Can bankers be punished like ACORN?
Even though a majority of its employees never misbehaved, ACORN was bound to suffer heavily after the deeply troubling tapes filmed by a conservative activist. The misconduct of the employees in the tapes was egregious and possibly criminal.
Democrats really had no choice but to join with Republicans in punishing the organization, as the House did today with a vote to strip the agency of all federal funds. The politics demanded it.
But now that lowly ACORN has been severely punished for its misdeeds, can we muster the gumption to do something about the bankers and financiers who have done such serious damage to the country?
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Scott
September 17th, 2009
3:28 pm
One week and five tapes later, and only after waiting to see how the political winds were actually blowing, Ms. Tucker finally speaks on ACORN. That’s courage!
But note her characterization of the filmmaker as a “conservative activist,” as if that somehow matters; note her characterization of assistance to set up a brothel for underage El Salvadoran girls as only “possibly” criminal; and note that she says that “politics” demanded punishing ACORN. Morality didn’t demand it; politics did.
That’s courage!
In terms of that little diversionary tactic of Ms. Tucker’s in her final paragraph, all I can say is that if she can produce video of Chase Manhattan, or J.P. Morgan, offering to help set up a brothel underneath the radar of the IRS, I’ll defer to her moral equivalency game.
Jim Shea
September 17th, 2009
3:28 pm
You have to be kidding to try to deflect any blame here. Acorn was already under investigation in 14 states for multiple reasons prior to the videos being released. The actions of the employees in multiple locations across the country show just how corrupt the organization is. If those kids had more than $1300 to spend this story would be more compelling than it already is.
The Democrats have complete control right now and they were the ones voting to bail out the banks.
You should be asking why Congressman Lewis (D-GA) voted against the measure.
jconservative
September 17th, 2009
3:48 pm
Why were they getting federal funds in the first place?
Don’t tell me, I know the answer, politics as a result of a huge organization putting pressure on politicians desperate for election. That is why John McCain was the keynote speaker at the 2006 ACORN national convention. He wanted votes.
I am glad to see federal funds cut off.
“…do something about the bankers and financiers who have done such serious damage to the country?”
I doubt it. A lot of campaign contributions go into the coffers of members of congress.
And if the Court rules for the appellant in Citizens United v Fed Election Comm there will be a lot more money in those congressional campaign coffers. I would not hold my breath on this one.
jconservative
September 17th, 2009
4:04 pm
Scott, the way I see the “bankers & financiers” is that they nearly brought the country completely down. ACORN, for all their evils, are not even a bump in the road. And I do not see anything being done to “punish” Wall Street nor do I ever expect to see anything done.
Way to much money.
The Nerve
September 17th, 2009
4:05 pm
Sigh. Deflect and blame. Deflect and blame. Mrs. Tucker…please get checked out. Your mental disability is growing.
Patrick
September 17th, 2009
4:15 pm
The only people who comment on editorials are people that are incapable of forming their own opinions. This person’s entire job is to be “controversial” so you people will read her column and argue and fight. This so called “journalist” doesn’t care if you agree or disagree. She only cares that you read her column so she can keep her job. You people are really a very sad group.
And to clarify, I am commenting on the pathetic losers that comment on editorials, not the editorial itself. There is a difference.
Carter is a Fool
September 17th, 2009
4:19 pm
Can we do something about Barney Frank and Chris Dodd who were responsible for this fiasco in our banking industry? Poor lowly Acorn. A lowly community activist group who got caught doing horrendous misdeeds. Interesting that the film was made by a Conservative Activist. You could have written a concerned citizen, but then you have to show your bias. The whole post is about shifting the focus from the criminal activist group to someone, anyone else.
Scott
September 17th, 2009
4:26 pm
Jconservative, I’m less concerned about defending the “bankers and financiers,” than I am to expose using them as a diversionary tactic in order to somehow minimize or pooh-pooh the actual subject. ACORN (until recently) was due to receive billions in stimulus money, President Obama had met with them before the election and vowed that they would help to shape his agenda, they were being used as an organization through which to somehow correct the housing crisis, they were lobbying for health insurance reform, they have been under investigation in 14 states for election fraud, their founder was indicted for embezzelment. I would hardly refer to them, as Ms. Tucker does, as “lowly.” If all these things had been going on at Haliburton, we’d have never heard the end of it (and rightly so).
An organization that is in bed, financially and otherwise, with politicians, including the president; is receiving so much taxpayer money; is under investigation for election fraud; and at the same time is offering (at five separate offices now) to help set up a brothel to enslave underage illegal aliens in the sex trade — that’s a level of corruption that cannot be countenanced, nor swept under the rug by the diversionary tactic of saying, “Well, so-and-so has done bad things too.”
Scott
September 17th, 2009
4:28 pm
Patrick,
I’ve seen that same comment on one of the previous posts.
Perhaps you should rename yourself Echo?
pat
September 17th, 2009
4:48 pm
You’re seriously lumping bankers in with people who aid folks with running protitution rings with underaged girls? Get real. The fact that this scenario repeated itself across the country is serious. The extent of corruption at ACORN is yet unknown. How many young-girl brothels have they actually set up? None of those folks on the videos even batted an eye. How much illegal activity are they involved in. We have 30 arrests in Florida for voter fraud, a Las Vegas office raided by the FBI, and now this? Poor old ACORN. It’s nice to see this criminal organization go down in flames. Even with little to no coverage by the mainsteam, mega-left wing biased media.
ACORN is getting their just deserts, they have misused our tax dollars for way to long.
pat
September 17th, 2009
4:50 pm
BTW, Ms. Tucker what you have presented is known as a strawman fallacy. A diversionary tactic if you will, which is sadly transparent.
Brad Steel
September 17th, 2009
5:10 pm
Oh phu-leez. This is not tit-for-tat.
ACRORN’s stupidity and crimes have nothing at all to do with bankers’ alleged malfeasance. Implying that they do is a Glenn Beck-like tactic.
Shame shame.
Kevin
September 17th, 2009
5:16 pm
Yea, the Democrats had to join in in stripping funds from ACORN because, as you put it, “the politics demanded it.”
Wouldn’t a better statement had been that the “principle demanded it”?
Cynthia, your first mention of ACORN is watered-down, blame-someone-else nonsense.
How dare you question this group? That’s racist.
Kevin
September 17th, 2009
5:19 pm
I used to wish Cynthia would write columns more frequently, so I could get a more regular laugh out of her absurdity.
Now that she’s blogging so frequently, I’ve changed my mind.
With the increased frequency, I’m simply reassured of her sheer delusion.
FRED
September 17th, 2009
5:40 pm
You sound like a mafia wife defending her husband as the feds take him away in cuffs…
Jackie
September 17th, 2009
6:04 pm
ACORN does not have the lobbyist the Bankers, Insurance Companies and the Religious Right does, therefore, no action will be taken to control their prodigious influence in Congress.
Joan
September 17th, 2009
6:28 pm
What the financial community, including Fannie mae and Freddie mac did to destroy our financial infrastructure is a direct result of the fact that the very people supposedly watchdogging them on the public’s behalf, namely Barney Frank and Chris Dodd, were the receipients of huge amounts of “campaign” money from them. I think “campaign money” in this context is more properly spelled “bribe”. About the housing meltdown, you can put the blame where it belongs on the idiot Democrats who required lenders to give loans to totally unqualified people.
jt
September 17th, 2009
7:01 pm
“can we muster the gumption to do something about the bankers and financiers who have done such serious damage to the country?”
Being that the above makes up a large part Obama’s administration, we will have to wait until 2012.
mike
September 17th, 2009
7:23 pm
Why don’t you ask Obama. All of the Wall Street folks voted for him.
mike
September 17th, 2009
7:30 pm
Can we muster the gumption to do something about the dishonest and partisan news outlets (like the AJC) who have done such serious damage to the country?
Darre
September 17th, 2009
7:45 pm
This is actually a pretty big deal. ACORN was a large portion of the experience Obama campaigned on. We all laughed at Sarah Palin when she brought up the nebulous “community organizer” definition and it’s even more generic description. The fact that both houses agreed that the problem was large enough to defund the organization is really a slap at the bulk of Obama’s post graduate resume. The next month will now be about bringing to light all of the Obama ties to this organization. Acorn is the association that will effectively marginalize this president. Within a week Bertha Lewis will be gone, and Obama will be simply window dressing in the White House like Jimmy Carter. Look for Hillary to abandon ship shortly.
godless heathen
September 17th, 2009
9:53 pm
One corrupt community activist organization down, many to go.
Obama wants to insure all the uninsured with the money eliminated from waste and fraud in Medicare. He could get some real money if he went after the waste and fraud in HUD, FHA, DOD, EPA, DHS, FEMA and the whole alphabet soup of Federal Agencies.
Those that proceeded him didn’t do it either, so save your fingers telling me that. But it would be a change we could believe in.
godless heathen
September 17th, 2009
9:54 pm
So who, other than Hillary, is lining up to challenge Obama for the Democratic nomination in 2012?
John
September 17th, 2009
9:55 pm
Cynthia – you’ve got to be kidding me?! This is an outrageous column. Why isn’t it criminal? Everyone knows that if ACORN were a conservative organization, you and your ilk would be screaming bloody murder! If you wonder how FOX became so popular so quickly, look no further than yourself and your comrades at NBC News. You are simply not credible.
Kevrock/Smarty Jones
September 17th, 2009
10:00 pm
Cynthia PLEASE you supposed to be better than this!!! Of course race is still a issue with you. Sad. WHO we should go after is Barney Frank for his misdeeds for ALLOWING subprime loans to be available and you KNOW THIS. Come on…First it started with Bill Clinton reversing the ‘Seagall Act’ and then the ‘dominoes’ followed. And AGAIN YOU know THIS. This is one of the times you really miss the boat.
Pat Phelps
September 17th, 2009
10:10 pm
Cynthia – if you are prepared to launch a criminal investigation into Barney Frank and Chris Dodd and their dealing with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, then have your way with the bankers.
jstrick
September 17th, 2009
10:12 pm
Ok, let’s not investigate the contractors who are electrocuting or soldiers and losing literally billions of our dollars but let’s investigate some obscure organization that’s getting almost no money. Makes complete sense.
Grumpy
September 17th, 2009
10:14 pm
One of those crooks will get his punishment when Linda McMahon lays the SMACK DOWN on that roody poo, sweetheart mortgage dealing, Fannie/Freddie loving jabroni Chris Dodd!
Pat Phelps
September 17th, 2009
10:19 pm
jstrick – ACORN has received over $50 million tax payer dollars since the early 90’s and there was another $3.0 billion in the February stimulus bill. That is not exactly chump change.
TnGelding
September 17th, 2009
10:38 pm
No way. They’re immune. It’s hard to tell what is fraud and what is just incompetence and lack of oversight by Congress and the Bush administration. There’s plenty of blame to go around. The mortgage originators and credit rating companies need to be held accoutable as well.
Pat Phelps
September 17th, 2009
10:44 pm
TuGelding – I would agree that the Bush administration has a hand in this. It is there lack of oversight that allowed the financial crisis to snow ball into the meltdown.
But don’t kid yourself, this crisis lay at the feet of the Clinton administration, Barney Frank, and Chris Dodd for putting pressure on lending institutions to make sub-prime loans to unqualified people.
Public Option, NEVER!
September 17th, 2009
11:24 pm
I’m not sure what mentioning conservative journalists has to do with the story, other then liberal journalists would have looked the other way.
And, I’m fine with getting ALL the guilty, but be careful what you wish for, as that might include Charles Rangel – but I’m sure he’ll be in your next rant, right?
Public Option, NEVER!
September 17th, 2009
11:27 pm
It took you long enough to get onboard on this. I’m not sure what mentioning conservative journalists has to do with the story, other then liberal journalists would have looked the other way.
And, I’m fine with getting ALL the guilty, but be careful what you wish for, as that might include Charles Rangel – but I’m sure he’ll be in your next rant, right? And don’t forget Barney Frank and Chris Dodd – enablers in the Fanny/Freddy fiasco.
bill
September 17th, 2009
11:42 pm
you righities are too funny, no one mentioned phil gramm who actually most of this financial mess falls at his feet.
Obama is ACORN
September 18th, 2009
12:05 am
Cynthia Tucker hit the nail right on the HEAD and just doesn’t know the can of worms she’s cracking open.
Jimmy Carter’s CRA empowered ACORN “rise to prominence” back in the 70’s.
The CRA is largely reported as the source for our Housing Crisis further enabled by BJ Clinton.
Fannie MAE and Freddie MACusing the CRA was used as battering rams and held Lenders hostage by politicians to support ACORNS illegal intimidation of bankers and lenders.
George W Bush’s compassionate conservatism further enabled ACORNS illegal activities by causing more funding distributed to ACORN than any previous Administration.
Yes there is a tie in with Wall Street and National Lenders all whom gave hush money to ACORN intimidators.
OBAMA’s $881,000 illegal political contribution via Project Vote (falsely reported to the FEC) is the link. OBAMA IS ACORN.
ACORNS illegal bullying and nefarious activities during the democrat caucuses last year is the MAIN reason Hillary Clinton was not the Democrat nominee.
Hence we have an OBAMA presidency and all of it is connected and linked to ACORNS illegal activities all across the board.
Frog March all of them to jail including OBAMA.
Zibby
September 18th, 2009
12:19 am
Cynthia – you’re precisely why Cox is in trouble in Atlanta and with the Austin American Statesman in Austin, TX. I would have to start reading The Daily Worker to find a rag more relentlessly left wing nut case than these two papers… James Cox himself would be ashamed of what became of these papers…
You just don’t get it, do you?
Sitting in an ivory tower, oblivious to changing conditions – people not reading newspapers anymore… and you continue to blow off the older audience which really are the only people left as end users for your alleged newspaper… sure not the Standard Newspaper of the South anymore, is it?
You people just don’t understand shifting demographics or marketing, do you? You apparently are quite good at writing rabble rousing editorials going after any free enterprise businessperson you can – because you clearly don’t understand business or finance, do you?
You’re upsetting the very people who are most inclined to still buy a copy of this drivel…
So hold onto your job for as long as you can – keep rearranging the deck chairs on the poop deck of the Titanic… it’s all very sad and quire frankly, you’re the racist…
Public Option Now.
September 18th, 2009
12:44 am
Cynthia should move to a country where censorship reigns.
Public Option Now.
September 18th, 2009
12:45 am
Republicans obsess with ACORN like but have no concept of the fact that 2 bad employees were fired for being stupid. Karen Handel and 27 other Repubozo officials lost 27 voting rights foreclosure suits in federal courts last year.
I’m not kidding. Every brief is and opinion is here.
Public Option Now.
September 18th, 2009
12:46 am
Apparently Cyntha or the goofy Cox website wordpress manager for her has an allergy to links.
Public Option Now.
September 18th, 2009
12:47 am
There are few blogs that don’t allow comment links on the planet. That’s about as primitive as it can get Cynthia. One of your new DC friends or one of your TV show hosts should show you how Twitter works.
smoochie
September 18th, 2009
1:45 am
I partially agree Ms. Tucker. I think Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, and Maxine Waters should all go to prison for their culpability in the banking scandal.
smoochie
September 18th, 2009
1:47 am
“Cynthia should move to a country where censorship reigns.”
That would be your boy Bookman, not Cynthia.
ann b.
September 18th, 2009
2:11 am
For the love of God, please stop publishing this hack!
12Gauge
September 18th, 2009
2:15 am
Ms Tucker, Please explain how ACORN has been punished ?? Do you mean that the employees caught on tape have been fired ?? What about their supervisors or managers ?? Or did you mean that they’ve been cut off from receiving any MORE Federal Tax Dollars ?? What about the Millions of Tax Dollars they’ve already received ??
Now, let’s talk about ACORN locally. Were you aware that Reps. John Lewis & David Scott Voted NO when the Bill was brought to Eliminate All ACORN Funding ?? Why would they do that, especially in the circumstance of the Videos ??
Are you aware that ACORN & the SEIU are sister organizations ?? That the Founder of ACORN is also the Founder of the SEIU ?? Did you know that ACORN & the SEIU have been shuffling Federal Tax Dollars back & forth to different ACORN & SEIU suborganizations so no one could track the cash ??
Were you aware that the SEIU was a Major Contributor to David Scott’s Re-election Campaign in 2008 ??
Wouldn’t you think that an Investigative Reporter from the AJC should look into the connection between ACORN, SEIU & David Scott ?? How about John Lewis ??
Or are corrupt bankers more important than corrupt politicians ??
I really would like to know ………
12G
Marc
September 18th, 2009
2:22 am
Cynthia the open and willingness of Acorn to allow the prostitution of children is magnitudes worse than what the financial sector has done. Much of the wrongs of the financial sector could have been stopped it the stock holders (the you’s and I’s) had done any due diligence. Let’s make it your daughters and tell me what you think. Stop justfy the liberal left.
Constructive Feedback
September 18th, 2009
3:14 am
Ms Tucker:
Do you notice a few things about yourself?
Often when you BEGRUDGINGLY attack a Left-Wing target you often do it as a TRANSACTION.
Today you suggest that ACORN be investigated. You throw in bankers and financiers in the same charge.
Recall that the one time that you did comment on the fiasco in Clayton County – you prefaced it by attacking the Republicans in the GA State Legislature?
Why can’t you be critical of Democratic and/or Left-wing operatives in a stand alone basis? (Note I am talking about favored Democratic operatives. I am not talking about a Vernon Jones/ Cynthia McKinney type of Democrat which is fair game for you. I am speaking of otherwise favorable Democrats who do wrong.)
Nick
September 18th, 2009
3:40 am
Ms. Tucker, the politicans own ACORN. The bankers own the politicans. Goldman Sachs likes to get their employees in government positions so they can set the playing field more favorably for Goldman Sachs. Why do you think Hank Paulson, former CEO of Goldman Sachs turned Treasury Secretary let Lehman Brothers fail.
ghostwriter
September 18th, 2009
5:11 am
Ms. Tucker I’m just curious. If ACORN was trying to help someone set up a prostitution ring, how did David Vitter vote on cutting off funds to the organization?
Batboy
September 18th, 2009
6:25 am
The AJC has not been willing to cover this story at all till it became absolutely unavoidable. Even now, Tucker wants to go down fighting to defend the indefensible.
People who employ “racist” as a term to attack others who have no observable racial perspective have shot themselves in the foot. I don’t care anymore if you call me racist. You call everyone racist who disagrees with Obama. The charge has lost its sting and now only brands you as a desperate race baiter who can no longer defend the Obama presidency or its policies on rational grounds.
Moreover, the past few months have exposed a great deal about black attitudes toward race in America. It seems that the national dialog on race really needs to happen and that the black community needs to start by getting out a mirror.
ThePlainTruth
September 18th, 2009
6:40 am
Cynthia,
The bankers and financiers as you call them were most likely guilty of some crimes but did they approve and even offer to help set up child prostitution houses where the children are nothing more than slaves? I thought you were outraged by slavery? You don’t seem to show it here.
It would be different, too, if it was just one Acorn office that did this but FIVE shows a pattern. I don’t want one dime of my money going to this criminal outfit.
ThePlainTruth
Atlanta Native
September 18th, 2009
6:58 am
The reason for Cynthia’s logical fallacy in this column?
Simple – neither “Bush did it!” or “I spy racism” fit. If those are not available, she has to think. And that hurts after years of applying the above to all situations.
The last Boy Scout
September 18th, 2009
7:30 am
To punish banks and bankers would mean a lose of money to the Republicans and thats not going to happin.
Howard
September 18th, 2009
7:36 am
I am one of your biggest fans and have been for…20 years….but in this case we disagree and that may be the first time in…20 years. I am not defending bankers as I lost a small fortune in Wachovia Stock…these guys were supposed to be conservative lenders…rrrrrright. And, I have been disappointed in the Obama administration for both allowing billions in bogus bonuses to be paid out to Wall Street firms and failing to put forward tough reforms for Wall Street. For the financial community it appears the more things change the more they stay the same….But, ACORN crossed the line big time. I will not excuse their behavior by pointing the finger and saying “but everybody does it” because that is juvenile. In this case, you are off base, way off base. We don’t need federal dollars going to an organization that gives out the kind of “advice” they have obviously given time and again. If its wrong its wrong. Somethings are black and white.
ken
September 18th, 2009
7:49 am
And SEC employees should be in a jail cell beside Bernie.
joe matarotz
September 18th, 2009
7:58 am
Cynthis, I never sonsidered you to be very bright, but you obviously can’t tell the difference between right and wrong. You have employees of an organization that was highly touted by the President and his minions that are willing and eager to abet criminals who made clear their intent to engage in child prostitution. You think it’s unfair the way the organization is being treated. Shame on you.
TRUTH
September 18th, 2009
8:38 am
Georgia continues to show its truly blind ignorance and bumpkin-ism. ACORN was a mess. Period. Who didn’t know that? Ooooh, so now that their funding has been cut off, the ReThuglicans think they have something?? Seriously?? You’ve tried every other angle to try and bring down the President and the Democratic Party, even to the point now where you’re openly advocating violence and civil disobedience. Now you’ve GOT PROOF!!! ACORN is the evil that has gripped this country and pulled it into the murky pits!!! (The Horror!!). It surely has nothing to do with Big Insurance robbing the nation’s citizenry. Or allowing the deaths of so many by cutting or refusing coverage. It has nothing to do with the Banking Industry robbing the nation’s citizenry and then denying credit or taking bailout money and lining their pockets while ALL of us are taking the debt right between the eyes. Iraq. Period. I can go on and on. But all you clowns can yell is ACORN. The blatant attacks on the President, the government, individuals, veiling it with claims that it is about 15,000 other things (that all of a sudden occurred on jan 20th, 2009), and really believing that the rest of world don’t see that this isn’t about race. In the words of that broadcasting genius, Bob Uecker, “Swing and a miss…….” Let’s have real debate about why you don’t want a program that will allow you to keep more money in YOUR pocket and remove the insurance carriers from being truly between you and your doctor. Let’s have an honest debate about RACE in this country. Let’s start being a unified America. Let’s take back our country from those entertainers who have NO stake in the future of OUR country. Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity, and the others make money off your fears. You know its not even in the realm of true, but because of the HATRED and FEAR certain members of our country have, they play to the worst of our society and those that are fearful of the others that feel that way, go along for fear of being identified as a leftist. Incredible. That’s the fringe right version of Freedom. So who’s a Marxist, really?
Jack
September 18th, 2009
8:39 am
I’ve heard of unmitigated gall before, but Tucker takes the cake with this piece.
whatever
September 18th, 2009
8:46 am
It’s amazing that this organization that is supposed to be non-partisan somehow seems to support democrats 100% of the time. Their PACs have been great funnels of money into democrat campaigns.
Well, just nice to see that the Democrats do not hold the moral highground any more than the republicans.
Chris
September 18th, 2009
9:13 am
Ms. Tucker,
I fail to see the correlation between “The bankers” and these ACORN employees? The ACORn employees repeatedly over multiple offices and areas of the country all committed fraudulent and CRIMINAL acts. The bankers, though you certainly disagree committed NO LEGAL CRIMINAL actions. You want to change laws make their actions criminal for future prosecutions, go ahead. But don’t call for people to be prosecuted for acting within the current law!
Austin.Texas
September 18th, 2009
10:36 am
Why is this something I should worry about?
There are a hundred different frauds and scandals to chose from.
How about -
Pfizer shamed with $2.3 billion fine for marketing fraud
and
Early this month former AIG CEO Greenberg agreed to pay a $15 million fine to settle fraud charges that alleged the company had engaged in deceptive accounting practices
The only reasons to focus on one fairly insignificant possible fraud is because it helps make a partisan point, and it involves those darkskinned people.
The financial institutions committed Trillions of dollars worth of fraud, which affected the whole world economy, and some people can’t understand why that is worth talking about???
stands for decibels
September 18th, 2009
11:55 am
can we muster the gumption to do something about the bankers and financiers who have done such serious damage to the country?
No.
This has been another edition of Simple Answers to Simple Questions.
Call it like it is.
September 18th, 2009
1:38 pm
This is too funny. We have been asking the AJC to hit on ACORN for the last couple of weeks, and finally all you can come up with is this?
I mean at the very least I was expecting some kind of crazy spin on how somehow, someway it had to be Bush’s fault that ACORN is teaching pimps and their women on how to cheat the system.
Here Cynthia, I will help you. “Well if it wasn’t for Reagan pumping up military spending back in the 80’s, there would have been money in the system to help educate our young urban men to keep them from being pimps. This is all the complete fault of you Right Wingers!!!!!! I hope you all burn!!!”
Feel free to use this Cynthia.
12Gauge
September 18th, 2009
2:35 pm
Love the racism claims….you all realize that ACORN & SEIU were the brain-childs of the the Rathke Brothers, right ??? And these two are Radical White Men that are at the top of the Executive Branch of both organizations………Can you say a New type of Slavery…with the Massas being white men & the Slaves being those who work in the ACORN/SEIU offices & go out into the streets to pound the pavement, the ridicule their opposers & confront & physically attack their opponenets……
It would make a great Greek Tragedy, if it wasn’t true.
12G
AFXM
September 28th, 2009
12:34 am
Cynthia Tucker, You are a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist , write about
” A Truth that Matters ! ”
ACORN is a Joke ! The ACORN story is nothing but peanuts !
It’s a Political Diversion to keep the News Media and Journalist such as yourself from discovering the truths that matter.
Write about how Phil Gramm has spent a lifetime trying to position himself to Rape the U.S. Economy & Defraud American Taxpayers and then Tell how he almost succeeded.
If you don’t know how, Then Find Out !
And don’t forget his wife Wendy.
Bernie is in Jail.
Where is Swiss Bank Giant Vice Chairman of Financial Services Phil Gramm ?
1 Voice of America
September 30th, 2009
8:39 am
Enter your comments here YES WE CAN!! All we have to do is to repeal the 17th Amendment and ergo — 3 problems solved. [1] Eliminate the federal power to tax our incomes. [2] Give each of our States back its rightful place in curbing the power of the Federal Government and eliminate at the same time the ability of any cartel to rule our government from the shadows. [3] Regain control of our assets and currency. As to ACORN, may I ask precisely what is your own relationship to that organization or any of its tentacles? It has been corrupt from the beginning. Rathke used it in a shell game to thwart our lawful electoral process and based his tactics on a book called “Rules for Radicals” and indirectly caused a large part of the banking failures that are to this very minute threatening the collapse of our Constitutional Republic. CHECK IT OUT — use your power of the press to get at the root of the problem instead of wearing a Party Hat to keep a meaningless distraction to the real problems in our society going on. For every Phil Gramm there is a Theodore [Chappaquiddick] Kennedy, etc. Get the facts and report them, all of them. The videos were evidence of far more than a few “bad apples” and you should know it in your journalistic bones — if any you have.