Rep. Issa Responds to ACORN’s Bertha Lewis
by Publius
Issa Responds to Bertha Lewis Charge that ACORN the Victim of Republican McCarthyism
WASHINGTON. D.C. – House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) issued the following statement today in response to comments made by ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis at the National Press Club where she accused Republicans of ACORN McCarthyism:
“Was it Republicans who embezzled millions from within their own organization and have yet to report the embezzlement to the IRS or Labor Department? Was it Republicans who conducted the internal review that highlighted the lack of firewalls between their charitable and political activities? Was it Republicans who hired a man convicted of multiple counts of conspiracy and money laundering to raise funds and register voters in Oklahoma? The fact that ACORN’s leadership refuses to even acknowledge and accept responsibility for the state of their organization is disturbing and brings into question the sincerity of ACORN’s pledge to reform their organization.”
While ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis addressed the National Press Club, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Republican Staff were reviewing new internal ACORN documents that shed further light on ACORN’s intent to capitalize on the opaque nature of their funding structure in order to fund its partisan political activities.
On Fox News’ America Newsroom: “ACORN is so opaque to all of us because of its unique status as a non-profit taxable entity that really we have no way of knowing and if you’ll cover up a million, you’ll cover-up five million. Our bigger question is not how much opaque they were in the past; it’s whether or not Bertha Lewis as CEO is ever going to change the company to be more conventional as a non-profit the way the Red Cross or other organizations are which tend to be very transparent.”
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Opaque Transparency.
That is Hope and Change we can all believe in.
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Issa Responds to Bertha Lewis Charge that ACORN the Victim of Republican McCarthyism
The thieves and liars at ACORN [and SEIU] are delusional. Drop the full weight of the legal system on these criminal leftwing cockroaches; charge them with RICO violations.
Some legal advocates should file a class action lawsuit against ACORN and SEIU on behalf of the taxpayers for the rampant corruption and fraud committed by ACORN, SEIU and any democrat politicians involved with these criminal enterprises.
Issa Responds to Bertha Lewis Charge that ACORN the Victim of Republican McCarthyism
The thieves and liars at ACORN [and SEIU] are delusional. Drop the full weight of the legal system on these criminal leftwing cockroaches; charge them with RICO violations.
Some legal advocates should file a class action lawsuit against ACORN and SEIU on behalf of the taxpayers for the rampant corruption and fraud committed by ACORN, SEIU and any democrat politicians involved with these criminal organizations.
Issa will know how well he's doing by how much Bertha is lying and has won when Bertha finally can look
him and other Americans in the eye and tell the truth, or ACORN's members are under DHS/IRS/FBI investigation.
In re charges of "McCarthyism":
What do you call a witch hunt that keeps turning up witches?
Bertha is rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
Nice to see the Republicans fighting back!
The Venona Papers largely vindicated McCarthy and if I'm not mistaken led to the execution of the Soviet spies, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
On a sidenote, the Venona Papers largely vindicated McCarthy and if I'm not mistaken led to the execution of the Soviet spies, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
ACORN commits voter fraud….McCarthyism!
ACORN advises prostitutes on how to commit tax fraud….McCarthyism!
ACORN fails to report human trafficking and child prostitution…..McCarthyism!
Right… Obama's community organizing group is a government sponsored criminal organization and needs to be shut down, and Obama needs to take heat over this as well.
LOL…….someone needs to slap her.
What's with the moronic National Press Club that they would be so indiscriminate as to give Bertha Lewis a platform?
Another stupid lefty leaning media group that indulges in misplaced moral equivalencies. By every ethical metric is a sane world Bertha shouldn't get an invitation.
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Bertha Butthead…….'nuff said!
ACORN should be stopped from taking money from people for dues because they are a fraudulent organization. They are ripping off their members, too, and that's where they think they will get the money to operate with.
Go get ‘em, Rep Issa!
I cant wait till we get a Republican majority back….then we can really start to root out all this corruption
Where in the world is the professional PR firm who should be holding press conferences on behalf of Acorn? Can't they afford a front man/women to at least throw them a life vest? Its amateur hour to let that wind bag blow hard say another thing in public. She should be somewhere with Kanye West and others with hoof'n mouth disease.
Is she so arrogant as to think that anyone other than the extreme blind left would believe anything that comes out of her mouth? Everyone is snickering behind her back, Sat Nite Live, John Stewart and others on the reluctant left.
What happened to tell it all and tell it early, fall on your sword, cry like a baby and hope for redemption? Guess crow must taste really really bad.
Great oxymoron!
Since Obama makes such a big thing about being black, this is the new transparency. Black transparency; or through the glass darkly.
Big Bertha can't hold any company!
This "communi(s)ty organization" is D-O-N-E.
You go Mr. Issa!
You call the witch hunt a racist lynch mob…duh…
/sarc
Especially with the new blood of libertarian leaning Reps appearing that don't like what the Rep Party was doing the last few years.
ahem, you mean Rope and Chains…
Kinda like Politcally Correct Free Speech=Liberal oxymoron…haha saw that on a sticker…
Acorn and all it's 270 affiliations is a non dying cancer and needs extensive nuclear radiation. Reminds me of the movie Alien. All the pods need to be eradicated!
Your site ROCKS! Keep up the GREAT work! I know it is long and hard hours so I hope you get your money back. I certainly am donating $$ to the defense and DISCOVERY!!! That is goign to ROCK!! I am afraid the suit will be dropped though before too long. I think she will end up in jail before too long. She is too embedded into that organization to not know what has been happening.
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The powers that be are letting her talk because they are probably trying to destroy evidence and letting her talk just diverts attention. Additionally, Bertha is the only one on record for all of this rhetoric and I would guess they are probably hoping to have a ready made scapegoat.
The powers that be are letting her talk because they are probably trying to destroy evidence and letting her talk just diverts attention. Additionally, Bertha is the only one on record for all of this rhetoric and I would guess they are probably hoping to have a ready made scapegoat. These people have been around long enough that they would undoubetedly have a contingency plan for just such a situation.
I would agree with this. Those of us that consider ourselves conservative rather than republican are a little more interested in constitutional conservatism and less so in creating permanent power structures. The drawback is that if the left succeeds in creating their own perm infrastructure (socialized health care) then the right is at an inherent disadvantage financially. Good news is, true conservatives will always have the ideological advantage as seen by the recent upwelling of support.
If I were you, I'll be careful rooting for Jihad Darrell Issa. He has an ugly and felon past. Check out his picture shaking hand with the chinless ophthalmologist in Syria in the link below.
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/6215/jihad-darrell...
If I were you, I'll be careful rooting for Jihad Darrell Issa. He has a felon past. Check out his picture shaking hand with the chinless ophthalmologist in Syria in the link below.
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/6215/jihad-darrell...
He conveniently forgets he is "white" too when he needs all the POOR blacks. The Mulatto from Kenya.
I think Bertha meant Charlie McCarthy…you know. The little dummy with the wooden head.
ACORN needs to be RICO'd.
In 2005, Bertha said that 30% of their funds come from member's dues.
http://www.cuny.tv/schedule/Action.Lasso?-Databas...
"“Was it Republicans who embezzled millions from within their own organization and have yet to report the embezzlement to the IRS or Labor Department? " — Yes…Halliburton and they even admitted it!
"Was it Republicans who conducted the internal review that highlighted the lack of firewalls between their charitable and political activities?" — Yes…Blackwater, Halliburton and KBR and the latter involved the deaths of 15 soldiers as opposed the how many soldier'd deaths caused by ACORN?
"Was it Republicans who hired a man convicted of multiple counts of conspiracy and money laundering to raise funds and register voters" — Well you did have Jack Abramoff who did quite a bit of fund-raising for Republicans. Raised more money than ACORN's 15 years worth of federal funding which is half as much as Halliburton defrauded the tax payers out of last year alone.
"The fact that (Republicans) leadership refuses to even acknowledge and accept responsibility for the state of their (party) is disturbing and brings into question the sincerity of (Republicans) pledge to reform their (party).”
The deflectors have arrived!
Look a puppy?
RICO is his name and Acorn is his game!!
Bertha is just out of her place, just like her dumb gord !!!
Why is ACORN still tax exempt? That status needs to be pulled PRONTO. Let them start paying taxes like all those banks and businesses from whom they extorted money for the Democrats.
ACORN reform? HA!! ACORN was set up and run as a criminal organization. You can't "reform" something that is inherently criminal. That's like "reforming" Ted Bundy or Charles Manson. Some organizations just need to be terminated.
Prediction……..when ACORN is completely investigated, the sludge will reach all the way to Pres. Opompous. He's as dirty as they come (does that make me a racist for calling Opompous dirty?).
Just wondering if ACORN issued a W-2 to Rathke reflecting the "donation" made to reimburse for his theft. Seems to me that, to the extent it was made to repay a debt owed by him, it is income. And did he pay taxes on it?
"The fact that ACORN’s leadership refuses to even acknowledge and accept responsibility for the state of their organization is disturbing and brings into question the sincerity of ACORN’s pledge to reform their organization."
Now replace ACORN with "the government".
"The fact that "the government's" leadership refuses to even acknowledge and accept responsibility for the state of their organization (or the nation for that matter) is disturbing and brings into question the sincerity of "the government's" pledge to reform their organization" (or health care, or health the insurance industry, or campaign finance, voter registration or anything else "meaningful".
Wow. Talk about hypocrisy.
this country is going to take a big dump really soon and when that happens nothing will be done to any of these guys, prisons will be emptied and fires will rage and destroy many of the large metropolitan cities in America.
Are you ready?
Acorn and it’s organizers, employees and goons are not interested in anything but their own advancement. They feel they are entitled to whatever they can take. They are some of the worse people in the United States and should be dealt with in a legal manner. The only thing is, legal and honest manners are almost gone in this country because of the immigration of bad people from all over. We made a big mistake when the borders were opened long ago. We have to take care of the people who were here and built this country not the new TAKERS. Mexicans feel they have entitlement. WHY? I am one half hispanic and I do not go along with this at all. I used to like Heraldo but he is too one sided on the race issue. He goes over board in my opinion. I still like most of his ideas but not the one on immigration. My opinion has nothing to do with greed, it is a matter of survival for the good Americans that built this country. Come here legally, get a job and contribute and you’re OK. But, don’t come here to take what we have and return nothing. We don’t like that. Sheriff Joe Arpaio from AZ. is right on in arresting people who are illegal. That’s his job but your idiot president is trying to stop that. Why? Because Barry Soetoro Hussein (AKA, Liar, racist, hypocrite and other things) wants equality, he claims. Barry is a true knuckle=head and doesn’t have the qualifications to run anything. The guy is the biggest joke possible. Acorn along with Barry Soetoro Hussein shoud be investigated and brought to justice as should the SEIU, Apollo and all the other bogus organizations that are crooked.
Concerned AMERICAN,
Larry Velasco.
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