New Orleans Adult Entertainment: ACORN Foe: Phone Scheme Meant to Embarrass Senator
January 29, 2010
… The sole intent of our investigation was to determine whether or not Senator Landrieu was purposely trying to avoid constituents who were calling to register their views to her as their senator,” O’Keefe said in his statement Friday. ”We videotaped the entire visit, the government has those tapes, and I’m eager for them to be released because they refute the false claims being repeated by much of the mainstream media.”
Basel said he concurred with O’Keefe’s statement but could not comment further.
”Understand that because of the seriousness of the allegations we cannot speak to the case or the charges basically beyond what James wrote in that statement at this time,” Basel said in a phone call to The Associated Press in Minneapolis.
O’Keefe last year became famous for his videos about ACORN, the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now, which has affiliates that register voters in urban and other poor areas of the country. He used a hidden camera to record as he brought a young woman posing as a prostitute to the group’s offices.
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