NY Rep. Nadler: Ethics? Ethics? Hey, This Is ACORN Yer Talkin’ About… I Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Ethics
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on October 26, 2009
Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) is ethically challenged when it comes to corrupt ACORN organization
New York Democrat Rep. Jerrold Nadler was one of the few members of Congress who opposed ACORN’s defunding after all James O’Keefe’s fraud/prostitution sting videos starting falling out of the woodwork. We’re starting to see why.
From Matthew Vadum, Big Government, BREAKING: ACORN Ally Nadler Resists Probe While Giving ACORN Advice:
Washington has long been a place where ethics are flexible. If mainstream media outlets are snoozing, it’s easy to get away with a lot.
The mainstream media has paid very little attention to the ties between Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), who chairs a House Judiciary subcommittee that might be called upon to investigate ACORN, and Nadler’s close working relationship with ACORN.
Also from Matthew Vadum, American Spectator, Nadler’s ACORN Ethics:
Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), who heads a congressional subcommittee that may be investigating ACORN in the not-too-distant future, has been providing advice to ACORN’s lawyer, according to a new report.
Nadler, a longtime ACORN ally, is chairman of the House Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on the Constitution, civil rights, and civil liberties.
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In spring Nadler performed a political kabuki dance with House Judiciary Committee chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.), promising during a congressional hearing to probe ACORN if “credible evidence” of wrongdoing arose.
“It’s not our business to say ACORN is terrible or ACORN is wonderful. That’s not a congressional job,” Nadler said. “The evidence — I’ve listened to it — I think most of it is nonsense. If it’s true, it’s a law enforcement matter.”
Weeks later Conyers mysteriously backed away from his promise to investigate ACORN, saying “the powers that be” had decided against it. He’s refused to identify “the powers that be.”
Like Nadler, Judiciary Committee chairman Conyers is also a huge fan of ACORN. Conyers received a 100% rating from ACORN in its 2006 legislative scorecard. He showed how truly in sync he was with ACORN when he spoke at the group’s national convention last June 22. “I’m through with deregulation,” said Conyers. “It doesn’t work because the capitalist predators who are waiting unregulated are going to take advantage of it.”
Astute readers at Big Government weigh in on Nadler:
From Skeeter J:
Nadler is not only complicit, he’s either intellectually dishonest, good ol’ fashioned stupid, or, more likely, a combination of those things.
This is the guy who said passing a law to defund and deny ACORN tax dollars was, in fact, a bill of attainder. It just shows how little this guy knows about the Constitution.. either that, or it shows how willing he is to twist the Constitution to fit his own agenda.
Either way, Nadler is a scum bag and is the epitome of what we DON’T need in our government.
From Cowboy Logic:
Congressman Nadler owes his very existence to ACORN. He is complicit, and is a co-CON-spirator…
If Jerry Nadler and John Conyers went after ACORN, with the same zeal that they go after the CIA, ACORN would cease to exist.
From copperpeony:
These guys need a pink slip in 2010. Everything should be done by conservative constituents to remove them from office one way or another. It’s going to be a hard fight against this corrupt mob.
From Einy:
col·lu·sion
NOUN: A secret agreement between two or more parties for a fraudulent, illegal, or deceitful purpose.
Now would this definition explain what Nadler and ACORN are up to, or does this describe what 0bama feels about the Constitution? I can’t seem to make my mind up…?
ACORN HQ building in New Orleans is up for sale
Related ACORN reading:
Big Government: Big Government’s O’Keefe: **BREAKING** ACORN Video: Prostitution Scandal in Philadelphia, PA Part 1
Traction Control: New Hannah vid – Acorn caught in more lies
Hannah Giles, Big Government: LameStream Media: Why Did You Bypass These Juicy ACORN Nuggets?
Jill Stanek, Big Government: Community Organizing with Barack, ACORN and SEIU: An Eyewitness Account, Part I
Liberty Chick, Big Government: SEIU: Building a New American Health Care Empire?
Michael McCray, Big Government: ACORN Layoffs are Taxpayer Rip-offs
Republican Redefined: ACORN at it Again: The War Against the Popular Rule Rages On
American Spectator: Philly Video Proves ACORN Was Lying
McNorman’s Weblog: ACORN Sting Team Releases New Video From Philadelphia Office
Stop The ACLU: And Yet Another ACORN Scandal
James O’Keefe, Big Government: Unsolved Mysteries and Irreconcilable Difference for Mr. Scott Harshbarger
Big Government: ACORN Empire Strikes Back
Nice Deb: Philly Acorn Sting Video (UPDATED – Video Back Up) and Video: Breitbart’s ACORN Unveiled Press Conference and Bill O’Reilly To MN Gov. Pawlenty: Take Another Look At ACORN’s 43,000 Votes For Al Franken
Publius, Big Government: WaPo: Duo Release Another Video of Their Meeting with ACORN Worker
Billy Hollowell, Big Government: The Media’s Complicity: Anaysis of ACORN Coverage
Kyle Olson, Big Government: ACORN ‘Advisory’ Committee Has Huge Stake in Success of Group
Radio Vice Online: ACORN: Who will be fired in Philadelphia? Housing, prostitution, fraud
GayPatriot: NYTimes fails to report memo detailing ACORN’s trouble in wake of the left-wing organization’s latest scandals
Michelle Malkin: SEIU leads new banking shakedown campaign and A tale of two protection rackets: ACORN’s — and the media’s
Frugal Café Blog Zone: Brilliant ACORN Spoof: Hitler Rants Against O’Keefe and Giles for Their Fraud/Child Prostitution Exposé Videos (video) and ACORN in Another Sex-Fraud Scandal Uncovered by O’Keefe & Giles: Philadelphia… Now City of “Prostitute Love” (video) and Why Did FEMA Award $1 Million ‘Fire Prevention’ Grant to ACORN? and ACORN: “We’ll Help You Get Away with Stuff” — Jay Leno, Bill O’Reilly, & Dennis Miller Weigh In (video) and ‘Big Government’s’ Breitbart Lets Major TV News Media Have It for Lying, Ignoring, or Distorting ACORN Child Hooker-Tax Fraud Scandal (video)
Fire Andrea Mitchell!: ACORN in Philadelphia, Katherine Conway Russell and Media Matters exposed!
Hot Air: Breaking: New ACORN video from Philadelphia and Breitbart: I thought Bertha Lewis was grateful that we exposed ACORN’s corruption
Stage Right, Big Government: Media Matters: Never Mind About All Those Facts… We Have a Police Report!
Publius, Big Government: Bertha Lewis: Help ACORN, Vote Obama! and Ethics Are Voters’ Top Issue? How Did That Happen… and ACORN Tactics Revealed in Discovered Documents
Are you Freaking Stupid?: Who would leave computers behind which contain incriminating evidence, with get this the passwords in the desk drawers? Um..ACORN
Wall Street Journal: Bank Pulls Back From Acorn Work
US News & World Report: ACORN Story Shows How Internet Reporting Is Beating the New York Times
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