A “corrupt criminal organization” that caused the global financial crisis. That’s right. But Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, is not referring to any bonus-loving cowboys’ Wall Street hedge fund or renegade bank department. He is speaking about that low-income housing and voter registration powerhouse ACORN. Video after the jump by David Weigel, who has been following this story for TCI sister site The Washington Independent. “Now Congress has voted in the House and the Senate to unfund ACOR

Missouri's Secretary of State, Robin Carnahan (D-MO) has seemingly tight ties with ACORN. Carnahan is running for the U.S. Senate in 2010. If she wins the seat, she will replace Senator Kit Bond (R-MO). Robin Carnahan The Deparment of Justice (DOJ) under the Bush 43 administration filed charges against Carnahan and Missouri in a lawsuit known as the National Voter Registration Act, charging that ineligible voters were not being properly pursued. Similar charges were also f

Posted on October 7th, 2009 in Colorado Politics, Education, Fiscal Policy, General, Labor, National Politics, PPC, clean government, liberty, property rights | Written by Ben | No Comments » I’d like to take the opportunity this morning to thank ACORN — Say what? Yes, thank ACORN … not only for exposing your own corruption but also for helping to remind us that the federal government is overflowing in tax dollars far beyond any rational sense to redistribute the money in any sensibl

Clark Hoyt , the New York Times ombudsman thinks the paper should stop running scared from Glenn Beck . Hoyt took the Times to task this weekend over their coverage (or lack thereof) of the ACORN and the Van Jones debacle, both incidents which arguably developed into national stories due to their flames being relentlessly fanned by “the polemical world of talk radio, cable television and partisan blogs.” A world, says Hoyt, that the Times has trouble dealing with. But for days,

by Jeremy Scahill — AntiWar.com Republican Congressional leaders are continuing their witch-hunt against ACORN, the grassroots community group dedicated to helping poor and working class people. This campaign now unfortunately has gained bi-partisan legislative support in the form of the Defund ACORN Act of 2009 which has now passed the House and Senate. As Ryan [...] Related posts: We Need a Special Prosecutor for Blackwater and Other CIA ‘Contractors’