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Kaelke was fired by ACORN after the videos were released. In the San Diego office, edited video showed ACORN employee Juan Carlos Vera telling O'Keefe he had "contacts" in "Tijuana" to help get underage girls across the border. [30] But, after the discussion with O'Keefe, Vera reported O'Keefe's fabricated plan for human smuggling to police.
During the 2008 Democratic Presidential Primary, ACORN's national political action committee, ACORN Votes, endorsed Barack Obama. [31] Obama, with several other attorneys, had served as local counsel for ACORN more than a decade earlier in a 1995 voting rights lawsuit joined by the Justice Department and the League of Women Voters.
The scene in which Butters visits the ACORN office seeking benefits for his prostitutes is a reference to the real-life 2009 scandal in which activist James O'Keefe secretly filmed himself posing as a pimp during meetings with ACORN employees. The scene generated the greatest amount of media attention for "Butters' Bottom Bitch" after its ...
When “Scandal” came out in 2012, Washington was a member of President Obama’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. Barack Obama and Valerie Jarrett in Missouri in 2009. AFP via Getty Images
Michelle Obama, the show’s executive producer, did a great job with this series and did a service to the public by not just letting her and Barack’s love story be the end of her storytelling ...
“I was with my mom and we were meeting Barack Obama and it was a huge deal,” Johnson recalled. “He was talking to her and she goes, ‘Oh, Mr. President, this is my daughter. She’s just ...
O'Keefe first gained national attention for his selectively edited video recordings of workers at Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) offices in 2009, his arrest and misdemeanor guilty plea in 2010 for entering the federal office of then-U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) under false pretenses, and the release of ...
6.) Ciara's wardrobe whoops on purpose. Listen, not everyone is afraid to show things off. Ciara flashed some major sideboob at the Billboard Music Awards and left jaws on the floor.