Obama’s ‘ACORN’ Gang Under Investigation
by Gordon Bishop (6/7/09)
Iowa Republican Congressman Steve King is calling for simultaneous FBI and congressional investigations into what he calls a “spider web” of shadowy financial and business relationships linked to President Obama’s former Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, before he was elected as State Senator and then U.S. Senator from Chicago, Illinois.
Chicago is the most corrupt city in America, according to law enforcement authorities investigating ACORN’s unlawful activities.
“With ACORN, its pervasive (corruption),” King told Newsmax.com, a conservative Web Site on the Internet, referring to criminal allegations and malfeasance leveled at ACORN’s low-income, voter-registration operation. “It’s everywhere. It’s 12 or 14 states where there are investigations going on for voter registration (fraud).
“ACORN has admitted to...around 400,000 fraudulent voter-registration forms being introduced,” King said. “They claim they don’t hire people on commission, but they do hire people on commission.”
King said ACORN has over 270 corporate affiliates and business units that have received more than $53 million in federal tax dollars.
Recent “stimulus” legislation could give the Marxist-driven organization access up to $8.5 billion, King calculated.
When Obama ran for President, he told Oregon’s “Joe the Plumber,” when asked what he planned to do as President, Obama replied: “Share the Wealth!”
Karl Marx, founder and father of the Marx Communist Party, came to power by promising the people he would “Redistribute the Income,” meaning taking from the rich to give to those who are not rich.
According to a recent Fox News report, over 250 nonprofit groups list ACORN’s New Orleans headquarters as their address. One of those groups is Citizens Services Inc., which received $800,000 from the Obama Administration in return for a get-out-the vote program during last year’s presidential campaign.
King says ACORN is an “organization that erodes the integrity of the election process,” adding: “I believe it has completely the face of a criminal enterprise, and it should be thoroughly investigated by Congress and the U.S. Justice Department.”
“And it should happen simultaneously,” Senator King asserted.
Although King charges that ACORN is “in the business of electing Democrats,” he says its impact transcends politics. He says the organization has intimidated bank executives into making risky mortgage loans to people who shouldn’t have received them, adding that is “a contributing factor, I believe, to this financial meltdown that we have.”
King has represented Iowa’s fifth congressional district since 2002.
The veteran Senator says ACORN is responsible for “hundreds of thousands of fraudulent voter registration forms.” The type of investigation he wants would go far beyond current state and FBI investigations for alleged voter fraud. Rather, it would look into the interlocking financial connections between ACORN and its affiliate organizations.
To date, there have been four post-election prosecutions by state authorities involving ACORN. All focus on voter fraud rather than finances.
“We need to do a lot more,” King said. “We cannot let them bring down our election process.”
In the exclusive Newsmax interview, King also addressed the controversy surrounding House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s allegations that the CIA lied in stating she had been briefed on “enhanced interrogation” methods, such as water-boarding.
King says the controversy stirred up by Pelosi’s assertion “puts our national security at risk” because the CIA and 14 other U.S. security agencies no longer can have the “level of trust” they need to liaison effectively with the Speaker of the House.
King blames this on Pelosi’s “wild allegations.”
He also points out that the Speaker follows only the vice-president in the order of succession, should anything happen to the president.
So much for a “transparent” Administration that fooled voters into believing they were “For the People!” This is a blatant mendacious Administration. Their words and rhetoric have no meaning. They are lies to cover what they are really doing: Destroying America’s capitalist system and replacing it with a massive government Socialist State.
They are in it for their own selfish control of “money and power” in the United States of America.
Gordon Bishop
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