Rep. Steve King Calls for Congressional Investigation of ACORN
by PubliusFrom the desk of Congressman Steve King (R-IA):
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congressman Steve King today reacted to a tape released by an independent filmmaker showing Baltimore-based ACORN workers assisting a man and a woman claiming to be involved in a prostitution ring. According to FOXNEWS, “Officials with the controversial community organizing group ACORN were secretly videotaped offering to assist two individuals posing as a pimp and a prostitute, encouraging them to lie to the Internal Revenue Service and providing guidance on how to claim underage girls from South America as dependents.”
“Taxpayers should be outraged that their money has gone to an organization that, in addition to facing charges of voter fraud and tax violations, is willing to facilitate prostitution,” King said. “As this video confirms, ACORN continues to operate as a criminal enterprise. Nancy Pelosi, John Conyers, Barney Frank and other Democrats on Capitol Hill continue to protect and fund ACORN while blocking Congressional hearings on ACORN’s operations and finances. Shielding ACORN from oversight ensures that this partisan criminal enterprise will continue its shady practices while collecting taxpayer funds.”
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Good luck congressman! Doubtful that anything will come of it, congressional hearings are places scandals goes to die. Washington is out of control, and it will take “We the People,” to set things right, in 2010.
About time! Someone may want to warn Conyers that this thing is going to blow wide open soon.
Where is ABC, NBC and CBS why are they absent from this criminal activity????
2010 is coming real soon. However, I fear that the president and his anti-business treasonous friends will prevail since the foxes are all in total control of the hen-house. There's only one way to get rid of the foxes! (An Analogy)
I wrote an e mail to the white house and demanded , as a tax payer, an investigation into ACORN. I suggest that everyone do the same. Be pro active and dont just expect the next person to.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/CONTACT/
Until Pelosi, Conyers, Franks, and company are in the minority again we will be stuck with the most open and ethical Congress ever along with all their friends. They can't even find Rangel guilty of anything and they found all his hidden and unreported assets.
the msm is complicit in the corruption that is acorn, and by association the administration
Excellent point Gerard, it's one thing to post on a blog. It's a good thing and it helps build a movement, but direct contact with representatives is a little harder to ignore.
My advice would be to contact your individual representatives and express due outrage that a government funded organization feels it is okay to promote sex trafficking of minors.
Ive checked all their sites (ABC, CBS, NBC,) all I hear is crickets………..
It's a good thing Congressman King watches FOX news. That's the only other place he would have seen it. I heard a short clip this morning of Glenn Beck saying other news sources wouldn't cover this, and I thought it was the silliest thing I'd ever heard him say. It's a scandal and was certainly going to be all over every news site on the Internet. I was wrong. As of 4 p.m. EDT, I can't find anything about this on CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, or NBC. I simply cannot believe the media cover-ups that are going on in this country. It is horrifying beyond belief.
2010, my friends…2010…
In addition to the silence from the 'mainstream' media ( how long will they continue to hold THAT moniker?) the video of top congress critters entering a conference to honor ACORN a few months ago also went unnoticed and ignored by all of the media BUT FOX News.
Obama is in the WH now thanks to ACORN and their activities, many questionable and now under investigation..WHO IS ACORN? WHO ARE the various 'organizations' tentacled around and out of ACORN?
When we hear the likes of John McCain throwing Joe Wilson and Sarah Palin under the bus we wonder just how far and deep the corruption lies in Washington. Peter King has his job cut out for him. As Glenn Beck says, 'Pray for us and for our Country '
Unbelievable. Do you people really think every other TV station wouldn't cover this because there's a big media cover-up scandal? Seriously, don't you understand that FOXNEWS is an extreme conservative Republican-based media? That's where the scandal lies, people. Wake up. Talk about being brainwashed. Don't you understand that the mainstream media makes its money because they're paid by Big Money Republicans? They have been silenced about the truths of the worlds due to fear of the Nazi government we had for the past 8 years under the Bush (Rove) administration. This country went to shit because of the same bullshit the right-wing always pulls, eaten up with their money-hungry, greedy ideologies. FOXNEWS has continuously aided Republican viewpoints and twists and lies to destroy our democracy and oppress and marginalize the real people of this world, wanting nothing but money themselves. Give me a break. Try reading independent news sites, like Huffington Post or NPR.org. Please just deviate from your flashy FOXNEWS for 5 minutes and your sweet-talking Republican media and read something worth-while.
Get the FBI on this – we got us a R.I.C.O
JBP – And that's why you don't give your name when you criticize Fox News. My experience show, based on the response of the liberal news media, that you all work in the dark. You'll complain when your liberties disappear but you'll never admit that you voted for that fool in the White House. Come out of the dark and see the light instead of defending that marxist that calls himself "president".
“Taxpayers should be outraged that their money has gone to an organization that, in addition to facing charges of voter fraud and tax violations, is willing to facilitate prostitution,” King said.
Just a small correction Rep. King…make that possible illegal immigrant CHILD prostitution also.
NPR is an independent news site, eh genius? it must be hard to form a cogent thought with the sound of your voice ringing inside that bucket. Tell me again how a tax payer funded entity like ACORN doesn't deserve scrutiny from major journalists for instructing someone on how to evade taxes while prostituting minors from another country. Tell me too how someone as enlightened as you can't see the difference between commentary and news.
I'm watching everybody, if it's being buried on all the networks but one there are two questions, are the filmmakers lying and Fox got tricked, or ACORN got burned and only Fox has the guts to call them on it. Too much namecalling and not enough actual thougt. ON BOTH SIDES. It's values and the Constitution that will save America from the fringes. Unfortunately most of what you said represents name calling from the Progressive end of the spectrum.
JBP – your funny. So much in accurate information in your post.
Thank you for exposing this story about ACORN engaging in yet another criminal activity. If it weren't for people like you, Glenn Beck, a handful of others, and FOX network, American citizens would have no means to knowing the truth.
If the federal government controlled the Sahara Desert, in five years it would run out of sand ~ Milton Friedman (July 31, 1912 – November 16, 2006) Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
Glenn Beck is reporting on the MSM crickets right now.
I think we should demand that all people involved be put out of government no matter how high it goes. We all know we have a president that will promote this type of behavier so he must go also.
The argument doesn't hold water, and you didn't accurately repeat what I said. I said the incident is a scandal, and there was a time that all news sources thrived on covering scandals of any sort. Fox is not "extreme," unless you consider reporting itself extreme. Is it less liberal than other media? Absolutely. They also have a much higher viewer base than other media sources. I don't watch them because of that, and I am not "brainwashed." Fox reports on things that are never addressed on other channels. I am a real person, and I'm neither an oppressor or a victim. I read news from numerous sources, but those do not include the Huffington Post or NPR. I do not consider them credible sources, but I have no quarrel with those who do, and I don't call them names either.
typical
We ned to stop all type of behavier starting from the president that can not tell the truth to ACORN which he worked for.let us ban together and end this .
You've got your talking points down pat, JBP, now you need to get your facts straight. The MSM is paid by GE & Soros not the Republicans. The Patriot Act did not silence them…they were bashing Bush all over the place on the MSM. That is how YOU were brainwashed into believing that he was a stupid hick. It is also how you were brainwashed into believing that HuffPo and NPR are independent news sources. ROFLMAO
When you give the keys to the asylum to the inmates, what do you expect?
Chances are if that pimp wanted to he could get those girls from El Salvador in on work visa's with the help of ACORN and the ideological liberals in office. They'll be marching in the streets waving signs that prostitution is a "right" and crying for tax exemption and so on.
Just a reminder this is the group of people that Obama want to have control of the census and will be knocking on your door to gather the most personal information that was ever gathered for the census. SCARED YET!!! I know I don't want to give them anything, not even my name.
Just a reminder this is the group of people that Obama wants to have control of the census and will be knocking on your door to gather the most personal information that was ever gathered for the census. ARE YOU SCARED YET!!! I know I don't want to give them anything, not even my name.
Rep. King, Thank you for actually doing what we elected you to do. Looking out for the people who elected you. Good.
Now countdown to Rep.King being maligned as a racist by the Obama Pravda (MSM) machine.
Their silence amounts to aiding and abetting.
JBP's being paid by ACORN to write this drivel.
Gerard – you better watch your back now. The thugocracy won't take kindly to you hating on their pals from ACORN. You may be on the next edition of Uncle Janet's list of subversives.
I'm not from his state, but I did send him an e-mail thanking him for taking this up. Someone has to. The scandals around this organization are mind-boggling, and the fact that we're funding them is even moreso.
Do you expect Atty Gen Holder's Department of Injustice to seriously investigate this? Why you be hating on ACORN and all? They jus' doin' they thug thizzle.
You're actually claiming that the Huffington Post is anything but a sounding board for radical leftists? Funny.
try again: This is racist. It is about time someone started caling a Spade a Spade. The Emperor has no clothes…
That's not illegal immigration that's child sex slavery.
ACORN is nothing but a criminal enterprise, run by ghetto animals…………
Agree!!!
Well I will get my hands dirty for you. JBP, you are an ignorant jackass. Nevermind that the people involved were aiding and abedding the prostitution of what they thought were UNDERAGE TEENAGE GIRLS, and the only crap that comes out of your mouth is that Bush is what is wrong with this country. You are an idiot and frankly you are what is wrong with this country.
BTW I'm sure your limited cognitive acumen leaves you with the inability to think for yourself so I will set it up for you. You know that Immelt is the CEO of GE which owns NBC and is in Obama's administration right?….right?
I agree MC, it is child sex slavery…I also said "possible illegal immigration.
I AM SICK AND TIRED OF OUR TAX DOLLARS BEING EXTORTED BY THESE TYPE OF PEOPLE. WE NEED TO "DRAIN THE SWAMP" IN OUR GOVERNMENT AND EXPOSE THESE PEOPLE FOR WHAT THEY ARE. THIS GOES FOR REPUBLICANS TOO!
Dianne: ABC, NBC and CBS are very busy at the moment. They are working on a story about a man named Van Jones, something about being an uppity Green Czar……………
I'm in the AFL-CIO and cna't believe the left has brainwashed you like it has. Progressivism is nationalistic Socialism, Bush was compliant using TARP and medicare partB with TED K to start the ball rolling faster for progressives. Can't you be a non-man and stop blaiming Bush and stand up for what you really are. The mexican fence was going to keep you inside the USA for tracking purposes and your nasa run GPS that guides your car through suburbia lets those in control continue. You don't need freedom guarenteed in the constitution so what are you afraid of losing under Bush's governence over phone tapping. Your above notes reek of diatribe and dribble of old views spouted on GOVERNMENT NPR.org and you don't have a self thought in the whole paragraph. What do you really think
Writing, emailing or calling capital hill will help the reality of investigation/punishment possible. "We the people" are making a difference. Americans derailed immigration "reform", we are making a huge impact on nixing obamacare and if we let the chumps on the hill know we are paying attention, it will make a difference with this issue as well.
Let those in Washington know that we are watching, they must actually serve, not just run a good campaign.
PLEASE GO TO MY TRUTH REVEALED WEBSITE:http://web.me.com/rthorne2/Site_2/TRUTH_REVEALED_...
How do we as Americans every put a stop to the corruption? Our government is out of step with the people..They don't live in our world.
Where do we start? What can we do? I'm sick to my stomach over this sickness in our government……how much of this does the president know about? What kind of America will we leave to our kids? Does anybody have any answers?
We should e-mail this to some of our congressmen and see what happens
Way to go, Acorn. Congress, President Obama– This should cost the organization its seat at the table, and the $8.5 billion entitlement it got itself written into the stimulus program. Shut it down now or be seen as complicit!!!
ACORN: Equal Opportunity Pimping, or as they say in the 'hood: Pimpin' aint easy………..
Congressman Steve King I wish you goog luck, do you think that the bobama lackey and fellow thieves the likes of pelosi or reid are going to allow for an investigation that has funnel MILLIONS of dollars into electing a crack head as president? NOT while the control everything, there are still too many lamebrains that can't see the light.
Can I please ask… How many more scandals, shady dealings, or criminal activities must this group (and let's not forget their hundreds of affiliates) be caught in before the country realizes what is going on? Is there no course of action that can be taken besides pleading with our good-for-nothing "representatives"?
we are so screwed when even our news is white washed! ABC CBS NBC CNN THE ONLY ONE IS FOX THANK YOU FOX
PS – How long do you think it will be before the HuffPo and Daily Kos crowd get wind of this site and start lurking? Anyone want to start a pool?
Here's my battle cry:
2010: Time to clean House (and Senate)!
This country is so full of corruption,hypocrites. I am sick of all this crap. The organization ACORN needs to be shut down . Also the White House. Enough already! Americans how dumb can you get and still go on breatheing?
Very disturbing indeed!
I just finished writing an email to the WH to ask for the president to speak out about this. Foolish perhaps but at least they know that there is 1 more American that is getting fed up with the freak show going on there and with OUR money!
We can no longer be silent (as someone above me said already) for we shall end up as many in Europe did long ago.
I ofteen use the analogy fo the seatbelt law to make my point of the "slippery slope" of the governments hand in my pocket . Start out slow, protect the small children, the bigger children, the passanger, the driver, and yes now you can get pulled over and ticketed becaue you aren't wearing a seat belt. this isn't about seat belts, it's about us loosing control of our lives to 435 IDIOTS!
Thank you for reading this, let us join together to save America from oppressors WITH our OWN money! we MUST unite lest we fall one by one. Wish I could have made it to the 9-12 project in Washington this weekend.
Patrick Mine
Absolutely! As a US citizen and hard working taxpayer I DEMAND answers!
We need more than a tea party to shut down and put all involved in this Acorn Organization!!!
EVERYONE MUST HOUND THE PEOPLE IN DC "FBI" "IRS" AND BRING THIS TO A HEAD, THERE MUST BE JUSTICE FOR AMERICANS NOW! WE WANT PEOPLE INVOLVED TO BE PUT IN JAIL !!!!!
I MEAN ALL OF THEM NO MATTER WHO THEY ARE OR WHAT POSITION THEY HOLD IN GOVERNMENT.
Thank God for you Andrew! And Glen and the New American Patriots that are the only people keeping the rest of us informed! We pray for your continued safety and that you all continue to do what you do.
Seems this cesspool just grows and grows…How can this president continue this madness that is his administration?? It just amazes me how so many people continue to choose to be blinded to the facts. The facts that are RIGHT IN FRONT OF THEM! Just amazing…
What's next? I shudder to think. Thank you Glenn Beck and Fox for taking a stand for what is right…(regardless of political persuassion)…if we didn't have access to this network, we would be totally clueless….
Scary place and time to be in…….
I called my local FBI field office and spoke with an investigator. I said, "I just viewed some very disturbing video on an organization named ACORN where employees of that organization are advising someone on committing Tax Fraud, and how to bring illegal, underaged girls in from another country to participate in prostitution. I am very disturbed and hope that the FBI will consider investigating this organization to the fullest extent of the law."
ACORN, the SEIU, and The Apollo Alliance need to be vetted under RICO….oh that's right, we have radicals heading Congress, the Senate, the FBI, CIA, and Dept. of Justice, too! Our America is under attack from within. Facism is on the march. We the people must expose these criminals and treasonous traitors. Hurray for Breitbart, FNC, Mark Levin for leading with the truth and courage. "liberty once lost cannot be easiy regained". Wake up America and fight!
No one will ever "drain the swamp" in Washington. Even if we vote out the current criminals, America will vote in a new set of criminals. Its the same every election cycle: people are fed up with the current officials and want change so they vote in new people who then screw us in their own way. I see a lot of people saying "wait until 2010". Oh yeah, then what? We're going to vote in Republicans again? Republicans are no longer conservatives. If you want politicians who actually value the Constitution, good luck.
I am trying to keep a positive attitude but can't help wondering if ACORN won't see to it that their buddies win in 2010. They obviously don't mind a little voter fraud here and there.
MatthewJL: they are already here…………
This just on Fox by Bret Baier
Acorn fired the 2 women who were on the video. Beck predicted this this afternoon:
He said Acorn was going to throw those 2 women out like garbage. I hope they blow the whistle on Acorn, but they wo'nt. They'll probably blame their terminations on "Racism"
And what did your local FBI Field Office tell you?
There is no simple answer for any of our country's problems and there are a mountain of them and they are coming at us from every direction. Somehow we have to transfer the power back to the people and I don't know where we find honest politicians. As Beck says, we have lost our morale compass! No longer is cash king, but cash and POWER have become God. People will do anything for it. We cannot give up the fight and I think like any addict, we must truly hit the bottom before we can be cured. I just don't know how much arther down the bottom can be!
We The People should demand from obama that all records and documents relating to this corrupt organization be seized immediately and that independent auditors not connected in any way with this government audit these records and turn over all information to We THe People. Then all that information turned over to an unbiased court for indictments and the people involved are to be tried and if convicted be sentenced to the maximun terms allowable. Also the politicians who are enabling them and covering up for them should also be prosecuted. This all has to be done before one dime more is given to Acorn. Also they need to stop this idea that they are to do the census. I realize that this is all a fantasy but this has to start somewhere. Isn't is strange that only one congressman has said anything about this. We need to get rid of all politicians both Rep. and Dems…
There is NO FBI anymore
allergic: Imagine that, firing those poor black hoes, it is despicable, it is racist, it is a white conspiracy………
JEAN Iam truly embarassed by this gov. my great grandchildren, grandchildren, kids etc. who have to grow up inthis country run by openly digusting criminals! Sometimes i think this man only wants to hurt the vulnerable, but then i think the white boy in him wants to just hurt his own ! How sad his beautiful girls are not even a consideration! I am calling for impeachment of the prez and bring down the house on congress! The czars are a shadow gov. they need to be abolished and run out of town on a rail, afghanistan is probably too good for them! Oh, could they take pelosi reid, boxer, clinton, frank etc. People we must ban together and get their attention! Oh, i left out the illegals, what was i thinking!
The cesspool that is ACORN needs to be drained and, whatever is left slithering around in the muck, needs to be yanked to its feet and thoroughly investigated.
The silence of the state run media is defining … It's the end for them.
Don't kid yourself–Obamanation knows about all of it! Remember his breeding ground–ACORN, Bill Ayers, Ward Churchill, Jeremiah Wright, the cesspool of Chicago politics…..ad infinitum!
Call your congressman, the White House (little good that will do), the FBI in Baltimore. Remember that we must push for this accountability peacefully. But be ready to grab your rifle when the moment comes. And it appears to be over the horizon.
I won't be answering any census question beyond how many people are in the house. Anything past that is not legal for them to ask in first place.
The real problem here is that not enough members of congress are outraged over this sort of thing. This is the way THEY do business!
these news organiztion are blindly promonting obama admin. since obama supports ACORN and their criminal activity because they got him elected BRANEY FRANK,JOHN CONYERS&CHRIS DODD are getting kick backs and support in their election runs.So they arent going to do anything to stop them and ABC,NBC.CBS,&CNN wont report the tax fraud&voter fraud its not news they only make news they dont report it.
Charles, this whole thing is far far bigger than just money. It's about power.
The silence of both the Democrats and the Republicans, other than 1, speaks volumns! Amazing! If they (Politicians) do nothing to stop it, then they must be part of the corruption…Why do I not expect to hear much from either side…
My question is were are the state congress& senate on what ACORN doing in baltimore I TELL YA NOTHING its all apart of this obamanation plan to push criminal enterprises to support the progressive socalists in the house&senate lead by pelosi,reid they will block anything that stops thes crminals from tax fraud,voter fraud and payed by our tax dollarsABC,NBC,CBC&CNN WONT REPORT THIS because that doesnt support obama said ACORN a major part of his admin. THANK YOU REP KING for doing your job for the american people.And GLENN BECK &FOX NEWS FOR REPORTING IT.
I too listened and hear this on Glen Beck's show and thought that he HAD to be wrong about the media not reporting on this. So I made sure that I caught my usual station, WMFE, Channel 9 in Orlando, afor the 6:00 o'clock news nd NOTHING! I then listened to World News Tonight with Charles Gibson at 6:30 P.M. and AGAIN NOTHING! That was almost more scary than the ACORN clip! The Orlando Sentinel did not even cover the Van Jones resignation last week! We looked for 2 days, not a peep! I am done with the regular news and want my husband to cancel our newspaper subscription since they are no longer journalists, but cowards. I will get the truth from now on by either listening to Fox News, listening to the Talk Show hosts and on the Internet. God help us all~
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Diane: That is the REAL STORY. The story is not about ACORN; the story is the Silence of the National Media. They are all complicit in furthering this Criminal Enterprise known as the Obamification of America. Thosein the journalistic profession should be ashamed of themselves, they should hang their collective heads in shame……….
Not scared, there are too many of us. But regularly sick to my stomach when I see the extent of the corruption and the blatant ability to ignore the REAL news if it sheds any real light on this President.
Where is the FOURTH ESTATE………………?
Joanne, I think the answer is that the only place to find honest politicians is to elect people who are not politicians. That means people like us, who have had enough of the corruption, need to seriously consider running for offices. Smaller, local offices at first perhaps, but we need to do it. I think there are decent people out there who would run if we asked and encouraged them to.
Not a peep out of republicans when the stimulus was being passed about the billions going to Acorn. They knew then what a corrupt group they were. Now that its in the news Rep King grandstands and calls for an investigation Ha Ha !. Both parties are a joke and its on US. Vote them all out and start over. DON'T VOTE REPULICRAT!!! ANYBODY IN A THIRD PARTY WOULD DO BETTER THAN THIS!!
It is horrifying the networks aren't covering this. I believe that we should not only call and demand a Congressional investigation into Acorn, we should call the networks and express our concern over the cover-ups. We should also contact the commercial sponsors of the networks and express our dismay and how we are not going to watch the networks, and thus not see their advertisements, until this behavior changes drastically.
THE TRUE MEDIA MUST HELP TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK. I AM WILLING TO DIE IF THAT'S WHAT IT'S GOING TO TAKE, I HOPE I COULD TAKE A FEW WITH ME.
Mad American: Where is the FOURTH ESTATE………………..?
Whatever happened to RICO statutes? Seems like there was a RICO prosecution every 6 months a few years ago, now it's all but unheard of. Organizations like ACORN are precisely the reason RICO statutes were created in the first place. I guess when the government operates like a racketeering operation, then RICO prosecutions are moot.
The witch of the west,Pelosi, and the joker Reid are as guilty as the two Acorn clerks that were fired because they were caught abetting child sex slavery plus.Not calling for an ivestigation of Acorn they have been abetting the practices of the group. People that will vote for them are just as guilty.
The problem with the ACORN corruption extrapolation is that Foxnews (namely Glenn Beck) is trying much too hard to tie these two deplorable individuals to an entire organization.
Every Governor in the country is not as corrupt or adulterous as Blagojevich or Sanford were, respectively. Every Senator is not like Larry Craig. So why should we believe that every person in ACORN is like these two losers? It doesn't make sense. (Didn't the film crew go to other offices who did not help "Kenya" the prostitute evade taxes). And from the way Beck was throwing around "plantation" and related slavery analogies when he reported this story, it almost makes you wonder if he believes that all black women (in addition to all ACORN employees) are "victims of the plantation owners" like these two disgraceful scamps.
IS that what Beck (or Foxnews) wants us to believe? I sure hope not.
But be ready to grab your rifle when the moment comes. And it appears to be over the horizon.
I'm right behind you fellow citizen, let's roll……….
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