{"id":7447,"date":"2009-10-02T15:31:38","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T22:31:38","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-10-05T11:42:51","modified_gmt":"2009-10-05T18:42:51","slug":"dem-rep-treat-felonious-corporations-at-least-as-harshly-as-acorn-which-committed-none","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7447","title":{"rendered":"Dem Rep: Treat Felonious Corporations At Least as Harshly as ACORN (Which Committed No Felonies)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mind you, I&#8217;m unfamiliar with any actual felonies that ACORN has actually committed. But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mccollum.house.gov\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=725&#038;Itemid=92\">Rep. Betty McCollum (D-MN) is proposing<\/a> that corporations found guilty of having committed a felony be ineligible for government contracts for 5 years and that corporate felons should be disallowed from making political donations for the same amount of time.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds good to me. After all, both House of Congress idiotically voted overwhelmingly to deprive ACORN &#8212; again, a community organization that committed no crime, and that comprises, in fact, American heroes &#8212; from receiving federal funding (via a <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7437\">likely unconstitutional bill<\/a>, btw).  So shouldn&#8217;t a similar measure be taken to protect the American tax-payer from corporations that have actually been found <i>guilty<\/i> of things like fraud, murder, prostitution, etc? Corporations that receive more money from American tax-payers in a day than ACORN has in its lifetime? Corporations like Exxon-Mobil, Pfizer, Halliburton, Blackwater, Lockheed-Martin, and hundreds of others?<\/p>\n<p>McCollum makes the case for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mccollum.house.gov\/images\/stories\/Statements2009\/092909%20mccollum%20acorn%20act.pdf\">&#8220;Against Corporations Organizing to Rip-off the Nation (A.C.O.R.N.)&#8221; Act [PDF]<\/a> in an interview <a href=\"http:\/\/the-uptake.groups.theuptake.org\/en\/videogalleryView\/id\/2441\/\">with Mike McIintee of The UpTake<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><center><embed src=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/play\/geUegaP5JwI%2Em4v\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"340\" height=\"276\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And, btw, for those under the delusion that ACORN employees committed crimes in those rightwing &#8220;sting&#8221; videos propagandized by Fox &#8220;News&#8221; and the other non-wingnut outlets who fell for it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2009\/9\/28\/787157\/-Video-Dont-LieOr-Does-It-(Yes,-*Another*-ACORN-Diary)\">think again<\/a>. (The author of that dKos piece deserves a <i>huge<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/ProjectCensored.org\">Project Censored<\/a> award as far as I&#8217;m concerned!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mind you, I&#8217;m unfamiliar with any actual felonies that ACORN has actually committed. But Rep. Betty McCollum (D-MN) is proposing that corporations found guilty of having committed a felony be ineligible for government contracts for 5 years and that corporate felons should be disallowed from making political donations for the same amount of time. Sounds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,393,188],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-acorn","category-mainstream-media-failure"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7447"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=7447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}