NY AG Cuomo Launches ACORN / Lawmaker Probe

Why is it I get the feeling I just watched a rock being overturned and all the creepy critters are scampering for cover? heh!

State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo yesterday launched an investigation into pork-barrel grants given to ACORN by state lawmakers, as City Council Speaker Christine Quinn froze all city funding earmarked for the scandal-scared community-activism organization.

The actions by the Democratic officials followed release of a shocking undercover video that showed employees at a Brooklyn ACORN office giving illicit financial advice to activists posing as a pimp and prostitute who wanted to start a brothel.

Comments

[Ran]

Cuomo... That conservative guard dog! So *very* reassuring.

[Allen Funt]

Didn't anyone watch Candid Camera or Punk'd growing up? The entire shows were built around the fact that people are inherently cooperative and will go out of their way to help people. The shows would regularly put clerks, admin's and secretaries in situations where they were being asked to deal with an absurd situation and the hilarity would ensue as they twisted themselves into pretzels to accommodate the request.

I bet if you went into 10 H&R Block offices and asked the same questions about how a Pimp/Prostitute should file taxes, you would get a similar result in at least a few of them.

ACORN got Punk'd, that's about all it shows me.

[Tom Degan]

The question is just screaming to be posed: How many ACORN locations did these "investigators (Inquisitors?) have to infiltrate before they were able to implicate three corrupt officials?

Has anyone bothered to ask that question?

I smell a rat. Better still, I smell a FOX.

http://www.tomdegan.blogspot.com

Tom Degan
Goshen, NY

[Ran]

You did, Tom. Gotta admit, I'm glad you asked it.

The answer was 40,000 offices - and that was just in Rhode Island! Closer to 1,200,000 across New England. Hell, they even got to the ACORN office in Riyadh. Clearly, these offices were exceptions to the otherwise pristine M.O. of Wade Rathke's social contribution. (sic!)

No, I won't waste my time visiting your site. If you're going to blog-whore, damn it man, at least wear some lipstick.

[Mikey NTH]

State AG's pray for something like this. And if Mr. Cuomo did not get much help from ACORN, all the better.

[Mikey NTH]

Hey 'Allen Funt'! You posted the exact comment at Don Surber! If you aren't getting paid for defending an organization that is willing to aid in the slave-trade, you ought to be!

(Just between us 'Allen Funt', with defending ACORN and its willingness to aid the slave-trade, where were you when your soul died?)

[leilani]

Yeah, Mikey - I was going to say Allen Funt might not be doing his side any favors with that remark. If he's not capable of making the distinction between congenial passersby on the street getting taken offguard by a benign stunt on a Hollywood show and presumably professionally competent 'community organizers' entrusted to honestly & ethically oversee the expenditure of allocated taxpayer dollars in accordance with the law, his faculties for reasoning are seriously impaired.

If this is the best cut & paste defense that leftist apologists for the criminally corrupt racketeers at ACORN can muster, it doesn't engender a whole lot of confidence that their standards will be much higher if & when the same leftists are successful in expropriating the power to administer everyone's health care to any of their other friends.

Will Obamacare staffers also be excused in the same way for their misfeasance and/or malfeasance on the job? If & when an Obamacare worker 'accidentally' pulls granny's plug & steals her wedding ring before calling the coroner, will Allen Funt & his fellow lefty army of internet copy&pasters wave it off as just like an episode in Season 3 of Grey's Anatomy & therefore completely excusable?

Good grief! With friends like these, Obama really doesn't need a vast right wing conspiracy proffering any opposition to his proposed policies, does he? LOL!