Hillarysworld

This article really needs to explanation.  It just highlights why BO's comments regarding ACORN are so ridiculous.

BTW, I still can't get those quotation things to work.  I selected quotes from the article and those quotes are after the link.

"As Acorn Falls, Democrats Would Be Wise to Duck" by Kevin Hassett

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&sid=aZ8U4iOoY83w

Sept. 21 (Bloomberg) -- The group known as Acorn found itself at the center of a media storm last week, when two young filmmakers exposed the willingness of workers at several of its offices to offer assistance to a nascent prostitution ring.

The video sent shockwaves through Washington.

The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now is no fringe organization. It is woven into the political firmament at the highest levels. Over the past 15 years, Acorn has received more than $53 million from the U.S. government, according to a recent report by House Republicans. Democrats clearly appreciate the value they received for that funding. While specific budget lines seldom include the word Acorn, the group and similar nonprofits are eligible to receive as much as $8.5 billion in stimulus money alone.

Consider also a list of the luminaries who serve on its advisory council, which now has responsibility to reform the organization. They include Chicago native John Podesta, who was co-chair of President Barack Obama’s transition; Andrew Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union; and Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, former lieutenant governor of Maryland and daughter ofRobert F. Kennedy. This is clearly the A team...

Another allegation in the report might explain why Democrats looked the other way. The report says Acorn had close connections with numerous political campaigns, including Obama’s. “Each of these campaigns received financial and personnel-resource contributions from Acorn and its affiliates as part of a scheme to use taxpayer monies to support a partisan political agenda,” the report says. “These actions are a clear violation of numerous tax and election laws.”

...Last March, Democratic Representative John Conyers, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, initiated a probe into Acorn’s activities, only to back off. In May, he issued a statement saying, “Based on my review of the information regarding the complaints against Acorn, I have concluded that a hearing on this matter appears unwarranted at this time.” In June, he explained, “The powers that be decided against it.”

Although Conyers refrained from revealing which powers he had yielded to, John Fund reported in a recent Wall Street Journal column that a Republican representative’s six attempts to call a House vote to restrict Acorn’s federal funding were stopped by Speaker “Nancy Pelosi’s hand-picked Rules Committeemembers.”