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Tracking abuse by political allies could be 'distracting'
ACORN -- the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now -- is stinking up Washington.
And this is far more significant than if a suspiciously large number of operatives for a purely "private" outfit had been found systematically bending and breaking the law, because ACORN receives and spends taxpayer money -- lots of it -- and had carried the imprimatur of official partnerships with the IRS, the Census Bureau ... the kind of "cred" that in the political world comes only from "who you know."
And it didn't start with those undercover videos made by a couple of independent filmmakers posing as a prostitute and her pimp - that was just a final shoe dropping loudly enough that the problem could no longer be ignored.
Here in Clark County, Registrar of Voters Larry Lomax said last year he saw
"rampant fraud in the 2,000 to 3,000 voter registrations ACORN turns in every week, with some 48 percent of those forms being clearly fraudulent."
Fox News' Eric Shawn reported there were at least 11 [14 at last count] investigations across the country involving thousands of potentially fraudulent ACORN forms.
Yet none of this was sufficient to block President Obama and congress from increasing federal subsidies to ACORN and 'activist groups' like it from the mere millions to the billions of dollars in their "economic stimulus" bill last winter.
Despite all this evidence and a request in writing by 28 GOP senators -- and despite the fact the U.S. Senate voted 83-7 on Sept. 14 to block ACORN from bidding for any more federal grant money -- and despite the Census Bureau severing its ties with the organization, and the IRS announcing it will begin its own invenstigation, Senate Democrat Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., is refusing to hold a Senate hearing on ACORN's activities...
Mr. Reid replied additional investigations might distract lawmakers from addressing more important matters, including health care .
Smoke? Fire? Washington Democratic leaders have opted to just lay low and not smell nothin'.
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