The activist group ACORN has fired two employees of its Baltimore office who were seen on hidden-camera video giving advice to a man posing as a pimp and a woman posing as a prostitute.
Fox News broadcast excerpts Thursday from the video. The man and woman ask about buying a house and how to account on tax forms for the woman's income. An ACORN employee advises the woman to list her occupation as "performance artist."
Maryland ACORN board member Margaret Williams says in a statement that the employees "did not meet ACORN's standards of professionalism."
ACORN spokeswoman Sonja Merchant-Jones told WBAL-TV that she believes the video may have been altered to make the organization look bad.
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The statement also says the video was an "attempt to smear ACORN" and that undercover teams attempted similar stunts in at least three other ACORN offices.
Williams said no tax returns were filed and no assistance was provided.
ACORN stands for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.
The Baltimore city state's attorney is considering prosecuting those responsible for taping the ACORN employees on charges that they violated Maryland's wiretap laws.
The Maryland state prosecutor's office went after Linda Tripp in the 1990s on two wiretap charges. Tripp was accused of illegally taping a phone conversation with Monica Lewinski about her relationship with then-President Bill Clinton and disclosing the conversation to Newsweek. Prosecutors decided to drop the case when Lewinski's testimony was suppressed.
The video was shot by film maker James O'Keefe, who posed as a pimp who said he was going to run for Congress. The video also featured a 20 year old woman who posed as a woman named "Kenya."
The video appears both on You Tube and on the Web site of Andrew Breitbart, a columnist for the Washington Times and Drudge Report.
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14 comments:
Your organization looks bad, and there's no amount of editing that could have made ACORN look in a good light in this case. Your pieces of crap employee base was just reduces by two, and there is no reason for ACORN'S existence.
Hehe, my ID word is cracker!
Reform, huh? We've seen this type of reform before. Let's teach the slackers how to beat the system so they can sit on their fat a$$es and the most work they will do is figure out how to spend my tax dollars. Can't anyone understand that the money these people are throwing around are the monies that are collected from our pay checks, our sales taxes, and our real estate taxes? Do you realize how much nicer things would be for YOU if you were allowed to determine how you spend a portion of that money? Anyone give any thought to one of the reasons for the breakdown of the family unit? Your taxes are so high it takes two incomes to make ends meet.
Do we have it good in this country? You're durn tootin'. But, we won't have much for long if we continue to allow the government to levy taxes on the American people rather than tariffs on the imports that have squelched our manufacturing base.
I just want to know what these jacka$$es have up their sleeve when there isn't enough tax base (like now) to support their grandiose schemes. At some point the bearings are going to burn out at the printing presses at the Treasury.
ya thats right go after the ones that expose corruption not the ones that commit the crime that is how our system works nowonder crime is so ramped in md
If the "filmmakers" broke the law they should be prosecuted. If anyone has solid evidence of ACORN breaking the law they should turn it over to the justice Department...and the lawbreakers should be prosecuted.
That's the way it works.
MD_Progressive
I've always said, if ya can do it, then it ain't bragging. Likewise, if its true, it ain't a smear. JA, you can use this quote in court if ya want.
8:42 pm so what do you think is the film evidence i think so they should abolish ACORN its a bs front for crime
I was wondering when the Maryland wiretap laws would come into play-thats what tripped up ( no pun intended) Linda Tripp during the whole Monica-gate deal.
Regardless,ACORN is a joke and should be cut off from federal funding NOW!
Md Progressive
Everything is so black and white for you. It must be a luxury. Either or. Black or right. Wrong or might. Stack em tight.
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I think that it was illegally obtained, and that it's inadmissible court. That's what I think it is.
We live in a nation of laws, and those laws apply to both sides.
MD_Progressive
8:42pm Md_progressive it's ignorant a$$hole$ like you that have screwed up our system in the first place. Tell me whats the difference between these two people shooting a video and red light cameras. Seams to me people like you are applauding those cameras and throwing folks exposing real crimes under the bus. Personally I don't see any problem with the tape because there was no implication of privacy with these tow giving suggestions on ways to cheat us the taxpayers. The Md. State Prosecutors Office needs to get its priorities straight and go after the real criminals-Acron. It takes the courage of folks like these two to expose acts like this when officials higher up the food chain know full well what is happening but say nothing.
MD_progressive you must go to them for your tax help is that why you defend them so much or you work with them and you are worred you will be next
Just take a look at the list of supporters of the Democrats elected to office in Maryland. They are proud to claim ACORN as a great supporter. Does anyone believe the MD. progressives will prosecute them? Not a chance when they can prosecute honest people for revealing the truth.
Acorn is just another example of the Obama administration at work.
Typical thug politics courtesy of Obama.
10:58-
I don't work for ACORN, and I don't recall ever defending them before. I could really give two sh**s about ACORN. I simply stated that this tape was, most likely, illegally obtained, and is probably inadmissible in court. I'm all for prosecuting wrong-doers. Like I said, if someone has evidence of ACORN or anyone else committing a crime (i.e. election fraud) turn that evidence over to the justice department.
As far as comparing this video to a red-light camera. That's like comparing apples and oranges.
MD_Progressive
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