How Far Does ACORN Influence Go?

by Ms Placed Democrat

ROTTEN ACORN

How far does ACORN influence go? It reaches its tentacles far into Congress. Two things happened recently that are direct evidence of their influence.

First Conyers decided there is no need to investigate ACORN any longer. Why? We don’t know but I suspect Conyers may have received pressure from another Congressman — Nadler. The American Spectator has the following story:

Conyers Kills ACORN Probe

While obviously of a much lesser magnitude, the House Judiciary Committee chairman’s May 4 statement exonerating ACORN couldn’t have come out at a worse time. “Based on my review of the information regarding the complaints against ACORN, I have concluded that a hearing on this matter appears unwarranted at this time,” Conyers said in a statement aired that night on CNN’s “Lou Dobbs Tonight.”

Just hours earlier his fellow Democrats in Nevada, Secretary of State Ross Miller and Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto dropped a bombshell. ACORN and two former senior ACORN employees in the state, they announced, had been charged with a total of 39 felony counts related to voter registrations.

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When on Wednesday this reporter asked Conyers spokesman Jonathan Godfrey to explain the decision not to move forward with a probe, he declined to do so and instead emailed the same statement that was aired on CNN earlier in the week.

It’s unclear what exactly crystallized Conyers’s thinking, but his reversal is all the more puzzling given the enthusiasm the 23-term congressman showed for holding an ACORN hearing mere weeks ago.

Rep. James Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin (this state is one of those states that claimed voter fraud at the hands of ACORN during the election), the ranking Republican on the committee’s panel on the Constitution, civil rights, and civil liberties, had some worries about ACORN that reached as far as the White House.

(He) said the Obama campaign’s alleged involvement with ACORN might violate federal election law. “ACORN has a pattern of getting in trouble for violating federal election laws,” he said.

He also slammed the Old Gray Lady herself. “If true, the New York Times is showing once again that it is a not an impartial observer of the political scene,” Sensenbrenner said. “If they want to be a mouthpiece for the Democratic Party, they should put Barack Obama approves of this in their newspaper.”

And what or whom exactly made Conyers change his mind? Was the Congressional inquiry stopped with in Congress or at the top in the White House? Why isn’t anyone asking this question? No one is answering these questions either.

Purple People Vote has this story about Barney Frank’s reversal to support Michelle Bachmann’s amendment that would stop taxpayer funding of groups like ACORN under indictment for fraud.

Representative Bachmann has offered what appears to be a very simple and logical amendment to the “Mortgage Reform and Anti-Predatory Lending Act.” It simply states that no organization under federal indictment will receive government funds. Listen to what happened in Congress when ACORN recently came under federal indictment (again).

Barney Frank said he will support the amendment only if it states that senior employees are convicted of fraud, watering down the amendment. Interesting…that doesn’t necessarily leave ACORN out of the fray. They were fined in Washington state not to mention the fraud convictions of several ACORN employees in Missouri

So how far does the pressure on Congress go from ACORN? Does it come from the “community organizer” in chief in the White House or one of his underlings? You decide.