The scantily clad co-star of the undercover videos in which staffers for the liberal group ACORN appear complicit in prostitution and tax evasion is a Florida International University student whose father is the pastor of a church in Aventura.

Hannah Giles, 20, poses as a prostitute in the videos with 25-year-old accomplice James O’Keefe, a conservative activist who appears decked out in a fur-accented pimp costume.

Since the first in a series of videos was posted last week on the Internet, the Census Bureau has severed its ties to ACORN, Senators voted 83-7 to cut off housing grants to the group, the White House has voiced disapproval and ACORN has fired at least some of the employees caught on tape and pledged to do an independent investigation.

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As a guerilla conservative filmmaker has rolled out a series of undercover videos showing employees of the liberal advocacy group ACORN in Baltimore, Washington and New York appearing to condone prostitution and promote tax evasion, experienced Florida scandal watchers wonder when the inevitable Sunshine State connection will come.

But ACORN, which has fired at least some the employees caught on tape, claims filmmaker James O’Keefe and accomplice Hannah Giles — who pose as an outlandishly clad pimp and prostitute on the videos — were unsuccessful when they tried their hidden-camera sting in Miami and other cities.

And ACORN (the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) says that in a video released Tuesday showing O’Keefe and Giles at a California ACORN office, the ACORN employee “could not take them seriously. So she met their outrageousness with her own personal style of outrageousness,” which included telling the actors she had killed her husband.

The videos are clearly taking their toll on the group conservatives love to hate. The U.S. Senate voted 83-7 on Monday to deny any federal housing grants to the group, and the Census Bureau dropped ACORN as one of thousands of partners to promote the 2010 headcount.

Something’s going on when organizers of a health care forum on a summer weekday wonder if they’ll have enough room in the 500-seat South County Civic Center.

As members of Palm Beach County’s congressional delegation prepare to hear from constituents on health care reforms this week, click here to read how groups on the left and right are urging their activists to turn out and be heard on the issue.

Read details about the public forums.

Some early arrivals at health care rally today.

WEST PALM BEACH — As nationally orchestrated expressions of local sentiment go, it was no Tea Party.

About 50 people showed up in the afternoon heat today outside Sen. Bill Nelson’s local office to demand health care reform. The event was put together by Organizing For America, the post-election version of the 2008 Obama campaign. There were eight such events around the state.

Members of the anti-tax Tea Party movement, who drew 1,000 or more people to an April rally in West Palm Beach, are planning a “No Government Health Care” rally on Saturday in Boca Raton