prostitution is dangerous and illegal and advising them to change their...
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