You Know it’s Bad When Conyers Wants ACORN Investigated

In an startling partisan shift, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. on Thursday proposed holding hearings on claims the liberal activist group ACORN engaged in a pattern of crimes ranging from voter fraud to a mob-style “protection” racket.

Mr. Conyers, Michigan Democrat and fierce partisan, suggested a congressional probe after scathing testimony about the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) during a hearing on various voting issues related to the 2008 presidential election.

Mr. Conyers called the accusations “a pretty serious matter.”

“I think that it would be something that would be worth our time,” he said during Thursday’s hearing. “We’ve never had one person representing ACORN before the committee. … I think in all fairness we ought to really examine it.”

The testimony by Pittsburgh lawyer Heather Heidelbaugh accused the nonprofit group of violating tax, campaign-finance and other laws by, among other things, sharing with the Barack Obama campaign a list of the Democrat’s maxed-out campaign donors so ACORN could use it to solicit them for a get-out-the-vote drive.

She also testified that the Democrat-allied group provided liberal causes with protest-for-hire services and coerced donations from targets of demonstrations through a shakedown it called the “muscle for the money” program.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/mar/20/conyers-suggests-probe-of-acorn/

When the story was initially leaked, Conyers went ballistic and blamed it on “a right-wing cottage industry to cry wolf over alleged “voter fraud” during an election season”…blah blah blah….

http://www.politico.com/blogs/thecrypt/1008/Conyers_unhappy_FBI_probe_of_ACORN_was_leaked.html

That’s vintage Conyers, who is one of the biggest established moonbats in American history.
His wife is just as looney. Monica Conyers was implicated in a Federal bribery case. She’s the Detroit City Council President Pro Tem who threatened to shoot someone and threatened to have someone beaten up.

http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/07/john-conyers-wife-implicated-in-federal.html

Conyers didn’t have a sudden attack of conscience for nothing. ACORN is under heavy scrutiny for it’s criminal activities throughout the campaign, but it’s been pulling this crap for years.

The taxpayer-subsidized ACORN network, which owes millions of dollars in back taxes, also played a major role in the subprime mortgage mess that has undermined Americans’ support for free market problem-solving and set off a worldwide chain of financial troubles.

And then there’s ACORN’s eight-year-long coverup of the million-dollar embezzlement by founder Wade Rathke’s brother. When ACORN board members Marcel Reid and Karen Inman demanded to see the financial documents, they were expelled from the group. Reid and Inman have since become whistleblowers and formed a new group, ACORN 8, which is aimed at reforming ACORN.

http://spectator.org/blog/2009/03/20/conyers-throwing-acorn-under-t

I wonder if ACORN has something on Conyers…..