Money Laundering Scandal? (UPDATED + Thursday evening update)
By Eastan McNeal on August 20, 2008 at 8:17 PM in ACORN, Barack Obama, Current Affairs
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Note. This article makes serious assertions. Therefore each statement of fact is supported by external sources or references, listed at the end of the article. UPDATE: We had a local photographer with actual recent street level photos of the HQ, so there is no doubt that this is the place. Photos are posted at the end of the article.
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Is This a Money Laundering Scandal?
Is the Obama Campaign falsifying its FEC disclosure reports by using a front company to disguise its relationship with ACORN, a controversial group?
By Eastan McNeal on August 20, 2008
Less than one month after admitting that it had received over $30,000 in illegal contributions from Gaza it seems the Obama for America campaign is facing yet another damaging issue related to campaign finance. This time the infraction emerges from potentially shady expenditures or expenditure reporting. It is, however, highly unlikely that the campaign can write this disclosure pattern off as a “technical glitch” or a “clerical error” as the firms involved are much more than just casually linked, and the misrepresentations occur on eleven separate documents.
Why is Barack Obama spending nearly $1,000,000 on a business housed here?
According to Federal Election Commission (FEC) financial disclosure reports filed by the campaign earlier this year, between February 25th and May 17th Obama paid $832,598 to Citizens Services, Inc. (CSI), one of the nearly seventy Not-for-Profit companies registered at the ACORN New Orleans headquarters on 1024 Elysian Fields Avenue [SEE IMAGE OF THE NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS of CSI as well as 20 other businesses.]. CSI now also shares an office with ACORN in Chicago at 209 W. Jackson St., home of the SEIU (Service Employees International Union).
On the surface, the 11 separate payments to CSI appear to be for services typically useful to a campaign. However, as confirmed by one of its directors, CSI does not offer the services listed on the Obama campaign expense reports. According to the director, and as found in various disclosure reports from other candidates, CSI specializes in field operations, specifically grass roots organizing for get out the vote efforts. The Obama expense reports list the following payments to CSI: $564,342 for Stage, Sound, Lighting, $138,000 for Advance Work, $18,417 for Polling and $98,451 for Travel/Lodging. There is no “get out the vote” expenditure to CSI in the reports.
After retrieving a copy of CSI’s business registration form from the Louisiana Secretary of State’s office, on July 24th one of our researchers contacted Sunday Alabi, the first Director listed on the corporate filing. Our caller asked Mr. Alabi if CSI could provide Stage, Sound and Lighting for a campaign. Mr. Alabi’s response was that those services are not the nature of CSI’s business and that our caller would need to contact ACORN. The same response was given when questioned about polling and campaign advance work. But those are the services listed by Obama on the FEC reports. Services supposedly performed by CSI.
CSI is supposedly totally independent of ACORN. However, Jeff Robinson, who reportedly heads the company, is listed in his LinkedIn public profile as the National Deputy Political Director-Campaigns and Elections at ACORN and the Political Director at Communities Voting Together which, by the way, contributed $60,000 to CSI. In May of this year he publicly endorsed the Bob Blumenfield campaign by way of his position as a Director of ACORN. Furthermore, all of CSI’s directors are in ACORN leadership. One should ask why there appears to be so much deception and misdirection surrounding a tiny storefront not-for-profit organization from New Orleans.
Do you pay a fast food restaurant to set a broken bone? That is, incredibly, how absurd these election reports are. A brief conversation with an enforcement officer at the FEC, using hypothetical names, yielded the following response.
According to the FEC, in a situation where a campaign committee reports that they paid a company for services that the company says they do not provide, there is reason to be suspicious. It was irregular. And, it was inappropriate. To wit in 1997 Congresswoman Mary Rose Oakar (OH) was prosecuted by the U.S. Justice Department for conspiracy to deceive the FEC as to the true nature of the campaign contributions and expenditures that she was required to report. Falsifying federal disclosure reports is a serious matter and it is a crime. If the FEC chooses to exercise equal enforcement then Senator Obama could very well be subject to prosecution.
As demonstrated in previous articles, here, in newspapers, magazines and on television news stations, ACORN is a critical part of the Obama field operations. So why is the campaign writing checks to CSI for this work ostensibly performed by ACORN? It is reasonable to assume that the campaign would not want to be directly affiliated with, through disclosure reports, an organization that has been prosecuted or is under investigation in twelve states for election fraud. More recently, on June 2nd, ACORN’s founder, Wade Rathke had to step down from his post after it was discovered that he covered up a one million dollar embezzlement scheme committed by his brother, Dale. Many in the press and numerous election officials do not view ACORN in a favorable light. Reporting payments to them could conceivably create a public relations problem for Obama. But laundering payments to ACORN through a front company, in a conspiracy to defraud the FEC, if that is how the above action can be explained, is a crime.
There are additional striking oddities found in these disclosures. One is the timing and the amounts paid for “advance work.” Of the 1,211 payments made by the campaign for advance work the average check, not including the two to CSI, was $558. Considering that both of the Rathke brothers were loosing their high salaried jobs at ACORN, while being asked to repay the funds embezzled, the payment of $63,000, followed three weeks later by a payment of $70,000 for “advance work”, just prior to their resignations, has the surface appearance of conversion of campaign funds for personal use. This, if such conversion is proven, also seriously violates federal statutes. Another glaring oddity is Stage, Lighting and Sound (SLS) – also a service never previously reported as a CSI offering. Obama made two payments for SLS to CSI within two days of each other. These payments were the largest checks made for “concerts” throughout the entire campaign calendar. The average SLS payment to other companies was $3,900. CSI received $310,000 followed by $160,000 two days later. Two days after that, CSI got a $98,000 check for Travel/Lodging. Two weeks after that another $74,000 was paid to CSI for SLS. Two weeks later, $18,000 for Polling was reported, followed by another $18,000 for SLS the following day. All of the above payments went to a company that admits they provide none of the above services.
There are, with little doubt and high probability, numerous federal offenses that may have been committed by the Obama campaign committee. Within their power and charge the FEC should immediately convene an administrative tribunal to investigate these questionable transactions. Indeed, a complaint to the FEC is being prepared and could be filed this week.
References: Right click, to open links in a separate window or tab.
“Violation involved a conspiracy to defraud the Federal Election Commission (FEC), and to make false statements to the FEC.”
– Mary Rose Oakar’s indictment
Citizens Services, Inc. at the LA Secretary of State’s Office
ACORN at the LA Secretary of State’s Office
Satellite image of CSI-ACORN HQ. Zoom in or go to street view. If the street view option is not shown simply click the Search Maps button again.
ACORN Investigations:
- Rotten ACORN
- Housing Crisis
- The ACORN Obama Knows
- ACORN AHC Report (PDF)
Obama’s Liberal Shock Troops - ACORN
- Wall Street Journal
- Case Study: Chicago-The Barack Obama Campaign (SocialPolicy.org)
Obama’s Ties To ACORN More Substantial than first believed (AmericanThinker.com)
Rathke steps down as ACORN chief over embezzlement charges
New York Times
Jeff Robinson’s public profile on LinkedIn
Robinson’s Blumenfield endorsement
Communities Voting Together 2005 contribution to CSI
CSI Director Sunday Alabi’s registration as chairman of ACORN, MN
CSI Director Rosalie Leon, CA ACORN Executive Board Member
CSI Director Teresa Dominguez, TX ACORN member
Checks written by Obama for America to Citizens Services, Inc.
| $310,441.20 | 25-FEB-08 | STAGING, SOUND, LIGHTING |
| $160,689.40 | 27-FEB-08 | STAGING, SOUND, LIGHTING |
| $98,451.20 | 29-FEB-08 | TRAVEL/LODGING |
| $74,578.01 | 13-MAR-08 | STAGING, SOUND, LIGHTING |
| $18,417.00 | 28-MAR-08 | POLLING |
| $18,633.60 | 29-APR-08 | STAGING, SOUND, LIGHTING |
| $63,000.00 | 29-APR-08 | ADVANCE WORK |
| $105.84 | 02-MAY-08 | LICENSE FEES |
| $105.84 | 02-MAY-08 | LICENSE FEES |
| $75,000.00 | 17-MAY-08 | ADVANCE WORK |
| $13,176.20 | 17-MAY-08 | PER DIEM |
| $13,176.20 | 17-MAY-08 | PER DIEM |
| TOTAL: | ||
| $832,598.29 |
Source: FEC. Committee ID: C00431445
Title 11: Federal Elections. § 111.4 Complaints (2 U.S.C. 437g(a)(1)).
(a) Any person who believes that a violation of any statute or regulation over which the Commission has jurisdiction has occurred or is about to occur may file a complaint in writing to the General Counsel, Federal Election Commission, 999 E Street, NW., Washington, DC 20463.
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HERE IS THE LIST OF COMPANIES AND PERSONS WHO CURRENTLY LIST THE ACORN BUILDING AS THEIR PRIMARY ADDRESS:
And, when you look at Lexis Nexis for that address, here’s what turns up:
1. ACORN
1024 ELYSIAN FIELDS AVE
NEW ORLEANS, LA 70117-8402
ORLEANS COUNTY
(03/2000-Current) Most Recent Telephone Listing 504-944-7078ACORN (03/2000-Current)
2. ACORN NATIONAL CALL
1024 ELYSIAN FIELDS AVE
NEW ORLEANS, LA 70117-8402
ORLEANS COUNTY
(06/2008-Current) Most Recent Telephone Listing 504-940-3223ACORN NATIONAL CALL CENTER (06/2008-Current)
3. ACORN NATIONAL CALL
1024 ELYSIAN FIELDS AVE
NEW ORLEANS, LA 70117-8402
ORLEANS COUNTY
(06/2008-Current) Most Recent Telephone Listing 504-943-0434ACORN NATIONAL CALL CENTER (06/2008-Current)
4. AFFILIATED MEDIA FOU
1024 ELYSIAN FIELDS AVE
NEW ORLEANS, LA 70117-8402
ORLEANS COUNTY
(03/2000-Current) Most Recent Telephone Listing 504-943-5713AFFILIATED MEDIA FOUNDATION MOVEMENT (03/2000-Current)
5. ACORN, D C
1024 ELYSIAN FIELDS AVE
NEW ORLEANS, LA 70117-8402
ORLEANS COUNTY
(11/2007-Current) 504-944-7078ACORN(Current Listing Name)
6. AMFM, T
1024 ELYSIAN FIELDS AVE
NEW ORLEANS, LA 70117-8402
ORLEANS COUNTY
(07/2005-Current) 504-944-7078ACORN(Current Listing Name)
7. LEE, MARIE A
1024 ELYSIAN FIELDS AVE
NEW ORLEANS, LA 70117-8402
ORLEANS COUNTY
(07/2006-Current)
8. PUGH, LITTLE ROC
PUGH, LITTLE R
1024 ELYSIAN FIELDS AVE
NEW ORLEANS, LA 70117-8402
ORLEANS COUNTY
(10/2004-Current)
9. FOR, VOTING
1024 ELYSIAN FIELDS AVE APT
NEW ORLEANS, LA 70117-8402
ORLEANS COUNTY
(10/2004-Current)
10. FOR AMERI VOTE, VOTING
1024 ELYSIAN FIELDS AVE
NEW ORLEANS, LA 70117-8402
ORLEANS COUNTY
(10/2004-Current)
11. CORPORTION, ACORN H
1024 ELYSIAN FIELDS AVE
NEW ORLEANS, LA 70117-8402
ORLEANS COUNTY
(09/2003-Current)
12. HOUSING, ACORN
1024 ELYSIAN FIELDS AVE
NEW ORLEANS, LA 70117-8402
ORLEANS COUNTY
(09/2003-Current)
13. LITTLE, ROCK NEW
1024 ELYSIAN FIELDS AVE
NEW ORLEANS, LA 70117-8402
ORLEANS COUNTY
(10/2001-Current)
14. INCII, ACORNHOUSING
1024 ELYSIAN FIELDS AVE
NEW ORLEANS, LA 70117-8402
ORLEANS COUNTY
(01/2003-Current)
15. INCII, ACORNHOUSING
1024 ELYSIAN FIELDS AVE
NEW ORLEANS, LA 70117-8402
ORLEANS COUNTY
(12/2002-Current)
16. ACORNHOUSING, NEWYORK
1024 ELYSIAN FIELDS AVE
NEW ORLEANS, LA 70117-8402
ORLEANS COUNTY
(11/1999-Current)
17. STREET, F
1024 ELYSIAN FIELDS AVE
NEW ORLEANS, LA 70117-8402
ORLEANS COUNTY
(04/1997-Current)
18. WHIPPLE, WILLIAM
1024 ELYSIAN FIELDS AVE
NEW ORLEANS, LA 70117-8402
ORLEANS COUNTY
(03/1997-Current)
19. ACORN, JOANNE
1024 ELYSIAN FIELDS AVE
NEW ORLEANS, LA 70117-8402
ORLEANS COUNTY
(04/1992-Current)
20. MISSOURI, TAX J
1024 ELYSIAN FIELDS AVE
NEW ORLEANS, LA 70117-8402
ORLEANS COUNTY
(12/1992-Current)
21. RATHKE, DALE
1024 ELYSIAN FIELDS AVE
NEW ORLEANS, LA 70117-8402
ORLEANS COUNTY
(12/1992-Current)
22. FITCH, GREGORY
1024 ELYSIAN FIELDS AVE
NEW ORLEANS, LA 70117-8402
ORLEANS COUNTY
(07/1991-Current)
23. CORN, A
1024 ELYSIAN FIELDS AVE
NEW ORLEANS, LA 70117-8402
ORLEANS COUNTY
(12/1990-Current)
24. VOTE, PROJECT
1024 ELYSIAN FIELDS AVE
NEW ORLEANS, LA 70117-8402
ORLEANS COUNTY
25. OF, ASSN
1024 ELYSIAN FIELDS AVE
NEW ORLEANS, LA 70117-8402
ORLEANS COUNTY
One can only hope that when they do throw themselves “under the bus like a ritual suicide in a cult” that Dean, Brazile, Pelosi, Kerry, Reid, and all of the DC D elite along with the so-called “pundits” join in the ritual too!
one more body on the foundation of barack HUSSEINS empire funny how clinton supporters keep dying and they say hillary had a body count but it doesn’t compare to what barry has been up to no one in the media will ask questions because their still firmly in his camp because their sexist hillary is the only one who can beat mccain in november delegates you still have time to avoid the end of the democratic party because we will overcome and beat hussein no matter how many of us he kills do you think he had rezko do it I think he did or one of his muslim buddies at crazy wrights chruch did you know he killed hos commanding officer in vietnam go read no quarter for the scoop but no one in the sexist media will report on it we wont let barry steal the nomination from our girl it is time for a woman a woman who will put this country right because men have made a mess of it all thats what i support hillary and i cant stand to see misgynistic men attack her for being a woman stupid man world slick barry is going to send the party into ruin in my day we didnt let his type get that far no matter how mayn of us they killed eighteen million votes cant be wrong we wont let the media and the racist dnc and howard dean and the liberals steal this nomination from our girl
whoooooo yeah baby….
hello there!
saw on TL you got a talking down.
You are welcome to utilize free speech here!
I left there days after they jumped on the bandwagon with pom poms and let the o’drama posters insult us for telling the truth. I still read TL now and then, I just can’t hold my opinion in line and be censored from saying how I really feel.
Good to see you here. Welcome again.
Hello PssttCmere: welcome to NQ !! Good to see you here; I appreciated your comments at TL.
Just another reason why Dean, Brazille, Obama and the rest of the elite, effete coupists must be tossed out of the leadershp. Barack is as corrupt as you can be.
Here is a post I made about where many PUMAs’ thoughts are regarding the new polling showing we are increasingly retreating from Barack and in light of new threats by his supporters concerning Hillary Clinton’s future if we don’t get on board:
http://www.hillaryclintonforum.net/discussion/showthread.php?t=24518
I have to agree with everything you said except for one point. Obama didn’t steal it. It was given to him.
That was quite wonderful, Paul. Thanks, my sentiments exactly.
That was wonderful Paul. I would just like to add a couple or my own thoughts here. The last time I went to TM, this was in June, she was using the argument about political payback against Hillary if we don’t fall in line. I don’t think there is any way she will lose her seat in NY and after Barry loses the election in Nov, the power in the senate will shift away from those who have hijacked the party. I feel the same about #4, but if he had any sense at all, he would ask Hillary because she is the only one who can help him. My only question is about his eligibility and what will happen when the Republicans go after him on that issue. My guess, they might try to give the nomination to Evan Bayh or Biden unless she is on the ticket. I trust her so completely, I don’t know if I could vote against her. Fox did a story on Obama on Monday and they showed the document we have seen her, his registration as Barry Soetoro. They didn’t make a big deal about it, but that may have been a shot over the bow to warn him. They also talked about his trip to Pakistan and it seems he traveled with two Pakistanis. First time I’ve heard that. i disagree with others who have said she could not be elected if a miracle happens and she is the nominee. If his supporters showed their true colors to the entire country with riots or threats of riots, I don’t think it would frighten voters. It would make the angry. The older AA base would move back to her and no one counts on college students to show up in large numbers anyway. So what if they stay home? Maybe I’m too optismistic, but not ready to give up yet.
hi elise!!! I totally agree with you!!
Woot!!
BOOYAH!!
Hillary IS POTUS!!
Original audio found of Obama arguing against BIAPA
Read here.
Yes I saw that its on my blog, the audio, and I also agree with this post, thanks to all for all the hard work..
http://nativeamericansagainstobama.wordpress.com/
Well, I’m sending this article around. I have to reread it a couple of times.
Meanwhile, maybe the footsteps of justice are getting closer on the Ayers-Obama connection — here’s a story from the Chicago Tribune blog. http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/08/barack_obama_records_sealed_at.html
It seems the U. of IL cover up is getting the news that Ayers’ history didn’t. Does anyone think the Republicans (through NRO) planted the seeds of controversy so they would germinate near the convention?
I doubt it’s the Republicans. This is a result of millions of people angered over a stolen election. If the MSM is not going to do their job, people will. Thank God for the internet.
Speaking of MSM, I have not read one good analysis as to why this is happening.
Katmandu, read this one on a Trib blog. Check out the readers comments they are pissed at Daley and the Trib.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/5l3exb
Daley won’t say whether UIC should release Obama-Ayers records
Why is Daley defending Ayers? If there is nothing damning in those papers, why would they care if they were released. In his speech in Orlando, Obama said he had released all his papers and it’s just another attempt to obscure the truth. Someone should be demanding he release all his tax records and legislative records from that time. His grade transcripts for Columbia and Harvard, plus his thesis paper which no one seems to have a copy of anymore. How could someone lose something they should be proud of and treasure?
I do I think they did their whole Johnny Appleseed mojo on that baby!
If you read the story by Kurtz at the NRO you will see that he credits STEVE DIAMOND for his posts on his blog, which were also posted here. Steve was the first person writing about the Annenberg connection, thanks to his work it is spreading, Hannity talked about this on the radio today as well. Soon this will be a story the MSM will have to cover. I think this “born alive” bill that Obama voted against will be HUGE, it will destroy him. It’s all so ironic, Obama usually voted “present” on everything, for once he took a side on a vote, wrong side!
HOLY SHIT! THATS A LOT OF ORGANIZATIONS TO STUFF IN THAT LITTLE BUNGALOW!!
I wonder if Obama’s answer will be similar to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThEAO0lt4Dw
and one person’s name is A Corn??? Cripes, this shouldn’t be rocket science for authorities to dig into.
maybe A Corn is a relative of Doo Dad who contributed to Obummer..
LOL and the FEC ignores this?? good Gawd no wonder the Big Dawg was so frustrated seeing this crxp and no media follow up..
FEC is unable to do much if i recall because it doesnt have a full committee currently to make dicisions on what to investigate…i may be wrong though, i dont keep up with them.
I recall hearing this, too. That they cannot convene a committee because there is not a full committee to convene.
Well, that’s just great! Why don’t they appoint a committee and convene it before it’s too late?
Don’t know for fact, but I would assume it’s because the Democratic Congress is responsible for approving new members. They need their vacation time. They’ll appoint someone to investigate fraud as soon as McCain is elected.
The Dems didn’t approve FEC Committee appointments because Bush insisted on approval of the nominees as a package deal-approve all as a group or nothing. The problem was that the group of nominees included Hans von Spakovsky (interim recess appointee as Head of FEC by Bush)-a man dedicated to pursuing “rampant voter fraud”. He was involved in the firing of the US Attorneys, voter caging, purging of voter roles, restrictive voter ID laws (in Georgia, tribal areas), redistricting irregularities in Texas, and the 2000 Florida recount (on behalf of Bush). Google him-he’s as corrupt as they come.
Ah….there’s those shenanigans. I knew it was something.
There’s crap on both sides of the fence, here.
On the right, it’s voter suppression, on the left, it’s payoffs to agents to pad the voter rolls.
Becoming an independent is looking more and more attractive to me…
No, that’s not the reason at all.
The appointments–the names of commission members– have to come from BUSH, and then they are vetted by the Senate (advise and consent). If no one is nominated by the Executive Branch, no one can be approved by the Legislative Branch.
IIRC, there’s a requirement that the commission be “bipartisan” so they can’t all be from one party or the other.
There’s crap to fling on both sides of the FEC fence. I’m not clear on details or specifics, but there’s been shenanigans on McCain’s side as well–I think with regard to amounts raised, but I am not positive.
That’s likely why Bush doesn’t want to “go there.” I seem to recall that elements within the DNC were whining about McCain, public financing, and “getting around the law” in some way or another.
This ACORN shit is pretty BAD, though. This is worse than “excessive contributions” certainly. This is…er…fraud. Money laundering. Graft. Corruption.
Or, as they call it in Chicago, business as usual.
Reminds me of the old days, before computers, debit cards and Pay Pal and all that fancy, shmancy stuff, when “campaign operatives” would wander around with “envelopes” containing thousands and thousands of dollars in cash.
Amazing…!
The FEC does finally have a full complement and is now active again. They just voted recently concerning a campaign related matter.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12690.html
Remember FXDBLGBDRB who worked at DGBKLRFXLBDR? He gave over $3000.
You got that right.
Thats the Maiden name.
The Married Name is A. Corn-Holio
and I bet if we checked to see how the mail in ballot was signed we could discualify it on a technicality.
Very funny Beevis!
One is reminded of the shack on Nehru that holds up to 400 banks.
And we want this guy to deal with our borders and illegal imagrants? This makes those uhauls filled with 20 farm workers look like a limo ride.
Obama doesn’t like limos.
Sure he does but he just needs an incentive to get in one…
When we they be thrown under the bus?
http://nativeamericansagainstobama.wordpress.com/
It’s like one of those clown cars where they just keep emerging.
only its a reverse clown car syndrome. Money keeps pouring into it and disappearing.
This too is above Obama’s pay grade.
The shack is better than the one Obama’s half brother lives in.
I think this whole thing was set up by the Chicago political machine. If the brother wins they win. If the brother loses, they win anyway. Either way, it’s their version of social security.
It’s not the little bungalow he thought it was?
I can no sooner disown this little bungalow than i could disown my typical white mansion in Hyde Park that i got a sweetheart deal on.
Looks like a duplex to me.
Thats not a duplex.
Thats a Flip Flop house.
Its designed to accomodate Barry so one day he can come out on the left of an issue and the next on the right.
no wonder obama doesn’t want to go to new orleans, no time, no how and no way.
That is exactly what I’ve been thinking. This is why Obama’s been avoiding New Orleans!
LMAO, Jeremiah. You got a pretty nice house, too, with all that “Kill Whitey” and whatnot!
I earned it.
When life hands you hate,
invest in real estate.
I was thinking the same thing!!!!
http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-08-19/news/the-harrowing-adventures-of-president-obama/2
This is really funny if you need some comic relief!
I don’t know where they come p with these things..That’s really funny.
Eastan McNeal
After reading your your well documented article, and having been reading the recent writings of Proffesor Diamond and other great writers at NQ, looking back to the actions of SEIU/ACORN in Pueto Rico and the SEIU spat in Nevada, I am wondering if you have seen the manifest of the documents at UC IL. that have been deeped six’ed?
All that orginizing by ACORN in Chicago that surrounds the Public Schools and the Annenburg challenge are sitting in the dark.
Bill Ayers and connections to ACORN?
Rezko interaction with TUCC and ST Sabina funneled in to ACORN. BO would not have been elected street sweeper with out them.
The two individuals from Recreate68 have only two degrees of seperation
“Front” is saying it politely.
“Bada Bing Mailboxes Are Us” is more like it.
Can anyone tell me WHO the two “per deim” payments were made to? Two payments; the same amount = two people…and in the course of what work were these expenses inccured?
Just out of curiosity…anyone one ever collect 13k and change for being “on the road”?
This scam is a Park Avenue three card monte. That money comes full circle minus “finders fees”.
So much money went through TUCC. Dress something up with Jesus, and no one asks any questions. The worst is the Democrats looked at this corruption, and they decided they’d like to license it instead of remove it. Their nominee Obama was selected just for this. And he was so owned by TUCC, if they (or Advocate) asked him to vote for infanticide, he’d do it three times. It hasn’t hit his followers - what kind of a human being would do such a thing? Not a lot. None in the US Senate and six in the state of Illinois. The coldest of them all was Mr. Hope Change himself.
Yes - but I’m not surprised at Obama’s vote. Look at Michelle and Barack’s charitable giving - less than 1% prior to running for President…LESS THAN 1%!!! How do you live that close to the refuse of Tony Rezko projects and give less than 1% to charity…OH WAIT - yeah that wouldn’t have been a problem for Obama - after all - he helped garner the buildings for Tony Rezko so that he could financially rape and pillage that community who desperately needed someplace to live.
No, the Pie Eating Queen herself sent out letters asking people to give her husband $150, so he could crusade against the “right wingers” and keep killing babies - let’s stress not abortion but infanticide.
Love it…that’s funny
Obama is using ACORN to manipulate the outcome of the election.
Obama is just the head of the pimple that is ACORN.
Like WowweeeWowWow!
(I bet StephanieTJ made this happen)
She’s working from a higher place tonight and forever more!
And I am forever sad. She was a righteous fighter for TRUTH!
what the hell happened to Tubbs??
She died today after suffering an aneurysm.
:-(((((
heart broken
I know Dawnelle, moi aussi
what an amazing individual, we have lost a light but she is lighting up Heaven
{{{GINA}}} W00T!!
Gina,
Yes may God rest her soul.
What a tragic loss to her family and our country!!!
She’s the best. A beautiful new angel with a HUGE smile. God speed Stephanie!
I was so sad to hear of her passing as well. She was truly one of the good ones.
Excellent research! Thank-you!
I hope it gets filed with the FEC ASAP, before any documentation that can disappear does disappear.
I don’t understand any of this, but it scares the hell out of me anyway. What scares me most is the possibility that no one is listening or cares.
“Is anybody there?”…..John Adams
MSNBC is replacing Dan Abrams from his 9 p.m. program with Obamabot R. Maddow. Dan Abrams was at last semi neural and seems have to pay for it. But now MSNBC will have Olbermann-Maddow block from September 8. Guess they are really scary LoL
Yes, it is scary but millions more are finally opening their ears and listening and seeing the light. I just pray that millions more do the same.
I am not at all suprised by the findings in this post.
After what the Repub’s did to get King George in office, I have no doubt they have helped build Obama up so they could take down the weaker candidate. I can’t believe Dean, Pelosi, Obama and all of his little Obamamites are that stupid to not know what was going on. Sucks to be them. When Obama goes down there are going to be an awful lot of people who will not have a reputation worth spitting on.
Wow
Oh boy… the only thing missing is a link to Edwards “Hush money”.
I hope they look into all of this soon. BO is sinking and an announcement of said investigation would just sink his nomination within moments.
and WHO COULD RISE FROM THE OBAMITE ASHES BUT OUR LADY HILLARY!!
W00T!
Hopefully before the fools vote to jump over the falls along with the rest of the Piper’s kids!
But John Edwards made his biggest campaign statements fro New Orleans! The HQ of ACORN is there also.
John Edwards is the Big Easy.
That adds another kind of stink to this mess. It seems like he was placed into the election to take down Hillary but never to be a serious contender himself.
The National Enquirer can’t hold a candle to a PUMA on the prowl. I should say PUMAS because if it is out there I’m sure a Puma will find it.
It’s a mansion I tell you. It clearly is worth a million dollars! .
Obama: “Hope and Change” is just more of the same!
yes that is only the terminal - the elevator inside goes down
underground bunker
somewhere in HAIL!
hey maybe the same Real State agent who handles that TINY CAYMAN ISLANDS building with all THOSE corps, also leases this one to the numerous ACORN money laundering fronts!!
think of all the commissions that agent collects on just two small properties, boy and Ive been working for a living all this time!
LOL, frakkin THIEVIN fools..
tsk tsk
karma gonna getcha! via Rove no doubt…..
I keep seeing Senator Dorgan on the Senate floor showing of the poster size photo of that building in the Caymens…
You can show the public a billboard tell them they are being ripped off and it is BO as usual.
God Bless Reb Tubbs…she was in Senator Clintons corner and it was one of the last things she did.
BO does not personally know what sacrifice of that magnitude is.
Impressive. I haven’t been following all of the ACORN news this year but this does suggest a lot more focus needs to be given to it and, even more importantly, to how and where Obama is spending campaign money. What did he get for this money?
well Im sure he got at least Gary, Indiana with some money, where else was he GOTV, hmmm…NM, PA, OH, NV, the ones where he lost and was floored b/c he PAID for a victory, NC he stole, maybe THESE are the funds that BUSSED folks to Caucuses!!
a-ha!!
trace those bus rentals baby, those names,
just my opinion
What I wonder is - why did he give all that money to ACORN? Election-Fraud-R-Us or hush money?
Others can probably report on this more accurately, but thought it was for “voter registration” and that counts registering dead people, which is undoubtly no small task.
That’s true, it would be more expensive. It’s much harder to get them to sign the registration.
Well maybe the money went to burial plots around the back of that house.
Wonderful!!! Any lawyers working on filing those complaints? Sure hope so.
Dontcha love #23?
A. Corn
Nothing suspicious about that address. No sirree. If the FEC doesn’t look into this, I’ll know government in the US is no better than N. Korea.
Go Ahead, MSM.
ignore this, chumps.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/native_americans_against_obama/?yguid=345339571
To my Family and Friends,
Blessings ~ Peace ~ Joy and Love
the ones your with.
Let’s preserve America While We Can. Keep the change, thank you, Just The Same.
Carry On.
9/11/01
These SLANDEROUS allegations must be stopped!
Obama has not laundered one cent of money.
His money has come from millions of small
donors around the world!
Obama is not Pro Abortion.
It is a child, not a choice! We are all Democrats here, including you Larry!
Also,
Russia was right to fight back against Georgian agression.
God Bless The World! Gobama/Kennedy 08′!
shut up you stupid, mornonic shit
I think that was sarcasm, wasn’t it?
I don’t know, if it was, I apologize, people put “snark” or something by these type of posts so we know you’re not a troll….sorry.
I know. My first reaction was WTF?
Then I went back and reread it. I think it was sarcasm, but there are so many sincere Obots out there, it’s hard to be sure anymore.
I am serious! You Hillary people need
to learn to be nice. Obama/Kennedy o8′!
Obama is the one. Come aboard, all are welcome.
You don’t want to miss the boat, do you?
Sweetie, that boat is sinking.
You’d better know how to swim.
Willllllson!!!!!
I’ll never let go jack. I’ll never let go.
Isn’t that the Motto of the Titanic’s Maiden Voyage?
Is it the Pied Piper on the Ratboat?
“millions of small donors around the world” … either you’re snarking us or you’re ignorant of U.S. election law.
Your boat has a gigantic hole in it. Abandon ship before it’s too late!
“God himself could not sink this ship!” - Bruce Ismay, Managing Director, White Star Line, 1912.
You mean the Titanic?
it doesn’t look like sarcasm to me….
lol yes
at least I hope so
or a troll bait
donations from around the world you can say that again….
Wow…you people are absolutely delusional. Millions of “small donors” around the world?
Prove it. It’s that simple. Prove it.
Doodad
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/08/obamas_donor_contributions_sil.html
The article goes on, but i am sure you wont read it before you start parroting the Obullshit from camp koolaid…
Yes I know…thinking for yourself is above your pay grade…
Such a Global guy!
My sanehalf mentioned that the exchange rate that work backwards might give you the original dollar amount and the foriegn currency used.
Probably an even number in that currency.
Yep. There’s definitely something seriously wrong with a U.S. presidential candidate when foreign teenagers are buying his tee-shirts rather than burning him in effigy.
Now THAT was a wry observation!
Ya know I clicked to reply and then said why bother…and moved on.
I came back to ask what the hell does illegal contributions have to do with not burning t Shirts.
Get real.
plus that is a stupid comparison
there are hundreds of leaders who are neither burned nor idolized!
I’d prefer one of THOSE TYVM.
Why is it with SOME people every damn thing must extreme and an either / or situation?
ANSWER: because MOST of them do NOT live in the REAL world! And besides that they don’t CARE to go there because that would mean facing some very hard trues. And like Jack said in the movies “you can’t HANDLE THE TRUTH”
sigh
If these kids have $30 to spend on tee shirts they could have bought for half that from Cafe Press, then wtf are they blowing themselves up for?
Gee let’s see. I can send money to Obama whose father was a Muslim or McCain who has Jewish Joe Lieberman glued to his butt. Now that’s a tough call there sparky.
Oh yeah? And what countries?
Hmmm. Accepting donations from foreigners in other countries is a felony violation with the FEC. Is the FEC still not doing their job..?
Is anyone running the country now? NO? They are just collecting their pay grade for the job they are supposed to do? FEC…YOU ARE FIRED!
Well we are not just black or whitey or purple or polkadot.
We are not just men or women or dead people who still vote.
We are not just straight or gay or goat herders.
We are not just Americans or Frenchmen or Garlic Noses. We are CITIZENS OF THE WORLD!! WOOHOOOOOOOOO!!!
And as such, whats wrong with recieving money from the middle east bundled in the Hammas HQ basement?
TRY “ILLEGAL’
Yeah I agree Wodie,
Go away National Security Advisor - go over to MSNBC or Daily Kos.
strange they fight back on Georgian areas.
Honey you are living in a make believe world. Keep reading and checking things out you might yet see the light.
Hillary 4 McCain
One has the tendency to judge people by the ones they hang out with. This hold true for Obama and he certainly has not surrounded himself with the ones I would want running the government.
and isn’t it just ironic that ACORN just happens to be an organization in trouble with authorities for ELECTION/VOTER FRAUD?? Hmm, sounds like the Obama campaign was paying them to steal the election for him.
Acorn is owned by Soros. Connect the dots.
But who is going to
guardinsure the non violation of thehenhousehenelectronic voting machines from thefoxpersons who wish to cheattampering?State official ends ’sleepover’ practice for voting machines
COLUMBUS — Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner (D) issued a directive Tuesday, Aug. 19, that will end the practice of allowing poll workers to take voting machines home overnight in the days leading to Election Day.
That’s right: poll workers in 20 counties had been taking voting machines home — a practice quaintly referred to as “sleepovers.
http://www.daytondailynews.com/localnews/content/oh/story/news/local/2008/08/20/ddn082008sleepover.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=16
Ohio voting law may be a boon for Obama supporters
Ohio has created a window in the election calendar that would allow residents instant gratification — register one minute The move will benefit Obama, who enjoys a 2-to-1 lead over McCain among 18- to 34-year-olds, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll released last month. If Obama’s campaign were able to tap into college campuses with one-stop voting, it would add thousands of votes to his tally .
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12508.html
Of Note:
The Ohio Supreme Court Thursday denied a request by Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner to seal her videotaped deposition in a case filed by the Summit County Republican Party. (not sure what this is over)
starkpolitics.blogspot.com/2008/03/jennifer-b…
Has anyone cross-referenced where and what BO was doing on those dates that would require SLS?
Who is Easton McNeal? Is this going to be published in a mainstream newspaper as anticipated?
Hillary beats McCain by 6 points
http://edgeoforever.wordpress.com/2008/08/20/surprise-nbcwsj-polls-for-hillaryshe-wins/
so listen to this
first earlier today I read 3 polls all have McCain up by 5 pts and only ONE (cnn) has Obama up by 1
of COURSE that is the one they plug
of COURSE
I am shocked more every day the way all the other networks have become bad imitations of faux news
and faux news had become moderately Rational! Even entertaining at times.
SHOCKED I TELL YA!
One poll on tonights local news had bo down by 7 points. And he lost his 7 point lead too. He needs lots of stolen votes now…
I JUST sent an email earlier to my BOSTON DEM cousin about that very thing.
Reminding him that ballots were stuffed in Gary, Etc., and why would he “hope BO wins” when he’s a cheat and grew up thinking his Cousins, Brother and Aunt were “bitter” “racist” people who “cling to their religion and guns” and gave “aids to the blacks” etc.
He told me I was being “zany” if I was hoping for BO to “crash & burn”
I asked him to PLEASEEEEEE stop drinking the KOOLAID! lol
the cousins, brother and aunt line was in reference to my COUSIN
not BO’s brother, etc
I don’t mind being zany, and I’m glad my relatives live in Cleveland instead of Boston. I’m glad I live in Toronto instead of New York right now, too, because even here the Obama saturation is barely tolerable. The bloom is fading from that rose, though. He’s McGovern.
Hope,
He sinks like McGovern did but at least ol’ George McG wasn’t a liar, just a doof.
OT
I “accidentally” wore my Barry with Mickey Mouse Ears t-shirt to the store today… 3 “Cool Shirt”s, 1 sorta dirty look until I stared back.
The tide is “Change”ing
It will be very interesting to see how this all plays out. The question in my mind is…Is there a way for Obama to distance or disconnect himself from these “irregularities”. If so, then it would make sense for him to throw this whole crew of pirates under the bus just as soon as he possibly can.
If there is no way for him to distance himself or to leave his campaign intact by doing so, then the superdelegates, if they still are in possession of any decency or sense whatsoever, have to throw Obama under the bus and let the chips fall where they may.
If nothing happens before next Thursday, then I will sadly conclude that this country has totally gone down the tubes and these politicians just consider this “business as usual.”
At least the Obama campaign responded to the Gaza issue, so, hopefully, they will be forced to respond to these concerns also.
Pastor Manning is flippin out too!
He sees something bad coming in his latest video.
He’s received some hate email that he reads LIVE and then puts it into perspective that is not so funny in the end. But worth a watch see. This is how some people actually THINK!!!
(shaking my head)
I’d be wearing a vest 24/7 if I were he…………. no lie. It’s getting CRAZY outside.
I know Dawnelle! someone just stole my Hillary lawn sign the other night!
It has been up since I got it at the Big Dawg rally here in February. It has stood proudly since then, and had a MAC sign alongside it since second week of June..
now I have plastered my window with my Hillary rally signs and MAC lawn sign still there :0)
but they are getting MORE restless as he starts to spiral
this is why SDs need to just do the right thing NOW it will be much worse come November, they are in serious denial and he is gonna lose like no one has lost before…
I saw my FIRST bumpersticker today with
Fight illegal immigration
send Obama HOME
(I about hit a tree laughing so hard)
I am sporting one that I “amended” somewhat with a pair of scissors to say
“…person that isn’t buying Obama’s line of Crap”
yes, he is warning us about the riots and he is not kidding. This backs up everything about Obama’s muslim background,which he continues to deny and hide. Its ok for him to lie about this so long as it gives him the whitehouse
Off topic - CNN Obama McCain revealed.
I watched to see what CNN would pull, and sure enough - they painted a very bad picture of McCain’s life,
And, a wonderful, beautiful, bright, intelligent wonderful wonderful wonderful Barack Obama’s life and experience.
CNN is a joke!!!!!!!!!! If you want unfair and unbalanced reporting CNN is for you.
I am so pissed!!! What did I expect - fairness.
I hate CNN
I was pissed at the way they made McCain seem like a total wife-cheating scum. there was no way I would watch BO. I watched Ghosthunters Intl.
love Ghosthunters!!!
yep beats CNN any time!
x2
Ghosthunters rules. I’m already working out my Halloween costume, an Elvis jumpsuit I can unzip and have red lingerie underneath. I might order that Bedazzler from Ebay or take embroidery from a kimono and sew that on and add a gold belt and some leis.
McCain’s first marriage is old news. Obama is still trying to win over working class single women and the over 40 voters. It’s the only reason CNN would push that crap.
Fortunately CNN is number 2 or 3 in viewing. FOX holds the number one spot.
Interesting how they NEVER mentioned that the Little Lord was adopted in Indonesia…
I had the sound muted when they where talking about asbestos removal and I was wondering if BO took credit for that. IGIT.
You betcha, Teak! It was SOOOO frustrating for him…
Like his “spin-meistress” says: “When you put your heart and soul into something and it doesn’t go as planned…”
The only thing Little Lord Obama has put his heart and soul into is HIMSELF. Ughhhhh…
And I have never seen Maya Soetoro before, but man is she creepy when she talks or what?
Barry and his sister could be lost Jacksons.
Lou Dobbs is the only one I spend any time with on CNN. Otherwise, they have become disgraceful. I do get the feeling that Lou is not for sale.
wodiej
I agree-what are all those politicans and delegates going to do or say when the dust settles. Without this post and others like it the truth would be so hard to discern about this horror of an election–well during WW II they had the underground radio free europe to get past the propaganda and that’s what this is–a place for the truth that the msm will not address but those pseudojournalists also will lose all credibility(they already have to an extent) when this is over.
Excellent. Not only did ob work for ACORN in his early days in Chicago, he still is associated with them deeply and did a switch-eroo to hide it.
The truth is out there. It all comes out in the wash.
Also, the Rezko trial sentencing was moved to a week before the election. It will be very fresh on peoples minds. Guess who isn’t going to be one of the Chicago pols with a guest of honor spot? Ob is hiding from Blago too. Funny that, after they were such close knit partners in crime all those years.
Wash the dirty money through a shack, hmmm, just like Halliburton does to claim offshore origins.
did you notice the video reel that they kept showing of Edwards when he got his smackdown the other day was him at an ACORN event with a giant ACORN banner behind him
yeah Edwards loves them too
how much Fannie Freddie housing bailout taxpayer dollars are going to ACORN through NRAct earmarks?
unfrakkin real
real people who need real housing need that money
these prixks have no shame
saw that and thought the same damn thing!
Yep, Gin, saw that too. They played that video frequently and the ACORN banner was highly prominent.
I’ve been carping about that since I first found out many, many months ago “nOOne” had a PIRG - Acorn history of involvement.
He took credit in his book due to Hazel Johnson and the original stories he told in his book have all been discredited by people who actually did organize help.
All the puzzle pieces this year are forming a rather nasty picture of a man who should be handcuffed and dragged away for many years along with his cronies.
Voting them out isn’t enough. They need to pay for their crimes. Where are the ETHICS committees and watchdog groups? Get cracking and nail this THUG.
just one teeny problem so far, you used Google street maps which is not accurate, it even has my house as the wrong number and days on the Google maps that addresses are approximate. When you look closely, and zoom in on the house, the number is clearly 1008 and not 1024. Oh and I am not a bot either, loooong time Clinton supporter. By the way, ACORN was influential in getting her elected to the Senate.
don’t know about that but the bigger issue is the money Obama paid the organization for work it didn’t do.
Actually, I checked it with 10 other addressees I know and can identify from overhead. Every single one was right Obot.
EXCELLENT!
sorry you call people Obots who see things differently than you Larry, I have been a long time supporter of Senator Clinton and blogged countless hours for her and against BO since January over at Marsh and then Bitterpoliticz Google has a disclaimer when you click on Street View states, “Address is approximate” because not all addresses are accurate….but since you can identify it from overhead then the numbers by the door must be wrong.
The Acorn office is a double shotgun, I have been in it. It was shabbier than that photo. I haven’t been there for over a year, could be a different house. All a new photo will do is show another double shotgun.
I was thinking the same thing. The house next door is the same structure. Those little houses were all over NO in the more modest neighborhoods. It makes sense that the place could have an address on one side of 1008 and on the other of 1028. At my last addy my house was 17815. My neighbors on one side were 17811 and on the other 17821. It seems pretty arbitrary how house numbers are assigned within a city block.
AJ, that is a knee jerk reaction I have done a few times myself. The obots are so sneaky and are always pushing misinformation so we occasionally jump the gun and react to a genuine post. We all do that, and if yours was an honest one it will be known soon enough.
I tried to zoom in and can’t see an address. My computer (or my eyes) may not be as good as yours. Where is the number exactly?
If you are right, then don’t take it personal.
I am pretty sure I called somebody an obot here earlier today because I found his/her post offensive and figured it couldn’t have been a NQ regular. If it wasn’t an obot then it was a republican most likely, but it just could have been a Hillary fan who is oddly a total jerk, as rare as that is.
As our Donna Brazile says - Stop the hate.
and FALL barky FALL.
Like someone above said, that residence looks like a duplex. If that is the same as a double shotgun, sorry, I am not familiar with that term. The 2 front doors are evidence that it is a double residence. Which most likely means 2 addresses. We would need the addresses of the buldings on each side of the building in question to fully determine the exact address. Like another poster said the building in the picture is not really the point. It’s the fact that Obama is paying money for services that the company does NOT provide.
In NYC, they call them railroad apts. The floorplan is long and narrow with one room going straight into another like the links on a railroad. But in New Orleans, they call them shotguns, because you can stand at one end of the apt and fire a shotgun through each room straight out the back door. So, you could have four different addresses at this bldg, since it’s a duplex with two units on each side.
I used addresses that I know by sight.
I have used Google Earth to look at sub pens in England to the hottub and pool on my back deck. Never been wrong yet.
Just today I was using it to show a friend some Merlot vineyards…
all that per diem…
Larry, I just drove over there and shot some pictures… go lift them from my blog.
Look at the rest of the block. There is not a place on the block there that could house 1,500+ employees. Trust google or trust them not. I am more concerned with the numbers and the scope of deception by the Obama camp.
Lies are one thing. This is Watergate level dumbness.
The house is actually the same one that fell on the wicked witch of the west. So in that sense, the street address is always suspect. What isn’t is who it feel on.
ACORN’s the grayish-green 2-story building with the white columns. Google Maps shows it at 1064 Elysian Fields Ave. Here’s a picture (scroll to the bottom):
http://ondestructionroad.org/NOLA%20ACORN.html
Found by searching Google Images for «acorn headquarters», no quotes. That was hit 3; hits 1 and 2 were pictures from the parking lot in the back. Is that indicative of the research that went into the rest of the report? I don’t think I’ll try to find out.
Did you read the post under the pic of St. Roch Market that you posted? It didn’t say ACORN was situated there; it said ACORN was helping to restore the abandoned building.
“Currently, ACORN is partnering with Cornell University to restore St. Roch Market as part of a larger Cornell New Orleans Planning Initiative. Owned by the city, this 1870’s open-air market had become a restaurant and is now vacant and in disrepair. The St. Roch Neighborhood Association is negotiating to lease and return it to its historic use. Currently, there are neither supermarkets nor convenience stores serving the Eighth and Ninth Wards of St. Bernard Parish.”
Please refrain from posting more disinformation.
The picture of the ACORN building is under the picture of the ST Roch Market and other pictures of folks. SCROLL Down. This is not disinformation. It is correct. I live in this neighborhood and know it well.
I’m ashamed to agree that I didn’t scroll down and commented without all the data. I apoloize to Kristen for my mis-speak. I don’t want to beguilty of the very thing I call others on. I was wrong to not see the picture at the bottom of the scroll and only assume the top pic was what she meant.
Hannity said on his show tonite that he had the tape that is circulating on you tube now, that has Obama coldly talking about his support for post birth abortions. He said they are vetting it now. Expect to see that played over and over again on TV. Not only does it show him taking such a extreme position, but his voice is chillingly cold. And it also hurts him on the character issue as it relates to the fact that he called all the pro lifers “liars” and it turns out they were telling the truth. Great way for him to start his pre convention build up.
That lack of empathy is his Achilles heal. He does not FEEL for people. It’s all cerebral gobbledygook.
I am working on some handwriting analysis of Obama’s script….and coldness is definitely in there…
http://insightanalytical.wordpress.com
oh LOVE that, thank you!!
Like all good sociopaths…
I think this is the tape..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypDwNpgIUQc
Could this be the fatal straw?
Scott that house of cards has GOT TO BE shaking something fierce right about NOW!
Can’t do anything but tumble from this point. There is no where else to go when you have been built up so high.
The media is partially to blame for this as well. He used them. Now the piper will play just for him.
(the popcorn doesn’t taste so good)
it’s not even funny anymore
not with Stephanie gone
RIP, Stephanie. A true champion for the people…
Hillary must be devastated.
What odds are there on Obama’s attendance at her funeral?
Good grief and we’re not even to the convention…
Yep, that we haven’t had the convention yet is our one solace and our one open door.
If the SD’s, vote for him next week, after all we have informed them of for so long, and after much of it has become documented in the msm, it will be their burden to carry. If they still stubbornly chose an entirely unelectable person over a highly capable and vetted one, and they still continue to railroad and hijack the Democratic voter process, they will all be shown to be utter fools and corrupt enablers.
They must make their choice based on what is best for the party and for this country which they are sworn to serve.
It is once again ob’s own actions, words and horrific gang of thugs he collects all around him to do his dirty work, which they must weigh on the balances of justice and they MUST find him sorely lacking of their trust and backing.
Hillary on one hand and ob on the other of the scale, clearly it is - Rise Hillary Rise - all the way to the top of that dome in Denver!
If they go ahead with their long planned coronation they will destroy their own party.
This is first rate investigative work. Looks like the house of cards is starting to teeter.
3-part video series made by brother going over McCain’s smackdown of Obama at Saddleback as well as some of the history of how we got to where we are:
Part I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN9d3axknVo
Part II
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv7V9c9sCmU
Part III
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZlsM6XMhvI
If you feel like a recap of events with a lot of humor thrown in, check these videos out.
Thanks for the link Paul!
Great videos!
I was thining about the videos you do while listening to The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour… ALA Denver.
too funny! thanks paul
Wow. I’m speechless but somehow not surprised.
Great article.
I have been in that office, it is pretty bare bones.
I helped gut a couple homes with Acorn after the storm.
I had know idea what their history was.
As someone who grew up in Chicago and now lives in New Orleans, this made me laugh, we ask this kind of question often:
One should ask why there appears to be so much deception and misdirection surrounding a tiny storefront not-for-profit organization from New Orleans.
I know lots of music production people that do events for candidates, even the White House. A campaign as big as Obama’s would have someone on staff to coordinate these events. The bill would go to the campaign/White House directly. If CSI was the “producer” they would tell the campaign the production cost,hire a sound and lighting co. and whatever other staff or expenses they needed and keep the rest. All I do know is those are big numbers and if CSI is not in the business, I agree that is really fishy.
Is the reason they do it to fool the volunteers they are a shabby grassroots not for profit poor company?
One of the reasons, perhaps. I have seen companies do this before, they feign poverty and are rich.
If the door knockers knew the ACORN money skimmers were on yachts eating caviar they wouldn’t sell their young little souls for $5 an hour writing fake voter registration cards.
what absolutely sucks is that people who really need organizations like this wont get helped b/c of this kind of theft and laundering
As an Black guy, I’ll have to say that your research is impeccable. Thanks goodness for the Internet… This is the kind of research that I was hoping Dan Rather had on Bush in 2004. Great stuff, man–I mean great!!!
…Im sorry, but what does your skin color have to do with the research here???
Or did I miss something ?
Even black people who are against ob get called racist.
Call it preemptive to state so clearly when it applies.
Ob and his supporters made it about the color of skin and they had the audacity to do that knowing he is of multiple genetic make-up, not that it matters at all.
As a result of being accused frequently (as we all have been) we now tend to defend ourselves instinctively. I have always taken false accusations, especially ones that are meant to incite and flame, as an assault. The obots haven’t figured out yet that we were the very ones who least deserve what they hurl at us.
We so often have had to repeat our self-defense of not being Republican, Racist, uneducated, etc. that we end up starting sentences with things like “As a life-long democrat”, just to be called a liar yet again, moments later.
Go read some of the attacks black Hillary supporters have shared with us all, it is beyond sad what they have had to put up with from the oborg collective.
Maybe we should be called Obamacist’s. Since to us it is not about the color of the skin, but about what he stands for. We are not against a certain race we are against the principles of a certain individual and the people he associates with.
Individuals here who are Black feel they need to let us know they are for us to understand that not all Blacks support BO. Most of us understand this so lets find a better title then racist to be known by.
You did.
Since the Obamabots and the MSM have brainwashed many into believing that only “racist” White people are Hillary supporters, Black Hillary supporters are speaking up - making their presence known in cyberspace.
They’re letting everyone know that some Black people didn’t drink the polluted Kool-Aid.
It’s true that ACORN helped the Clintons, but there are more than a few rotten apples in the barrel there. ENRON had alot of hard-working, sincere people, but it cratered because the ones in charge were corrupt. I think that’s what will come out with regard to ACORN’s involvement with the Obama campaign.
To use the Obot’s boat analogy, Obama is the captain of this sinking ship and he’s going to have to accept responsibility for ramming into that big ACORN iceberg.
We need to get a real MSM reporter on this. Obama’s whole life reads like a shell game, but this is just OBVIOUS shifting funds to hide the source.
The MSM will get right on this AFTER the convention and not until. You can bet the Republicans have this info and WILL use it after BO is the nominee….should the SDs be stupid enough to vote for him.
Lou Dobbs doesn’t like b hussein obama. Send this story to Lou?
right on WMCB!!
BOOYAH and WOOT!
sending it to my media list, and blogging all over too
Great investigative work. Can someone tell me what the consequences would be? Does Obama get the rap, or someone in his campaign? Is there a fine, jail time or what? Other than producing very bad PR, does this knock him out of the GE?
There are dozens of things this year that should have knocked him off his way too high pedestal long ago.
When he falls and what makes him fall is unknown, but that he will fall, crash and burn is guaranteed.
Just a matter of time. Unfortunately, time is of the utmost ESSENCE and right about NOW would do nicely.
Does anybody have the email for Lou Dobbs?
Loudobbs.com
loudobbs@cnn.com
greta@foxnews.com
hannity@foxnews.com
elrushbo@eib.net
let them hammer it NOW before the convention for Gawds sake so we have a CHANCE with HILL A REEEE
…Clara, I do believe his stance on abortion, his “above my paygrade” response, and his accusing pro-lifers of lying should finish him off.
But, of course… the more stuff that comes out about barky, the better!
I think the abortion issue is a waking giant. Can you imagine how the average American is going to react when it is explained very simply and clearly? We are talking about killing suffering babies here–that is how the Republicans are going to present it. It’s stomach-churning stuff. And it is backed up by a consistent hard-left abortion voting record.
I remember Hannity getting all fueled up last night over his abortion stance cannot remember the guy he was talking it over with was getting very heated under the collar….
Shouting and screeching ….
Bob Beckel
It was Bob Beckel. I used to like him, but he’s getting on my nerves lately.
comment by just me: the man on Hannity that was shouting was Bob Beckel.
agree, I am thinking that he planned to pick Kaine as VP due in part to Kaines prolife stance to try and soften this vote issue he has..
but polls are so so bad now he is having that Fierce Urgency of Hillary moment..
tsk tsk Obummer
and to think he could have voted PRESENT!
YOU KNOW he is smacking himself in the head on this one..like the V8 commercial
LOL
This is the type of abortion that Obama supports. Full term abortion..
Look at the video of the nurse who held a baby from a botched abortion until it died. She was on the Senate floor and Barack Hussein Obama was there laughing at her. He voted it down 3 times. Please pass this important video around.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIdbYjmbFzo
from nohussein.org
So how do feel about Alice and Pasquale Rocchio, a working-class couple from Queens NY, writing $61,600 in checks to John McCain’s presidential campaign and the Republican National Committee–most of it within days of McCain’s decision to endorse offshore oil drilling? Alice is a low-level office manager for the Hess Corporation, an oil industry company based in New York. Pasquale works for Amtrack.
Their $61,600 in “personal” donations were part of $1.2 million in oil industry contributions to McCain’s Victory ‘08 Committee, 73 percent coming after McCain reversed his long-held opposition to offshore oil drilling. That particular bit of campaign money was just traced back to its “source” by Campaign Money Watch.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/46533.html
Nothing suspicious about McCain money from the oil industry, of course. But what the heck… The FEC should do a thorough investigation of both the Obama campaign’s CSI payments, and all of the oil industry contributions made to the John McCain campaign. That sounds fair to me. Let’s do that and see exactly what all we can come up with!
Isn’t that the same off-shore drilling that Obama flipped on and now recommends? And is that related at all to the Bush/Cheney energy bill that Obama voted for? Nice try.
I believe the topic raised by Estan McNeal was money laundering? I’m perfectly happy to stick to the topic.
By the way, Obama didn’t get an apparent “pay off” of over a million bucks from the oil industry just after he announced his willingness to consider some flexibility in his previous offshore drilling position. He softened his position in response to polls and public opinion, not payola.
Obama is motivated by polls and not by conviction? Thank you for admitting what we already know.
He does seem unusually responsive to public opinion, doesn’t he? Maybe he’s got the weird idea that he should be responsive to the will and opinions of the voters. The republicans should really try it sometime. Maybe we wouldn’t still be pursuing a war that less than half of the American public supports, and that only 36% believe was worth the cost in lives and money to begin with…
that’s a feeble excuse in 2008
it’s true perhaps but means not much anymore
this is NOW
and ODRAMA is the threat-down!
if you can’t follow I suggest you just scurry off to some other rat hole as your rat boat is past sinking and there’ s no room left for you!
HA!
If Obama is concerned about “the will and opinions of the voters,” he’d get the hell out of the race!
And he’d wouldn’t have conspired along with Dean, Brazile, Pelosi and the rest of the DNC rats to cheat two states out of their votes. And steal delegates that he didn’t win from Hillary Clinton to get the nomination.
I could definitely go on. But you’re not worth it.
We can get into which industry favors which candidate (biggest five firms on wall street donated a whole lot more to Obama), but the issue is, what is criminal as oppose to donations you don’t like.
Then google Killerspin/Blackwell and see some other barky money laundering.
Thank you. In fact, when I saw the heading of this post, I was ecstatic. ‘Finally,’ I thought to myself, ‘they’re writing about Robert Blackwell and the $8,000/month retainer the men laundered through the Miner Law Firm!’ I would have remained sorely disappointed except that, writing this note, I did a search for the name of the law firm - I used to search for Blackwell and Killerspin almost every day since April but gave up - and, surprise, surprise, there it is! Finally, I am no longer the only person predicting that a federal indictment for money-laundering will finally bring Obama down.
No worries, Ziggy. Americans CAN’T WAIT to have another President EAGER to compromise (”soften”) their integrity and values depending on which way the wind blows…
A real PARAGON OF VIRTUE, that B. Obama!
money laundering? I’m perfectly happy to stick to the topic.
Two words. Chicago Combine.
So, McCain was the first to recognize the popularity of this issue and then benefit from it, but it’s wrong that he did it first while Obama should be commended for attacking his opponent on this then flipping in a week? I bet payola and polls had nothing to do with that.
Also, bundling is recognized with both campaigns. Obama has over 500 of them, and a few are Bush contributers tied to “small” domestic drilling co’s (I believe it was George Kaiser and Robert Cavnar) not to mention all those evil big oil co’s like Chevron, Exxon, BP, etc.
BUNDLING IS NOT MONEY LAUNDERING. Read the article before you try to distract from the topic. This was money that went to shell companies with fraudulent and nonexistent services. It looks bad when Obama has received illegal campaign contributions from foreigners and dead people.
And perhaps the FEC can investigate all the money mobster banker and Illinois state Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias bundled for Barack Obama. Giannoulias, by the way, authorized a loan to Rezko.
Sure, let’s look into that. Let’s trace all of the Obama and McCain money, and see where the trails lead. I would enjoy a highly public and fully documented comparison of the two candidates’ funding sources.
I do too. Bring it on. And please be sure to include Obama’s Palestinian donations. Be sure to include all the cash Rezko bundled for his bitch in the Illinois state Senate and the US Senate.
Also include all the Exelon money and all the money the mining interests in the mountain West bundled for Obama. I also hope all the funds amassed by the state lobbyist in New Hampshire for PHARMA are included in your calculation. In fact, I ask you to compile all donations amassed by state LOBBYISTS in a separate spreadsheet. This should keep you occupied for a good month.
Maybe I’ll do McCain while I’m at it. Although that would take more than months. I probably don’t have enough years left to trace down all of his lobbyist connections. John has more lobbyists directly involved in his campaign than Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama combined, remember? John’s even got advisor/lobbyists that work for foreign countries. The Republics of Georgia, Romania, and Lithuania immediately come to mind. They’ve not only taken money from those countries, but officially advise him on policy about those countries. We’ve also got the McCain advisors who were paid lobbyists for Airbus, and those interesting defense contract votes. Then there’s the $200,000 telecom contribution, and John’s letter of recommendation to the FCC…
McCain stated no one in his administration would work for lobbyists. Obama, on the other hand, has multiple state and national lobbyists in leadership positions of his campaign. Many also chair his state steering committees. But more importantly, what is one to think of Austin Goolsbee and the clandestine conversations he had with the Canadian government?
I recommend you research the candidate you support, Obamabot. And by the way, your rejoinders are wanting.
Actually, I prefer wearing a belt to rejoinders. Rejoinders are a bit old-fashioned. Even John McCain wears a belt.
I believe John on that point. The republicans have a lot of experience with structuring their lines of command to allow for plausible deniability when lower level operatives get caught red-handed. I’m sure Cheney can give John some pointers. Off the record, of course.
If you can’t back it up with fact, rely on smears and innuendo to make your flimsy point.
Boy, you’re boring. A crime is a crime and shall be treated as such.
Unless, of course, you happen to be named George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Scooter Libby, etc etc…
Barack doesn’t think that “impeachment” is WARRANTED…
And then you can remember to send a birthday card and a check to all your friends in the Democratic Congress.
Maybe I’ll do McCain while I’m at it.
Ya done Barky first eh?
Or investigate how a “broke” Rezko got a loan from Auchi - a middle eastern arms dealer with ties to Hamas and then loaned Obama the money for his mansion three weeks later.
No, the spotlight is now on Obama, Ziggy.
The FEC is interested in Obama and with good reason…
Touche Truthteller!
And to Ziggy, sounds like the Rocchios may be having and IRS problem soon but at least they are Americans and their name is not Doodad.
This kind of political fencing really should be an official Olymic event… *LOL*
And I, of course, would win the gold. You, on the other hand, would fail to qualify.
Well, damn… I’m afraid I just lost a tenth of a point for spelling…
You were also penalized for poor sentence structure.
Alexi Giannoulias ,Who by the way was implicated in a dirty loan deals that involved Abromoff, in the Carolinas.
Hey TruthTeller good to see you posting.
Best to you and yours.
ISn’t he speaking at the Convention too? being one of Obama’s good friends
When the State of Illinois Democratic Party had misgivings about Giannoulias’ alleged mob ties and questionable loans to questionable characters, and did not want to slate Giannoulias for State Treasurer, Obama stepped in to vouch for his “integrity”. Federal prosecutors should take any Obama endorsement of someone’s integrity as a signal to commence an investigation.
ok, and while we’re at it: Obama should release all the records he refuses to reveal:
birth certificate
State Senate records
medical records
college records
Help me out here folks, I know it’s a long list.
And he can also reveal the exact sources of all those “small donors,” that he’s always bragging about, since we know that a major percentage (60%) are bundled from Wall St. firms.
That’s just for starters. The point is: for all his talk of “New Politics” he is as shady as the Chicago underworld that carried him into the Senate.
Is Reverend Wright’s “God Damn America” church in inner city Chicago still registered as a not for profit organization? If so, I believe they should be investigated by the IRS.
Along with St. Sabina…
ziggy played guitar…
good song
good cartoon too, loved ziggy
gina, sometimes you slay me.
Even if Ziggy’s comment were true, the result would be in favor of enhancing US national security, not undermining it. These Kool-Aide drinkers don’t see the essential difference b/t Hillary (or McCain) and SoetorObama. The former two act in America’s best interest while the latter tries to tear down AmeriKKKa. How many more pieces of evidence do we need?! The delegates only have a few more days to make the correct decision.
The trifecta of Obama’s defeat:
1. National Security
2. Energy
3. Abortion
What a small world! I am related to the Rocchio’s of Queens, NY. I was born and raised in their extended family and I can tell you for a fact, those garlic noses are fine upstanding people and life-long hard workers! I knew their parents, went to their homes and know their historical struggles personally!!!
So let me attest to their 15 minutes of fame. There is no doubt in my mind this is how it goes - they socked away a few dollars by living frugally for generations in the same area.
There is nothing more important to them than God and Country and their family.
They aren’t oil barons or anything like that, they grew up in a proud and strong family of workers.
My dad had two jobs and worked 7 days a week and when he took me to see the Rocchio clan they were ALL just like that. So SCREW YOU ZIGGY, that is MY family you are talking about and now I AM taking it PERSONALLY!!!
Small, small world.
And you are DEAD wrong.
Hey Karen, see ya ‘o at Sunnyside sometime!!
Grandma lived in Sunnyside, spent a lot of time at the Bliss St. station waiting on the 7 train.
You cannot find a place more blue collar than Queens, NY. Archie Bunker, the Nanny, and King of Queens do it some justice. Meathead was a character I fully understood! I don’t think I sound like the Nanny, I’ve done my best not to… he he.
Teak and Ginaswo (as well as Harriet Christian etc.) know what it is like to grow up in a place that is a rainbow of culture and diversity.
Every time the obots call me racist - it makes me want to freaking scream. When ob said he was post-racial at first I took that for granted since that is what MY life was in truth. He lied, he is anything but past it and has done everything he can to make the horrors of the past come back and bite us all on the ass again. And for what?
We DO NOT want to recreate ‘68. Been there done that and it is better off left 40 years long gone!
Empowerment starts within.
Hillary reminded women of that this year - loud and clear, as she always has.
Ob’s messages created nothing but confusion among everyone who listened to him talk about any subject.
WMCB- It’s been done…just waiting.
We’ve missed ya!
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Obama’s NUTS (Acorn)
go UNDER DA BUS
Come on baby—keep these coming!
We need the truth ASAP!!!!
Obama wants the finger on the button he should know what his subordinates are doing?
And if not it’s his fault he knows what goes on, he needs to be in charge !!!
What happened to 3 counts and you’re out?
There is people serving time for less than some of these crimes..
Looks good,and sounds good,but like the birth certificate,it doesn’t seem to be getting any news coverage..
Hopefully Clinton for President
Did a little search, and I also got “Walmart Organizing Project” for that address. Don’t know what exactly what that’s about, since I only looked for a few minutes.
Maybe this explains why Michelle Obama was appointed to the Board of a WAL-MART ally after her husband was elected to the US Senate.
I did get that it was somehow affiliated with (or even started by) ACORN.
A drive to unionize Walmart.
Thank you!
More like a drive to Wal-Mart-ize unions, buyer beware.
You are right Mr. Murder. I was wondering how to put it that way.
Thanks.
One of ACORN’s projects is “A living Wage” project. ACORN believes that a good working wage is $12 per hour (interesting to note that they only pay around minimum wage and never overtime). They harass Walmart and kick them out of poor neighborhoods because they don’t pay “412″ per hour. See the following: http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/07/05/obamas-acorn/. There is a section on Walmart!
WalMart… Isn’t that the company that’s had regional campaigns trying to coerce its employees to vote republican in the 2008 elections? It’s apparently not sufficent that they simply aren’t allowed to have a union.
“Unionizing” Walmart…ya think? What are the connections between La Raza and ACORN?
When in southern california BO meet with them as well and they are involved.
PRO-ABORTION OBAMBI CAN KISS THE NOMINATION GOODBYE!
http://www.audacityofhypocrisy.com/2008/08/20/obama-infanticide-audioexplosive-audio-found-obama-arguing-against-baipa/
Nah the Nomination has been fixed since 2006.
He was going to get it no matter what.
Dean made sure of that the way he rigged the placement of the primaries and the caucuses, and the paying off/threatening of the $uperdelegates.
He is being Coronated Next week accoring to the plan laid out in 2006.
The only way to defeat this prick is to vote McCain.
2005, if not earlier.
It was in 2005 that Howard Dean moved the convention from July to end of August so the anointed one could accept the nod on the anniversary of MLK’s I Have a Dream speech.
Can I hear a 2004?
anybody second it with a link to the Brazile article from Slate mag?
going, going, gone. 2004 once, twice - sold.
or maybe before ‘04. These hijackings take time.
Haven’t read all the comments so I don’t know if this has already been mentioned. The house pictured has two addresses because it’s a duplex with two front doors. The red door on the left is 1028 but the door on the right behind the tree is 1024. Hope that helps.
Thanks for posting this story!
This is the same as Oswald and Jack Ruby. To funny it’s in New Orleans.
ACORN also received $2M in 2005 to eradicate lead paint (or something like that). I don’t know if this $ actually makes it back into the community, since I don’t know much about the organization
Are they licensed to do this?
VERY good question. The Remediation biz is chock full of scammers, thieves and shot-knockers. Any earmarks for this are dead certain to end up in somebody’s pocket, while poor little children chew on lead-based paint.
Man, I am gone for a couple of hours and look what happens. Another nasty piece or two of possible evidence showing us the real Obama!
Keep up the good work, Larry. I’d like to think Stephanie TJ had a little to do with this and sends a wink from above!
Love it!
http://theunionnews.blogspot.com/2008/08/acorn-tides-foundation-cash-link-probed.html
“http://track-em-down.com/teresa.html” (halfway down the page, take it or leave it, what a rabbit hole.)
“http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/ans-cover-news112006.htm”
Ode de Cash Cow!
Excellent work guys!
Your mission now? Make someone listen.
gawd no doubt
the biggest problem this election season
taking the fingers out of all the BIG MEDIA ears!
as they scream “nanny nanny boo boo I can’t HEAR YOU”
******BREAKING*****
In this audio Obama coldly claims two doctors helping a baby born alive after a botched abortion would be a burden for the aborting mother when he is arguing against the Born Alive Infant Protection Act at the Illinois state legislature April 2002
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypDwNpgIUQc
Thanks Harp. I also clicked on Naked Emperor News link for his youtube name and the site has a background with Mac and Hill equally represented with Experience and Electable under their names.
There is nothing so strange in this election year as the unity of life-long dems and life-long republicans side by side with one common goal - anybody but ob.
They have the Lou Dobbs video as well. The nuclear explosion one.
Fireworks in August! It is about time, dammit.
Keep the faith Hill fans, it isn’t over till the finish line is crossed and the pantsuit lady sings.
The name “Tax Missouri” is interesting.
Claire McCaskill and ACORN have had their share of problems.
Several ACORN employees were found guilty of fraud in Missouri. The fraud was connected to McCaskill’s campaign. One of the workers was working under an assumed name after stealing another person’s ID
Notice how Obama won Missouri only as a result of questionable turnout in St. Louis County. This, I believe, should be investigated.
See this story!
http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/07/05/obamas-acorn/
Hi Navy
Been waiting to see this article! Great job by everyone involved. Has this been published anywhere? When I distribute it, I’d like to cite those publications.
Thanks, Navy. We appreciate everything yhou’ve done.
Glad to see you Nayvet! I know u worked on this. Hope you get this reply as something is up that I have been having trouble posting here.Sent a message to the Web Person, hope it clears up. Miss you @ Camille’s
I’m definately not very surprised that so much vetting is going on now. The republicans tried hiding it so much because they didn’t want it to come out before the convention.
Congrats to all the “Private Detectives”
BIG, BIG, BIG! The caucuses were all a fraud, just as we all knew, and guess who got paid to make it so.
Nothing is going to stop the $uperdelegate Lemming drive off the cliff next week.
Nothing short of a miracle.
WE need a NEW pied piper!!
“I’m John Kerry and I’m reporting for Doodad”
OMFG that’s funny! There are even rumors he’ll be veep LOL.
Claire McCaskill is a backstabbin witch. Both Clintons campaigned for her -helped her get elected. I think Bill/Hill will NOT forget those who have betrayed them.
*grrrrrr
I believe Claire is still upset about an investigation one of Bill Clinton’s US Attorneys launched against her during the 1990s.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e9_S59KgT8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyLqKYTZ__4
Claire and Obama have a lot in common, it seems. Did I just here the pigs in the pen snort?
I believe Claire is still upset about an investigation one of Bill Clinton’s US Attorneys launched against her during the 1990s.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e9_S59KgT8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyLqKYTZ__4
Claire and Obama have a lot in common, it seems. Did I just hear the pigs in the pen snort?
I think I speak for all democrats in saying -Stephanie Tubbs-Jones will indeed be missed. What a tireless champion for democratic values. The following photograph is one that I will never forget. A great moment out in O H I O!
http://flickr.com/photos/jaytamboli/2312250983/
OBAMA / BIDEN 08
God I hope its true!!!!
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NGRhNzJlMWY5NjdiNzhjMTRkYjMzNjYwOGJmYzNjMTY=
I visited the ACORN website - clicked on N.O. I see where ACORN was able to help thousands of familes in N.O. file their tax returns from that little bitty house.
I wouldn’t want to live on that block with all that traffic.
Actually I was trying to find some sort of financial report but none seemed available. I did skim the 2005 Annual Report. The 2006 and 2007 reports were not available. However, they said if I filled out the “form below” I could request a copy of the 2006 report. The only problem - there was no “form” below. Guess Obama needs to get them some more funds - they can’t keep up.
There must be an audit report out there somewhere.
According to the Malkin article linked above in the OP - 40% of ACORN’s operating budget is from tax dollars.
The way I see this - our federal tax dollars are distributed as “street” money. In other words, we are paying people to go vote.
So that’s where the Katrina relief checks were going?
Former Funeral home is one it is renovating.Soiunds like they can snatch up votes and relief checks from confirmed death certificates, unclaimed awards for deceased Parrish residents,etc.
“*****BREAKING*****
In this audio Obama coldly claims two doctors helping a baby born alive after a botched abortion would be a burden for the aborting mother when he is arguing against the Born Alive Infant Protection Act at the Illinois state legislature April 2002″
Oh boy…”live birth” was defined in 1950. Infanticide is not legal in any state..This “Constitutional lawyer” was advocating and justifying homicide. What an idiot.
exactly. BHO is PRO-ABORTION, and we may as well take it a step further. He is PRO-DEATH.
Something tells me that the title “Baby Killer” doesn’t help get anyone elected.
Yeah, Jennifer Millerwise Dyke was playing that totally bogus allegation up bigtime on Hannity and Colmes this evening. She’s a pretty slick disinformation specialist. Of course that’s to be expected, considering that she’s a republican campaign strategist and was formerly a CIA public affairs spokesperson.
It did little good for Colmes to point out that the bill Obama voted against was actually a backhanded attempt to allow for the felony prosecution of medial professionals who performed a very wide range of abortion procedures, and would have opened a backdoor line of attack on Roe v. Wade choices.
Nor did it help to point out that there is already an Illinois law on the books that specifically provides full legal protection to newborns in the case of all live deliveries, even if pregnancy termination was the original intent of the procedure.
New documents just obtained by NRLC, and linked below, prove that Senator [Barack] Obama has for the past four years blatantly misrepresented his actions on the [Illinois] Born-Alive Infants Protection bill.
Summary and comment by NRLC spokesman Douglas Johnson:
Newly obtained documents prove that in 2003, Barack Obama, as chairman of an IL state Senate committee, voted down a bill to protect live-born survivors of abortion - even after the panel had amended the bill to contain verbatim language, copied from a federal bill passed by Congress without objection in 2002, explicitly foreclosing any impact on abortion. Obama’s legislative actions in 2003 - denying effective protection even to babies born alive during abortions - were contrary to the position taken on the same language by even the most liberal members of Congress. The bill Obama killed was virtually identical to the federal bill that even NARAL ultimately did not oppose….
Documents obtained by NRLC now demonstrate conclusively that Obama’s entire defense is based on a brazen factual misrepresentation.
The documents prove that in March 2003, state Senator Obama, then the chairman of the IL state Senate Health and Human Services Committee, presided over a committee meeting in which the “neutrality clause” (copied verbatim from the federal bill) was added to the state BAIPA, with Obama voting in support of adding the revision. Yet, immediately afterwards, Obama led the committee Democrats in voting against the amended bill, and it was killed, 6-4.
The bill that Chairman Obama killed, as amended, was virtually identical to the federal law; the only remaining differences were on minor points of bill-drafting style.
Obama is a LIAR. Get used to it.
Obama is the target of a campaign of lies, manufactured and spread by a political and corporate smear machine that’s poisoning the entire democratic process. FOX news isn’t even news. It’s a right-wing propaganda outlet, running 24/7. Watch it long enough and you won’t know up from down.
# Obama has been a member of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago since 1988.
# Obama calls TUCC’s pastor, Wright, a spiritual advisor. Wright was the first person Obama thanked in his 2004 U. S. Senate victory speech, along with “fellow Trinitarians.” The name of Obama’s book, Audacity of Hope, comes from a line he said he heard Wright make in a sermon.
# From 1986 to 1989, Wright served on the board of directors of Evangelical Health Systems, Christ Hospital’s parent company. In 1995, EHS merged to create Advocate Health Care, controlled jointly by the United Church of Christ and Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, both pro-abortion.
# TUCC is a member of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice.
# In 1999, I discovered babies were being aborted alive at Christ Hospital. I testified before a Congressional committee in 2000 and 2001. I was fired in 2001. Obama opposed IL’s Born Alive Infant Protection Act in 2001, 2002, and 2003.
# Christ Hospital’s CEO throughout that time, Carole Schneider, was a UCC member.
# One prominent Advocate board member then and now is Rev. Dr. Ozzie Smith, Jr., a former associate pastor at TUCC under Wright.
# TUCC was listed in 2004 as the U.S.’s largest UCC church. Advocate is the largest nonprofit healthcare provider in Chicago. A crossroads of power and money.
# Speaking of crossroads, TUCC is located only 5 miles from Christ Hospital (click to enlarge map).
I would like to hear Barack Obama answer under oath whether Wright or any UCC big wig ever lobbied - whoops, I mean “counseled” - him to oppose the Born Alive Infant Protection Act.
Fine. You’ve got a republican candidate who openly opposes a woman’s right to choice, who believes a fertilized egg has the same rights as any living child from the moment of conception, and who has expressed a clear intention to fill the upcoming Supreme Court vacancies with those who think as he thinks about interpretation of the Constitution.
He also supports a war democrats have been long united against, supports a tax scheme that greatly benefits the richest while ignoring the poorest, favors privatization of Social Security, has only a sham alternative energy plan, has no coherent plan to deal with our ailing economy, and no coherent plan to reverse staggering fiscal deficits or a dollar that’s dropping like a stone. He also shows every indication that he might reigniting the cold war with Russia, which will inevitably lead to massive increases in defense spending while we’re already sinking under the weight of a $10-billion-a-month occupation of Iraq.
Go ahead and vote for him. But don’t kid yourself. There will be consequences, they won’t be pleasant, and they may prove to be irreversible.
And you have a democratic candidate who knows nothing, and has accomplished nothing. It really is an easy choice to vote for McCain.
If you think there’s anything easy about the 2008 decision, you probably aren’t paying close enough attention.
ziggy, ya just don’t get it. The inexperience alone is a deal breaker for most of us. The rest of this crap is just head-banging icing on the friggin cake.
We’re supposed to be better than them. We’re supposed to do the right things for the right reasons.
Now we’re faced with a potential candidate who is at best just as bad as the current administration. You honestly expect us to accept that? You want us to become Republican lite? OK, we’ll do you one better and give you the real thing.
If you’re any kind of Democrat, you’ll join us in protesting Obama’s selection as our nominee. Maybe we’ll get a real candidate and then we can all vote Democratic.
Noproblama, thank you for stating it so clearly.
I have been a Democrat for more than 40 years, marched with King when your mother had a bald p***y and boycotted lunchcounters in the South, but before I will cede the party of FDR and Truman and JFK to these radical elements, I would provide the matches to burn it to the ground first, and joyfully contribute a month’s wages to ANYONE the GOP runs against the Brazile-Dean cabal and their loonigan candidate.
For many of us, this AIN’T OUR FIRST RODEO!
Get used to it.
Yawn. Oh yeah, Ziggy, you are sooooooooo concerned about women, aren’t you? I bet you have all those bitchez and hoz songs on your ipod, too, like your pig leader.
And there’s a little thing called morning after pill. Ever hear of it? Well, it’s a genie that’s not ever going back in the bottle.
Your scare tactics are outdated, sorry, boy.
He has a lot of nerve making this statement. If ziggy supports Obama, he is not a Democrat.
Obama being a target …hell of a target! near side of the barn door.
(sorry for the length of the quote)
nice try. But this is not a campaign of lies–it is a campaign where the truth about Soetoro is finally coming out.
Soetoro will not be able to play the “victim card” one bit when he is confronted with his own shit and tries to say “…see this is the kind of distraction i’m talking about…’
BS–bullshit, BS.
Bullshit = Barry Soetoro
ziggy, you should go back to cartoons.
Linked where below? I’d like to see that.
If the Illinois state bill was really “identical” to the federal bill which had already been passed–Public Law 108-105, HR 760, S 3, 18 U.S. Code 1531, if anyone is interested–why was a new Illinois state bill even needed?
Obviously something wasn’t “identical”.
The dispute flared again last week when a leading opponent of legalized abortion, the National Right to Life Committee, posted records from the Illinois Legislature showing that Mr. Obama, while chairman of a Senate committee, in 2003, voted against a “Born Alive” bill that contained nearly identical language to the federal bill that passed unanimously, including the provision limiting its scope.
The group says the documents prove Mr. Obama misrepresented his record.
Indeed, Mr. Obama appeared to misstate his position in the CBN interview on Saturday when he said the federal version he supported “was not the bill that was presented at the state level.”
His campaign yesterday acknowledged that he had voted against an identical bill in the state Senate, and a spokesman, Hari Sevugan, said the senator and other lawmakers had concerns that even as worded, the legislation could have undermined existing Illinois abortion law. Those concerns did not exist for the federal bill, because there is no federal abortion law.
In 2005, the campaign noted, a “Born Alive” bill passed the Illinois Legislature after another clause had been added that explicitly stated that the legislation would have no effect on existing state abortion laws.
http://www.nysun.com/national/obama-facing-attacks-from-all-sides-over-abortion/84059/
I suppose his own voice won`t convince you either.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypDwNpgIUQc
‘Indeed, Obama appeared to misstate his position in the CBN interview on Saturday when he said the federal version he supported “was not the bill that was presented at the state level.”
His campaign yesterday acknowledged that he had voted against an identical bill in the state Senate, and a spokesman, Hari Sevugan, said the senator and other lawmakers had concerns that even as worded, the legislation could have undermined existing Illinois abortion law. Those concerns did not exist for the federal bill, because there is no federal abortion law.
In 2005, the campaign noted, a “Born Alive” bill passed the Illinois Legislature after another clause had been added that explicitly stated that the legislation would have no effect on existing state abortion laws.’
In this version, Obama finally acknowledges that the bill he shot down as committee chair had the neutrality clause, but now he voted against it because it would have had some deleterious effect on abortion law. As the NRLC points out to Berman, that’s flat-out untrue. The neutrality clause Obama now acknowledge existed in the law explicitly stated that the law had no intent on affecting abortions in which the fetus did not survive; that was the entire point of the neutrality clause. Even without it, in the language of the original bill, the law clearly stated that it only applied to infants born alive.
So Obama lied, and in typical fashion for liars, lashed out at the people who exposed the lie before finally acknowledging it. He told David Brody in his CBN interview taped Saturday that he found it ‘offensive’ that people pushed him on this issue, and 24 hours later the campaign folded on the point.
http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/fulltext.asp?DocName=&SessionId=3&GA=93&DocTypeId=SB&DocNum=1082&GAID=3&LegID=3910&SpecSess=&Session=
original bill
http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/fulltext.asp?DocName=09300SB1082sam001&GA=93&SessionId=3&DocTypeId=SB&LegID=3910&DocNum=1082&GAID=3&Session=
amendment #1
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/08/obamas_infanticide_problem.html
BAIPA and article
OK, I read the bill and the ammendment. Here’s a scenario: Had it passed, a previously diagnosed acephalic fetus expelled by induced labor that demonstrated umbilical pulsation would instantly be granted the same legal rights as a full-term infant. The law would then require that all available medical support and technology be provided to keep the fetus alive. The mother, the father, and the doctor would be deprived of any say in the matter.
Or conjoined twins are born, both demonstrating heartbeats, and both will die shortly unless a separation is performed that will prove fatal to one. The father, mother, and doctor may no longer make a decision.
Do you see no problem with this?
You, like most of his supporters, are beyond help. Obama could be caught in bed with a young boy and you would still make up excuses for him. Says more about your mental state than his.
I’ll take that to mean you see a problem, but would rather switch to insults than think about it.
This is why fathers, mothers, and doctors should be allowed to make certain very difficult decisions, without the interference of pro-life activists who see all things as either right or wrong, black or white, and subject to legislation from a State House.
Since you are such an expert on live birth abortions, you won`t mind watching this….right. Its OK though because your fucking BO-asshole says so. Now watch and I hope you throw up you sanctimonious piece of shit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=related&v=LVbkgO-GUhY
I decline to watch. I have no doubt you’ve found something terribly disturbing. Perhaps you’d care to see some pictures of the results of U.S. bombing in Iraq, not generally shown via mainstream media? Unfortunately they involve children who were old enough to have names, lives, classmates…
You really don’t understand where I’m coming from. I’m sorry the misunderstanding makes you so angry, but I can’t help that.
Typical coward. Don`t try messing with me about bombings. I saw the results in Vietnam and have seen a man slip away with his guts in my hand you pompous prick. You support Obama`s stand no matter what. His only reason for voting that way was entirely political. I guess he was serious about his daughter being punished with a baby. Now take your pious attitude and leave this site. No body here is interested in any more of your verbose drivel.
As I said to you before Ziggy, days ago when you brought this issue up before. Take the problem in reverse, when a mother gives birth and abandons a newborn, and the child dies, the investigation will first focus on if the child drew breath. If the child breathing, guess what that makes it, at the very least?
To write over and over again looking for some loophole to make you feel good about your candidate who clearly said and supported a less compassionate piece of legislation, will not erase the words he said or the papers he signed. Rant, rave, argue, but it doesn’t make his actions disappear, nor will it alter them, for any reinterpretation, people can figure it out on their own. No amount of reframing or trying to gloss over will change what O did and said.
The inflexible restrictions that pro-life radicals would impose upon everyone else because of their own narrow and inflexible views of morality would not always allow for what I and many others consider to be the most compassionate decisions, or the most moral decisions.
Basically these are people who believe that their own definition of when an individual human life begins is right and totally inarguable; they believe that the authority of the state is an extension of the authority of God; they have some very specific ideas about what God does and does not approve of; and they believe that they have the right to force other human beings to behave as they believe they ought to, given their infallible understanding of what is and isn’t moral.
I don’t believe that such people have a fundamental right to force themselves into moments when other people are confronting some of their most difficult and heart-rending decisions.
BTW, I didn’t bring the matter up.
Deliberate misrepresentations of what the Illinois bills were actually intended to accomplish and deliberate misrepresentations of the reason that Barack Obama voted against those bills are currently being used as a basis for the moronic assertion that Barack Obama promotes infanticide.
This is the just the latest character attack launched by the right-wing smear machine as a diversion from substantive issues. It has simultaneously appeared in e mails, all across the internet, and of course on FOX “news”.
I’m only responding to the bullshit. I didn’t bring the topic up in a thread that’s supposed to be about money laundering.
It seems to me that Obama is carrying water for (manageing risk) for hospitals and Doctors in an extremely robust manner. Is this related to Michelle’s job?
And a lot of donors.
ziggy, this is a non-issue for me. Choice is choice. My choice is to vote for ANYONE but Obama.
Dumbass. Regardless of your health, once you are born, you’re granted full constitutional rights. Whether a doctor gave your mother drugs to make her deliver you prematurely, no matter what your health is at that time, a doctor has taken a Hippocratic oath - not a hypocritical oath - to do everything to save your life or lessen your pain and suffering. Leaving babies to suffocate to death is inhumane no matter how you look at it.
Hope Floats, remember when that hospital in Texas was going to pull the tubes on that brain dead baby over the protest of the parents just because the parents were poor and a minority? Lefties were outraged (rightly so) but where is their outrage now?
Give it up. There was no such provision in that bill. Obama has already admitted, under pressure, that the bill was IDENTICAL in language to the Federal bill he says he would have voted for.
That “the bill had other provisions” crap has already been proved a smokescreen that didn’t work.
Too late Ziggy. The Obama campaign now trying to deflect his vote, is saying that he voted against it because there were a bundle of other bills attached to it. That too has now been disproved by the actual record.
Come to the light, Ziggy. Join the rebellion…it’s not too late.
Excellent work. I hope everything as written is correct and that the Obama campaign is punished for illegal activity. Shame, shame, shame. Cheaters NEVER prosper.
I have seen fliers posted outside the MOMA here offering $300-$400 per week to work to help elect Obama. The company is called Grassroots Campaigns and they are part of the Move-On Soros connection.
http://grassrootscampaigns.com/index.php
I have seen Chicago area classified ads online and in small local papers advertising ‘up to $41,000 per year’ for outstanding grassroots organizational workers — that was right after the primaries ended and the DNC operations were moved to Chicago. Being from Chicago myself, I automatically assumed this was aimed at lining up workers to bring in new registrations and wondered if there will be a lot of absentee votes from people in nursing homes or worse in that area.
Acorn must be exposed or the election will be a fraud.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsT0LdeVomc&feature=related
In clandestine operations, this would be considered to be “severe overuse of a single accomodation address for multiple incompatible ops.” Larry, these guys need Valerie (or one of the other alums) to straighten out their tradecraft.
My pieces on ACORN and The League of Youth Voters here in NM where Attorney General Gary King has been doing his job….
Update on Non-Profit “Advocacy” Groups in NM…AG Gary King Squelched by Richardson?
http://tinyurl.com/5zj4go
Part II: NM AG, “Gutsy Gary” King, Fighting for Transparency re: Non-Profits Like the League of Young Voters and ACORN
http://tinyurl.com/6h73u7
Part I: New Mexico “Progressive” Voter Registration Groups in Trouble: ACORN Again…Surprised?? (UPDATE 1X)
http://tinyurl.com/6cfb6k
http://insightanalytical.wordpress.com
Sorry, that’s the League of YOUNG Voters…
Both national ACORN and the League are based in Brooklyn, NY
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I know I’m out of the loop lately.. busy busy bee, but did you all know that Stephani Tubbs Jones died?
totally shocked to see this- she’s a huge Hill fan-
by the way, McC is up 5pts
What’s crazy is that 1024 Elysian Fields Avenue, used to be a funeral home owned b E. J. Ranson & Sons Inc.
Great work .I hope the MM do their work and put pressure on the Gov now to do their’s.
Well, I guess this proves Obama is indeed a “new” type of politician. Other crooked politicians could manage, at best, a max of only 4 or 5 slush funds out of a broken-down false front like that one!
Am I the only one who thinks its possible that Obama could win with ACORNS help?
yes
Our job is to put focus on Obama-ACORN - to prevent a fraudulent election.
Whether the “building” in the picture is the actual 1024 building or not doesn’t even matter because it doesn’t look as though even if 1024 is a couple doors down, it won’t look like a place where a nearly $1,000,000 operation is being run. You guys have hit the jackpot. Will the MSM do their damn jobs is the question?
This is sort of like watching a movie — the raw cuts — where the researchers go out and get the information/data for the big name journalists/reporters. We know what the big stories should be and we also have a glimpse of what the truth is.
Will the media “names” report the news? Will their bosses even let a hint of the truth reach the audience? Or with the news be sanitized and rationalized and changed into something we no longer recognize?
What we know is that a whole lot of money is floating around and there are a lot of dirty players — who are involved in the Chicago political machine. We know that Obama-Soetoro is a player in the Chicago machine — the proof is how high and how fast he managed to raise in this political machine.
Back to Sugar’s question — will the media do their damned jobs?
They don’t have a very good track records of being journalists — they are media whores. (where is the website Media whores when we need it??)
Thank you for your research!
The house in the pic isn’t ACORN’s headquarters. If you look really closely, you can see that the number of the house in the pic is 1008.
ACORN is a couple doors up Elysian Fields to the North. If you point North, in the direction of the pink building on the corner (Gene’s Po-Boys), the building before you get to the pink building is ACORN.
Right. Acorn’s headquarters are at 1064 Elysian Fields a few doors up as this picture of theid headquarters matches that building:
http://ondestructionroad.org/NOLA%20ACORN.html
The question remains though:
Why do all those people and names connected with ACORN need to show 1024 Elysian Fields as their address??
Funny thing about that Google picture and 1024 Elysian Fields.
There were actually 3 different days that building’s picture was taken.
You can see this by going to 1038 E.F. and panning the camera left:
a red pick-up truck is in front.
then go to 1028 Elysian Fields…
a police car is on the corner and a maroon import station-wagon and a Land Rover is in front.
then go to 1016 Elysian Fields…
panning the camera to the right:
a silver Honda and a more expensive looking dark blue Volvo(?) is in front…and the Land Rover.
Hmmm. Busy address. Plus it looks like the building is much larger in the rear, so 1024 may be in back.
This money laundering stuff is HUGE!!
The pink building has great poorboys and daquiries and that entire block is armed robbery central. I’d stay away from it after dark if I were you.
mmmmm… poorboys and daquiris - the real ones with just lime and rum on ice, not the bottled mix stuff.
Yikes–but it IS the Chicago way.
Sorry, I didn’t notice that there are two pink buildings when you head North.
ACORN is next to the first pink building, the one NOT on the corner.
TIMES/BLOOMBERG POLL
Obama and McCain in a statistical tie
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-poll20-2008aug20,0,5506138.story
As for the ACORN item, think there’s any freezer money involved?
I had a nice tour of Elysian fields . Tanks
Yeah but the little acephalic kid aint gonna last long ./ maybe 10 minutes.Might as well give it some dignaty.
The cojoined twins issue would go to an ethics committeee.
Most likely the decision will give it to the stronger one.
I think the connection between the BA bill and Michelle Obama’s employment is right on point.
She carried out a very active movement in Feb. 2004 to organize opposition to that bill, and of course the implications for hospitals are huge, because as I read the bill, a second doctor has to be available to care for any potential ‘born alive’ fetus. With such a wide definition of ‘born alive’ in the statute, this would have substantial staffing and cost implications for hospitals, and liability implications for doctors, hospitals, and insurance companies. I don’t know how, in practice, the second doctor requirement would play out, but it would certainly burden access to abortion in communities where doctors would simply refuse to act as second doctor, and could open all of the above up to law suits.
I don’t, however, think that either MO or BO were/are motivated by concern about women going through abortions. I don’t think BO can really ’see’ women as real persons.
Found this house by entering the address in Google Earth. Couldn’t see the numbers on the side of the house, but I think GE identified it as 1022, not 1024, even though I entered 1024 ELYSIAN FIELDS AVE
NEW ORLEANS, LA 70117-8402 in the search bar.
Be interesting to see if this address actually exists.
Looking closer from Google maps, I’ll bet this is the place. It has some sort of red-white-blue circle decoration in one of the windows.
Well, Rep.William Jefferson won a race against several opponents despite only 30% of the vote. Sound like anyone we know and their first electoral win?
How much does it take to put names on the ballot to dilute opposition, or get names scrubbed from ballots over signature discrepencies that said petition drivers were coached to invalidate?
Educational software items too. Wonder if iGate has any ties to Annenberg?
Jefferson also took bribes from a Nigerian offical in line with a business(iGate)that is claiming work with University of Illinois.
Hmmmm. Only two letters were exlcuded fromt he Niger summary wrongly inserted to the Intelligence Committee report. Was it the letters “no” or the final syllable “-ia” in the assessment conclusion?
OBAMA’S NEXT EXCUSE:
“The Dingoes Ate Me BAAAABY!”
That’s no the dingo I knew….
That dingo was a republican operative in league with those pesky clintons…lol
Those racist dingos!
An interesting financial article up right now in the exclusive section of Bloomberg.com, “Penny Pritzker shows why she convinced Buffett to support Obama” by John Lippert. Good photo of her as well.
If it weren’t capitalized, I’d swear that said buffet.
Finally. Obama gets the press that he deserves (sorry…don’t know how to put in the hyperlink).
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-kass-ayers-thurs-21-aug21,0,714266.column?page=1
It will be ignored by the MSM unless the RNC makes a HUGE STINK about it. By the time they get their hands on the records all the incriminating info will have be Baracked, i mean expunged.