Vote the Weasel Out: Nevada’s “Dingy Harry” Reid Is Blocking ACORN Investigation
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on September 27, 2009
Hubris and corruption…
Despite every disgusting thing that has been uncovered in James O’Keefe’s sting videotapes posted on Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government website the last few weeks, showing the blatant corruption of the ACORN organization in five major cities… despite Congress voting to defund the organization and remove it from participation in the 2010 Census and working with the IRS… despite ACORN’s past criminal activities of voter registration fraud, intimidation, and money laundering, in Congress, there is at least one remaining champion of the criminal organization.
Sen. Harry Reid, you’re a disgrace.
ACORN — the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now — is stinking up Washington.
And this is far more significant than if a suspiciously large number of operatives for a purely “private” outfit had been found systematically bending and breaking the law, because ACORN receives and spends taxpayer money — lots of it — and had carried the imprimatur of official partnerships with the IRS, the Census Bureau … the kind of “cred” that in the political world comes only from “who you know.”
Yes, ACORN has friends in high places — friends who are still stonewalling attempts to trace where all that tax money went … perhaps because they know who still has cookie crumbs all over their hands.
It didn’t start with those undercover videos made by a couple of independent filmmakers posing as a prostitute and her pimp, visiting various ACORN offices around the country and getting helpful advice on how to hide their income and “qualify” for a tax-subsidized mortgage to set up a house of ill repute, declaring three of their dozen (albeit imaginary) underage illegal immigrant prostitutes as “dependents.”
That was just a final shoe dropping loudly enough that the problem could no longer be ignored.Here in Clark County, Registrar of Voters Larry Lomax said last year he saw “rampant fraud in the 2,000 to 3,000 registrations ACORN turns in every week,” with some 48 percent of those forms being “clearly fraudulent.”
The Las Vegas headquarters of ACORN, “a Democrat-allied organization,” was raided after being “accused of submitting multiple voter registrations with duplicate and false names,” the Washington Times reported last fall. The outfit claimed it had registered to vote in Nevada, among others, the starting lineup of the Dallas Cowboys.
The raid “set off a skirmish over efforts to expand the electorate on behalf of Sen. Barack Obama,” the Times reported.
Mr. Lomax noted ACORN had hired 59 inmates from a work-release program at a nearby prison and that some inmates who had been convicted of identity theft had been made supervisors. “That led some local wags to joke that at least ACORN was hiring specialists to do their work,” reported John Fund at The Politico, last November.
ACORN’s 2008 Las Vegas field director, Christopher Edwards, pleased guilty last spring to two gross misdemeanor counts of conspiracy to commit compensation for registration of voters, in a deal that saw him agree to testify against fellow defendants.
Fox News’ Eric Shawn reported there were at least 11 investigations across the country involving thousands of potentially fraudulent ACORN forms. Yet none of this was sufficient to block President Obama and his congressional minions from upping federal subsidies to outfits such as Mr. Obama’s former associates at ACORN from the mere millions to the billions of dollars in their “economic stimulus” bill last winter.
Only when presented with the undeniable evidence of the “pimp and ho” videotape did the IRS last week announce it would terminate ACORN’s participation in the agency’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program — shortly after the Census Bureau advised ACORN it could forget about helping with its decennial head count.
Smoke? Fire? Washington Democratic leaders have opted to just lay low and not smell nothin’.
Despite all this evidence and a request in writing by 28 GOP senators — and despite the fact the U.S. Senate voted 83-7 on Sept. 14 to block ACORN from bidding for any more federal grant money — “Senate Democrat Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., is refusing to hold a Senate hearing on ACORN’s activities,” the National Republican Senatorial Committee complained Wednesday.
Mr. Reid replied additional investigations might distract lawmakers from addressing more important matters, including health care and economic recovery.
“It’s become increasingly clear that ACORN may have manipulated tens of thousands of ballots in last year’s federal election — an area where Congress has clear oversight responsibilities — yet Harry Reid won’t lift a finger,” said NRSC spokesman Brian Walsh. “It’s hard to see his latest roadblock as anything but another example of Harry Reid protecting his liberal allies in Washington while remaining out of touch with his constituents in Nevada.”
That’s a politically motivated shot, of course. Stripped of the gratuitous elbowing, however, the question does remain: Do Sen. Reid and congressional Democrats really believe that if they just ignore the big mess their pet bear has dumped in the middle of the room, it’ll somehow stop stinking?
Harry Reid, your days are numbered, buckeroo…
More ACORN corruption and Harry Reid info:
Below The Beltway: So, Will Harry Reid Parade Ted Kennedy’s Dead Body Through The Senate For Health Care Reform?
Hillbuzz: Is Harry Reid a racist, or just a bigot?
Zena Crenshaw, Big Government: ACORN Scandal: Will Harshbarger Intervention Make or Break the ACORN?
Sen. David Vitter (R-LA), Big Government: FEMA Grant to ACORN is Offensive
Real Clear Politics: Reid’s Silly Strategery
Anita MonCrief, Big Government: From the Archives II: ACORN Corruption Runs Deep
Frugal Café Blog Zone: Another Democrat Biting the Dust? Sen. Harry Reid’s Nevada Reelection in Serious Trouble and ACORN’s Brazen $7 Million Lawsuit Against Filmmakers O’Keefe, Giles, & Breitbart Has Little Support (video) and Pelosi & Reid: Quick, Pass ObamaCare While We Still Have the Votes and No One Has Completely Read It… Plus, More UK Health Care Nightmares and Nevada Poll: Majority Want Sen. Harry Reid Out, Sarah Palin in Nevada Senate or White House and ‘Big Government’s’ Breitbart Lets Major TV News Media Have It for Lying, Ignoring, or Distorting ACORN Child Hooker-Tax Fraud Scandal (video)
Maura Flynn, Big Government: ACORN Founder Wade Rathke: “There Is a Different Culture”
Big Hollywood: ACORN Video Investigation
Matthew Vadum, Big Government: ACORN’s Man is ‘Political Director’ in White House
Big Government: ACORN’s Working Family of Democratic Socialists
Michelle Malkin: Monday morning quick hits: Gadhafi, Haditha, Dingy Harry & more and Harry Reid is “on the ropes” and Hapless Harry opens mouth, inserts both feet and They’re sick of Harry Reid, too and Hey, Harry Reid, do you think we have an entitlement crisis yet?
Kristina Rasmussen, Big Government: Illinois Grant to ACORN Housing Under Review
Right Voices: Remember When Harry Reid Said: “Today’s report confirms that the so-called Social Security crisis exists in only one place — the minds of Republicans,” said Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid of Nevada. “In reality, the program is on solid ground for decades to come.”
Hot Air: Kos warns Reid: With 60 votes, you have no more excuses and Harris poll: Obama Cabinet a collection of mediocrities and Video: Reid praises Sotomayor and his own ignorance
Gateway Pundit: Figures. Media Was Silent When Obama Left His Elected Office Early
Scared Monkeys: Democrats Senate Leader Harry Reid in Real Trouble in 2010 Election Bid … Where are Those Obama Coat Tails?
Amused Cynic: The Pelosi/Reid presidency, and an “ideological bender” the country does not truly want….
Macsmind: Let’s Ramp Up Investigation into All the Organizations of the Left
Hot Air: Breitbart: I thought Bertha Lewis was grateful that we exposed ACORN’s corruption and War: ACORN sues Breitbart, O’Keefe, and Giles and Dig deep: Hannah Giles defense fund launches and Media Matters dishonest editing in support of their “smear” argument exposed and ACORN chief: Targeting a minority group with a prostitution sting is racist or something and Is ACORN operating in Maryland illegally?
Wellsy’s World: Disgrace: ACORN sues undercover journalists
Mike Flynn, Big Government: ACORN Recap Video: Pictures Worth Two Weeks of News
Pundit Pawn: ACORN CEO Dances on FOX
GayPatriot: In re: NEA Scandal, What Wasn’t Recorded? (At NEA & other agencies)
Nice Deb: Justice Dept. Inspector General To Look Into ACORN Funding
Diary of a Mad Conservative: The secret party behind the Democrats and Some of the deepest roots to the great ACORN scam
Patrick Courrielche, Big Hollywood: Statement on the Recording of the August 10 NEA Conference Call
Publius, Big Government: Publius, Big Government: NY Times Editor: Paper Was Too Slow to Cover ACORN Scandal and Is Breitbart More Powerful than ACORN? and Limbaugh: White House Using Fed Arts Agency to Push Agenda
Anita MonCrief: Schumer, Gutierrez and Waters Honored for Governing the “ACORN Way” at Anniversary Celebration
Pronk Palisades: The American People Confront The Red Shirts (ACORN) and Purple Shirts (SEIU) Bullhorns and Beatings Over Obama Care!
Michelle Malkin: ACORN Watch: What happens in Vegas… and The other pension scandals Obama won’t talk about and Going on offense against the ACORN conspiracy and Project Vote sues whistleblower: ObamACORN bully tactics exposed and “ACORN is a criminal enterprise” and Voter fraud alert: Houseful of out-of-state Obama activists registered as Ohio voters, received absentee ballots
Radio Vice Online: Alinsky Rule #8: Never let up
Sister Toldjah: ACORN files suit against Breitbart.com
Big Government: James O’Keefe Chats with Fox News’ Chris Wallace
John Nolte, Big Government: Propaganda, Health Care and ACORN: Full context of NEA Conference Call Reveals Disturbing Pattern
FOX News: Justice Department Inspector General Launches Internal ACORN Probe and ACORN Chief Dodges Congressman’s Call to Come Before Congress
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There is nothing more deplorable than Harry Reid, and Nancy Pelosi running Congress, and dictating to the body of congress that everything and everyone that is in opposition to our policies will be disallowed.
Obama has in place a dynasty, unfolding before our very eyes.
This administration is going to be the straw that breaks the camel’s back.
Either the conservatives take the majority in congress in 2010, or we will be enslaved by a soft tyranny/socialistic system that will take years, decades, perhaps generations, to bring the Country back to where IT WAS WHEN IT WAS FOUNDED.
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Can someone provide a list of the candidates running against this person and a bio of each? I’m not a resident of the great state of Nevada, but would like to contribute to the improvement of its politics by getting rid of this fool. After all, as a member of the Senate of the United States of America his lack of good judgment and knowledge of the Constitution of the United States of America affects all its citizens, of whom (which?) I am one.
Steamboat, good for you! And you’re right about Reid… he’s not only a fool, but a dangerous fool. Check out this previous blog post:
Another Democrat Biting the Dust? Sen. Harry Reid’s Nevada Reelection in Serious Trouble
Several people running against Sen. Reid are listed in this piece and the blog has a link to a Nevada source that should be able to help you out further.
LOL – I’ve done the same thing you’re doing as of late… donating to the campaign of someone outside my state who is running against a Democrat weasel. Great minds thinking alike, eh?
Another weasel is California Democrat Sen. Barbara Boxer… right now, I’m thinking of donating to Chuck DeVore’s campaign fund as he is running against her. Boxer is a tyrant and a nightmare. If you’re not familiar with Boxer, just do a search here – you’ll remember her right away… she’s the senator who was rude to the Brig. General by making him call her “Senator” instead of “Ma’am.” She’s also been called a racist by the Chairman of the National Black Chamber of Commerce. She’s been spearheading the global warming energy tax package. She also said that she believed that people attending townhall protests were fake protesters because they “dressed too well.” She’s an elitist and a statist. Need to get her out, too.