ACORN

[TheMercenary]

ACORN and Barney Frank are in bed together. Why you would want to defend a corupt criminal organization like ACORN is beyond me, but have at it. It puts you in the same light.

Please cite any source document that provides evidence of ACORN wrongdoing or misuse of federal grant funds.

Just one please!

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Redux

Lou Dobbs and Michelle Bachman....two purveyors of truth!

And of course, none of the sources in the above article are cited....typical.

The fact is that ACORN (never been convicted of a crime), like all non-profits that are eligible for federal funding, separate their advocacy work from their publicly-funded community development work by having both 501 c(3) and 501 c(4) organizations under the broader umbrella.

No federal audit (required of every grant recipient) of ACORN has ever resulted in a charge of misusing grant funds.

You might even be surprised, if you took the time to read other sources, of the work that ACORN has done to enhance the viability and livability of inner city communities.

However, the biggest myth of all is the one perpetrated by Bachmann that ACORN will receive federal grants to help administer the 2010 census.

There is NO such grant program....never has been.

The Dept of Commerce/Census Dept has a program of census "partners"...more than 1,000 organizations that receive no money, to both help promote the census and the part-time job opportunities that will be available.

Let me repeat....ACORN has not and will not receive federal funds to conduct the census. The government does not contract out the census to private organizations.

But I dont expect the tactic of portraying ACORN as the boogeyman will cease. It plays right to the heart of the wing nuts.

Most people will trust a senior editor at Capital Research Center before a nameless faceless poster on a public forum, but hey that is just me. There are citations in the article. The article discusses what is possible and allowable under the law as being supported by Frank and the Demoncrats in Congress.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Redux

Please cite any source document that provides evidence of ACORN wrongdoing or misuse of federal grant funds.

Just one please!

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op...-48030697.html

Please provide the links to the sources....they are conveniently omitted from the article.

I dont know I even try to engage you.

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

It puts you in the same light.

And you are in the same light as that nutty Michelle Bachmann and the even nuttier Lou Dobbs who is currently promoting the "birther" movement questioning Obama's citizenship.

[TheMercenary]

previous federal grants to Acorn have been highly controversial. In 1994 the Acorn Housing Corporation was given a $1.1 million grant by AmeriCorps, the federal volunteer agency. An inspector-general found the nonprofit had improperly used AmeriCorps recruits for political purposes; the grant was terminated.

http://www.opinionjournal.com/diary/?id=110009214

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Redux

I dont know I even try to engage you.



And you are in the same light as that nutty Michelle Bachmann and the even nuttier Lou Dobbs who is currently promoting the "birther" movement questioning Obama's citizenship.

I never questioned Obama's citizenship. It would be a bit late even if it were a cogent arguement, which it is not.

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

http://www.opinionjournal.com/diary/?id=110009214

Where is the IG report?

You post partisan editorials that NEVER include links to the source so that their charges can be verified.

How convenient.

[TheMercenary]

The bottom line is that ACORN is under investigation in more than a dozen states for its activities to register people to vote. They may also violated federal law for its association with the supposedly nonpartisan Project Vote. If there was nothing there no one would be looking at them so closely. It pains me to see the Demoncrats continue to support such a criminal enterprise.

[TheMercenary]

Questions about ACORN. US House of Rep.

http://republicans.oversight.house.g...spx?NewsID=616

Full Report PDF.

http://republicans.oversight.house.g...CORNReport.pdf

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

The bottom line is that ACORN is under investigation in more than a dozen states for its activities to register people to vote. They may also violated federal law for its association with the supposedly nonpartisan Project Vote. If there was nothing there no one would be looking at them so closely. It pains me to see the Demoncrats continue to support such a criminal enterprise.

It pains me that wingnuts are so afraid of ACORN's influence in the minority communities as a result of their posivitve contributions to those communities that such wing nuts will go to any length to discredit the organization because they know it carries over to the voting booth and they lose.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Redux

It pains me that wingnuts are so afraid of ACORN's influence in the minority communities as a result of their posivitve contributions to those communities that such wing nuts will go to any length to discredit the organization because they know it carries over to the voting booth and they lose.

Any minor positive influence is over shadowed by criminal activities. That would be like me trying to convince a left-wing nuts who support ACORN that Haliburton made significant positive contributions to deployed troops.

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Questions about ACORN. US House of Rep.

http://republicans.oversight.house.g...spx?NewsID=616

Full Report PDF.

http://republicans.oversight.house.g...CORNReport.pdf

Repeat....ACORN has never been convicted of a crime or found to have misused federal grant funds.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Redux

Repeat....ACORN has never been convicted of a crime or found to have misused federal grant funds.

Repeat... they are still being investigated in many states. There are enough red flags they should be cut off.