Right here, in case you’d like to contribute. Yes, it’s legit, says Ace.
Sen. Mike Johanns (R., Neb.) told National Review Online that O’Keefe and Giles are “unbelievably courageous” for standing up to ACORN:
“Here are a couple of young people who stepped into an ACORN office. The employees in each of the offices that they visited simply had the option to say ‘get the heck out of here, that’s not what our organization is about,’” says Johanns. “It was these young filmmakers, because of their courage, who were able to reveal a whole different side of ACORN. They saw ACORN employees counsel about how to break the law.”
The duo’s videos, says Johanns, “are some of the most remarkable things I’ve ever seen in terms of exposing an entity that receives government funds. When I replay the clips today, I still find them shocking. I applaud them for their courage and feel so badly that ACORN decided to let it fly and sue them. Now, ACORN is trying to intimidate them just because they stood up and captured the truth about ACORN’s activities on camera.”
The suit, he adds, is “so typical of ACORN. This is an organization that decided to send missiles in someone else’s direction when the spotlight got too intense. I think that ACORN now has real problems. They’ll have a very difficult time convincing any jury. It comes down to this: The ACORN employees were caught doing things that are just outrageous. They’re going to have to convince the jury that notwithstanding the outrageous behavior, ACORN should be compensated. That argument doesn’t seem to be going anywhere.”
You can read the whole statement at NRO.
The pair really do deserve a big round of applause.
September, 25, 2009 at 2:30 am
Icommend this young lady and her friend for doing what our elected representatives, all 535 of them and two presidents couldn’t do. I would be honored to contribute to their defense fund. This kind of corruption must be put behind us.
September, 25, 2009 at 5:15 am
They proved themselves to be as ignorant as the the people they taped. They deserve what they get.
September, 25, 2009 at 9:05 am
Anon, please expand on how Hannah and James
proved themselves to be as ignorant as the people they taped.
I’ll wait.
February, 8, 2010 at 9:29 pm
I AM WILLING TO HELP “HANNAH GILES LEGAL DEFENSE FUND” , IF I HAVE HER E MAIL ADDRESS THEN I CAN WORK OUT FOR HER FOR FREE . I GOT HER LETTERS TODAY BUT SAID NO WORDS ABOUT E MAIL ADDRESS. I WILL WAIT AND HEAR FROM HER OR SOMEONE. MY E MAIL IS — lubosewell@gmail.com
IF I DON’T HEAR FROM HER THEN I WILL CLOSE IT.. THANK YOU .
February, 23, 2010 at 7:48 pm
If Bertha Lewis had any decency she would drop Acorn’s lawsuits against Hannah, and would condemn the lawsuits put forward by the Acorn employees who are guilty of promoting unlawful activities.
March, 13, 2011 at 10:23 am
As usual the left is ignoring the illegal activities of ACORN. This group is just another Democrat-Party-criminal- accomplice. Any citizen attempting to expose these criminals and their political agenda-is attacked, not as a citizen doing their duty as an American law abiding citizen. But, all of the US is attacked when one of its law-abiding-citizens is attacked like this. The left needs to be exposed for what they are-criminals, Democrat-party murdering accomplices-remember the aborting of undreds of thousands of babies-partially born and unborn. This is the mantle, the agenda of the Democratic party, and all of the supportive groups of the Facist Dems.