“Honesty is not going to get you the house,” a loan counselor at the offices told two activists posing as a mortgage-seeking pimp and prostitute.
“You can’t say what you do for a living.”
ACORN workers in two other cities, Baltimore and Washington, DC, had already fallen hooker, line and sinker for the hidden-camera sting operation by two conservative activists. Four ACORN employees have been fired as a result of the earlier videos, and last Friday the Census Bureau severed its ties with the group, whose members had been hired to do canvassing during the 2010 census.
Mayor Bloomberg spoke out on the controversy today.
“Prostitution is illegal in this state and I don’t know why they would — why an organization like ACORN, who’s trying to encourage voter turnout and voter registration, why they’re getting involved in any of that stuff,” Bloomberg said. “But clearly it’s not appropriate and they shouldn’t have been doing it. Whether they broke a law or not I don’t know. You’ll have to talk to the legal (authorities).”
I smell the makings of another reality show. Damn these people are stupid!
#32–bored==well said. Haven’t thought about that aspect of the Western Expansion for a while. Certainly a valid view. “Floundering Fathers”–gotta remember that one.
#31 Pedro
Yeah they seem pretty dodgy. Another nail in the coffin of honesty in politics. Corruption seems to be the only way to get ahead in a modern Democracy.
I heard the claim that Nancy P. has blocked ACORN being investigated six times. I have the feeling anyone in politics connected to this group is about to pay.
They made the claim tonight that they had a real bomb they were going to explode tomorrow. If supporting the efforts of a person to set up a brothel in public housing using underage girls and human trafficking wasn’t the bomb this must be really seriously rank.
About the Constitution: it is the foundation on which our government rests. Like any foundation it’s been subject to a few changes over the years but throw it out and we are going to end up forging a new nation or nations based on a completely different legal system. Normally speaking that follows a lot of bleeding and dying and the end product may be much less than people had hoped for.
I would note that my favorite part of the Constitution was only added to satisfy people who weren’t present when it was first written: the bill of rights.
# 11 Ah_Yea:
“It is time to have a full, top to bottom audit of ACORN.”
Okay, I can go for that, as long as we do the same for Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Countrywide, CitiBanc, GMAC, WaMu, Goldman Sachs, AIG, Chase, etc., etc., etc. (I’m sure there are at least two or three dozen more that could go on the list.) Compared to any of these, ACORN is some pissant little group that provides some harassment along the edges of big business.
ACORN can’t destroy a country, but Wall Street can, and nearly did.