He said they made a choice between restitution and retribution more like the old bait and switch game to me.
Wade refers to Obama's book not dreams of thy father but rather tales of my father, slip of the tongue or just more correct. His mention was to comment on if a bother does not take care of his own then what kind of man is he, I would say in this case a criminal.

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Acorn Corruption….the gift that keeps giving.

Thank you Don for the great info….never let up untill the Rathkes are in jail and ACORN is closed down in all states.

So you read a lot of big and important words telling you that an amended LM-2 form was submitted to the IRS and the IRS accepted it. Ummmmmm………..yeah? Is this a smoking gun how? An amended LM-2 resubmitted to the IRS and the IRS accepting it is proof of what…9/11 was an inside job? Aliens crashed in Roswell? The amended and accepted LM-2 was the 2nd gunman on the grassy knoll? Does the amended and accepted LM-2 prove where Jimmy Hoffa is? Amelia Earhart? Carmen Sandiego?

No…it proves some people are gifted at spinning sugar from shit with America's lowest common denominator who lack the ability to think for themselves (or think at all). Now THAT is the gift that keeps on giving.

<Oh look, I filled out my W-2! I must have bombed the Pentagon> lol

How is it that the original filing was off by nearly 20%, not exactly a small oversight? And what prompted the new filing to suddenly correct it? How exactly does one either lose, or find, that much money? It's not loose change in the couch cushions is it? Thing is, these people hav an awful lot of discrepancies. Like I tell my kids…once you get a rep for being trouble, well, people start looking at you whenever there's trouble. With SEIU and ACORN and the Rathke boys, well they are either the most misunderstood people, or they're trouble that we call crooks.

Embezzlement is taxable income. Now he has tax issues also. Repayment of embezzlement is not a deductible expense.
I can't say the statute of limitations covers this. I also do not believe Wade is out.

Because Skeeter, there have been a ton of investigations into ACORN that have produced squat. How much tax-payer money is being wasted on this ACORN witch hunt and for what, you MAY get a conviction in Nevada that if convicted, carries with it a maximum $5000 fine. That's FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS!!! "In light of recent events" is embezzlement from 10 years ago and the individual responsible was fired and the money was paid back. $5 million dollars? Even the whistle blower who provided testimony to the AG never said the $5 million was used to cover the embezzlement. Now she is whistle blowing on the AG for taking her testimony and spinning it for political purposes.

You've got forced resignations of White House personnel like Harriet Myers and Sarah Miller, forced resignation of AG Alberto Gonzales, forced testimony from Miller, Gonzales, Rove, Myers and numerous others in an ongoing investigation, the illegal termination of 11 US Attorneys, 3 different Defund ACORN Acts that have all been stalled in committees intentionally by Republicans and this doesn't include the money wasted on state levels all for this McCarthyism against ACORN that has produced absolute squat! Not one single prosecution and/or conviction against ACORN itself with the exception of Nevada that may net a fine of FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS!!! YIPPEE!!!

I'll give you an example on the waste of tax payer money against ACORN on a state level…Minnesota. Bachmann, Pawlenty and other state politicians are grand standing and launching "manufactured" investigations into ACORN's use of state funds. ACORN hasn't received state funds from Minnesota since 2001. JIndal and Vitter in Louisiana are also launching "manufactured" investigation into ACORN's use of state funds and ACORN hasn't received any state funding since 2002. How much tax payer money is being wasted on these "manufactured" accusations and subsequent investigations? All against an organization that has received an average of $3.5 million per year for a total of $53 million in the past 15 years. $53 million!!! Halliburton was found guilty and fined for stealing $55 million of tax payer money in 2007 alone.

When I first starting waking up after a 30 year DEM sleep, I "researched" my way to Wade Rathke's website. This was before anyone knew too much about him in the mainstream. I saw, with my own eyes, a link to the Cloward-Piven strategy on his website. I tried my best to alert anyone who would listen. The election came and went, and no one listened. That was my first awareness of the ineptness of the media. Thank you for doing what the Anti-American media refuses to do Andrew.

Not trying to hijack, but who saw Michelle Bachman on Beck this afternoon? Apparently the de-funding of ACORN has an expiration date of 10/31/2009? What the he–? I knew they had a back door….

Wade Rathke is one pompous SOB. Every time I hear that quote about how "a man who cannot protect his own brother is not worth a damn" I think of Obama, and his brother living in a shack on $12 a month. That's the REALITY behind these pompous claims from these arogant community organizers–organizing the community right into their own checking accounts.

not only that but the CRA specifically suggests that banks who do not make stupid loans can make donations to ACORN instead. This is nothing short of government mandated EXTORTION

Its rather funny that you're bitching about tax payer money going to investigate an organization which has obviously committed, and facilitated, crimes. That is actually a Constitutional use of tax payer money. Voter registration fraud is a crime. period. end of story. Crimes, no matter how little they may be, should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Crimes such as, oh, i don't know, embezzlement?

And i didn't say the embezzlement is the "recent event" to come to light. That has been known for a long time.. and it would probably make sense to go over the books to make sure it was only that pesky little $1-$5 million that was stolen. And, yeah, we should really just take the word of the people who stole the money on how much was stolen… yeah, that makes sense. Anyway, the recent events I'm talking about are the video tapes which show systemic problems with ACORN employees facilitating the prostitution of illegal immigrant CHILDREN, as well as using tax money to set up a brothel. But that's silly, lets not waste time on that. That alone is enough to cut ACORN off. ACORN obviously has some serious problems, and are not deserving of tax payer money. Are you seriously going to sit at your computer and say that an organization which promotes such behavior is deserving of tax dollars? Is this the type of behavior you promote in your neighborhood? Such acts are indefensible.

You spend quite a bit of your comment bashing republicans, as if i'm here to defend them. I say prosecute ALL corrupt people and companies, i don't give a rats ass what party they're from. You come here to bash people who don't want tax payer money going to ACORN because they are corrupt, yet start right in with Halliburton… like i give a crap about Halliburton so much that i'm going to defend them. I don't turn a blind eye to corruption and misuse of tax payer money, simply because they are aligned with a political party. Additionally, why are you still talking about halliburton if they have already been convicted for stealing tax payer money? I mean, i could see the relevance if you were going to say that they shouldn't ever get tax payer money again… in which case i would be right there with you….so get that chip off your shoulder, big fella. btw- i'm a libertarian, not a republican or a democrat, so those little games will get you nowhere with me.

Heard today that the gov has only cut off ACORN funding until OCT 31 and that Barney is giving them even more that before. We need to get on this!

Yes. Nobody is paying any attention anymore.

It is funny how many cockroaches come out of the woodwork to defend ACORN and the Rathkys. Both Dale and Wade are corrupt, Acorn is corrupt and so is SEUI, anyone who defends them is either blindfolded or corrupt too. Keep digging everyone…we will crack the acorn and send the Rathkys to jail where they belong.

"….the illegal termination of 11 US Attorneys…" Perfectly legal since they were Presidential appointees and served at the pleasure of the President. Anyway, it's 82 less than Clinton fired when he took office.

So you can't refute the information presented. I guess you then accept its accuracy.

This argument above is illogical.
1) "A ton of investigations…have produced squat." Actually, the investigations are not concluded, so how do you know what they have produced? You don't. You assume that they have because that's what you want to prove. That's called circular logic.
2) "Forced" resignations for people who serve "at the pleasure of" the president is again, illogical.
3) Money wasted? So you know, for certain, that nothing was found, and furthermore, that nothing will be found? My, my. You do imagine yourself to be something other than a mortal, don't you?
4) "Not one…" See point #1.
5) Ok, let's assume that MN hasn't received state funds since 2001. That does not mean that no crimes were committed. That's a non-sequitur.
6) ACORN is up to its necks in corrupting the voting process. Maybe that has something to do with the desire to root it out. Voting is extremely important to a free society. Somehow you missed that. I guess it's easy to do for someone who doesn't cherish freedom much.

I'm still waiting to hear from John Conyers and the "powers that be" on a congeressional investigation. No wait, that won't ever be. You can't let a crook investigate a crook, now can you. Silly me, my bad!
VOTE THEM ALL OUT, ALL OF THEM. IF THAT FAILS, USE OTHER MEANS TO RID DC OF THE VERMIN.

1 Which voter registration fraud investigations against the organization of ACORN are still on-going besides Nevada?
2 Forced resignation because they were caught up in a scandal involving the firing of 11 US Attorneys because some of those US Attorneys refused to launch bogus prosecutions against ACORN when their investigations found they did nothing illegal. Forced subpoenaed testimony is something you find a "pleasure" as well?
3 And what was found? A $5 bonus program in Nevada? A potential $5000 fine if found guilty? Anything else? Of all the criminal investigations into ACORN launched in the past year, how many are still pending and how many convictions against the organization of ACORN were there?
4 Whaaa?????
5 In MN, what crimes were committed? A bogus claim that Franken had the election stolen for him by ACORN even though the Republicans in that state were responsible for the re-count and certification? More manufactured outrage from candidates who are in danger of losing their seat in 2010.
6 By all means, give at least one example of where ACORN is corrupting the voting process besides the obvious letting black people vote which is the truth for why the right is pissed at them.

By comments are receiving the ban-hammer here so you may or may not get this. That must prove something right there.

OK…not getting the ban-hammer. My 'puter is acting stupid.

and again in MN, launching an investigation into the use of state funds. Why waste tax payer money investigating an organization's use of state money when they're not receiving state money? Not much to investigate there now is there.

I'm well aware of the Constitution. There is no RIGHT to tax payer money. NONE. Show me where?

Any organization that has shown, systemically, that it has employees who are willing to help a pimp and underage illegal immigrant CHILDREN use tax money to set up a brothel is NOT WORTHY of tax payer dollars. End of story.

Ohh, poor ACORN, its always just a few rogue employees. What a load of crap. You don't need to be convicted of a crime to lose tax money. But, since you're so gosh darn smart, point to the provision in the Constitution where it says you must be convicted of a crime to lose tax payer funding?

have fun if you want to respond, but i'm done wasting time on you. ACORN is not worth defending, everyone knows they're rotten. If you want to defend them, have fun. Your BS will only fall on deaf ears.

And you've got some nerve to say what i would or would not get pissed about. You have no idea. So, until you're in my head and know what i think, shut your pie hole, with regard to how i feel.

If it's the FOUNDERS BROTHER, it still doesn't change the fact the ACORN was the one who had the money stolen from them. The victim is guilty because the guilty is the victim? I got mugged in NYC once, I didn't get any jail time for it. By your logic, should I have?

Did you even read anything I wrote or are you just making things up as you go here?

I never said the Constitution gives anybody the right to tax money…EVER! I said "presumed innocent until proven guilty" in referencing where any guilty convictions were ever levied against ACORN. You are one of thousands who can't provide evidence of a guilty conviction against the organization ACORN so don't feel bad. There are none.

I never said crime conviction, tax payer money, crime or anything of those nature in reference to each other. I don't believe an organization should have tax payer money being wasted on it for mis-use of state money they NEVER RECEIVED!! If I was to call the police to investigate the $100 I gave you yesterday, you'd be OK with that? Would you be OK with the police investigating and interrogating you on the tax payer's dime for that $100 I gave you yesterday Oh wait…I never gave you $100 yesterday huh? What a freakin' waste of time.

I didn't see anything systemically done on behalf of ACORN. I saw (according to the videos posted on this website) 4 employees who behaved extremely irresponsible and got fired for it. PROBLEM SOLVED!!! The San Bernadino ACORN worker punk'd Giles and O'Keefe with her murdered husband claim and according to the transcript posted on THIS website, told Giles and O'Keefe a few times "you know ACORN won't help you do this". The San Diego ACORN worker reported Giles and O'Keefe to the police and the National City Police Department has confirmed this and started an investigation with their Human Traffic Task Force. The Philadelphia ACORN office got them to leave and locked them out and called the police on them (conveniently no video on that one) and the Los Angeles ACORN office offered to take Giles to a woman's shelter to get here away from her abusive pimp (conveniently no video on that one either). We also know there are other ACORN offices that Giles and O'Keefe visited but for some reason, those videos aren't seeing the light of day…hmmmm….I wonder why??? Probably because they would show the ACORN has NOT shown, systemically, that it has employees who are willing to help a pimp and underage illegal immigrant CHILDREN use tax money to set up a brothel is NOT WORTHY of tax payer dollars. End of story. ******RELEASE ALL THE TAPES!!!!*****

You all know they're rotten! Know it beyond a shadow of a doubt!!! But not one of you can prove it!

And the Constitution does not guarantee anybody tax funds but it does specifically prohibit an organization being cut off from tax dollars for crimes or in ACORN's case, being accused of crimes without criminal or civil proceedings. The Constitution clearly states that a "Bill Of Attainder" is strictly prohibited. A Bill Of Attainder is enforcing legislation that targets specifically one person or organization. If an organization is accused of corruption, than the legislation must apply to ALL organizations accused of corruption equally under the law. This is why the 3 "Defund ACORN Acts" are being stalled in committees by the Republicans because tax payer money would be cut off from all organizations here: http://www.contractormisconduct.org/ because it would be the law.

Dude, if ACORN is corrupt then yes, by all means they should be investigated and necessary convictions should be levied but I'm not supporting a witch hunt against an organization because people are pissed that they are effective at registering low to mid income minorities and po' black folk don't vote Republican. That s##t ain't never gonna happen.

How many people believe that ACORN submitted fraudulent voter registration forms because they were told they did and they were told the truth…they did! How many people who were told that ACORN did this vote reg fraud never bothered to check the state election board laws to see what the legal requirements were when handling potentially bogus reg cards? Nope…if a right-wing blogger says it's true than it must be true after all, Fox News broadcast as gospel that the San Bernadino ACORN worker murdered her husband. Who needs journalistic integrity and fact-checking when you have 2 hacks like Giles and O'Keefe who are going to take the blame for it anyways.

I apologize Skeeter. I never insinuated or meant to imply you're a racist. After all, these aren't your talking points.

[...] of dollars in union dues to ACORN front groups. Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com has discovered that in 2000, SEIU 880’s accounting was handled by Dale Rather, who embezzled at least $1 million [...]