New Orleans Adult Entertainment: ACORN Fights Back
September 24, 2009
The community group’s Washington lobbying shop has been quietly meeting with sympathetic congressional offices, reminding them that ACORN’s services help low-income residents of urban areas. On the legal front, the group is playing hardball, filing a lawsuit Wednesday against the conservative activists who produced the now famous undercover film in which a fake pimp and prostitute ask for tax advice at an ACORN office.
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Democrats have long brushed off criticism of ACORN – Conyers once vowed to investigate, then reversed that promise. But these videos portraying a fake pimp asking for tax advice, however, were hard to ignore. They have been a viral sensation in Washington and nationwide — even prompting comment from President Barack Obama during his Sunday television blitz. James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles, conservative filmmakers, posed as an aspiring politician and his prostitute girlfriend ,who said planned to use brothel earnings to fund a future political campaign. ACORN employees were shown in the video giving advice ranging from burying the money in a tin can in the backyard to registering fictitious company names to legitimize the enterprise.
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