All Posts Tagged With: "ACORN"
Dispatches From the GOP Braintrust
Michael Zak, a blogger at Big Government (one of Andrew Breitbart’s sites) compares ACORN to the KKK:
ACORN does indeed operate like the Mafia, but it more closely resembles another organization that began as an affiliate of the Democratic Party, the Ku Klux Klan. Aside from intimidating some bank executives, ACORN does not engage in [...]
ACORN Scores A Victory
ACORN has scored a court victory, successfully arguing that Congress’s defunding bill was a bill of attainder:
A judge has put an injunction on Congress’s ban on ACORN funding.
U.S. District Judge Nina Gershon today ruled to put a preliminary injunction on the Congressional resolution that barred ACORN or its affiliates from receiving federal funds, according to [...]
AARP To Receive The “ACORN” Treatment
Boy, is there anyone left Republicans aren’t declaring war on?
Pence and Reichert suggested that support was the result of corruption inside the AARP and not based on the interests of its membership.
“What you’ve got here is a backroom deal,” Pence said of reform measures expected to be introduced by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid this [...]
ACORN Filmmaker O’Keefe’s Other Videos
The Village Voice did some investigation of supposedly independent filmmaker James O’Keefe (of ACORN pimp and prostitute fame) and found that contrary to what O’Keefe has said that he is a wingnut welfare recipient.
James O’Keefe, the activist filmmaker who achieved sudden fame for a series of undercover videos recording ACORN workers, has repeatedly said that [...]
Guest Post: Kowalko’s Open Letter to Delaware’s Delegation
Dear Senators Carper, Kauffman and Congressman Castle,
As a Delaware State legislator whose focus and efforts are dedicated to the best interests of all Delawareans just as your efforts have always been focused, I am writing you to ask you to reconsider the consequences of your vote to cut-off “housing and community grant funding” to ACORN.
24Sep2009 | liberalgeek | 13 comments | Continued
How ACORN Helped Defund the Entire Military Industrial Complex
Well, maybe not all — but there’s some nervousness out there. After yesterday’s post on why reducing spending and government is so tough — today I find that Congress has just enacted a way to really cut back on expenditures that I whole heartedly endorse:
22Sep2009 | cassandra_m | 30 comments | Continued
Steve Newton Comes to the Aid of ACORN Delaware
Steve has a post up about a sting on the Delaware office of ACORN. A blogger/reporter from Kansas called the Delaware office to get some assistance from them to avoid foreclosure.
21Sep2009 | liberalgeek | 3 comments | Continued
Overreacting to ACORN
I am a little disturbed by the latest round of ACORN bashing in Washington this week. After a pair of conservative actors staged their own sting operation to see if ACORN employees would help them operate an illegal business, there have been a slew of actions taken. ACORN has lost business that they had with [...]
18Sep2009 | liberalgeek | 75 comments | Continued
Call the Waaahmbulance for Glenn Beck
What a bunch of whiners. Glenn Beck and Tommywonk look-alike Griff Jenkins talk about the failed ACORN ambush.
Someone needs to get Rep. Maxine Waters some better talking points, though.
20Jun2009 | Unstable Isotope | 11 comments | ContinuedSocial Media
