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| Nadler's ACORN Ethics |
| 2009-10-27 |
| Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), who heads a congressional subcommittee that may be investigating ACORN in the not-too-distant future, has been providing advice to ACORN's lawyer, according to a new report. Nadler, a longtime ACORN ally, is chairman of the House Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on the Constitution, civil rights, and civil liberties. Lincoln Anderson, a reporter for the Villager, writes that earlier this month while he attended at the office of ACORN's New York-based lawyer Arthur Z. Schwartz to interview him, a telephone call came in from Nadler: Midway through the interview with The Villager last Thursday, Schwartz got a phone call from Congressmember Jerrold Nadler. The West Side congressmember -- one of only about a dozen Democrats to oppose the Defund ACORN Act -- was calling Schwartz's attention to an e-mail that had been forwarded to him, detailing a directive from two weeks earlier to federal agencies, implementing the act. The directive not only ordered agencies to cease funding ACORN and all its subcontractors, but cancel all funding allocated in previous years. The memo had been found -- where else? -- on a right-wing blog.How exactly is it appropriate for the chairman of a congressional subcommittee to be offering strategic advice to a group he is now under growing pressure to probe? A call to Nadler's Capitol Hill office on Sunday seeking comment was not immediately returned. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 You don't hire pigs to clean up the pig sty. We can not expect must better until we vote these bums out. |
| Posted by: Richard of Oregon 2009-10-27 12:58 |
| #1 ACORN attorneys can always claim to be trapped by Nadlers gravitational field. |
| Posted by: NCMike 2009-10-27 08:50 |