The independent filmmaker who brought ACORN to its knees last year with undercover exposes was arrested this week along with three others, including the son of a federal prosecutor, and accused of trying to interfere with the phones at Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu's office.
Federal officials did not say why the men wanted to interfere with Landrieu's phones or whether they were successful. She has been in the news recently because she negotiated an increase in Medicaid funds for her state before announcing her support for Senate health care legislation.
Frankly, I'm surprised no one brought this up here.
Also interesting is how they make a useful cross-sample of today's Republican Party. O'Keefe, of course, has held multiple paid positions across several conservative outlets. Flanagan is the son of a US attorney and former paid intern for a US Representative. O'Keefe and Basel both started student conservative publications with money from the Leadership Institute. Dai claims to have run a DoD counterterrorism program and was also editor of a student publication for conservatives. Basel also ran a successful campaign for a Minnesota Republican.
Wonder how many people are going to run away from them as this gets investigated.
Well, it’s the Super-Monroe Doctrine: “Get off our oil, people who dress funny!” - M. Bouffant
"You're a bad captain, Zarde. People like you only learn by being touched, and hard. And you will greatly disapprove of where these men put their hands." - M. Vanderbeam.
Also important to mention that an investigation found that there was no illegal conduct on the part of ACORN and that the O'Keefe videos were substantially edited, and if we applied the standard used to defund ACORN to everyone we'd shut down most military contractors.
Darn you, Lurker, I wanted to wait with that one until one of our lil' conservatives stepped in the trap to retrieve the ear of corn.
Well, it’s the Super-Monroe Doctrine: “Get off our oil, people who dress funny!” - M. Bouffant
"You're a bad captain, Zarde. People like you only learn by being touched, and hard. And you will greatly disapprove of where these men put their hands." - M. Vanderbeam.