ACORN, one of The Baby Jesus's most important constituencies, deserves its own thread.

Attention C-Span Sucks Community!
ACORN has hired the former Attorney General of The Marx to investigate itself.

Scott Harshbarger hired to conduct ACORN inquiry
By Thomas Grillo
Tuesday, September 22, 2009 - Updated 4h ago


E-mail Print (54) Comments Text size Share Buzz up!Former Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger has been hired by ACORN to conduct an inquiry into the organization on the heels of a video that appears to show employees advising a couple posing as a prostitute and pimp to lie about the source of their income to get housing assistance.

Harshbarger, an attorney at Proskauer Rose LLP, is also the former president and chief executive of Common Cause, the good government organization.

“I have been asked by the leadership of ACORN to conduct an independent and comprehensive inquiry and review of the management of its service delivery to communities,” Harshbarger said in a statement. “The CEO and board have also asked me to make a full report, including recommendations for restoring ACORN’s full capacities to carry out its mission on behalf of low- and moderate-income families.”

In the meantime, ACORN has suspended accepting clients into its service programs for working-poor families including tax preparation, housing assistance programs, and benefits screening until the independent review is completed.

ACORN, a community organization whose mission is to end poverty, was founded in 1970 and has chapters in 75 cities including Boston. The group has come under fire since Fox News released videos secretly taken by undercover operatives posing as a prostitute and her companion seeking tax and housing advice at five ACORN offices.

http://www.bostonherald.com/business/gener...osition=comment

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This wohle ACORN story is just nuts.

I have noticed that Davis is particularly pissed off that ACORN has been exposed as a corrupt organization.

it has corrupt employees

just like where you work

just like the military, police, and congress

want perfection and purity?

good luck with that

Yeah, hopefully all the dumbass posts will come here.

Thanx.

Arizona has been exposed as a corrupt organization



Sixteen Arizona corrections employees have been fired, suspended or otherwise disciplined for their role in the death of an inmate left in an outdoor holding cell for four hours in triple-digit heat.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/09/22/...ectionContent.1

ACORN apologists unite in defense of The Baby Jesus's most important constituencies.

Pictures at eleven.

Thanks for posting another dumbass post.

Thanks. Instead of being in jail, Tommie Delay is on television making bucks wiggling his ass at you.

I'll post all ACORN posts where they rightfully belong; in The Baby Jesus and News Today thread.

Not at me. I'd just assume hear Hillary sing or see Barney Frank strip.

Different strokes for different folks.

Have at it. I know you can find The Shills bustin' out a rhyme on youtube.

Frank stripping? I'm not so sure, but I'm willin' to bet there's tape somewhere of that guy gettin' nasty.

ACORN Rehabilitation Plan

Get as many ACORNists on American Idol this season as possible.

ACORN!

When DeLay Goes To Prison They Can Show His Dancing Video To The Inmates

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/22/j...y_n_295533.html

...the wording in the legislation was so broad that the provision also applies to "any organization that has been charged with breaking federal or state election laws, lobbying disclosure laws, campaign finance laws or filing fraudulent paperwork with any federal or state agency. It also applies to any of the employees, contractors or other folks affiliated with a group charged with any of those things."

That covers a lot of territory. Turns out the bill was drafted so as to target groups which may have had run-ins similar to those chronicled in the recordings. But let's recall that several big contractors have had run-ins with the law where their employees were charged with fraud.

Here's the Federal Contractor Misconduct Database which lists the names of contractors who have histories of misconduct. It's a veritable Who's Who of Corporate America. As the Project On Government Oversight points out, "Lockheed Martin, which has 11 government contract fraud instances, or Northrop Grumman with 9 contract fraud instances including this $325 million False Claims Act settlement from earlier this year."

By contrast, Acorn is said to have received a total of $53 million in federal funds since 1994. Bad behavior doesn't excuse other bad behavior but there was no shortage of schadenfreude as the news spread.

If Acorn Goes Down, So Might The Military-Industrial Complex?
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/09/23/bl...ectionContent.6

Yeah, no sense in condemning all lawbreakers just to catch a few...

Those ACORN folks are just being helpful.

Maybe we should rethink their rewards...

maybe you should check where the real money goes

It's much more interesting to see you defend it...a totally corrupt entity...yet don your whitewashin' suit.

ACORN. Yawn.

Top 10 Contractors
Contractor Federal Contract $

(FY2007) Instances of Misconduct

(Since 1995) Misconduct $

(Since 1995)
1. Lockheed Martin $34234.9m 50 $ 577.2m
2. Boeing Company $24304.9m 31 $1561.4m
3. Northrop Grumman $18506.5m 27 $ 790.4m
4. General Dynamics $14687.7m 9 $ 63.2m
5. Raytheon Company $12233.2m 17 $ 475.8m
6. BAE Systems $10119.2m 3 $ 1.3m
7. L-3 Communications $6802.2m 5 $ 41.3m
8. United Technologies Corporation $5874.1m 13 $ 383.0m
9. SAIC $5230.9m 10 $ 14.5m
10. KBR $4872.5m 18 $ 103.0m

http://www.contractormisconduct.org/

States aim at ACORN, but little money at stake
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090923/ap_on_...XRlc2FpbWF0YQ--

As support for the community activist group ACORN withered in Congress in the wake of a hidden-camera scandal, Republican governors and other state officials moved swiftly to sever ties. It turns out the group often commanded little — if any — state business.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, seen as a possible 2012 GOP presidential candidate, directed his budget commissioner to stop all state funding to ACORN except where "the state is legally obligated to provide such funding." None of Minnesota's money was going to the group, and hadn't for more than a year.

An order from Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, also seen as a possible 2012 contender, resulted in blocking two possible ACORN social services contracts worth a combined $13,750.

ACORN's loss of federal contracts will cost it millions, but an Associated Press survey found 37 states with no known active ties to the group and just one current contract: $365,000 for foreclosure counseling in New York, now on hold pending a 30-day review ordered by Democratic Gov. David Paterson. Officials in five other states still were checking their databases . . .

When the funding measure first passed Congress, "I thought ACORN could survive. But I underestimated the effect ... and its consequences with our other sources of funding," Lewis said. "We want to comply with every investigation, but we cannot comply if we do not have staff and are closing our offices."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091113/ap_on_...s_acorn_lawsuit

If Congress doesn't pussy-out and reverse its decision, I'd say Congress' decision to eliminate taxpayers' monies to fund A.C.O.R.N. is one of the best decisions its ever made.

Acorn...

Is that one of them things ya get on yer toe that hurts like a sumbitch?

Nope...

It's one of them things that kills your soul ... it's the kids for sale that hurt.

congrats

you've outdone yourself

yep its turning into gangreen for hope and change

Only because of the bias of the drive-by media.

Hopey Changey is their favorite thing. They sold it for Obama, they should bask in the glory.

remember being sold "compassionate conservatism"?

I remember America buying Hope and change last november.

Now we have 10% unemployment and not much pocket change.

Most folks just hope they got some change...

Oh, I see. We now have 10% unemployment rate because of "Hopie Changie".

Sure we do.

bush left a flaming bag of poop on the white house porch

Hopie, Changie saved the economy from experiencing 8% unemployment.

The Baby Jesus and his tax cheat Timmie Timmie Geithner have implemented fiscal policies that have saved OR created hundreds of jobs.

Check out www.recovery.gov for details.

ACORN, The Baby Jesus' benefactor, has been defunded.

It could have been much worse. Oh, and it's not as if the gubment is capable of affecting the employment rate much in the short term.

I think the government can affect the employment situation negatively in the long run. Anything we buy on credit will cost more than it's worth at some point.

yeah like war

Not what we heard when Bush had it under 5%. Then it was all his fault. Now the same people would call Obama God hiimself if he got down to 8%.

you actually believe those numbers?

still?

I showed you otherwise

Take any number and add to it. Bush or Obama. Obama's will be higher. Up there with Carter.