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On September 25, 2009, in response to Governor Schwarzenegger's request to investigate the incidents, the California Attorney General's office opened an investigation "into the controversy surrounding videos that purportedly show members of community organizing group ACORN giving advice on how to open a brothel."
In immediate response to the 2009 video controversy, the United States House and Senate, by wide margins, attached amendments to pending spending legislation that would temporarily prohibit the federal government from funding ACORN, or any agency that had been involved in similar scandals — including money authorized by previous legislation.
In the US, ACORN suffered a damaging nationwide controversy in the fall of 2009 after James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles secretly made, edited and released videos of interactions with low-level ACORN personnel in several of their offices, leading to several investigations by state officials that concluded the videos were inaccurately portraying the ...
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 ...
In 2009, Project Veritas associates published misleading [2] videos that depicted ACORN employees providing advice on concealing illegal activity, causing ACORN to shut down after losing funding; [3] the Attorney General of California cleared ACORN of wrongdoing in 2010, [2] and the associates paid a total of $150,000 in settlements to an ACORN ...
Last week the Baby Shaker app received a lot of negative attention and was subsequently pulled from the App Store. Deservedly so; that game was tasteless. This week, Elaine Howard of the ...
The Lululemon controversy over 'certain customers' comment, explained. Sarah Lemire. Updated March 5, 2024 at 1:13 PM.
In late July 2009, Beck argued that reparations and social justice were driving President Obama's agenda, discussing issues of diversity and institutional racism. [43] That week in response to the Henry Gates controversy , Beck stated that Obama has repeatedly exposed himself as having, "a deep-seated hatred for white people, or the white culture."