Republicans are straining to find a way to stop this group ACORN, who registers voters and provides housing assistance to those in need. It's shameless. The Congressional Research Service has released a report. No crimes committed by ACORN in the last 5 years.
Since the 2008 elections, the group, which works primarily to expand voter registration and affordable housing, has become a key Republican target. A series of scandals brought to light by conservative activists led to multiple Congressional hearings and repeated attempts to deny it taxpayer funding.
Acorn has been the subject of scores of investigations—a total of 46 inquiries by federal, state, and local agencies, including the FBI and the Treasury Department, and five by Congress as of October 2009, according to the report.
New York Times continued..
The report found no evidence that voters attempting to cast ballots at the polls had been improperly registered by Acorn, a chief Republican accusation.
The report also said that a sting-style effort to publicize the group’s allegedly illegal activities, may have broken state laws. Two conservative activists set off a firestorm in September when they posed as a pimp and a prostitute seeking financial advice and secretly videotaped Acorn employees offering advice on how the couple could hide their illicit activities and avoid paying taxes.
So in their desperation to catch ACORN breaking the law these Conservative activists may have put themselves in jail? That's priceless! I assume this exoneration of ACORN will be all over the main stream news tonight. ::Wink::
I found this and other news in Casual Wednesday and CA Berkeley WV's series Capitol Hill News Open Thread.
Stories in there:
- Orrin Hatch quotes Jane Hamsher on the Senate floor
- Obama expected to play a major role in Conference Committee on HCR
- Point of Orders challenging the constitutionality of this bill on commerce clause + 5th amendment failed
- Kay Bailey Hutchinson's tenth amendment challenge also failed
- What we paid to get 60 votes.
- What we paid for the 60th vote (Nelson)
- Craig Crawford says GOP opted out of history
- Louise Slaughter has joined the Kill-the-bill'rs
- Congress said no on money in defense bill to buy that prison in Illinois for gitmo detainees.
- Lithuania says they aint got no CIA secret prisons.
- GOP is setting up a tantrum on the vote to raise the debt ceiling.
- CRS finds ACORN broke no laws
- Texas will likely pick up 4 house seats after Census
- Al Franken let a GOP staffer have it about the party of No and invading Iraq
- Excellent diary about anti-muslim bias by a 21 year old Kossack
- Balloon Boys parents are gonna see some time
- The Selahis have over 30 civil suits filed against them.
All that and more in this excellent series. Capitol Hill News Open Thread