Coming from someone, that by all rights should have been banned from this forum years ago for lying, plagiarism, accusing people of treason and being an all around dick, I’ll take that as a badge of honor. have a nice day basso!
IRS says it's not a seed, just a nut: WASHINGTON (AP) – The IRS says it is severing ties with ACORN, the community activist group involved in a scandal after employees were caught on video giving advice to a couple posing as a prostitute and pimp. The Internal Revenue Service said Wednesday it would no longer include ACORN in its volunteer tax assistance program. The program offered free tax advice to about 3 million low- and moderate-income tax filers this spring. The IRS said ACORN, which is short for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, provided help on about 25,000 returns.
Even Barney Frank gets it: [rquoter]Frank turns against ACORN In a stunning turnaround, Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) is distancing himself from ACORN, blasting their response to a string of recent scandals -- and contradicting a staffer who said the congressman would have voted against a GOP-sponsored bill banning the group from federal funding. In a rambling, contrite, at times bombastic statement to reporters, Frank apologized for "a number of factors, one of which in particular is my own fault, have contributed to my position on ACORN being unclear." His "biggest error," he wrote was signing off on a recent letter -- jointly written with Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.) -- requesting that the Congressional Research Service audit the group. Frank said he "had not thoroughly read" the letter "which does not accurately represent my own position in all aspects." Yet later in the statement, Frank seems to imply he still supports the idea of a CRS study, saying, "I cosigned the letter because I do think it is important that we get accurate and complete information on ACORN funding." An email requesting clarification from his office weren't immediately returned. An email sent to ACORN wasn't immediately returned. Last week, Frank's office reported that he skipped the vote to attend a White House ceremony bestowing the Congressional Medal of Honor on a fallen Massachusetts soldier. When asked for his position on the bill, Frank's spokesman said the Financial Services chairman would have voted against the "Defund ACORN Act,” which passed 345-75. "[T]hrough a misunderstanding with a member of my staff, it was incorrectly reported that I said I would have voted against the motion to defund ACORN," he said in the statement. "In fact, I would have voted for the motion at that time. I am very disappointed in the actions that were taken by members of ACORN, and I do not believe that ACORN’s response has been adequate for an organization that has received public funding." That said, Frank seemed to cast his lot with Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), who has argued the measure may be unconstitutional by violating Article 1's prohibition on so-called "bills of attainder." And he blasted away at Republican critics, who have claimed the embattled group would be eligible for billions in funding under various Obama administration programs. "The wild claims that ACORN is the potential beneficiary of billions of dollars in programs voted by Congress is similarly a sad example of excessive partisanship," he wrote. But Frank reserves his harshest criticism for ACORN, a group he's long defended. "I have previously communicated to ACORN my dissatisfaction with their lax supervision of employees and volunteers. The fact that people who were improperly registered to vote did not actually cast ballots in no way excuses the organization’s failure to exercise better control in this way. Further, the motivation of those who went to ACORN offices and initiated the discussions involving prostitution are wholly irrelevant to the fact that ACORN’s employees’ actions were outrageous and further indication of an organization that is at best poorly run in many regards. The defense against sting operations is not to ban them, but to behave properly so that they do not reveal as they did in this case clear evidence of gross impropriety."[/rquoter]
Link to list of companies and groups that have committed violations listed in the anti-acorn bill: http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=t-VRn4ui8brMB_l5dzhtrnw&output=html
Pull federal funding from any group or company that has had employees who broke the law. I would think you would agree with me on this. I mean locking an employee in a storage container after she was gang raped by other employees is almost as bad as giving tax advice to people pretending to run a child sex ring, wouldn't you agree? You aren't defending all these other companies that have committed crimes, are you? Blackwater used child prostitutes in Iraq according to two of their own employees' testimony in court. You certainly aren't defending that are you? I know actually partaking in child prostitution isn't as bad as giving advice to a fake pimp, but it's pretty darn close, you betcha.
