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What a strange coincidence that a story about Hannah Giles partner in exposing ACORN corruption would appear the day of or day after this blog publishes a post (or more correctly, a video and link) advocating for Giles defense fund regarding legal action against her based on their earlier documentary film.

Federal officials accused four men, including a conservative activist, of posing as telephone repairmen to tamper with phones at the New Orleans offices of Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu.

Why would James O’Keefe and three others be interested in Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA)?

ABC News’ Jonathan Karl reports:

What does it take to get a wavering senator to vote for health care reform?

Here’s a case study.

On page 432 of the Reid bill, there is a section increasing federal Medicaid subsidies for “certain states recovering from a major disaster.”

The section spends two pages defining which “states” would qualify, saying, among other things, that it would be states that “during the preceding 7 fiscal years” have been declared a “major disaster area.”

I am told the section applies to exactly one state: Louisiana, the home of moderate Democrat Mary Landrieu, who has been playing hard to get on the health care bill.

Landrieu would be the recipient of what amounts to a payoff (bribe) for her healthcare vote in the form of $100 million, taxpayer dollars, for increased Medicaid coverage for Louisiana. This is exactly the same kind of payoff offered to Senator Ben Nelson (D-NE) for the state of Nebraska.

So what’s the deal? First, Hannah Giles is not involved in this story other than to mention she and O’Keefe put together the documentary exposing ACORN corruption which everyone should be familiar with by now. Second, this blogger still enthusiastically supports Giles and O’Keefe for their ACORN documentary and equally objects to Congress giving any more money to ACORN. Third, who knows what O’Keefe was thinking on this latest story but it changes nothing about the earlier documentary.

Finally, you are still encouraged to defend Hannah Giles as indicated in the previous post. You can do so by following the link provided in that post. As the sole statement in that post suggests, if you have money for Haiti you have money for Hannah. Send a few bucks to help her out. She did a fine job exposing ACORN for what it is….. corrupt. And there is no reason to think she had anything to do with O’Keefe going off the reservation. If that is in fact what happened. But the report from WSJ seems to suggest no one is denying what took place at Landrieu’s offices regarding O’Keefe and three others.

Defend Hannah Giles

Stanford Matthews
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