ACORN gave 'significantly less' in return says OGR committee

The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has issued a second report about ACORN. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) is ranking GOP member of the committee.The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has released a new report about ACORN and Service Employees International Union.

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), ranking Republican member of the committee, said, “Perceptions that ACORN is a charitable organization are simply wrong and part of ACORN’s efforts to deceive the American people.”

Issa added. “ACORN is a political machine that uses a complex corporate web, connections to the SEIU, and powerful political allies to break laws in pursuit of a partisan agenda.  This report shines more disinfecting sunlight on ACORN’s secretive methods of abusing taxpayer funds and charitable donations.” The report is titled, ‘Follow the Money: ACORN, SEIU and their Political Allies.’

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Mystery of Landrieu’s phones—what does it mean?

Updated on Wednesday, January 27, 2010 at 8:55AM by Kay B. Day, Editor

Updated on Thursday, January 28, 2010 at 10:31AM by Kay B. Day, Editor

Commentary by Kay B. Day

Politics can read stranger than a novel, and that appears to be the case in an incident involving Sen. Mary Landrieu’s (D-La.) telephone system. Four young men accused of interfering with the senator’s system in her New Orleans office on Tuesday are described by media as “conservative activists.”

It’s a mystery.

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ACORN could still get taxpayer funds; whistleblower explains

by Chris Carter

Anita Moncrief is fighting for her first amendment rights, having spoken out about alleged misdeeds at ACORN. Like other whistleblowers, Anita has been targeted despite widespread acknowledgment there are complex problems in ACORN's complicated structure.Although Congress suspended ACORN's federal funding and the Census Bureau and IRS  severed ties with ACORN, the scandalized community organizing group could once again receive taxpayer dollars – and soon. In addition, the federal government is allegedly still sending money to ACORN through back channels.

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Why was ACORN 8 ignored until conservative activists went undercover?

James O'Keefe and his co-investigator Hannah Giles (not pictured) rendered the public and the community an act of service by exposing the corruption within ACORN. ACORN 8 tried earlier to bring attention to the organization's problems; the former board members were largely ignored.With ACORN exposed by young conservative activists James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles, the community organization has been top of the news cycle for weeks. But a group of former ACORN board members and regular members tried to get something done before the sizzling undercover videos shot by O’Keefe were made public. Insiders who wanted to clean up the organization are known as ACORN 8.

If you’ve never heard of ACORN 8, you’re not alone.

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Hey, James O’Keefe! Did WaPo cite you correctly on ACORN?

by Kay B. Day

ACORN is top of the fold these days because two aspiring reporters did the job journalists used to do. James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles went undercover to film ACORN employees. The rest is pretty much history, and pomp media is just now catching up. Had it not been for Fox News and Andrew Breitbart the story probably would’ve had seriously weaker legs. But a passage in a story published at The Washington Post, and that same passage memed by an Associated Press story, raise questions about how media is phrasing the storyline.

Read with me the passage from The Washington Post (Sept. 18):
‘Though O'Keefe described himself as a progressive radical, not a conservative, he said he targeted ACORN for the same reasons that the political right does: its massive voter registration drives that turn out poor African Americans and Latinos against Republicans…"Politicians are getting elected single-handedly due to this organization," he said. "No one was holding this organization accountable. No one in the media is putting pressure on them. We wanted to do a stunt and see what we could find."’

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Justice Dept. lapse on Black Panthers not the only problem

The US flag waves above attendees at the inauguration of President Barack Obama.[Photo from TV screen by Kay B. Day]The US Justice Dept.’s refusal to do anything about a couple of men who flashed nightsticks and allegedly intimidated voters at a Philadelphia poll during the November Presidential Election is just one example of misguided policies. Those policies didn’t start with President Barack Obama, and it is doubtful they will end with him because the Democratic Party loves identity politics like a donkey loves grass.

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