Kevin Mooney

ACORN wants another $6 million despite scandals

An ACORN affiliate has just submitted applications for over $6 million in government funding, despite the controversial videos of the organization’s workers aiding a child prostitution “promoter.” Employees with the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now (ACORN) in Washington D.C., Baltimore and Brooklyn told uncover investigators posing as a pimp and a prostitute how they could circumvent the law. ACORN has already fired four of the workers. But it claims the tapes have been “doctored” and “edited.” A third video implicating the ACORN workers was released today. Meanwhile, the ACORN Institute, one of many ACORN affiliates, has...

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Trial lawyers seek return on contributions to Senate Democrats

In February, just two months before he became a Democrat, Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania made a passionate plea for a special tax break for plaintiffs' trial lawyers. His bill, S 437, would allow trial lawyers to deduct immediately on their taxes up-front expenses they incur when investing in contingency lawsuits. The tax break is reportedly worth $1.6 billion to trial lawyers. If Specter’s amendment passes, this single provision would more than repay the legal industry for its roughly $762 million in political contributions to Democrats...

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Scientific evidence now points to global cooling, contrary to U.N. alarmism

Opponents of the Waxman-Markey “cap and trade” bill would do well to invoke recent scientific studies that show global surface temperatures have not increased since 1998, contrary to what climate models have predicted. U.S. policymakers who cite “consensus” on man-made global warming as justification for anti-emission regulations are relying upon outdated and misleading material from the United Nations that deliberately omits the influence of natural forces, according to climate skeptics. In fact, a growing body of evidence now points to the emergence of another cooling cycle that could persist for decades. Dr. Don Easterbrook, a geologist and professor emeritus...

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Dirty Money Watch: Rep. Mike Doyle (D-Pa.)

WHO: Rep. Mike Doyle (D-Pa.) WHAT: Doyle received the following dirty money: PMA Group (PAC) $4,000 in 2008 election cycle; $4,000 in 2006 election cycle. WHY IT'S DIRTY: PMA Group (Paul Magliocchetti and Associates) was a defense lobbying group that is now the focus of multiple federal investigations concerning allegations of influence peddling and other corrupt activities, mostly associated with earmarks. Before it was disbanded earlier this year, PMA Group's employees and its political action committee gave current members of Congress $3.4 million between 1989 and 2008, with 79 percent of that going to Democrats, according to OpenSecrets.org. WILL DOYLE GIVE IT BACK: Doyle did not...

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Dirty Money Watch: Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-TX

WHO: Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas), a co-sponsor of the Employee Free Choice Act (aka Card Check) WHAT: Rep. Doggett received the following dirty money: Communication Workers of America (PAC) $10,000 in 2008 election cycle; $10,000 in 2006 election cycle. Boilermakers Union (PAC) $2,500; $1,500 in 2006 election cycle. American Federation of Government Employees (PAC) $2,500 in 2008 election cycle; $2,000 in 2006 election cycle. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (PAC) $10,000 in 2008; $3,500 in 2006 election cycle. Service Employees International Union (PAC) $10,000 in 2008 election cycle. United Steelworkers of America (PAC) $5,000 in 2008 election cycle; $3,000 in 2006...

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Senator Robert Byrd

Dirty Money Watch WHO: Senator Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.), a co-sponsor of the Employee Free Choice Act, (aka Card Check) WHAT: Sen. Byrd received the following dirty money: Communication Workers of America (PAC) $2,000 in 2008 election cycle; $10,000 in 2006 election cycle. Boilermakers Union (PAC) $3,000 in 2006 election cycle. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (PAC) $10,000 in 2006 election cycle. American Federation of Government Employees (PAC) $7,500 in 2006 election cycle. Service Employees International Union (PAC) $5,000 in 2006 election cycle. United Steelworkers of America (PAC) $10,000 in 2006 election cycle. WHY IT’S DIRTY: Multiple officers and members of...

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Rep. Rob Andrews

Dirty Money Watch WHO: Rep. Rob Andrews, D-N.J., a co-sponsor of the Employee Free Choice Act (aka Card Check) WHAT: Rep. Andrews received the following dirty money: Communication Workers of America (PAC) $10,000 in 2008 election cycle; $2,000 in 2006 election cycle. Boilermakers Union (PAC) $5,000 in 2008 election cycle; $2,000 in 2006 election cycle. American Federation of Government Employees (PAC) $2,000 in 2006 election cycle. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (PAC) $10,000 in 2008 election cycle; $4,500 in 2006 election cycle. Service Employees International Union (PAC) $3,000 in 2008 election cycle. United Steelworkers of America (PAC) $5,000 in 2008 election...

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Rep. Rick Boucher, D-Va.

WHO: Rep. Rick Boucher, D-Va., a co-sponsor of the Employee Free Choice Act (aka Card Check). WHAT: Boucher received the following dirty money: Communication Workers of America (PAC), $7,000 in 2008 election cycle and $2,500 in 2006 election cycle; Boilermakers Union (PAC), $4,000 in 2008 election and $1,000 in 2006 election cycle; American Federation of Government Employees (PAC), $1,000 in 2006 election cycle; International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (PAC), $10,000 in 2008 election cycle and $7,000 in 2006 election cycle; and United Steelworkers of America (PAC), $5,000 in 2008 election cycle. WHY IT’S DIRTY: Multiple officers and members of these unions, including...

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Dirty Money Watch: Sen. Daniel Inouye

WHO: Sen. Daniel Inouye, HI, a co-sponsor of the Employee Free Choice Act (aka Card Check) WHAT: Inouye received the following dirty money: Boilermakers Union (PAC) $1500 in 2008 election cycle. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (PAC) $10,000 in 2008 election cycle. WHY IT’S DIRTY: Multiple officers and members of these unions, including division presidents, secretary-treasurers and business managers, have been convicted since 2001 of felonies ranging from embezzlement, falsifying official reports to government, mail fraud and conspiracy. The Boilermakers have had at least 10 members convicted, while the IBEW has had at least 14. The amounts of embezzled funds...

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Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska

WHO: Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska, a co-sponsor of the Employee Free Choice Act (aka Card Check) WHAT: Begich received the following dirty money: Communication Workers of America (PAC) $5,000 in 2008 cycle. Boilermakers Union (PAC) $5,000 in 2008 election cycle. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (PAC) $10,000 in 2008 election cycle. American Federation of Government Employees (PAC) $7,500 in 2008 election cycle. Service Employees International Union (PAC) $10,000 in 2008 election cycle. United Steelworkers of America (PAC) $5,000 in 2008 election cycle. WHY IT’S DIRTY: Multiple officers and members of these unions, including division presidents, secretary-treasurers...

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ACORN joins with unions

Political activists who masquerade as non-partisan community organizers have joined with organized labor to pressure elected officials into supporting left wing causes, according to a top analyst with the Capital Research Center (CRC). Matthew Vadum, a senior editor and analyst with CRC has determined that the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now (ACORN) is best described as a “multi-headed hydra” with over 400,000 member families positioned in 110 cities fiercely opposed to the capitalist system. “ACORN claims to be non-partisan but there are mountains of evidence that show it is flagrantly partisan,” Vadum said. “It celebrates the most...

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Dirty Money: Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse

WHO: Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-RI, a co-sponsor of the Employee Free Choice Act (aka Card Check) WHAT: Communication Workers of America (PAC) $10,000 in 2006 election cycle. The Boilermakers Union (PAC) $2,000 in 2008 election cycle. American Federation of Government Employees (PAC) $500 in 2008 election cycle; $4,000 in 2006 election cycle. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (PAC) $5,000 in 2008 election cycle; $10,000 in 2006 election cycle. The Service Employees International Union (PAC) $5,000 in 2008 election cycle; $5,000 in 2006 election cycle. The United Steelworkers of America (PAC) $1,000 in 2006 election cycle. WHY IT’S DIRTY: Multiple officers and...

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