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defendandprotect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-19-09 01:39 AM
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ACORN ,,, Bertha Lewsis, CEO was on C-span today/Wash. Journal . . .
Edited on Sat Sep-19-09 01:55 AM by defendandprotect
just catching some of it overnight --- for anyone interested --

homelessnes, lack of affordable housing --

Lots of problems . . . she's only been CEO about a year --

they found out a long time former CEO -- his brother was misappropriating funds.

They picked her as the CEO then --

They did get all the FUNDS BACK --

They've fired the employees -- handful -- involved in the tapings --

everyone else threw them out!

They're a 99% "black" and "brown" organization --

Couple dressed as a tramp and a prostitute --

and didn't catch all of this but evidently some of the entrapment was about

giving money to ACORN to be dedicated to abortions for black women?

Ms Lewis is good --

Love it when people call and wonder why others need help!!!????


She also mentioned that there's now a reluctance to be involved with ACORN --

like the intimidations of the McCarthy Era.

Wouldn't the GOP love to recreate that . . . in many ways they have!

She's going to be on with Chris Wallace this Sunday and evidently she was on Fox

at some point and comments they felt treated unfairly.









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KT2000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-19-09 02:00 AM
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1. just saw this - she is impressive
and tells it like it is.
She is so correct that what has been done to them is a warning to others.
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defendandprotect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-19-09 02:08 AM
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2. It's almost otherworldly now to hear about the unemployed, the poor, the homeless . . .
it's almost unheard of anywhere --

I think the Canadian poster who wrote an article about the "mean-spiritedness" in America

re health care had it exactly right -- and unfortunately it's not only with healthcare!

The Republicans have taught American not only to HATE their fellow human being -- but to

become very hard hearted, like them!



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KT2000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-19-09 02:53 AM
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5. agree
the 82 year old was hard as anils but she handled it well.
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sabrina 1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-19-09 02:14 AM
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3. Thanks, I wish I had seen her.
This whole thing is a disgrace. Since when is an entire organization held responsible when a few employees do something they shouldn't?

And there are some serious questions about the guy who was just fired, that the video was spliced and edited to make it look like he was going along, when in reality he appears to have wanted to call the FBI but that was edited out. He lost his job as a result of this.

Someone needs to sue those two so we can get some real information on what actually happened.

I am thoroughly disgusted by the Democrats caving in without even being interested in further investigation.

They are just enabling these thugs who will not stop. They got Van Jones, and now Acorn. Everyone who is doing anything remotely progressive. I want to know when the Dems who DO have a majority are going to do something about this vendetta.
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masuki bance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-19-09 02:52 AM
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4. He recorded Planned Parenthood accepting money on the condition that
it only use it for black babies, he explained that he did not want his son deprived of a college admission because of affirmative action. Same tactics he used in ACORN, he wants to show how outrageous he can be and still be accommodated.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiFOFUGIhFE

He also got Rutgers to ban Lucky Charms in the cafeteria because of the short green guy and the rainbows were oppressing him and other fellow students of Irish descent, he filmed that too.

pt 1- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4bxz2RSkrI

pt 2- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMvisrO9hr8

"I don't see other cereals using these stereotypes.." Mistreatments of Irish Americans in America, Irish churches burned, No Irish need apply signs etc.. the cereal mocks their whole history and it's unacceptable. (!)
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