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King Calls on Conyers to Conduct Full Investigation of ACORN
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Congressman Steve King has sent a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers calling for a comprehensive full investigation into ACORN and it’s affiliates.
In his letter to Conyers, King points out a report which was released on July 23, 2009 where the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform detailed a “criminal enterprise and its illegal activities”, according to King.
The contents of Congressman Steve King‘s letter read,
“As you know, I am concerned about facts related to the Association of Community Organization for Reform Now (ACORN). I request that the Judiciary Committee hold congressional hearings and conduct a complete and comprehensive full committee investigation into ACORN and its affiliates.
ACORN is operating as a criminal enterprise and committing illegal and fraudulent activity. I have repeatedly called for a congressional investigation into ACORN, but publicly available information about ACORN’s criminal acts has been ignored by liberals in Congress and the mainstream media. On July 23, 2009, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released a detailed report on this criminal enterprise and its illegal activities. That same day, you agreed to read the report during our colloquy on the House floor. As I’m sure you are aware, the Committee concluded that ACORN and its spider web of affiliates is involved with deliberate and systemic fraud—including tax evasion, obstruction of justice and aiding and abetting the cover-up of embezzlement. The report also details ACORN’s conspiracy to defraud the United States government by illegally using taxpayer funds.
As we discussed in our meeting on Tuesday, we have a duty to protect the integrity of our election process. ACORN has threatened that integrity by committing voter registration fraud. ACORN is currently under investigation in at least 14 states. It has admitted to filing over 400,000 false or fraudulent voter registrations in the 2008 election cycle alone. Because of this, ACORN, as an entity, has been indicted on voter fraud charges in Nevada. Its involvement in questionable lending practices and in the shakedown of lenders also demonstrates that ACORN is rife with fraud. As if these offenses were not enough to warrant a congressional inquiry, recent videos released on Fox News of ACORN employees facilitating fraud, human trafficking, prostitution and tax evasion have added new, even more troubling transgressions to ACORN’s rap sheet. These acts cannot be ignored. The time to investigate ACORN is now.
As a recipient of at least $53 million in taxpayer dollars since 1994, ACORN must be held accountable. Despite a laundry list of criminal activity, ACORN is still eligible to receive $8.5 billion more in federal tax dollars. We have a duty to protect the Rule of Law and the interests of the taxpayer. To fulfill this duty with regard to ACORN, we must start holding congressional hearings and order a complete investigation into ACORN. I look forward to meeting with you again on Friday, September 25, to determine how the full Judiciary Committee will proceed with an investigation of ACORN and its affiliates.”
Will this be enough to encourage a full blown investigation into the organization with people like Senator Harry Reid protecting them? You may recall reports near the end of July of this year when Conyers backs off probe of ACORN.
Congressman King accuses Reid of Protecting ACORN
Posted by: | CommentsCongressman Steve King, of Iowa, came out with a strong statement today regarding Senator Harry Reid’s willingness to stand behind ACORN while rejecting GOP calls for a full investigation into the organization that has been surrounded in so many scandals and corruption.
Representative King has been at the forefront with numerous blocked attempts of trying to have ACORN removed from any federal funding as well as requests to have the organization from being involved with the 2010 Census. Who has been blocking the Congressman’s efforts? You might just recognize the name, Nancy Pelosi. Read more, Democrats Continue to Protect ACORN.
With today’s latest press release, Rep. Steve King does not let us down with his strong statements against what can be considered a web of corruption.
“The interlocking financial connections between ACORN and its affiliate organizations are rife with waste, fraud and abuse, yet ACORN has never been investigated by Congress because of ACORN cronies like Harry Reid. How much more evidence does Harry Reid need to initiate investigations into this partisan criminal enterprise?
“An all-out, full court press federal investigation is the only way to bring ACORN to heel. The Department of Justice and the Internal Revenue Service need to jointly investigate ACORN and perform a complete forensic analysis of the activities and finances of ACORN and its affiliates. We also need multiple Congressional committee investigations to ensure ACORN will not continue its shady practices, especially while collecting taxpayer funds. People need to go to jail for criminal activities.”
More on ACORN:
On June 26, 2009, The Washington Times, reported,
“House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. has backed off his plan to investigate purported wrongdoing by the liberal activist group ACORN, saying ?powers that be? put the kibosh on the idea.”
On February 8, 2009, Rotten ACORN, on the organization being under investigation in 14 states,
“ACORN is under investigation in at least 14 states in connection with allegations of voter registration fraud in the 2008 campaign.”
The Las Vegas Sun reported on ACORN voter fraud in Nevada on July 24, 2009.
“The Nevada Attorney General’s Office has charged ACORN and two former employees for allegedly employing a similar quota system in the Las Vegas area during the 2008 presidential campaign.”
The organization even admitted to over 400,000 fraudulent voter registrations in the 2008 election cycle with many details of the many of corruption being provided at, Discover The Networks. I found the statement below on their website.
“The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) is a grassroots political organization that grew out of George Wiley’s National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO), whose members in the late 1960s and early 1970s invaded welfare offices across the U.S. — often violently — bullying social workers and loudly demanding every penny to which the law “entitled” them. In the late Sixties, ACORN co-founder Wade Rathke was an NWRO organizer and a protegé of Wiley. Rathke also organized a draft-resistance campaign for the militant group Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) during the same period.”
With all this going on, ACORN still stands to make millions, as reported in part by Big Government .com.
The ACORN Corruption Mystery Continues to Unfold
Posted by: | CommentsThe issues surrounding the organization called, ACORN, have been coming under heavy debate for the past few years with many accusations and even prosecutions regarding voter fraud by individuals working for them.
Congressman Steve King, of Iowa, has been heading up efforts to remove ACORN from receiving any federal taxpayer dollars for several months now with many backing him up with strong urges to audit the organization to find out what exactly they have been doing with the millions the organization has received in taxpayer dollars. Nancy Pelosi has blocked House attempts to bring forth investigations into the organization six times.
In a September 10, 2009 press release, Steve King states,
“Taxpayers should be outraged that their money has gone to an organization that, in addition to facing charges of voter fraud and tax violations, is willing to facilitate prostitution,” King said. “As this video confirms, ACORN continues to operate as a criminal enterprise. Nancy Pelosi, John Conyers, Barney Frank and other Democrats on Capitol Hill continue to protect and fund ACORN while blocking Congressional hearings on ACORN’s operations and finances. Shielding ACORN from oversight ensures that this partisan criminal enterprise will continue its shady practices while collecting taxpayer funds.”
His reaction followed the release of videotapes of ACORN employees appearing to consult two individuals on how to evade taxes and how to hide their child prostitution operation.
Steve King’s latest press release calls the group a, “Criminal Enterprise” and continues with a request for, “An all-out, full court press federal investigation”.
“We have now seen multiple examples of an organization that, in addition to facing charges of voter fraud and tax violations, is willing to facilitate child prostitution and human trafficking. These videos have confirmed that ACORN continues to operate as a criminal enterprise.
“An all-out, full court press federal investigation is the only way to bring ACORN to heel. The Department of Justice and the Internal Revenue Service need to jointly investigate ACORN and perform a complete forensic analysis of the activities and finances of ACORN and its affiliates. We also need multiple Congressional committee investigations to ensure this partisan criminal enterprise will not continue its shady practices while collecting taxpayer funds. People need to go to jail for their criminal activities.”
His latest comments stem from the latest in a series of undercover videos taken while James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles performed a unique investigation at a number of ACORN offices across the country.
NOTE: Currently there are 20 states investigating ACORN with many investigations being brought on since the uproar over these videos and serious concerns with the activities seen in them.
The latest videos to be released were taken at the ACORN’s San Diego, California field office.
And yet there is a rumor that there are still more videos to come. With each video the plot thickens for this supposed non-partisan organization.
Another document was forwarded onto me this morning with well researched details showing the history of the organization. The document is provided by the Capital Research Center, titled, “Who Funds the Weather Underground’s Little Brother?” If you are looking for the dirty little secrets on ACORN, I’d suggest you take a long look at this document.
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Iowa Congressman Steve King Receives Defender of Economic Freedom Award
Posted by: | CommentsIowa Congressman Steve King receives another award. The Defender of Economic Freedom Award, offered by Club for Growth, is for Steve King’s voting record on economic growth relating issues. Club for Growth is a national network of thousands of Americans, from all walks of life, who believe that prosperity and opportunity come through economic freedom.
1 of 54 Members of Congress to earn award based on support for economic growth issues in Congress
Iowa Congressman Steve King
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Chris Chocola, President of The Club for Growth, the nation’s leading free-market advocacy organization with over 40,000 members, announced that Congressman Steve King has earned the annual Defender of Economic Freedom award. The award honors Members of Congress who have a strong voting record on economic growth issues.
“Congressman King is a champion of the pro-growth agenda,”
Chocola said.
“As 1 of 54 Congressional Members to earn this award, Congressman King has demonstrated a strong commitment to economic freedom and free-market principles.”
The award is based on certain votes in 2008 that the Club for Growth tracks on its scorecard, including cutting and limiting government spending, lowering taxes, expanding free trade, regulatory reform and deregulation. The study included a comprehensive examination of each lawmaker’s record on pro-growth policies and computed an Economic Growth Score on a scale of 0 to 100. A score of 100 indicates the highest support for pro-growth policies. Those lawmakers scoring 90 or higher receive the Defender of Economic Freedom award.
“I am grateful to receive this award from the Club for Growth,”
King said.
“The principles this award is based upon are the foundations of our nation’s economic strength and prosperity and key to the creation of more good-paying jobs.”
6,900 Iowa Small Businesses Hit With Tax Hikes Under Liberal Health Plan
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Steve King while Visiting a Farm
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congressman Steve King (R-IA) today made the following statement about new research from the Heritage Foundation revealing that 6,900 Iowa small business owners will pay a 5.4 percent surtax under the liberal health care plan being debated in Congress. The Heritage study also states that the liberal plan will carry a $1.3 trillion price tag and will increase the tax burden of 2.04 million Americans, about half of them small business owners.
“Liberals have put forth a health care plan that will empower Washington bureaucrats to control our health care system. To pay for their plan, liberals are proposing more job-killing tax hikes – up to an additional 5.4 percent – on the engine of economic growth in America: small businesses.
“In Iowa and across America, many small business owners are doing all they can just to get by. Hard and smart working Iowa small business owners cannot afford these tax hikes. Iowa’s small businesses employ 668,226 people per year, and a number of these jobs will be lost if these tax hikes go through. Raising the taxes of small business owners will cost jobs and could result in some small businesses shutting their doors and closing their operations.
“Instead of destroying jobs and empowering Washington bureaucrats to control our health care system, I want to create new jobs and protect the relationship between patients and doctors. The liberal plan will decrease the quality of our health care, cost American jobs and raise our taxes to pay for more Washington spending.”
The full Heritage Foundation study is available at http://www.heritage.org/research/healthcare/upload/Surtax_table.pdf
ACORN continues to be shielded by Liberals
Posted by: | CommentsACORN continues to be shielded by Liberals even after allegations of illegal conduct by the House Oversight Committee. So much protection is being offered by a President who use to be employed by this same group.
Corruption by ACORN and political appointees
A report released earlier today by The Hills Blog Briefing Room, House GOP report calls ACORN ‘criminal enterprise’, stated that the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee found that ACORN has deliberately engaged in systemic fraud along with accusations of embezzlements, investment fraud, cover-ups, and conspiracy to defraud the United States by using taxpayer funds for partisan activities.
Another report from the press secretary of Iowa Congressman Steve King reads:
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congressman Steve King today introduced an amendment to the Labor-HHS Appropriations Bill prohibiting any taxpayer money in the bill from going to ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) or any of its 174 affiliates. Liberals on the House Rules Committee ruled King’s amendment out of order. This is the seventh amendment addressing ACORN liberals have denied King from offering. King has previously introduced amendments to keep ACORN from receiving taxpayer money and to bar ACORN from helping with the 2010 census.
“John Conyers is right: the ‘powers that be’ in this Congress will do all they can to protect ACORN,” King said. “ACORN is corroding the integrity of our electoral process by attacking the sanctity of the ballot box and using taxpayer dollars to do so, and Nancy Pelosi and Democrats on Capitol Hill are complicit in ACORN’s cover-up. Shielding ACORN from oversight ensures that this liberal get-out-the-vote machine will continue its shady practices. It is time for every member of this Congress to go on record on taxpayer funding for ACORN.”
About ACORN:
- In June, the Washington Times reported that House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers “backed off his plan to investigate wrong doing by the liberal activist group ACORN, saying ‘powers that be’ put the kibosh on the idea.”
- ACORN is under investigation in at least 14 states.
- ACORN as an entity was charged with voter fraud in Nevada.
- ACORN has admitted to over 400,000 fraudulent voter registrations in the 2008 election cycle.
- ACORN has received $53 million in taxpayer dollars since 1994.
- ACORN is eligible to receive $8.5 billion more in federal tax dollars.
- ACORN played a role in the mortgage meltdown by pressuring banks to make bad loans.
- ACORN and its affiliates all use the same accounting firm and same mailing address in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Why would Democrats (Liberals) continue to surround themselves with continued illegal activities by groups such as ACORN? So many questions have been raised about political appointies for this administration and their tax issues along with various other high levels of corruption. It’s about time these individuals are brought to a screeching stop and taught who they have volunteered to work for.
