ACORN, prostitution and tax evasion

[Caliga]

Saw some footage on CNN.  They didn't show her face but the fake ho looks pretty damn good from the back.

Girl on the left.

[Hansmeister]

Didn't Obama get his start with ACORN? Right?

No.  Different organization.

Yes, he worked for an organization that advised and trained ACORN volunteers, not for ACORN directly.

[derspiess]

Watched some more of the video.  Community organizing at its finest

[Razgovory]

Frankly, I don't get the brouhaha over this.

OMG you have low-ranking members of a mass-membership organization engaging in dubious and/or illegal activities and then being fired for it? Stop the presses! 

1) It's funny as shit.

2) The Obama connection.

It's odd how the Blackwater stuff wasn't very funny.

[Syt]

Awesome.

Didn't Obama get his start with ACORN? Right? When he was just a young Muslim immigrant looking for a job?

Obama has moved into realms of corruption that ACORN can't even imagine.

Yes, he's president of the U.S.

[Viking]

I was handing out campaign literature for the conservative party for the upcoming election. A drunk came up to me and offered to vote conservative for 70 NOK (about US$ 15). Naturally I refused to pay him. He probably wasn't going to vote anyway, he can't give me a receipt as proof. Not to mention the whole thing being both illegal and immoral.

[The Brain]

Not to mention the whole thing being both illegal and immoral.

Norway?

[Viking]

Not to mention the whole thing being both illegal and immoral.

Norway?

Yes.

[jimmy olsen]

Yeah, just add this to the many other investigations, corruption allegations and convictions going on around the country for ACORN. And this organization is getting the nod to help do the census? Is that still on? If so, what a joke. We'll have 500 million people by the time they get through!!   

Not anymore.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125271412822705239.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Census Bureau Cuts Its Ties With Acorn

September 12, 2009

By JAKE SHERMAN

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Census Bureau on Friday dropped Acorn as a partner for the 2010 Census after two separate hidden-camera videos captured four employees of the community organization giving tax advice on running a brothel to a man posing as an aspiring politician and a woman posing as his girlfriend and a prostitute.

The Census Bureau earlier this year signed up the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, one of the nation's largest community groups, as a national partner for the decennial census, a role that entails helping to publicize the importance of the count and encouraging people to participate.

In a letter to Acorn President Maude Hurd, Census Director Robert Groves said Acorn had become a distraction.

Acorn's deputy national director, Brian Kettenring, said the organization won't stop promoting the 2010 Census. "We will continue to do what we've said we'll do, which is encourage people in communities to participate fully in the census," he said.

News reports have identified the filmmaker as 25-year-old James O'Keefe, an activist for conservative issues. His identity couldn't be independently verified. In the videos, posted on YouTube, he posed as an aspiring politician and told the Acorn workers that he planned to use his girlfriend's prostitution income to fund future campaigns. One video was filmed at the community organization's Baltimore office, and another, a day later, in Washington, D.C.

The workers, who Acorn said were fired after it learned of the videos, instructed the couple to set up a company to prove they had enough income for a house that would serve as a brothel and home for teenage prostitutes. The couple purported to be seeking help to obtain a housing loan.

Acorn released a statement earlier Friday saying that the videos were made to "misinform the public about Acorn housing."

"All Acorn housing staff members undergo rigorous training and are expected to comply with high standards for ethical behavior and compliance with the law," said president of Acorn Housing Alton Bennett and Executive Director Mike Shea.

[KRonn]

Yeah Tim, I saw that on the news, that the Census bureau shut off ties with ACORN. We'll see if it stands - lots of pressure from the Dems and lefties for ACORN. Dem John Conyers was one who called for investigation, but backed off shortly after, stating pressure from the powers to be. And he's an influential Democrat Congressman who caved.

[DGuller]

It's starting to get annoying how ACORN became the new catch-all word for something that is leftist and evil, sort of like "neo-con" for the other side.

[Admiral Yi]

It's starting to get annoying how ACORN became the new catch-all word for something that is leftist and evil, sort of like "neo-con" for the other side.

As in "Obamacare is way too ACORN?"  Or "the ACORN wing of the Democratic party will destroy the US economy?"

[derspiess]

Yeah, that.  I've lost count how many times I've blasted the goddamned leftist ACORNheads here on the forum for all their ACORNy ways. 

[KRonn]

It's starting to get annoying how ACORN became the new catch-all word for something that is leftist and evil, sort of like "neo-con" for the other side.

It's starting to get annoying how Congress doesn't investigate this criminal, raqueteering enterprise, as some Congress members call who are trying to get it investigated. The org gets our tax money, has a lot of issues being brought over it all the time. Some of its own branch or mid level members have been asking questions about funding, money, etc, and getting mostly grief for their whistle blowing.

[CountDeMoney]

They'd be OK if they renamed themselves Swift ACORNS For Truth.