Forgive the formatting, I'm having to cut an paste this stuff.
Representative Conyers “backed off his plan to investigate purported
wrongdoing by . . . ACORN” because “[t]he powers that be decided against it.”
A provision inserted by Representative Michele Bachmann (R-MN) into the proposed
Mortgage Reform and Anti-Predatory Lending Act blocked organizations indicted for
voter registration fraud from receiving housing counseling grants and legal assistance
grants and was unanimously approved by a voice vote in the House.42 But soon after the
Financial Services Committee, led by Representative Barney Frank (D-MA), approved
the stipulation, Frank claimed he made a mistake and planned to take out the “anti-
ACORN provision” from the Act.
“Piercing” through ACORN’s legal protections would remove the distinctions
between ACORN and its affiliates. This Report will show how ACORN walls off its bad
acts by creating nominal affiliates both through a separate tax structure (Project Vote is a
501(c)(3)) or a separate name and state of incorporation (e.g. ACORN Fair Housing
Corporation Orlando, FL)
This reality is illustrated by recent events. In June 2009, seven ACORN workers
in Pennsylvania were charged with forging 51 signatures and violating election laws in
advance of the 2008 presidential election.58 In May 2009, two ACORN staff members
were prosecuted in Clark County, Nevada for paying bonuses to workers who registered
over 21 individuals per day.59 In July 2008, three ACORN workers were convicted of
voter fraud in Kansas City because they flooded voter registration rolls with over 35,000
false or questionable registration forms.
I don't think I can post more without a steel wool shower. "The powers that be"? Who was Conyers referring to? I think we're on the cusp of finding a systemic level of corruption which has never been shown in American politics. I'll put down money right now that Barbara Boxer is complicit in this.