Another victory for the conservative cause!

This is of course another small victory for the conservatives who've worked tirelessly to stop corruption in government and aligned organizations. Between Van Jones, these 2 ACORN videos and the march on washington tomorrow I'm feeling really good about our cause right now. Maybe its the DC high or maybe its that the tides have begun to change a bit. Whatever it is, I really want to bottle up this hope I'm feeling so I can take a bit and remind myself every once in a while.

Here is the 2nd pimp and hooker video:





While resting up for tomorrow I was, of course, watching a little Fox News when they announced that the Census Bureau had severed ties with ACORN because of the second pimp and hooker video that came out today from Big Government.com. It is really nice to see some part of our government pulling away and recognizing the corruption of the organizations with which they are aligned.

Now if only we could move that mentality toward the White House.


Once again, they play the race card: Maryland ACORN Official: FoxNews Racism Behind ACORN Investigation

Official Statement From ACORN Housing President Alton Bennett, Executive Director Mike Shea

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Offical Letter from Census Director:

September 11, 2009
Ms. Maude Hurd
President ACORN
739 8th St SE
Washington, DC 20003

Dear Ms. Hurd:
The goal of the U.S. Census Bureau's partnership program is to combine the stregths of state, local, and tribal governments, community-based organizations, faith-based organizations, schools, media, businesses and others to ensure an accurate 2010 Census. While not (sic) Census bureau employees, partners are advocates for census cooperation and participation. They serve a trusted voices within their communities and are critical to our strategy to count everyone once, only once, and in the right place.

The Census Bureau has established criteria for partnerships, which are listed on our Web site at , and reserves the right to decline partnership or to terminate an existing partnership agreement with any group that 1) may create a negative connotation for the Census Bureau; 2) could distract from the Census Bureau's mission; or, 3) may make people fearful of participating in the census.
To that end, and in keeping with the standards we shared with your organization and others who
volunteered to partner with the Census Bureau to help promote the 2010 Census, we are today terminating our Partnership Agreement with ACORN.

Over the last several months, through ongoing communication with our regional offices, it is
clear that ACORN's affiliation with the 2010 Census promotion has caused sufficient concern in the general public, has indeed become a distraction from our mission, and may even become a discouragement to public cooperation, negatively impacting 2010 Census efforts. While not decisive factors in this decision, recent events concerning several local offices of ACORN have added to the worsening negative perceptions of ACORN and its affiliation with our
partnership efforts.

We do not come to this decision lightly. It was our original assessment that your organization could be helpful in encouraging cooperation with the 2010 Census among individuals who are historically hard to count, including renters, low-income residents, the linguistically isolated, and others. As of today, we have close to 80,000 partnership agreements with national and local groups - many of whom are trusted voices and serve these same populations - and we will be relying upon those groups to continue our outreach in the communities you serve. The full participation of those populations remains of utmost importance to us.

Unfortunately, we no longer have confidence that our national partnership agreement is being effectively managed through your many local offices. For the reasons stated, we therefore have
decided to terminate the partnership.

Respectfully,
Robert M. Groves
Director