'Rent-a-Mob' (ACORN) deserves investigation
Jim Brown - OneNewsNow - 9/21/2009 7:30:00 AM
The community organizing group ACORN started in 1970 to help the poor in Arkansas. But former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee says the multimillion-dollar conglomerate now exploits the poor and is engaged in criminal activity that warrants a "massive" Department of Justice investigation.
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Huckabee says during his ten-year tenure as governor he became very familiar with the group. He recalls a particular speech he gave at the Airport Holiday Inn in Little Rock that was interrupted by ACORN.
"Suddenly two buses pull up outside -- they're full of ACORN members [who] walk in, they surround the perimeter of the building, they come to the podium, they surround me personally," he shares.
Then it got "really, really crazy," says Huckabee. "There was one state trooper who was with me, [and] suddenly there were several more being called in....This was an out-of-state meeting with a bunch of people, and [ACORN] just showed up. And they would regularly come to things I did, and yell and scream and hold signs. This was the first time they got physical, and they literally were just taking over the podium."
It is ironic, says Huckabee, that the ACORN protest in Little Rock was about "equal rights," yet sitting next to him that day was his appointee to the head the Department of Human Services in Arkansas, Lee Frazier, who is black.
According to Huckabee, the attorney general in every state where there has been proven fraud needs to investigate and thoroughly prosecute ACORN to the fullest extent of the law.
