An
Iowa congressman is questioning the timing of the sudden resignation of
a controversial Obama administration official, whose husband has had
close ties to ACORN and has recently been named President Obama's White
House counsel.
In
serving as White House communications director, Anita Dunn had created
a stir when she told school children earlier this year that Chinese
Communist leader Mao Tse Tung was one of the people she admired the most. She also launched a public attack against the Fox News Channel for its reporting on the ACORN prostitution scandal.
Congressman Steve King (R-Iowa) thinks it is curious that Dunn abruptly
resigned from her White House post, just four days after Louisiana
Attorney General Buddy Caldwell raided ACORN's national office, seizing
paper records and computer hard drives.
He says Dunn's husband, Robert Bauer, has been a staunch defender of ACORN.
"During the McCain campaign in the fall of 2008, he wrote a letter to
the Justice Department defending ACORN and recommending that they not
investigate ACORN — [arguing] that ACORN's alleged transgressions were
simply a political product of Republicans," says the Iowa lawmaker.
King
believes Bauer's letter was a contributing factor in convincing the
Justice Department not to investigate ACORN. But he says with the
Louisiana attorney general's action, the administration appears to be
in damage-control mode.
"Are they trying to cover up a trail? Are they severing ties? Is the
investigation [of ACORN] in Louisiana…going to lead all the way up
through Robert Bauer and perhaps his wife in the White House?" King
wonders. "Because I believe the ACORN ties do go right to the White
House in multiple ways."
King believes that as the newly named White House counsel, Bauer will
be in a position to help President Obama erase his ties to ACORN.