Is the fix in on Jerry Brown’s ACORN Investigation? Part Two
March 1, 2010
In a November post, I asked whether the fix was in on California Governor Jerry Brown’s investigation into ACORN, after an ACORN official was caught on tape referring to Brown as a “political animal” whose office had given ACORN brass indications the group had little to fear from an AG investigation.
Well, Derrick Roach has given us a partial answer in a special report on Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com. According to Roach, instead of conducting a real investigation, Governor Brown has “crumpled like an aluminum can cowardly hiding behind state bureaucrats and a wall of state agencies.” Among the highlights:
“In the wake of Jerry Brown alerting ACORN to an investigation that was to be conducted by his office, ACORN’s actions of dumping records into a dumpster in what appeared to be possible obstruction of justice, statements from ACORN officials that some interpret as possible collusion between ACORN and the Attorney General’s office and a referral of an investigation to another state agency in what appears to be an abdication of responsibility and the equivalent of a political passing-of-the-buck now comes new allegations that ACORN did in fact violate multiple California state and federal laws.
“It is astoundingly amazing that with video evidence obtained by James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles, documents that show an undisputed pattern of political activism by a “non-profit” organization, millions of dollars that have been unaccounted for and a congressional investigation that has documented a pattern of criminal activity that has deprived the State of California from desperately needed tax revenues; that California Attorney General Jerry Brown has yet to show any real sign of leadership or fortitude necessary to protect the citizens of California or seriously investigate ACORN.”