Cisneros advising ACORN in crisisBy Gilbert Garcia - Express-NewsFormer Mayor Henry Cisneros said Friday he accepted a request to serve on an advisory council for ACORN in order to help the community organizing group recently rocked by allegations of corruption.
Cisneros, who worked closely with ACORN on housing issues during his stint as HUD secretary, said ACORN representatives approached him “about six weeks ago” to help the organization deal with the voter-registration crisis. He added that his advisory role simply took on greater urgency this week with the emergence of the video....
Cisneros said the advisory council consists of “five or six people” and is attempting to recruit a prominent individual who can conduct a thorough review of ACORN.
“We're advising that they find someone who is regarded by the country as beyond reproach, a very high-level person, like a Sen. (George) Mitchell, who did this with baseball, or Warren Christopher, who weighed in after the riots in Los Angeles. Someone whose recommendations would be accepted.”
Cisneros, of course, is a poster child for how much destruction the corporate - community organizing - political connection can do. As Bill Clinton's HUD secretary, he signed the 1994 deal with Angelo Mozilo of Countrywide that Countrywide would behave like it was covered by the Community Reinvestment Act, then later joined Countrywide's board. As perhaps the best known Mexican-American politician, Cisneros provided Countrywide with "regulatory air cover" as it ran amok with ridiculous loans, all in the name of closing the minority homeownership gap.
From Mozilo's January 2005 press release:
"The $1 trillion We House America Challenge, expanded from $600 billion announced in 2003, embodies Countrywide's long-standing commitment to lead the mortgage industry in closing the homeownership gap for minority and lower-income families and communities," said Countrywide Financial Corporation Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Angelo Mozilo. ...
"We have also called upon one of our esteemed directors, the Honorable Henry Cisneros, former secretary of Housing and Urban Development and a former mayor of San Antonio. Henry will put to use his long and respected experience as an advocate for affordable housing who understands the benefits to communities of homeownership."
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Q: What's the difference between Henry Cisneros and Linda Medlar?
ReplyDeleteA: Medlar is a felon. Cisneros was pardoned.
Q: Wasn't feminism supposed to have been invented to combat precisely this sort of abuse of women?
A: Don't even waste your breath.
Great stuff.
ReplyDeleteIn more good news, Obama wants to bail out the media and give us Pravda newspapers by having them restructure as non-profits with guv'ment support,
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/59523-obama-open-to-newspaper-bailout-bill
This is rich. The print media got so leftist that people (reading white people that is) dont read newspapers anymore, so they go to the government to make sure that taxpayers have to pay for their propaganda, er....news, every day anyway. Im sure the execs at Gannett-syndicate just love it. E.J. Dionne approves.
No college football analogies this week? Surely USC losing again to an unranked PAC-10 team has evoked some thoughts.
ReplyDeleteThe print media got so leftist that people (reading white people that is) dont read newspapers anymore, so they go to the government to make sure that taxpayers have to pay for their propaganda, er....news, every day anyway.
ReplyDeleteNo college football analogies this week?
I came home yesterday evening, after a long day on the road, and I sat down and clicked through about 1000 channels on DirecTV, and there was nothing on [at all], so I thought, "What the heck? - I'll watch a little Cowboys-Giants."
It was the inaugural game in the new stadium [which looks to be just a stunning piece of architecture, btw - another favorite topic at iSteve], and I was thinking about the magnificence of the spectacle of it all, but I also remember thinking that it sure was weird that Fox didn't carry President Bush's coin-toss live - that they instead had some random sports bimbo hogging the screen & running her fat trap and that they then showed us the coin toss afterwards, on tape delay.
And as I was watching the first half, I was thinking to myself, "Wow, this is a pretty decent game - especially that series with the interception off the guy's foot, and the subsequent juggled reception in the endzone for a touchdown," but all the while that diss of President Bush was really bothering me, and I kept thinking, "Gee, it sure would be nice if Roger Ailes or Rupert Murdoch got on at the half and apologized for screwing up the coverage of the coin toss."
And then they started panning the crowd, and they showed all the former players, and I got really psyched when they showed one of my boyhood heroes, Roger Staubach, and I was thinking "Wow, I haven't seen Roger Staubach in almost 30 years!!!"
So at that point I was all excited about watching the halftime show [thinking that I could catch the second showing of Mad Men later on to see what I would have missed by sticking with the halftime ceremonies], but after the second quarter wrapped up, somebody got on the air and said something to the effect of "And now for some halftime commentary from blahBlahBlah and blahBlahBlah and blahBlahBlah and Keith Olbermann..."
And I was like: "Keith Olbermann? KEITH OLBERMANN? WTF?"
"You mean I've been watching this on NBC?!? God damn it all to hell!!!"
And I got so pissed off that I switched channels and missed the halftime tribute to my boyhood idol, Roger the Dodger.
God, I hate our elites.
Secession just can't come fast enough for me.
PS: Oh, and I caught just enough of halftime to hear Olberturd make some grossly disparaging comment about Kurt Warner, who had just set an all-time NFL record for single game completion percentage.
GOD I HATE THESE PEOPLE.
"Mighty oafs from little acorns grow"
ReplyDelete...your best headline to date Steve!
"Mighty oafs from little acorns grow"
ReplyDeleteI salvaged it from Mad Magazine, c. 1971.
"I also remember thinking that it sure was weird that Fox didn't carry President Bush's coin-toss live...but all the while that diss of President Bush was really bothering me,"
ReplyDeleteI don't know, I guess it beats facing a firing squad for treason by a little bit; but hey, enjoy the game.
Hilarious as always, Troof.
ReplyDeleteIf Bush gets the firing squad for... um... (what, exactly?) then what does Obama get for bowing to the Saudi king?
Bowing to the Saudi King....
ReplyDeletevs.
Beginning a war on false pretenses that costs 6,000 Americans their lives, injures tens of thousands of others, wastes billions of dollars and earning billions of dollars for yourself and your family in specious contracts through that war...
Dude, I see your point; it's a tossup!