ACORN: Housing Assistance For Prostitutes

[DaShi]

http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html

[The Mad Monk]

http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d10648r.pdf

[DaShi]

This was pretty obvious from the moment DD first started hyping it.

[Dinner]

Yep. It was classic GOP. ACORN helps black people vote, black people don't vote GOP, there for ACORN must be destroyed by hook or by crook.

[giblets]

I'm guessing the revelation that this was just a smear campaign will have no impact whatsoever and the perpetrators will have gotten what they want without suffering any consequences.

[Dinner]

It was a classic smear campaign with no basis in reality.

[Asher]

Ruh oh

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/06/14/congress.acorn/?hpt=Sbin

Preliminary report clears ACORN on funds

A preliminary probe of now-disbanded community organizing group ACORN has found no sign the group or related organizations mishandled the $40 million in federal money they received in recent years, congressional investigators reported Monday.

A review of grants by nine federal agencies, mostly for housing issues, found problems with only one award -- and in that case, the separately administered ACORN Housing Corporation quickly provided a missing piece of documentation, the Government Accountability Office reported.

Nearly two dozen members of Congress requested an investigation after a series of complaints against ACORN and its affilliates, including an accounting scandal, several cases of voter registration fraud and the release of edited videotapes made by conservative activists that appeared to implicate ACORN workers in facilitating prostitution.

Republicans in Congress have blasted the organization as corrupt and led an effort to strip the group of federal funding in 2009, and the negative publicity forced it to disband earlier this year.

ACORN has said it is the victim of a smear campaign by conservatives, and a federal judge ruled in March that the law barring the group's receipt of federal funds was unconstitutional.

[Ecofarm]

Not really as de facto libertarian does equal stupid. "Dur! We don't need no government regulating banks! What? You mean the banks crashed the economy and defrauded taxpayers out of trillions? Who would have thought?!"

We gave the government a couple of banks (/mortgage institutions) and they went to sht, almost causing the economy itself to crash. Who would have thought?!

[Theben]

... I can't vote anyway seeing as I'm 17

I know.

[Drake Tungsten]

You mean the banks crashed the economy and defrauded taxpayers out of trillions?

You think the bailouts were fraudulent? What are you, a ****ing tea bagger? And weren't you in favor of bailing out the auto industry?

[Berzerker]

Not really as de facto libertarian does equal stupid. "Dur! We don't need no government regulating banks! What? You mean the banks crashed the economy and defrauded taxpayers out of trillions? Who would have thought?!"

Libertarians aint in charge nor would they have bailed out failing banks with our taxes, and the crash was induced by the real estate bubble created by Dems and Repubs. You know them, right?

[Kuciwalker]

A reasonable point.

[Fake Boris]

Mandatory voting actually makes the democratic institution less effective because it eliminates fractional votes.

Most countries where voting is mandatory allow "white votes" and have proportional representation anyway.

[Dinner]

That's quite a disability.

Not really as de facto libertarian does equal stupid. "Dur! We don't need no government regulating banks! What? You mean the banks crashed the economy and defrauded taxpayers out of trillions? Who would have thought?!"

[Dinner]

I'm going to guess that it's because he was a good president?

And holy ****, are people still defending ACORN? Here's my question. If people are too stupid to realize they can vote, do we really want them voting?

There are a lot of people who know they could vote but don't think their vote matters so community organizing tries to convince them their vote counts and does matter. It's as simple as that.