Reid Rejects Investigation into ACORN

Wednesday, 23 September 2009 11:19

Majority Leader Harry Reid rebuffed a Republican request that he call Senate hearings and an investigation into recent allegations against the scandal-tainted community organizing group ACORN … Reid made the comments in letters to 28 Republican senators, who had asked for the investigation into the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. The liberal-leaning group has faced heavy criticism following the release last week of a video showing ACORN employees apparently advising a couple, posing as a prostitute accompanied by her pimp, about how to conceal their line of work, evade taxes and handle undocumented, under-age sex workers … The group of GOP senators, led by National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman John Cornyn of Texas, lodged the request Sept. 17 amid a flurry of legislative activity related to ACORN.

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