Yesterday, TPM reported that 76 House Republicans want to officially commend the 9/12 tea partiers’ march. Today, the Washington Independent unearths a similar resolution, introduced earlier this month, to honor the “fact-finding reporting” done by Hannah Giles and James O’Keefe III, the “government watchdogs” who filmed undercover video of ACORN.
Rep. Pete Olson (R-TX) introduced the resolution to honor the “exemplary actions” of the young conservatives, who dressed up as a prostitute and a pimp and secretly filmed ACORN workers giving them advice on how to commit fraud.
Giles and James “are owed a debt of gratitude by the people of the United States,” the resolution reads.
The videos led to a vote in the House to de-fund ACORN, a large community organization that advocates for the poor (and a favorite target of conservatives). Because of that, reads the resolution, the sting videos “resulted in the potential annual savings of millions of taxpayer dollars.”
Olson’s managed to get just two co-sponsors for his resolution. The 9/12 resolution, introduced by Rep. Tom Price (R-GA), on the other hand, has 75 co-sponsors.
