“ACORN, as you know, is no stranger to the spotlight,” the spotlight-familiar Rep. Michele Bachmann said outside the Capitol this morning as she repeated claims made on Glenn Beck’s TV show last night and a Washington Times column yesterday, both of which were reported on by Fox News.
“Yet no matter how many times prosecutors investigate and even indict ACORN and their employees, they emerge unblemished as far as the federal government is concerned from having access to federal tax dollars,” she said this morning.
Perhaps she was reading from her Washington Times op-ed, which begins with nearly identical terms: “ACORN is no stranger to the spotlight. It has been said there are certain shades of limelight that can ruin one’s complexion. Yet no matter how many times prosecutors investigate and even indict ACORN and its employees, they emerge unblemished as far as the federal government is concerned.”
In all three media outlets, Bachmann repeats her belief that ACORN shouldn’t receive federal housing funding, and today she announced she’ll be introducing separate legislation to prevent agencies indicted for voter fraud from receiving such funds, a move Republican National Committee Chair Michael Steele publicly backed this afternoon. Meanwhile, the GOP has launched a fundraising campaign that invokes the “leftist activists” of ACORN.
She appeared in Washington today with Heather Heidelbaugh, an ACORN “whistleblower.”












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Comment posted May 14, 2009 @ 2:19 pm
More on ACORN:
http://www.capitalresearch.org/news/news.html?id=711
Comment posted May 14, 2009 @ 4:10 pm
Want racism? ACORN will give you all you need and then some. Check out their website and you tell me. Thanks again Michelle for at least trying to keep an eye on OUR tax dollars or at the very least trying to keep them honestly spent!
Comment posted May 14, 2009 @ 6:27 pm
If the Republicans do succeed in passing a bill barring federal funds
from organizations convicted of vote fraud, guess what? ACORN will
still get every cent voted to it – BECAUSE it has NEVER been convicted of
voter fraud.
Some of its voter registrars submitted fraudulent names on voter registration
forms, none of which made it to the voting booth – BECAUSE they were
reported as fraudulent long before the elections, MOST OF THEM BY ACORN
itself, as it was legally required to do.
Do the Republicans have ANY issues that are not a tissue of lies and misrepresenting the
facts? I haven’t seen any so far!
Comment posted May 14, 2009 @ 9:42 pm
Michele Bachmann calling someone else a fraud. That’s rich.
How does ACORN’s take compare to, say, the frauds who have collected hundreds of millions of dollars to preach abstinence-only sex ed, or run “pregnancy crisis centers,” or teach creationism in public schools–all with Bachmann’s fervent approval.
Comment posted May 14, 2009 @ 11:23 pm
“today she announced she’ll be introducing separate legislation to prevent agencies indicted for voter fraud from receiving such funds”
GOOD. Had Barney Frank, D-MA not stripped this from his housing reform bill after agreeing to include it in there, this issue of taxpayer fraud is now at the forefront as a stand-alone bill rather than buried in Section 2304 of the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 as seen here:
http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/communitydevelopment/programs/neighborhoodspg/hera2008.pdf
Comment posted May 15, 2009 @ 12:32 am
Matthew, you’re just plugging your own TV appearance. How nice for you. Shine up that tin foil hat for the occasion.
Comment posted May 15, 2009 @ 10:18 am
Hilarious. Acorn is just a voter registration system that targets low income people and minorities. Folks, that’s all it is. The reason Michele is targetting Acorn has nothing to do with the astoundingly minor incidences of voter registration fraud (that’s right folks, voter REGISTRATION fraud – a misdimeanor – not voter fraud). Conservative registration mechanisms have similar problems with employees who game the system to get paid more. The real issue here is that Michele doesn’t want “brown people” to vote. Well Michele, I live in your district, and I don’t vote according to skin color. The fundamentalists around here are foreclosing at a heck of a rate – some of the hardest hit areas are big Michele precincts. 2010 will be a whole new landscape in MN-06 and you’ll find yourself with lot more free time on your hands…largely because of GOP economic policies you yourself supported.
Comment posted May 16, 2009 @ 10:33 am
Susan, where are your facts? As I posted above, and in different stories on MNIndy, ACORN is being targeted because they take taxpayer funding (those of us that pay federal tax) and have illegally registered voters, 16 states so far to count.
And this absolute B.S. comment about not wanting “brown people to vote”
where do you get off making such an accusation? Where are your facts? Where’s the proof?
I’m waiting…
Comment posted May 18, 2009 @ 2:16 pm
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann on CNN with Lou Dobbs
Monday, May 18th 6:20 pm CT
Regarding Taxpayer Funding for ACORN
Bachmann will debate Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA), Chairman of the Financial Services Committee
Comment posted June 12, 2009 @ 10:40 pm
Republicans go after ACORN because it generally improves voter turnout during elections which usually means less Republicans are elected. It is the same reason Pawlenty vetoed legislation which would improve absentee voting. Republicans wanted voter ID’s which are supposed to prevent fraud (where no fraud exists), but actually disenfranchises voters.
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