Why no call for investigation into Acorn by higher ups?

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I may get heat for linking Fox news, or called out on other things but seriously

This is Disgusting, I am quite honestly in shock, that I have not herd High ups call for investigation into Acorn, but I honestly am thinking FULL FORCE investigation!!! NOW!!...this is horrible...Acorn...they get billions in tax dollars..and this stuff happens...not once, but twice, in two different places. And the Acorn people are acting like its business as usual. And I am also disgusted that CNN and MSNBC are not paying much attention to this, if they are at all, as today on the latest news on another Acorn video I can't find info on it on MSNBC or CNN.

Ill link this and it will speak for itself.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,549241,00.html

Let us not forget, this is not the first scandal involving ACORN, here is another one. http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/another_acorn_scandal_Evy8t8IEYzAoIy5e0xJsHO

I think it is time Acorn is investigated.


Obama says we should judge him by the people he surrounds himself with...well Obama being friends with Acorn, among other groups... and Czars like his ex Green Job Czar...among other groups....doesn't seem like good people to surround yourself with...I'm wondering what is going on? This entire system seems corrupt. Czars who have power but don't require Congressional approval? Wow...
 
That's cuz they were already dealt with?

(btw french civ fan, please quote the article in your post)

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/11/census-bureau-severs-ties-acorn/

The Census Director has sent a letter to the National Headquarters of ACORN notifying the group that the Census Bureau is severing all ties with the community organizing group for all work having to do with the 2010 census.

"Over the last several months, through ongoing communication with our regional offices, it is clear that ACORN's affiliation with the 2010 Census promotion has caused sufficient concern in the general public, has indeed become a distraction from our mission, and may even become a discouragement to public cooperation, negatively impacting 2010 Census efforts," read a letter from Census Director Robert M. Groves to the president of ACORN.

"Unfortunately, we no longer have confidence that our national partnership agreement is being effectively managed through your many local offices. For the reasons stated, we therefore have decided to terminate the partnership," the letter said.

The news follows the firing Friday of two more ACORN employees after new hidden-camera footage showed workers for the group advising a couple posing as a pimp and prostitute how to subvert the law.

Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) reacted to the news Friday night, applauding the decision by the Census Bureau.

"ACORN had no business working on the Census. ACORN’s partisan election efforts and its involvement in criminal conduct rightly disqualified it from working on the non-partisan mission of the Census to accurately and honestly count the U.S. population," Rep. Issa said.

ACORN had previously been tapped to help with low level data gathering for the 2010 census. A copy of the director's letter has been sent to Congress and relevant committees, as well as ACORN.

Two more ACORN workers were fired Friday after a second video surfaced, this time showing staff members in the community organizers' Washington office offering to help the undercover man and woman acquire illegal home loans that would help them set up a brothel.

Those firings came less than 24 hours after another pair of ACORN officials, from the group's Baltimore office, were canned for instructing the "pimp" and "prostitute" how to falsify tax forms and seek illegal benefits for 13 "very young" girls from El Salvador that pair said they wanted to import to work as child prostitutes.

Both of the encounters were videotaped on a hidden camera wielded by 25-year-old independent filmmaker James O'Keefe, posing as the pimp — tapes that have ignited calls for investigations of ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.

The group's leaders said Friday they were "appalled and angry" at what their staffers had done, but insisted the videos were part of a political "smear" campaign and not representative of the institution as a whole.

"But that does not excuse the behavior of the employees," wrote ACORN's president Alton Bennet and executive director Mike Shea. "We have fired them and are initiating an internal review of practices and reminding all staff of their obligation to uphold the highest legal and ethical standards."

O'Keefe, the filmmaker who exposed ACORN's employees, was accompanied by 20-year-old Hannah Giles, who posed as a prostitute. On a videotape of their visit to ACORN's Washington's office, they are seen receiving guidance to establish the woman as the sole proprietor of a bogus company to mask the nature of her business.

"She's not going to put on (the loan application) that she's doing prostitution ... she doesn't have to," a now-fired ACORN staffer says. "You don't have to sit back and tell people what you do."
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Bill3000 said:
That's cuz they were already dealt with?

(btw french civ fan, please quote the article in your post)

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/11/census-bureau-severs-ties-acorn/
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Sorry about not quoting the article

Yes I know the people where fired, but they acted like it was business as usual, separate people in separate cities and separate buildings...One the day after the first one was exposed...I want an investigation into Acorn. It doesn't ease my mind to have Acorn saying we will investigate it oueselfs. I want the Justice Department to have a full investigation into Acorn.
 
Don't make triple posts, please.
 
If I'm ever to do a right wing parody act... I have so much to learn :(
 
ladsud said:
It means liberals and minorities are always right and you can only be a racist if your white.
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I don't think this issue should be liberal or conservative or anything like that


For example:
I feel even if I held liberal views I would want Acorn investigated.
 
Miles Teg said:
They aren't affiliated with Government anymore. They did more good than harm while they were. That might not be so anymore, and thus they were cut loose.

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Even if the group had no ties whatsoever with the government I would feel it should be investigated due to what has occurred. They have received Billions of taxpayer dollars. This stuff is going on while our tax payer dollars are at use in Acorn.
 
Miles Teg said:
They aren't affiliated with Government anymore. They did more good than harm while they were. That might not be so anymore, and thus they were cut loose.

/thread
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This post pwns this thread.
 
I like the new angle on the right-winger parody thing. Instead of going the Colbert route, he's taking aim at the Fox News demographic itself. His faux moral outrage is more believable than our resident Fox News viewers.
 
Why am I getting so much hate for calling for an investigation into Acorn who has received BILLIONS of taxpayer dollars. I would at least like to see an argument for not investigating Acorn, who has a record of scandals. And is also using Billions of our taxpayer dollars.
 
So, if I trolled enough McDonald's I could probably find a couple of managers who'd hook me up some w/ some illegal drugs (or whatever illegal activity). Does that mean McDonald's is somehow guilty of some super duper evil crime?

I'm no fan of ACORN but you'd have to show how this is a problem w/ the culture of their organization and that it is somehow directed by the organization before you can make the legitimate argument that this is anything other than some bad individuals.
 
What the frak is ACORN?
 
.Shane. said:
So, if I trolled enough McDonald's I could probably find a couple of managers who'd hook me up some w/ some illegal drugs (or whatever illegal activity). Does that mean McDonald's is somehow guilty of some super duper evil crime?

I'm no fan of ACORN but you'd have to show how this is a problem w/ the culture of their organization and that it is somehow directed by the organization before you can make the legitimate argument that this is anything other than some bad individuals.
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Your right about the Mcdonalds example. However Acorn though has a history of scandals, involving its higher ups even, and the latest scandals the people in the videos go through it like its just business...So Idk. To me, it feels like something isn't right.
 
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