a hero of james o'keefe was on the losing end of a lawsuit. now he's finally paid. james o'keefe. y posing as a pimp and allegedly insisting the help of various acorn employees to smuggle underage girls across the border. o'keefe used a hidden camera. >> it involved some girls coming overseas. >> from el salvador? >> my girlfriend here is a prostitute. she's in a unique line of business. she's in prostitution. and we're bringing in some underage girls in from -- can i pull up a chair? >> yeah go ahead. >> can you -- this is confidential, right? >> yeah. >> after o'keefe left the acorn office, the employee in the video, juan carlos vera, called his cousin, a police officer. meanwhile, o'keefe released a heavily edited video suggesting mr. vera was trying to help him. fox news, of course, jumped all over the story. >> now the man on this tape even offers to help smuggle underage illegal immigrants into the u.s. for the purposes of prostitution. let's take a look. >> logistically, is it better if it's tijuana? is it better if it's somewhere inland? where is the best place? >> well, ve

power by and acting with these voter id laws going after acorn this kind of pave the way before james o'keefe and really just even the gerrymandering issue that these kind of absurdly drawn congressional districts these state think tanks are defending them saying no this is this is part of this is part of our state now you can't change these borders well and in fact you know democrats across the country running for the house of representatives got one point three million more votes than republicans did in the last election you would think that they would control the house of representatives they don't the republicans do because of the jury mandarin that you just described and that was all done in all driven at the state level of the isn't this really the brilliant strategy and this is kind of howard dean's fifty state strategy this is and i do howard dean strategy except with tens of millions more dollars they simply have more resources and of course liberals have attempted this strategy on the state level but just to a much smaller degree there's this there's talk about investing in think ta

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