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ACORN, ACLU Pimpin’ The First Amendment Right Here In Pa.
By Nathan Fox, For The Bulletin
Saturday, October 10, 2009
By now everyone with a pulse has seen or heard of the videos of the acting pimp and hooker going to ACORN’s offices in Baltimore, Washington D.C., Brooklyn and San Bernardino, Calif., to procure business advice.  The “business advice” the pimp and hooker sought was how to defraud the government of tax dollars and run an illegal prostitution business.  Even the Democrat-controlled United States Senate decided, in an 83-7 vote, that these activities were too outlandish to warrant continued federal funding. 
Unsurprisingly, ACORN has recently come under scrutiny in Pennsylvania too.  ACORN workers were arrested in Allegheny County and charged with fraudulent voter registration.  ACORN’s business model for voter registration is simple: you give an employee a task that is nearly impossible to accomplish legally (registering 20 voters per 6-8 hour shift) and threaten termination if he cannot complete it.  Not wanting to …

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