Moving on to Brooklyn - ACORN is at it again


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Moving on to Brooklyn - ACORN is at it again - swampy - 09-14-2009 http://biggovernment.breitbart.com/ Re: Moving on to Brooklyn - ACORN is at it again - the_poochies - 09-14-2009 I've worked in politics for 15 years, yet I never heard of ACORN until last fall. Are they some sort of shadow group like the Bilderbergs or the Stonecutters? Re: Moving on to Brooklyn - ACORN is at it again - cbelt3 - 09-14-2009 Eh, that's OLD news. We had the same hullabaloo here in Cleveland (one street person told a reporter that Acorn had paid him with food, cigarettes, and cash to fill out a fistful of voter registration cards with different (false) addresses and names. Of course the forms were rejected when submitted. Any community organizing activity, from national organizations to the high school kids wandering around with a petition to get "Moa Fooball Duude !" gets undisciplined and unscrupulous practitioners. I can remember walking around neighborhoods where I grew up trying to get petitions on a proposal to stop the construction of a dam on a local river (and we won, BTW !). I was 13 years old, long-haired, and very, very convinced that our cause was just. Did I falsify entries ? No, but I WAS tempted after a long hot August day pounding the pavement and getting doors slammed in my face. What drives people like our dear friend swampy completely bonkers is that ACORN's specific style is to use the system against itself. These folk are trained to find and take advantage of the loopholes in the 'system'. It's, IMHO, a reasonable supposition that the fact that the sitting President of this nation was once one of 'them' almost guarantees that those loopholes will stay, and may expand. Unfortunately. ACORN operatives are sometimes also trained to go outside the laws when they feel it is 'appropriate'. And that's a bad thing, so I applaud efforts to rein them in. I just hope the President, as an ACORN alumnus, doesn't pardon the lot of 'em. poochies- ACORN is very active in poor urban neighborhoods. So, to a certain extent, is the YIPPIE party of the 60's. Hell, even the Black Panthers still exist. Re: Moving on to Brooklyn - ACORN is at it again - lafinfil - 09-14-2009 "What drives people like our dear friend swampy ...." You're sounding very Congressional there cbelt - you running in 2010 ? : -) Re: Moving on to Brooklyn - ACORN is at it again - NeverMind - 09-14-2009 If Swampy only knew what other non-profits did, she would faint. But, it ain't as bad as what insurance companies do to people, everyday, every minute. Re: Moving on to Brooklyn - ACORN is at it again - cbelt3 - 09-14-2009 lafinfil wrote: You're sounding very Congressional there cbelt - you running in 2010 ? : -) Dear god no ! I have: 1- Principles 2- Parents who were married when I was born 3- A significant political career defect. I'm a BAD liar. I do, however, appreciate the role that swampy and others of her ilk have in this forum. If not for them, the forum would be BORING. Re: Moving on to Brooklyn - ACORN is at it again - kap - 09-14-2009 NeverMind wrote: If Swampy only knew what other non-profits did, she would faint. But, it ain't as bad as what insurance companies do to people, everyday, every minute. For instance, community clinics around here only take payments in the forms of cash or personal checks. Half the time these payments aren't even recorded! Re: Moving on to Brooklyn - ACORN is at it again - swampy - 09-14-2009 Last March John Conyers was calling for an investigation of ACORN. By the end of June he called off the investigation. House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. has backed off his plan to investigate wrongdoing by the liberal activist group ACORN, saying "powers that be" put the kibosh on the idea. Mr. Conyers, Michigan Democrat, earlier bucked his party leaders by calling for hearings on accusations the Association of Community Organization for Reform Now (ACORN) has committed crimes ranging from voter fraud to a mob-style "protection" racket. "The powers that be decided against it," Mr. Conyers told The Washington Times. The chairman declined to elaborate, shrugging off questions about who told him how to run his committee and give the Democrat-allied group a pass. Pittsburgh lawyer Heather Heidelbaugh, whose testimony about ACORN at a March 19 hearing on voting issues prompted Mr. Conyers to call for a probe, said she was perplexed by Mr. Conyers' explanation for his change of heart. "If the chair of the Judiciary Committee cannot hold a hearing if he want to	who are the powers that he is beholden to?" she said. "Is it the leadership, is it the White House, is it contributors? Who is 'the power?'" I think Ms. Heidelbaugh has some very good questions. Forgot to add the link... http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/25/conyers-abandons-plan-probe-acorn/ Re: Moving on to Brooklyn - ACORN is at it again - Acer - 09-14-2009 ACORN is the Halliburton of community organizers. Re: Moving on to Brooklyn - ACORN is at it again - freeradical - 09-14-2009 Well I think it's funny. :-)

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Moving on to Brooklyn - ACORN is at it again - swampy - 09-14-2009

http://biggovernment.breitbart.com/

Re: Moving on to Brooklyn - ACORN is at it again - the_poochies - 09-14-2009

I've worked in politics for 15 years, yet I never heard of ACORN until last fall. Are they some sort of shadow group like the Bilderbergs or the Stonecutters?

Re: Moving on to Brooklyn - ACORN is at it again - cbelt3 - 09-14-2009

Eh, that's OLD news. We had the same hullabaloo here in Cleveland (one street person told a reporter that Acorn had paid him with food, cigarettes, and cash to fill out a fistful of voter registration cards with different (false) addresses and names. Of course the forms were rejected when submitted.

Any community organizing activity, from national organizations to the high school kids wandering around with a petition to get "Moa Fooball Duude !" gets undisciplined and unscrupulous practitioners. I can remember walking around neighborhoods where I grew up trying to get petitions on a proposal to stop the construction of a dam on a local river (and we won, BTW !). I was 13 years old, long-haired, and very, very convinced that our cause was just. Did I falsify entries ? No, but I WAS tempted after a long hot August day pounding the pavement and getting doors slammed in my face.

What drives people like our dear friend swampy completely bonkers is that ACORN's specific style is to use the system against itself. These folk are trained to find and take advantage of the loopholes in the 'system'. It's, IMHO, a reasonable supposition that the fact that the sitting President of this nation was once one of 'them' almost guarantees that those loopholes will stay, and may expand.

Unfortunately. ACORN operatives are sometimes also trained to go outside the laws when they feel it is 'appropriate'. And that's a bad thing, so I applaud efforts to rein them in. I just hope the President, as an ACORN alumnus, doesn't pardon the lot of 'em.

poochies- ACORN is very active in poor urban neighborhoods. So, to a certain extent, is the YIPPIE party of the 60's. Hell, even the Black Panthers still exist.

Re: Moving on to Brooklyn - ACORN is at it again - lafinfil - 09-14-2009

"What drives people like our dear friend swampy ...."

You're sounding very Congressional there cbelt - you running in 2010 ?

: -)

Re: Moving on to Brooklyn - ACORN is at it again - NeverMind - 09-14-2009

If Swampy only knew what other non-profits did, she would faint. But, it ain't as bad as what insurance companies do to people, everyday, every minute.

Re: Moving on to Brooklyn - ACORN is at it again - cbelt3 - 09-14-2009

lafinfil wrote:
You're sounding very Congressional there cbelt - you running in 2010 ?
: -)

Dear god no !

I have:
1- Principles
2- Parents who were married when I was born
3- A significant political career defect. I'm a BAD liar.

Rolleyes

I do, however, appreciate the role that swampy and others of her ilk have in this forum. If not for them, the forum would be BORING.

Re: Moving on to Brooklyn - ACORN is at it again - kap - 09-14-2009

NeverMind wrote:
If Swampy only knew what other non-profits did, she would faint. But, it ain't as bad as what insurance companies do to people, everyday, every minute.

For instance, community clinics around here only take payments in the forms of cash or personal checks. Half the time these payments aren't even recorded!

Re: Moving on to Brooklyn - ACORN is at it again - swampy - 09-14-2009

Last March John Conyers was calling for an investigation of ACORN. By the end of June he called off the investigation.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. has backed off his plan to investigate wrongdoing by the liberal activist group ACORN, saying "powers that be" put the kibosh on the idea.

Mr. Conyers, Michigan Democrat, earlier bucked his party leaders by calling for hearings on accusations the Association of Community Organization for Reform Now (ACORN) has committed crimes ranging from voter fraud to a mob-style "protection" racket.

"The powers that be decided against it," Mr. Conyers told The Washington Times.

The chairman declined to elaborate, shrugging off questions about who told him how to run his committee and give the Democrat-allied group a pass.

Pittsburgh lawyer Heather Heidelbaugh, whose testimony about ACORN at a March 19 hearing on voting issues prompted Mr. Conyers to call for a probe, said she was perplexed by Mr. Conyers' explanation for his change of heart.

"If the chair of the Judiciary Committee cannot hold a hearing if he want to

who are the powers that he is beholden to?" she said. "Is it the leadership, is it the White House, is it contributors? Who is 'the power?'"
I think Ms. Heidelbaugh has some very good questions.

Forgot to add the link...

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/25/conyers-abandons-plan-probe-acorn/

Re: Moving on to Brooklyn - ACORN is at it again - Acer - 09-14-2009

ACORN is the Halliburton of community organizers.

Re: Moving on to Brooklyn - ACORN is at it again - freeradical - 09-14-2009

Well I think it's funny. :-)