In Ms. Whitman’s defense, according to the video’s poster she said this back in May, a few months before Van Jones caught the attention of Glenn Beck and the conservative blogosphere at which time his rather (ahem) unique political positions became known. However, if Whitman doesn’t want to be seen as another Scozzafavesque RINO candidate, she would be wise to address this as soon as possible.

California is already suffering. They need a good fiscal conservative as their new governor. Not someone who wants to push ideas like green jobs, social justice and redistribution of wealth.

BigGovernment.com has been airing a hefty portion of ACORN’s dirty laundry this week, thanks to the efforts of a private investigator who recovered thousands of documents hastily dumped in the trash by San Diego’s ACORN office days before they were to be investigated.

ACORN is now reacting by claiming that the documents were stolen. From their trash.

“A tempest in a trash can is brewing in San Diego County, where ACORN is trying to recover tens of thousands of documents taken from its garbage by a Republican activist.”

“It’s the latest skirmish in a war between ACORN, which stands for Community Organizations for Reform Now, and conservative critics who accuse it of corruption.”

“Derrick Roach, a private investigator who unsuccessfully ran for a state Assembly seat last year, said he took more than 20,000 documents from a caged trash area behind ACORN’s office in National City on Oct. 9.”

“Some of the documents later posted on a Web site and displayed at a news conference Monday appeared to show driver’s license and Social Security numbers of ACORN members or job applicants.”

“There also were immigration records, credit reports, tax returns, credit card statements and bank account numbers, Roach said Tuesday.”

“ACORN California Head Organizer Amy Schur said the confidential papers were carelessly included in the trash, and there was no intent to dump rather than shred them.”

“We want to get our property back so that we can properly secure it,” she said.”

Perhaps you should have thought of that before, Amy. One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.

BigGovernment.com broke the latest chapter in the ongoing ACORN scandal today. According to a private investigator who has joined the effort, ACORN dumped thousands of sensitive documents just before CA Attorney General Jerry Brown was due to begin an investigation.

“Shockingly, we now learn that the ACORN office in National City (San Diego County) engaged in a massive document dump on the evening of October 9th, containing thousands upon thousands of sensitive documents, just days prior to the Attorney General’s visit.”

“BigGovernment.com has learned that not only did this document dump occur, but the documents in question were irresponsibly and brazenly dumped in a public dumpster, without considering laws and regulations as to how sensitive information should be treated.”

‘I am a local licensed private investigator. I took it upon myself to keep an eye on what the local ACORN office was up to, in light of the release of the undercover videos. I retrieved these documents from the public dumpster.”

“ACORN’s political agenda is also exposed, with thousands upon thousands of documents revealing the depth of the political machine that is ACORN, and its disturbing ties to not only public employee labor unions but some of the most radical leftist organizations.”

“The laws governing how sensitive, personal information such as social security numbers, driver’s license numbers, immigration records, tax returns, etc. must be treated are very stringent, and thus it seems as if ACORN may have committed serious violations in that department alone, with thousands upon thousands of potential plaintiffs.”

Visit BigGovernment.com to see photos, video and scanned documents.

In related news, an ACORN employee in Nevada who was found guilty of participating in voter fraud last year was sentenced today. The penalty? Three years of probation.

“LAS VEGAS — A former Las Vegas supervisor for the political advocacy group ACORN was sentenced Monday to up to three years’ probation for his role in a plan to pay canvassers to register Nevada voters during last year’s presidential campaign.”

“I just want to say I take responsibility for what I did,” Christopher Edwards told a judge who responded that he was “not pleased to say the least” by allegations that Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now paid bonuses to canvassers who collected 21 or more voter registration cards in August and September 2008.”

“I’m sorry. I truly am,” Edwards said, “and it will never happen again.”

We know it won’t happen again, Mr. Edwards. We’re watching you scumbags now.

Undergraduate students at UCLA Davis protested yesterday over a proposed 32% hike in tuition.

“Angry students at the Davis, California, branch of the University of California refused to vacate the school’s administration building Thursday evening in a show of defiance and protest over a 32-percent undergraduate tuition hike instituted by the California Board of Regents earlier in the day.”

“About 50 students remained in the building, which was supposed to close by 5 p.m. PT (8 p.m. ET), UC Davis spokeswoman Claudia Morain told CNN. At one point, as many as 150 students were at the building protesting the tuition increase, she said. She said she hopes campus police can resolve the issue without the need to make arrests.”

“CNN affiliate KCRA captured footage of students outside the building shouting, “Who’s university? Our university!”

In the video below, the students are protesting as if the university was run by Bush and Cheney. Some of them are carrying signs that say “Yes We Can Take Back Our University.” Has no one clued them in to the fact that Barack Obama – for whom most of them probably voted – is now “the man?” Has no one explained to them that the reason for the increase in tuition is that Democrat legislators have bankrupted the state of California?

Has no one explained to them that if they’re angry about paying more now, they have a world of pain in store for them if Obama’s agenda passes?

Kids, if you think you’re angry now, just wait. Wait until you have your own kids, a job and taxes that are destroying your opportunity to follow your bliss.

In the promise of Obama, Generation Y was sold a bill of goods. When they finally figure out how much it’s going to cost them in the long term, there will be hell to pay.

SEIU thugs – like the ones who violently attacked Kenneth Gladney back in August – attacked another man this week, this time a California state worker who was trying to expose their corruption.

CBS in Sacramento reports:

“A state worker is recovering after a bloody brawl at a union hall. He says members of the local SEIU 1000 beat him up and sent him to the hospital all because he wanted to expose alleged corruption within the union.”

“Ken Hamidi is a state worker at the California Franchise Tax Board. Last night he walked into a union hall in Sacramento for an SEIU local 1000 meeting.”

“We had every right to be here, very simple; it wasn’t anything private or anything exclusive,” said Hamidi.”

“But Hamidi says the union members did not want him there.”

“Three, four people jumped at me, wrestled with me, then did all that,” said Hamidi. “I was covered in blood and then over to the emergency room.”

“Photos of Hamidi in the hospital show him bloodied from the brawl. So why did this happen? Besides being a state worker, Hamidi says he’s an unpaid reporter for a cable access show and a vocal critic of the SEIU. He calls the state workers’ union corrupt.”

The head of the SEIU is Andy Stern. Stern tops the list of influential visitors at the White House.

“The most frequent visitor included in the narrow sample was Andy Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union and Mr. Obama’s top ally in the labor movement. Mr. Stern visited the White House 22 times, sometimes for health care or other public events in the East Room, other times for meetings with the president or aides like Rahm Emanuel, Peter R. Orszag or Ronald A. Klain.”

“The visit tally underscores the clout that S.E.I.U. and Mr. Stern enjoy in this White House, something that has generated consternation at times among business groups and envy among rival unions.”

We now have two documented cases of SEIU violence. They seem to lash out when people are doing something they don’t like or if they perceive someone as a threat. Yet they have direct access to our White House and our president.

Why?

Furthermore, why do Obama’s supporters try to create a false image of conservative Tea Party activists as potentially violent when it is the president’s cohorts in the SEIU who have now twice committed acts of violence?

The president himself speaking to Democrats just yesterday referred to anti-ObamaCare protesters in Washington DC as “the Tea Bag people.”

“According to Representative Earl Blumenauer of Oregon, who supports the health care bill, the president asked, “Does anybody think that the teabag, anti-government people are going to support them if they bring down health care?”

Violent and corrupt thugs have access to the White House. Pro-American patriots are ridiculed by their president.

Now we know what Obama meant by “change.”

A whopping 34% of Californians approve of Nancy Pelosi…

“A poll released over the weekend shows that only 34 percent of Californians approve of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) job performance, down 14 points from March.”

“The study, conducted by the Field Research Corportation, also showed that 44 percent of respondents disapproved of her job performance while 22 percent held no opinion. In the organization’s last poll in March, 48 percent of respondents approved of Pelosi’s job performance while 35 percent disapproved.”

I wish they had called me. I’d love to offer my opinion on Madam Speaker…

Andrew Breitbart and Hannah Giles unveiled the newest ACORN bomb on Hannity tonight.

What now? An ACORN official offers help and advice on how to smuggle underage girls over the Mexican border into the US.

For the full story, you have to head over to Breitbart’s Big Government.

I bet the president is happy to hear this:

“We’re just community organizers, just like the president used to be.”

-Bonnie Greathouse, ACORN

Welcome to the newest low in the ObamaCare debate:

“THOUSAND OAKS — A 65-year-old man had his finger bitten off Wednesday evening at a health care rally in Thousand Oaks, according to the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department.”

“Sheriff’s investigators were called to Hillcrest and Lynn Road at 7:26 p.m. About 100 protesters sponsored by MoveOn.org were having a rally supporting health care reform. A group of anti-health care reform protesters formed across the street.”

“A witness from the scene says a man was walking through the anti-reform group to get to the pro-reform side when he got into an altercation with the 65-year-old, who opposes health care reform.”

“The 65-year-old was apparently aggressive and hit the other man, who then retaliated by biting off his attacker’s pinky, according to Karoli from DrumsnWhistles, who attended the rally.”

Now the only question is how the media will spin this into a story about “violent right wingers.”

MoveOn.org has issued a statement:

“We have seen press reports that indicate at one event in Southern California a regrettable act of violence happened. While we do not have any more facts about what happened then what we saw in press accounts, MoveOn condemns violence in all forms.”

In addition to teaching its members not to bite off other people’s body parts, someone at MoveOn might want to look up the difference between the words “then” and “than.”

Isn’t that just keen?

CNN reports:

“With the first week of his vacation marred by the death of his party’s most revered senator, President Obama on Monday began his final week of vacation with a return to the golf course.”

“Obama teed off three times last week in Martha’s Vineyard.”

After all, unemployment has only gone from 9.4% to 9.5%

“What a difference a (D) makes!  In 2003-4, George Bush got derided for talking about economic recovery during the 2004 election campaign while unemployment declined from 6.2% to 5.6%.  Critics derided it as a “jobless recovery,” Washington Post.  Now, however, an increase in unemployment has become a measure of improvement in the economy as it goes up to 9.5%”

And hey, a guy shouldn’t have to miss his 18 holes just because August 2009 has been the deadliest month for US Troops in Afghanistan since the they arrived.

“August has become the deadliest month for the U.S. military in Afghanistan since the U.S. invasion after the attacks of September 11, 2001.”

“An American service member died in a roadside bombing in eastern Afghanistan on Friday, bringing the number of U.S. military deaths in the war-ravaged country in August to 46, according to a CNN count of military figures.”

“That’s the highest monthly toll of the nearly eight-year-long conflict, surpassing the previous high of 45 in July.”

What? A guy is supposed to skip a friendly game followed by a few Roosevelt Martinis just because the State of California is being consumed by raging wildfires?

“Fuelled by hot weather and dense, dry brush, the blaze doubled in size in a day to spread over 134 sq miles (347 sq km) of forest.”

“About 12,000 buildings and key communications masts are under threat, and officials say the fire could easily double again over the coming days.”

No way should he miss his game. You play golf, Obama.

The media never made a big deal out of it when George W. Bush played golf, so I’m sure they’ll be just as fair to you.