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Redux - can you get a copy of the report mentioned here?
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1) Acorn was sanctioned by the National Labor Relations Board in 2003 for illegally firing workers trying to organize a union. 2) Acorn unsuccessfully sued California to be exempt from the minimum wage 3) Wade Rathke, who founded Acorn in 1970, engaged in a cover-up of a million dollar embezzlement of Acorn funds by his brother Dale, then the group's chief financial officer. 4) Acorn's allies in Congress have long stopped every move to rein it in. 5) Rep. Steve King (R) has tried six times to get House floor votes restricting Acorn's access to federal funds but has been blocked by Speaker Nancy Pelosi's hand-picked Rules Committee members. Some Democrats have grumbled. 6) John Conyers urged a hearing be held on Acorn abuses in March, but "the powers that be" decided against it. Quote:
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Lastly, I am amazed at the lack of shock or surprise shown by all the ACORN workers. They didn't even flinch when the couple told them about the prostitution ring nor bringing in children to use as sex slaves... Quote:
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What silence? I don't watch tv news, so can't comment on them. But the major newspaper I read every day has covered it, and NPR this morning gave it more time than most of its other top stories. The federal government has cut their funding. What more do you want?
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I intentionally watched some cable news shows the last few nights. All MSNBC did was attack the GOP about some other nonsensical, irrelevant crap like who called who a name. FOX, as expected since they broke the story, never stopped talking about it and there wasn't even a mention on the other three.
I didn't get to see the "nightly news" so I don't know what was on there, if anything.
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Louisiana wants to see ACORN's books now, or so I heard. that should be interesting. I guess what bothers me is how you actually look at the books of an organization that has several hundred other "organizations" under it.
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Part 5 is San Diego, where they meet a Mexican lawyer who has contacts in Tijuana who will help get the El Salvadorean children into the US.
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OMG - This is too much. Thanks for that.
I love this "excuse" Quote:
Joking or scared? Which is it?
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As if it couldn't get any worse for Acorn this month....
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I went to Acorn the other day. I asked them how I could fund a covert insurgency in Central America. A guy named Ollie recommended that I sell arms to Iran and use the proceeds to fund the insurgents.
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