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BREAKING: San Diego ACORN Document Dump Scandal
BREAKING: San Diego ACORN Document Dump Scandal
On October 1st, 2009 California Attorney General Jerry Brown announced that an investigation had been opened into ACORN’s activities in California, resulting from undercover videos showing employees seemingly offering to assist the undercover film makers with human smuggling, child ...
PublicPolicyPolling: Acorn
PublicPolicyPolling: Acorn
publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com — Losing NY-23 candidate Doug Hoffman became the latest in an increasingly long line of conservative politicians to... blame his problems on ACORN yesterday despite the complete lack of evidence the organization played any role in his defeat. (more) PublicPolicyPolling: Acorn
Inside ACORN’S Political Plans: Ensuring a Democrat Majority
Inside ACORN’S Political Plans: Ensuring a Democrat Majority
hotair.com — According to a report from Ohio today, a member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee... has asked the ACORN-tainted Ohio Secretary of State, Jennifer Brunner, to investigation ACORN’s voter registration work in the state. [...] ... (more) Inside ACORN’S Political Plans: Ensuring a Democrat Majority
Report: ACORN mismanaged grant money
Report: ACORN mismanaged grant money
washingtontimes.com — S.A. Miller A report Friday by the Justice Department's independent inspector general revealed that ACORN won approval... for nearly $200,000 in Justice grants since 2002 and mismanaged some of the money. The grant tally, though only from a single ... (more) Report: ACORN mismanaged grant money
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Dumping on ACORN's Dumping
True North - Pointing Minnesota in the Right Direction — ... ACORN legal problems are growing larger by the week, and the latest spotlight shines in California. Early in October, CA Attorney General Jerry Brown announced an investigation into ACORN's California offices, after damaging videos were released from Andrew Breitbart, James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles. A few days prior to the AG's visit, ACORN staff reportedly reacted hastily by tossing potential evidence and sensitive documents in a public dumpster. At Big Government, a private investigator retrieved the dumped documents and reports his findings: ...

Dear ACORN: Its not the Scandal, Its the Cover Up
The Jawa Report — November 23, 2009 Dear ACORN: Its not the Scandal, Its the Cover Up Via Big Government: On October 1st, 2009 California Attorney General Jerry Brown announced that an investigation had been opened into ACORN’s activities in California, resulting from undercover videos showing employees seemingly offering to assist the undercover film makers with human smuggling, child prostitution and even tax advice to boot. Although ACORN has denied any wrongdoing, some of the employees involved were terminated, and ACORN has publicly stated that they would fully cooperate with any ...

ACORN document dump
Commonsense & Wonderhttp://biggovernment.com/2009/11/23/breaking-san-diego-acorn-document-dump-scandal/

The Mess that Is ACORN San Diego -- By: Kathryn Jean Lopez
The Corner on National Review OnlineFrom BigGovernment: Interestingly, the local head ACORN organizer in California, David Lagstein was caught on tape earlier this month speaking to an East County Democratic Club. Mr. Lagstein stated: “…the attorney general is a political animal, but certainly every bit of the communication we have had with them has suggested that the fault will be found with the people that did the video and not the people with ACORN.” Continuing, Mr. Lagstein stated: “…we are fully cooperating, some of the investigators visited our office this morning ...

Doing the digging the dinosaur media won’t do
Michelle Malkin — Doing the digging the dinosaur media won’t do By Michelle Malkin•November 23, 2009 02:35 PM Big Government has a treasure trove of ACORN docs dumped to cover the criminal racket’s tracks before Jerry Brown launched a pretend probe. The Washington Examiner’s Byron York has the goods on the ...

MORE BREAKING NEWS: ACORN Document Dump Scandal. “Shockingly, we now learn that the ACORN office i…
Instapundit — ... MORE BREAKING NEWS: ACORN Document Dump Scandal. “Shockingly, we now learn that the ACORN office in National City (San Diego County) engaged in a massive document dump on the evening of October 9th, containing thousands upon thousands of sensitive documents, just days prior to the Attorney General’s visit.” But the documents were retrieved from the dumpster. ...

ObamACORN Shreds Remaining Reputation Instead Of Documents
Riehl World View — ... It will take a Republican majority in the House in 2010 to truly get to the bottom of this garbage, up to and including potential links to the Obama WH itself. But Republicans must have control to make it happen. This is yet another good reason to put dreams of a 3rd party aside right now. With effort, we could bring the whole thing down in 2011 - 2012 and cut the progressives adrift in American politics for a decade, or more. Keep the big picture in mind as you're reading Big Government on this. ...

Breaking: ACORN document dump scandal in San Diego
Wizbang — Breitbart is at it again. Big Government is reporting on another breaking ACORN scandal , this time in San Diego. Shockingly, we now learn that the ACORN office in National City (San Diego County) engaged in a massive document dump on the evening of October 9th, containing thousands upon thousands of sensitive documents, just days prior to the Attorney General's visit. BigGovernment.com has learned that not only did this document dump occur, but the documents in question were irresponsibly and brazenly dumped in a public dumpster, without considering laws and regulations as to ...

ONE DAY STORY: criminal enterprise ACORN attempts document dump … [Darleen Click]
protein wisdom — … badly … On October 1st, 2009 California Attorney General Jerry Brown announced that an investigation had been opened into ACORN’s activities in California, resulting from undercover videos showing employees seemingly offering to assist the undercover film makers with human smuggling, child prostitution and even tax advice to boot. Although ACORN has denied any wrongdoing, some of the employees involved were terminated, and ACORN has publicly stated that they would fully cooperate with any investigations that followed. [...] Shockingly, we now learn that the ACORN office in ...

ACORN pwnage part II: Breitbart's BigGovt Lowers the Boom
Doug Ross @ Journal — ... When it comes to public relations strategy, few would argue that Andrew Breitbart isn't the reigning grandmaster. His latest move is another masterstroke , revealing dumpster-diving behind the offices of ACORN San Diego (National City). Little more than a week after Cali A.G. Jerry Brown announced a state-wide investigation of ACORN, the office "dumped thousands of sensitive documents" -- including personal information governed by privacy regulations -- into a publicly accessible dumpster. ...ACORN’s political agenda is... exposed, with thousands upon thousands of documents ...

A New ACORN Scandal….This Time They Try To Destroy The Evidence & Screw That Up
Flopping Aces — Just more evidence that your common criminal is just plain retarded: On October 1st, 2009 California Attorney General Jerry Brown announced that an investigation had been opened into ACORN’s activities in California, resulting from undercover videos showing employees seemingly offering to assist the undercover film makers with human smuggling, child prostitution and even tax advice to boot. Although ACORN has denied any wrongdoing, some of the employees involved were terminated, and ACORN has publicly stated that they would fully cooperate with any ...

Big Government: Hey, guess who dumped 20K documents in a dumpster?
RedState — Nine days after there was an announcement that their group was going to be investigated? Yup, that’s right: ACORN. San Diego office - just before California AG Jerry Brown came to visit. Alas, if only somebody had had the foresight to wait for this sort of thing to happen, and retrieve the documents… Oh. Right. They didn’t shred, they didn’t redact, and they threw out people’s sensitive and personal information - including things like copies of Social Security cards, W-4 forms, and driver’s licenses. ...

ACORN tosses documents in dumpster, Breitbart has them
Peoples Press Collective — ... Following the release by Breitbart’s Big Government website of a video showing employees at ACORN’s San Diego County office offering to assist in the transportation and exploitation of underage prostitutes from abroad, the Attorney General of California announced an investigation into ACORN’s operations. Nights before the visit, ACORN dumped thousands of documents in a dumpster. Breitbart obtained them, says they are shocking evidence of ACORN’s illegality and ...

Dissecting Leftism — ... serious violations in that department alone, with thousands upon thousands of potential plaintiffs. Over the weeks and months ahead, BigGovernment.com will continue to release information from this shocking document dump by ACORN, slowly revealing the ugly truth of ACORN: the fact that their stated mission of helping the poor and downtrodden is just a ruse and a cover for an organization that is highly partisan and highly political, and thus rotten to the core. More HERE *********************** ELSEWHERE TX: Palin book signing draws ...

But Glen Beck Is The Crazy One
small dead animals — But Glen Beck Is The Crazy One Big Government; Interestingly, the local head ACORN organizer in California, David Lagstein was caught on tape earlier this month speaking to an East County Democratic Club. Mr. Lagstein stated: “…the attorney general is a political animal, but certainly every bit of the communication we have had with them has suggested that the fault will be found with the people that did the video and not the people with ACORN.” Continuing, Mr. Lagstein stated: “…we are fully cooperating, some of the investigators visited our office this morning and I think ...

Acorning the Climate Change Movement
American Thinker — ... reported that the San Diego ACORN office was caught on film literally dumping documents even though it is facing investigation. On this dumping of documents, BigGovernment.com reports , "ACORN's political agenda is also exposed, with thousands upon thousands of documents revealing the depth of the political machine that is ACORN, and its disturbing ties to not only public employee labor unions but some of the most radical leftist organizations."Either California's attorney general didn't demand that ACORN preserve all documents for the investigation, so that ACORN could not ...

ACORN: The Myth That Won’t Go Away
California Conservative — ... It isn’t a coincidence that E & P’s article showed up the day after Andrew Breitbart reported that San Diego ACORN’s office dumped a bunch of sensitive documents into a dumpster days after California A.G. Jerry Brown announced that he’d be investigating ACORN’s San Diego office. ...

The Obama-Holder Justice Department turns a blind eye to ACORN
Power Line — ... In response to the California investigation, ACORN's San Diego Country office discarded documents in large quantities just days before investigators were scheduled to visit. My friend points out that one reason DOJ issues subpoenas when it has reason to believe federal contractors may have engaged in misconduct is precisely to freeze a universe of documents, since it is an obvious federal felony to destroy records under subpoena. But Holder's DOJ saw no reason to issue any subpoenas. ...

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He doesn't enforce the law on Leftist crooks
commonsensewonder.blogspot.com 11/27/2009 — http://biggovernment.com/2009/11/27/calif-attorney-general-offers-incoherent-troubling-answers-when-asked-about-acorn-doc-dump/ Jerry Brown was an ass when he was Governor Moonbeam. He was a failure as mayor of Oakland (one of America's murder capitals) and he continues as AG.
Why Did ACORN Spend $9,000 at Fertility Clinic?Rantburg
Big Government's first post about the San Diego Document Dump showed a bank authorization to automatically pay monthly membership dues. That particular individual committed to paying ACORN $10 a month. Thousands of California residents have made similar commitments, adding up to substantial ...
Fox trumpets Breitbart's dubious ACORN document dump claimMedia Matters for America - Latest Items
On Fox & Friends , host Brian Kilmeade advanced Andrew Breitbart's dubious allegations against ACORN by reporting that a "private investigator" saw the group "dumping thousands of sensitive documents into the trash outside their San Diego office ... after California's attorney general ...
ACORN SCANDAL PART TWO: The Evidentiary Phase. Plus, California ACORN Responds to Revelation of …Instapundit
ACORN SCANDAL PART TWO: The Evidentiary Phase. Plus, California ACORN Responds to Revelation of Massive Doc Dump, Data Breach at Its San Diego Office.
ACORN Document Dump Scandal, Part II The Documentary StageThe Jawa Report
Update on Howie's post Dear ACORN: Its not the Scandal, its the Cover up. Via Big GovernmentIn seven out of eight offices, ACORN employees attempted to aid and abet O'Keefe and Giles' illicit “scheme” to establish a brothel for...