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Representative Grayson Crowdsources his Fraud Research Project
Going after ACORN may be like shooting fish in a barrel lately -- but jumpy lawmakers used a bazooka to do it last week and may have blown up some of their longtime allies in the process.
The congressional legislation intended to defund ACORN, passed with broad bipartisan support, is written so broadly that it applies to "any organization" that has been charged with breaking federal or state election laws, lobbying disclosure laws, campaign finance laws or filing fraudulent paperwork with any federal or state agency. It also applies to any of the employees, contractors or other folks affiliated with a group charged with any of those things.
In other words, the bill could plausibly defund the entire military-industrial complex. Whoops.
Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) picked up on the legislative overreach and asked the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) to sift through its database to find which contractors might be caught in the ACORN net.
Turns out that many major defense contractors--some whoppers--were indeed caught. And therein lies a nasty little congressional double-standard. Where are the bills castigating these companies? Where's the outrage? Why hammer little ACORN and not Haliburton?
I support rooting out fraud. Finally, a politician with a set of balls. But if the intent is a political witch-hunt, I hope someone drop kicks him right in that set of balls.
I support rooting out fraud. Finally, a politician with a set of balls. But if the intent is a political witch-hunt, I hope someone drop kicks him right in that set of balls.
The witch hunt is the one against ACORN. He's just using the witch-hunters' tools against them.
The witch hunt is the one against ACORN. He's just using the witch-hunters' tools against them.
Grayson is a mult-millionaire businessman Harvard grad who went back into law but gave it up to get into politics. This guy shoots from the hip as he is beholden to no one, lobbyist or otherwise. He is showing himself to be a new rising star of the Democratic Party, This is the kind of representatives and leadership we need.
The point is that the House reacted to the insane wingnuts - and led by the GOP but joined by a bunch of cowardly Democrats - passed a really stupid law. And it turns out that there are a whole lot of government contractors who have participated in much worse violations of election law than has ACORN.
The lesson is this: don't jump when wingnuts say jump. They are generally wrong about everything and you end up looking stupid.
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