Exclusive: Statement From Rep. King on ACORN Collapse

Congressman Steve King, a member of the House Judiciary Committee, made the following statement in response to news reports that ACORN is dissolving its national structure.

“This is not surprising news. ACORN must change its name in order to try and run ahead of the accountability that is catching up with this corrupt organization.

“Even though the one party controlled federal government is using its resources to protect ACORN, entrepreneurial new media investigators and state attorneys general are tightening the noose. Dissolving its national brand does not change ACORN’s faces nor ACORN’s crimes. This organization specializes in subterfuge, but ACORN cannot outrun the wheels of justice that are catching up with this corrupt criminal enterprise.”

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Posted Feb 22nd 2010 at 1:52 pm in ACORN, Congress, Exclusives, News, Politics | 78742144 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/publius/2010/02/22/exclusive-statement-from-rep-king-on-acorn-collapse/Exclusive%3A+Statement+From+Rep.+King+on+ACORN+Collapse2010-02-22+21%3A52%3A18Publius

ObamaCare Corrupt Deal Shows Need to Amend the Speech and Debate Clause

Several state attorneys general have been asked, or plan, to investigate the deal struck by Senator Ben Nelson to permanently exempt Nebraska from paying Medicaid expenses in exchange for his voting for Obamacare.

An investigation of the Nelson deal would likely have two focuses. First, is the Nebraska exemption unconstitutional under Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 of the Constitution, which requires “all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States?” Secondly, did the deal constitute a form of corruption?

Whether the Nebraska exemption constitutes unlawful corruption obviously depends on the facts surrounding how Senator Nelson cut his deal. However, even a pure constitutional challenge would benefit from a clear understanding and presentation of the facts underlying how and why the Nebraska exemption was reached.

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Posted Dec 31st 2009 at 7:59 am in ACORN, Congress, Healthcare, Justice/Legal, News, Politics | 5372695 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/mfitzgibbons/2009/12/31/obamacare-corrupt-deal-shows-need-to-amend-the-speech-and-debate-clause/ObamaCare+Corrupt+Deal+Shows+Need+to+Amend+the+Speech+and+Debate+Clause2009-12-31+15%3A59%3A40Mark+J.++Fitzgibbons

Los Angeles Robocall Proves ACORN ‘Internal Review’ Is a Scam

Just a few weeks after the first undercover ACORN videos were released, Big Government received a recording of a robocall from ACORN that ran in the Los Angeles area. Around this time, ACORN’s Chief Organizer Bertha Lewis went before the National Press Club to stress that the actions of her employees revealed in the videos “made her sick.” She reiterated that she fired the employees involved and promised a thorough internal review and reform of ACORN.

So, the robocalls were a mea culpa and promise that ACORN would do better in the future? Hardly. Away from the kleig lights of the national press, ACORN continued to deny wrongdoings and deflect attention to “extremists” attacking her. On the calls, ACORN even reiterates the lie that James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles were turned away in Los Angeles.

Listen for yourself (in English and Spanish):

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Posted Nov 18th 2009 at 6:59 am in ACORN, Featured Story, Media Criticism, News, Politics | 8802112 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/capitolconfidential/2009/11/18/los-angeles-robocall-proves-acorn-internal-review-is-a-scam/Los+Angeles+Robocall+Proves+ACORN+%27Internal+Review%27+Is+a+Scam2009-11-18+13%3A59%3A57Capitol++Confidential

Alleged Corruption In Obama’s Working Families Party: ‘Inside The DFS Experience’

Recently, Michelle Malkin reported on a scandal brewing in President Obama’s other party, the Working Families Party.

The Working Families Party, an ACORN front group whose ballot line Newt Gingrich-endorsed radical leftist Dede Scozzafava has embraced on multiple occasions, is up to no good again.

And now, Big Government is reporting on the birth of a new website entitled Nutbusterz, devoted to aggregating all of the scandal coverage of the working Families Party.

Nutbusterz will serve serve as a clearinghouse for media coverage of the illegal activities of ACORN. Media reports on ACORN and the New York Working Families Party (WFP) will be updated daily. Candidates and causes that ally themselves with ACORN will be exposed and held to account.

We would like to point all interested parties toward a series of articles which warrant consideration for inclusion at Nutbusterz, written by a local NY publication called City Hall.

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Posted Oct 30th 2009 at 7:27 am in ACORN, Big Labor, Politics, State Politics | 2265419 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/amarcus/2009/10/30/alleged-corruption-in-obamas-working-families-party-inside-the-dfs-experience/Alleged+Corruption+In+Obama%27s+Working+Families+Party%3A+%27Inside+The+DFS+Experience%272009-10-30+14%3A27%3A28Andrew++Marcus