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ACORN's Moonbeam

By Matthew Vadum on 11.19.09 @ 6:08AM

Jerry Brown, currently California attorney general, and ACORN go way back.

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Adding to Brown's woes, ACORN's lead organizer in San Diego, David Lagstein, was caught on tape suggesting Brown's investigation was a sham.

"The attorney general is a political animal as well," Lagstein told a Democratic gathering last month. "Every bit of communication we've had with [Brown's office] has suggested that fault will be found with the people that did the video and not with ACORN."

Brown's office was also revealed to have recorded reporters without their consent, an apparent violation of state law.

Is it possible that O'Keefe and Giles could be punished for unauthorized recording while the attorney general's former flak, Scott Gerber, who taped reporters, gets off scot-free?

Time will tell.

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topics:
Jerry Brown, ACORN

About the Author

Matthew Vadum is an award-winning investigative journalist at a conservative watchdog group in Washington, D.C. Vadum is also author of Subversion Inc: How Obama's ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers.

Letter to the Editor View all comments (31) | Leave a comment

S.L. Toddard| 11.19.09 @ 8:16AM

mon⋅o⋅ma⋅ni⋅a
–noun
1. (no longer in technical use) a psychosis characterized by thoughts confined to one idea or group of ideas.
2. an inordinate or obsessive zeal for or interest in a single thing, idea, subject, or the like.

Matthew Vadum| 11.19.09 @ 10:50AM

crank
–noun
1. an unbalanced person who is overzealous in the advocacy of a private cause.
2. S.L. Toddard

S.L. Toddard| 11.19.09 @ 2:13PM

At this point, Mr. Vadum, you could just re-post the "monomania" definition under my monomania-definition posts. Your (or rather what I perceive to be your) monomania is now the focus of my monomania. We can be monomaniac brothers in arms; two one-eyed men in a kingdom of the blind, having a staring contest!

Don't blink!

victor| 11.19.09 @ 6:47PM

Actually, Toddy, that would Monomaniacal, which doesn't mean a rather large monocle. In your case, though, with your rather outsized ego, it would be the size of a small pizza.

Dixie Pixie| 11.19.09 @ 12:24PM

To: S L Toddard
Give it up.
It was funny the first time, redundant the second time, and annoying for the rest.

Besides you keep mis-applying the word monomania. Gov Brown was renowned for his flighty behavior and eccentric beliefs. Not monomania ever. Please try to stay on track.

S.L. Toddard| 11.19.09 @ 2:21PM

I have to disagree with you. It wasn't that funny the first time either.

Dixie Pixie| 11.19.09 @ 6:47PM

To: S L Toddard
I will concede the point.
You certainty are a connoisseur of Toddard jokes having provoked so many of them.

Focus -- SL -- Focus
Do try to keep to the theme of the thread.

Ken (Old Texican)| 11.19.09 @ 8:55AM

Governor Moonbeam indeed.
No question about it, California truly is the land of fruits and nuts.

Sadly, there is a huge minority of fine people out there. They MUST take their State back if they are going to continue raising their families there.

C'mon Californians, get your heads out and elect a legislature with a collective 60IQ and a hatred of what communism, (pardon the shorthand), has done to your beautiful State.
Communism dressed in green is still communism.

We in Texas just hate continuing to bail you guys out with our tax dollars.

victro| 11.19.09 @ 6:50PM

Trouble is, when Californians get really sick of the state, tehy move to Oregon or Washington, where they proceed to befoul the wilderness with the same behavior.
Witness the lefty looniness of those states.

Andrews| 12.2.09 @ 2:07PM

With a declining 137,000 California millionaires paying 50% of the income tax for a state with a population of 34 million and only 15% of legal registered citizens voting the state has become dominated by open borders,race based advocates and people who see themselves as either loyal to Mexico First or as "Citizens of the World" !
Californians who see themselves as citizens
of the USA are increasingly a smaller minority
and under siege!

Dustoff| 11.19.09 @ 9:29AM

Ahhhhh Yes. I remember the last time Mr. Moonbeam was our gov. He and his father left our state in such a mess.

But if the people elect him again... well don't be surprised when your 100 billion in the hole.
He's known for his spending.

defeated pigs| 11.19.09 @ 11:31AM

Yeah old Mr Moonbeam the spendy spendy guy. He refused to live in the governors mansion and lived in a one bedroom loft to save money for california. You guys are morons.

Grzmlyk| 11.19.09 @ 11:37AM

Hey Matthew, I think you misunderstood Toddard - his oh-so-clever posting (and it's effective every single time he uses it) was something of a confession.

AmSpec is to Toddard as Moby Dick was to Ahab.

The poor man is hoist with his own petard. Again.

Matthew Vadum| 11.19.09 @ 12:36PM

Well, call me Ishmael, Grzmlyk.

Ken (Old Texican)| 11.19.09 @ 1:01PM

Splendid funny riposttee, Matthew.
Two in fact: "crank" was pretty funny too.

I now have a one word response to Toddard's posts I happen to notice.. heh!
Sometimes his server goes down you might note. He is hunkered down in Fortress America at the north pole with Superman.

victor| 11.19.09 @ 5:41PM

In Toddard's case that would be The Fortress of Smallitude.

Grzmlyk| 11.19.09 @ 9:39PM

Nothing like being late back to the party:

But touche, Matthew. At least I got that far into the book. Then I rented the movie!

Matthew Vadum| 11.20.09 @ 11:21PM

Good move. I'm no Melville fan either.

Richard Baker| 11.19.09 @ 12:48PM

Brown and the present People's Republic of California electorate are made for each other. Amazing how the house IS falling down around their heads and the Californians keep doing the same things. Isn't that insane?

Marc Jeric| 11.19.09 @ 3:06PM

Moonbeam Brown will be elected governor again - with the help of ACORN brownshirts and SEIU and teacher union thugs, his system of local soviets (in Russian that spells community organizations).

Dustoff| 11.19.09 @ 7:39PM

defeated pigs| 11.19.09 @ 11:31AM

Yeah old Mr Moonbeam the spendy spendy guy. He refused to live in the governors mansion and lived in a one bedroom loft to save money for california. You guys are morons.
++++++++++++++++++++

Hey Moron. Do you know that this mansion still had to be kept up even he was their or not. So we paid TWICE.

Jezzz I love these fools.

Roy| 11.20.09 @ 2:20AM

More to the point, while the symbolism is nice, it's just that, symbolism. It's not even a drop in the bucket compared to what a leftist governor costs a state by jumping at the bit to hurl billions in taxpayer money at whatever leftist fad comes to their notice.

Ole Phart| 11.20.09 @ 6:07AM

The flat was more convenient for boffing loose moral soprano recording artists whereas the governor would not look good shacking up in the mansion. Today he could probably get away with having orgies and be commended for it.

But-whatdoiknow?| 11.20.09 @ 10:52PM

Vadum: Once again, you get it wrong. Brown HATED ACORN in Oakland. Hated. Trust me.

Matthew Vadum| 11.20.09 @ 11:24PM

Is that so?

Plenty of Democrats secretly hate ACORN but still work with it.

Put up or shut up.

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george| 3.11.10 @ 7:34PM

i remember watching this video i was so shock that something like this really could be going on. i believe the video was in baltimore and also heard there were more of the same events taking place around the country. I really would like to see if justice will be serve in the end