| Data: 2009-09-18 11:46:36 | |
| Autor: Me | |
| AT LEAT SOME NEWS - ABOUT OBAMA AND COMPANY | |
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Anti-poverty group that helped Obama ‘advises prostitutes’
Giles Whittell in Washington Recommend? (14) It was meant to be an anti-poverty group that helped to elect President Obama. But a provocatively dressed journalist and a colleague posing as her pimp have exposed the left-wing Acorn foundation as an advice centre for prostitutes. A series of stings carried out with hidden cameras and outlandish costumes have forced the White House to distance itself from Acorn and triggered a criminal inquiry in New York State and a demand for an investigation from Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Governor of California. Republicans have long accused Acorn, the Association of Community Organisations for Reform Now, of voter registration fraud and misuse of public money. It claims to have 400,000 workers in 75 cities and by one estimate stands to receive $8.5 billion (Ł5.1 billion) in federal funds. .... Brad Mashburn wrote: I for one am glad to see a story like this. We don't get these types of stories in the main stream media and newspapers in the U.S. Its sad that I have to read the Times to get a more balanced view of what is going on in my own country. September 18, 2009 2:45 PM BST on UK-TimesOnline Recommend? (6) .... GOOD WE GETTING NEWS NOW |
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