Three months ago, attorney Heather Heidelbaugh testified in front of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Chairman about rampant voter registration fraud conducted by ACORN, the community organizing group Barack Obama worked for in 1992.Until last year's presidential campaign, ACORN was a little known organization, but numerous reports of registration chicanery, including the entire roster of the Dallas Cowboys being registered to vote in Nevada, changed that.
During that testimony, Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), commented that the committee he chairs, Judiciary, should look into numerous fraud allegations against ACORN.
Two weeks later he reiterated his belief.
Conyers has now changed his mind:
"The powers that be decided against it," Mr. Conyers told The Washington Times.
The chairman declined to elaborate, shrugging off questions about who told him how to run his committee and give the Democrat-allied group a pass.
Pittsburgh lawyer Heather Heidelbaugh, whose testimony about ACORN at a March 19 hearing on voting issues prompted Mr. Conyers to call for a probe, said she was perplexed by Mr. Conyers' explanation for his change of heart.
"If the chair of the Judiciary Committee cannot hold a hearing if he wants to [then] who are the powers that he is beholden to?" she said. "Is it the leadership, is it the White House, is it contributors? Who is 'the power?'
Conyers, who has been in Congress since 1965, is one of the most powerful members of the House.
I want to know who is that other "power?"
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