A handful of House Republicans did their best on Tuesday to shame Democrats and the Obama administration for its supposed connections to the controversial anti-poverty group ACORN.
Republicans also voiced complaints that Democrats are not moving forward with investigations into the organization that is alleged to have committed widespread voter fraud to support Democratic candidates, in violation of the group’s tax-exempt status.
“ACORN is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Democratic Party,” Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., said at Tuesday’s two-hour long partisan forum attended by eight Republicans but no Democrats.
Another source of frustration for Republicans is a legal decision from the Justice Department, made public last week, that says officials at Housing and Urban Development can honor its existing contracts with ACORN despite a recently passed law forbidding federal funds from going to the group.
Congress banned federal funding to ACORN after members of the group were caught in an undercover video offering advice on how to evade tax laws to a couple posing as a pimp and prostitute.
“The White House will do everything it can to make sure ACORN will continue to get federal funding,” Rep. Dan Burton, R-Ind., exclaimed.
Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, who was dubbed the “ACORN king” because of the bucket of acorns displayed prominently by his side, said he’s convinced that any investigation of ACORN will reflect poorly on the Obama administration.
“These roads will lead to the White House,” King asserted.
But one of the panel’s guest speakers
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