ACORN: Housing Assistance For Prostitutes

[Asher]

Yes, it's very interesting.

How many billions of dollars are we giving ACORN?

Yes, how many?

Their budget is $100M last I checked, which would indicate you are giving them precisely zero billions.

In the "wasteful government spending" picture, this is a joke. How much did that Iraq war cost?

You're being played, Mad Monk. The GOP wants to destroy ACORN and they've **** out a massive amount of FUD about them, and they're upping the ante and you're buying it hook, line, and sinker.

[The Mad Monk]

Yes, it's very interesting.

How many billions of dollars are we giving ACORN?

[Asher]

It's interesting that it seems the only news network that is really pimping this non-story is Fox News.
It's interesting that the only people who think it's a big deal are the stereotypical Fox News viewers, the ones who hold up the "moran" type signs.

What really bothers me is the intent behind the videos. It's painfully obvious why so many Republicans hate ACORN, it really doesn't need to be said. They're trying to kill it because it does increase the low-income vote, which hurts them. Real proponents of democracy at work there.

[rah]

Yeah, once is bad, but twice starts to show a pattern.
Well done.
But I would still like to know how many times they tried.
Out of 100, 2 wouldn't seem so bad, but I doubt they tried that many times.

[DanS]

This is a hit job. Normally, I'm not a fan of hit jobs, but you got to hand it to these folks -- they're driving the knife pretty deeply.

[The Mad Monk]

They filmed this July 24, so they had lots of opportunities. If I were them and had more than a couple "hits", I would dangle just one out there and see what they did with it.

*AHEM*

One day after two ACORN officials in Baltimore were fired for offering to help a man and woman posing as a pimp and prostitute to engage in child prostitution and a series of tax crimes, another secretly shot videotape has surfaced that shows the same couple getting similar advice from ACORN officers in Washington.

The newly released videotape, shot on July 25, shows ACORN staffers explaining to the pair how they can hide the woman's professed work — prostitution — and get a loan that will help them establish a brothel.

James O'Keefe, a 25-year-old independent filmmaker, posed as the pimp while visiting the ACORN office, accompanied by 20-year-old Hannah Giles, who posed as the prostitute. On a videotape provided to FOXNews.com, 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," the ACORN staffer says. "You don't have to sit back and tell people what you do."

The ACORN staffer is heard suggesting that O'Keefe can purchase a house, and as the landlord, if he is ever questioned by authorities, he can say he was unaware of the illegal business going on inside.

"[W]hen the police ask you, (tell them) you don't know where (the money is) coming from," the staffer said. "We are looking out for you."

The ACORN employee later suggests that O'Keefe, who said he had a budding political career, not linger at the house in case people "put the dots together" and leave him "smeared and tarnished" by his association with his prostitute girlfriend. She should keep her business "low key," the employee said.

An ACORN spokesman told FOX News the group would need to look at the full tape and transcript before commenting.

• STORY: ACORN Officials Videotaped Telling 'Pimp,' 'Prostitute' How to Lie to IRS

One day before the Washington video was shot, O'Keefe and Giles sought help from ACORN workers in Baltimore, who told the pair how to falsify tax forms and seek illegal benefits for 13 "very young" girls from El Salvador that they said they said they wanted to import as prostitutes.

As he did in the taping in Baltimore, O'Keefe told the Washington officers that he had plans to bring as many as 10 women from El Salvador to work as prostitutes in Giles' "business."

"There's like 10 girls," O'Keefe says. "There's ten El Salvodoreans."

The ACORN staffer replies, "I understand what you are saying."

ACORN — the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now — calls itself a network of families "working together for social justice and stronger communities," according to its Web site.

The organization has been accused by conservatives and Republicans of committing fraud in voter registration drives around the country, and reaction to the videotape came swiftly after its release on Thursday.

"Taxpayers should be outraged that their money has gone to an organization that, in addition to facing charges of voter fraud and tax violations, is willing to facilitate prostitution," said Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa.

"As this video confirms, ACORN continues to operate as a criminal enterprise."

The first videotape, made in the Baltimore offices of ACORN, was made public Thursday on the political blog BigGovernment.com. That night, after portions of the video were aired throughout the day on FOX News, the group fired the two women who assisted O'Keefe and Giles in Baltimore.

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

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[The Mad Monk]

Are you joking? Seriously?

What happened to you?

I woke up.

[Dinner]

Are you joking? Seriously?

What happened to you?

To much Fox News. It's effecting his brain.

[Elok]

it's a legitimate profession. At least in my state.

They'd probably frown on the baker's dozen of illegal immigrant minors turning tricks. At least, outside of Reno they would. I think. Wouldn't they?

[Asher]

Just a thought...those of you who saw the video or heard the audio? There are a lot of people speaking in the background, a lot of kids too. This didn't happen behind closed doors where nobody could hear, this was out where people could hear. They just didn't care.

Probably because this was routine.

Are you joking? Seriously?

What happened to you?

[The Mad Monk]

Just a thought...those of you who saw the video or heard the audio? There are a lot of people speaking in the background, a lot of kids too. This didn't happen behind closed doors where nobody could hear, this was out where people could hear. They just didn't care.

Probably because this was routine.

[The Mad Monk]

They filmed this July 24, so they had lots of opportunities. If I were them and had more than a couple "hits", I would dangle just one out there and see what they did with it.

[rah]

I would really love to know how many times they tried this before they got this hit. And more importantly if they tried again afterwards. Info like that would highlight it if it's a hatchet job.

[Dis]

****ing ACORN

I'm sure che or someone has a defense for this...

it's a legitimate profession. At least in my state.

[Asher]

I still don't get why you keep up your irrelevant and confusing threadjack about whether legal ethics "apply."

The more posts this threadjack has the more right I was about how distracting your comments about lawyers were.