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Offline Alpha Mare

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Conyers-Frank Request Probe Into Halting ACORN Funds
« on: September 22, 2009, 03:31:30 PM »
WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- Two top House Democrats requested Tuesday that the Congressional Research Service conduct an analysis into whether recent legislation to strip federal funds from community-organizing group Acorn is unconstitutional.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr., D-Mich., and House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank, D-Mass., want details on how proposed House and Senate legislation could be deeming Acorn guilty of illegal activity and punishing it without the benefit of a trial or being proven guilty.

Additionally, Conyers and Frank want the videotaping to be investigated. " Conflicting allegations have been made about the propriety of these activities," a letter to the research center read. "Please research and report on the federal and state laws that could apply to such videotaping and distribution of conversations without the consent of all parties."

http://www.nasdaq.com/aspx/stock-market-news-story.aspx?storyid=200909221355dowjonesdjonline000352&title=senior-house-dems-request-probe-into-bills-to-halt-acorn-funding

And so it begins...
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Re: Conyers-Frank Request Probe Into Halting ACORN Funds
« Reply #1 on: September 22, 2009, 03:41:16 PM »
I'm sure our resident liberal constitutional scholar Llue would tell us that you cannot use people's own words to smear them and as such the government has a duty to suppress any mention of child sex slavery without the consent of all parties.
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Re: Conyers-Frank Request Probe Into Halting ACORN Funds
« Reply #2 on: September 22, 2009, 03:43:27 PM »
I saw Geraldo on Fox News the other day discussing this and knew it wasn't going to be the last time someone brings the subject up.  I don't think they'll rest until they can press charges against O'Keefe and Giles, and have them arrested.
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Re: Conyers-Frank Request Probe Into Halting ACORN Funds
« Reply #3 on: September 22, 2009, 03:53:59 PM »
Never mind that child sex, human smuggling stuff.  We should totally investigate the videotaping itself, not what the tapes revealed.

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Re: Conyers-Frank Request Probe Into Halting ACORN Funds
« Reply #4 on: September 22, 2009, 04:01:26 PM »
Wanna bet that these two are knee deep into ACORN??
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Re: Conyers-Frank Request Probe Into Halting ACORN Funds
« Reply #5 on: September 22, 2009, 04:05:55 PM »
Quote from: Thor on September 22, 2009, 04:01:26 PM
Wanna bet that these two are knee deep into ACORN??

Does a bear crap in the woods?
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Re: Conyers-Frank Request Probe Into Halting ACORN Funds
« Reply #6 on: September 22, 2009, 04:13:46 PM »
I had read something about stripping the funding may be illegal/unconstitutional as it was the same as a "bill of attainder". 
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Re: Conyers-Frank Request Probe Into Halting ACORN Funds
« Reply #7 on: September 22, 2009, 04:49:35 PM »
Quote from: jinxmchue on September 22, 2009, 04:05:55 PM
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Re: Conyers-Frank Request Probe Into Halting ACORN Funds
« Reply #8 on: September 22, 2009, 04:52:51 PM »
Quote from: Thor on September 22, 2009, 04:01:26 PM
Wanna bet that these two are knee deep into ACORN??

Frank is used to BEING on his knees as well as BEING probed.

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