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Oh, Those “ACORNS”!

By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on March 10, 2010 at 7:30 PM in ACORN, Crime, Current Affairs, Voter Fraud

Once again, ACORN is in the news, and once again, the result of alleged criminal activity. A couple of ACORN workers were charged with criminal counts of multiple voter fraud in Wisconsin. Gee, what a huge surprise – NOT. Here’s the story:

Van Hollen Charges Five With Election Fraud

Five Wisconsin residents have been charged with criminal counts of voter fraud in the November 2008 general election, state Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen announced today.

Two of those charged – Maria Miles, 36, of Milwaukee, and Kevin Clancy, 26, of Racine – worked for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), the embattled community organizing group.

“The complaint alleges that Miles and Clancy submitted multiple voter registration applications for the same individuals, and also were part of a scheme in which they and other (special registration deputies) registered each other to vote multiple times in order to meet voter registration quotas imposed by ACORN,” the Van Hollen release says.

Both were charged with one felony count.

Attempts to reach ACORN today were unsuccessful.

Hmmm – I wonder if they have tried the Community Organizations International (COI) name? Just a suggestion.

The ACORN employees were not the only ones:

Also charged was a couple – Herbert, 60, and Suzanne Gunka, 54, both of Milwaukee – for allegedly double-voting in November 2008, once absentee and once at the polls.

Michael Henderson, 40, was hit with two felony charges of being a felon who cast a ballot even though he was still on probation. The Milwaukee man was convicted in 2005 in Rock County with two felonies for bail jumping and one disorderly conduct misdemeanor.

He was sentenced to five years’ probation.

Each felony count for voter fraud carries a maximum penalty of 3 1/2 years behind bars and a $10,000 fine. All five individuals are scheduled to appear in court on April 20.

The charges were brought as part of the Milwaukee Election Fraud Task Force.

Van Hollen’s announcement comes the same day that No Quarter disclosed that the Milwaukee County prosecutor for election fraud accused Milwaukee police of sitting on their hands and failing to investigate these cases for the first half of last year.

The prosecutor, Bruce Landgraf, said the Milwaukee Police Department began looking at election fraud cases last year only after Van Hollen’s agency ” stepped up to start the work MPD should have commenced immediately after your referral.”

Landgraf was addressing a city election official.

Doesn’t this just make you wonder how widespread the voter fraud was in 2008? Given ACORN’s multiple state charges, I think it’s safe to say these are not isolated incidents in Wisconsin.

At some point, Obama’s sycophants are going to have to admit and accept that ACORN is corrupt. These are not the first charges by a LONG shot, nor have all charges been dropped, as many supporters would like to claim (for voter registration fraud).

And even if those folks cannot the reality of what ACORN is, and the crimes it commits in an effort to further its partisan politics, American taxpayers should not be funding this organization. While ACORN may do good work in other areas, it simply cannot be trusted with voter registration in any way, shape, or form. That has become abundantly clear. As they say, where there is this much smoke, there is most definitely fire. To say ACORN has had one brush fire after another is an understatement, as is: STOP GIVING THEM OUR MONEY ALREADY!

Ahem. In this election year, better keep an eye out for more smoke from ACORN. Where’s Smokey the Bear these days? I think we could use him, don’t you?

(As many of you know, I have written on ACORN numerous times, far too many to list here. If you wish to see previous posts, here are two recent ones: here, and here.)

getfitnow

o/t
Former Detroit City Council President Monica Conyers was just sentenced to 37 months in prison. She is the wife of Far Left Representative John Conyers.
WXYZ reported:
rw

I hope the investigations continue..wonder how far the corruption goes.

Also, o/t, but thought about your International Woman’s Day writing. If you have not, you might want to take a look at this week’s The Economist with Gendercide on its cover and a good article inside on The Worldwide War on Baby Girls.

Then the day after International Woman’s Day there was a tweet by the has been Al Yankovic stating: Women, right? Can’t change their molecular structure; can’t harvest their internal organs and sell them on the black market.
1:12 PM Mar 9th via web
Rabble Rouser Rev. Amy

I heard abt that. What the heck is in the water out there in Detroit? Remember Obama’s good buddy, Kwame Kilpatrick, former mayor of Detroit, who is now serving time? Yikes.
DaveB

Amy, there were nothing like 2 million people at the DC tea party protest as you claimed in one of your posts (not even a 20th of that number) and the ACORN tapes are pretty much a hoax as even the right wing crank media impersario Andrew Breitbart pretty much acknowledged when he admitted O’Keefe never wore his frat party pimp costume in his “interviews” in those ACORN offices. “Interviews” that were so hacked and spliced up with voiceovers which have never been released in their raw form making laughable the notion these low level employees or ACORN could ever be criminally, even civilly prosecuted. Maybe you ought to read the Bradblog which is one click away on NQ’s recommended blogroll, he has been all over that.
sowsear

John Conyers may also face scutiny
http://www.theatlantic.com/personal/archive/2009/07/the-madness-of-monica-conyers/20403/
sowsear

China is just now realizing that they are not going to have enough women to marry their men. Some have suggested that the imbalance will result in more rapes, kidnappings, child brides, and wealthier men/bride purchases.
sowsear

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16593301/

Gender imbalance in China
Rabble Rouser Rev. Amy

DaveB, I mentioned O’Keefe not at all in this post. Don’t know why you are bringing that up. Oh, wait, yes I do – for whatever reason, you think those somehow dismiss all of the numerous arrests and investigations into ACORN by states. Heck – 11 ACORN workers were arrested in Miami Dade just this past Dec., but by all means, bring up O’Keefe and try to deflect attention from where it belongs – ACORN’s unlawful activities and vote registration fraud, and voter fraud.

You are wrong abt the figure you ascribed to me for the Tea Party march. It was 1.2 milion, though why you are bringing THAT up in this post – more deflection, I suppose. At least try to be accurate in your smoke screen attempts next time, Dave.
Rabble Rouser Rev. Amy

Thans, rw – though, honestly, I could have done without Yankovic’s comment. No doubt, he thought he was funny, because sexism is so laughable, isn’t it? Hey, we had a whole bunch of those “funny” comments during the 2008 campain, didn’t we??

Thanks for the heads up – I did see something abt that, but need to read the piece.
CentralMass

Thttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ6SrZODbHg
ahs

I have to say, it’s kind of funny that you jump on ACORN for the actions of two employees who were defrauding ACORN itself… after totally ignoring the recent statement by the Brooklyn DA that there was no wrongdoing in the “prostitution” scandal.

One the one hand, you have two ACORN workers who are paid by the group to register new voters. These two scheme to lie to the organization, and get paid for doing nothing, by duplicating registrations. They get caught, and you confuse voter registration fraud — registering the same person more than once — with vote fraud — the same registered person voting more than once, either under their own identity or a fraudulent identity. In other words, these two did this to get paid, not to steal elections. It doesn’t really follow to say, then, that this is evidence of ACORN systematically stealing elections.

Meanwhile, the brouhaha over those fake prostitution tapes turned out to be just that: fake. You were beating the drum pretty hard about that, in these parts. But, no acknowledgement of the story whatsoever.

So why inflate a non-story, on the one hand, and refuse to acknowledge that a formerly big story is now a non-story, on the other? Face it, you don’t care about ACORN. You just hate them, because you hate that Obama got elected and you’re unable to accept the fact that the election was fair and clean.
Rabble Rouser Rev. Amy

Oh, dear…Are “non-partisan” organizations allowed to campaign for political candidates? Come to think of it, they did for Obama, too. Hmmm.
Rabble Rouser Rev. Amy

Are you talking abt the Brooklyn DA who was endorsed by ACORN?? Yeah, okay…

Apparently, you missed the part where I said I have been writing abt ACORN for some time now. And apparently, you missed that they are under investigation in 14 states, 11 employees were arrested in FL, the LA AG is after thm, the Nevada AG is after them, but sure, go ahead and pretend like I am just focusing on these TWO employees…

Oh, and please don’t acknowledge the testimony of former ACORN employee, Anita Moncrief, either, someone else abt whom I have written. And please don’t acknowledge the embezzlement of ACORN’s coffers by the founder’s brother, or how the founder of ACORN is also the foudner of the SEIU, and on it goes. Yes, please act like I am blowing this way out of proportion by focusing on just TWO people in ACORN.
karen for Clinton

ahs – AHS must stand for asshat.
Rosa

Way to go RRRA !!! love it when you smack down these baiters.

rA
Cindy

Rev. Amy–Thanks for posting this..I had not heard about it (or maybe I did, but tuned it out because there are SO many lefty Dems in trouble with the “law” nowadays!)

Oh, yes…you’re soooo right. They should definiotely try using COI name . LOL! That’ll keep ‘em out of trouble!
lorac

RRRA didn’t confuse anything. If you took the time to comprehend what you were reading, you would have seen this: “have been charged with criminal counts of voter fraud” in the part of Amy’s essay which is taken directly from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s article.

And you apparently also missed, from the same newspaper article Amy cites, this: “Also charged was a couple… for allegedly double-voting in November 2008, once absentee and once at the polls”.
sowsear

I always love hearing about the 100 and some mail drops/offices in that one bldg. in New Orleans, all associated with ACORN. Now why would they have so many tentacles?
Rabble Rouser Rev. Amy

I know, right? Though taking this show internationally is a pretty scary thought…
sowsear

I remember during the primaries they were trying to convince us that ACORN was non partisan and was registering voters from both/all parties…Ha Ha Ha.
Rabble Rouser Rev. Amy

Well said, lorac – there seems to be some reading comprehension problems, especially since I included this in the post above: (As many of you know, I have written on ACORN numerous times, far too many to list here. If you wish to see previous posts, here are two recent ones: here, and here.)

Oh, well – I tried!
sowsear

That would be face scrutiny
sowsear

Well we’re sharing the wealth all over, aren’t we?
Cindy

Thanks, sowsear–
Gee, and they have “favored nation” status.
With all the atrocities you’ve listed, what does a nation have to do to have UNfavored nation status?! I don’t want to know!
Cindy

sowsear– I replied to this (your list of China’s atrocities) but don’t know where it went. China is such a sick country!!
What a world, what a world! ugh!
Rabble Rouser Rev. Amy

Thanks, Rosa!
I’m a Linda too

ACORN, the low hanging berries in Obama’s bush.
jwrjr

Intentional “reading comprehension problems”. The truth is inconvenient for ACORN/SEIU/Obama defenders.
really

Amy always confuses voter registration fraud with voter fraud. I can’t tell yet if she’s genuinely confused, or if she just doesn’t care about the difference and wants to call it whatever she wants to call it. Either way, you’re right, and she’s wrong. Thanks for pointing it out.
beachnan

BTW, I used to admire Brad, but what a typical double standard kind of guy he turned out to be. He runs around the country worrying about voter fraud, but fails to mention the caucus voter fraud within the Democratic Party in 2007. Oh yea Brad, you also failed to check out the obvious voter fraud in the Texas two step. He only sees what he wants to see. Wouldn’t trust him with any story having to do with voter fraud.
really

Amy thinks that when some dumba$$ ACORN worker registers Mickey Mouse to vote, Mickey Mouse actually shows up and votes. Amy, just to reiterate: Mickey Mouse does not actually show up and vote. Neither does Goofy, Snow White, Ivana Humpalot, Ben Dover, or Heywood Jablomey. So there is no voter fraud in voter registration fraud situations.
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really

Where on earth did you get 1.2 million, Amy? No official estimates come anywhere that close? Right-wing outlets are not an objective source. Who do you have offering that number who isn’t hopelessly biased?
sandshark222

I know where Smokey The Bear is…. he’s registering Democrat and voting in the November election, thanks to ACORN!
DaveB

Lyons
<img src=”http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/feature/2010/03/10/gop_bait_and_switch/md_horiz.jpg”/>

Recognize this poster, Amy? It’s part of a powerpoint presentation to GOP operatives designed to frighten dimbulb small donors for the fall midterms. Like your readers who think the downfall of Kwame Kilpatrick and Monica Conyers taints Obama because they are all, you know, dark-skinned. Funny how you latch on to those comments with enthusiasm while admonishing me, How dare you bring up O’Keefe when I didn’t mention him in my post? You and the likes of Ani and Sara couldn’t get enough of the ACORN sting when it was in the news, NQ was like Fox News in that regard, hailing O’Keefe as the bravest reporter since Ernie Pyle.
Karma

It is interesting people/Obots telling longterm Dems the role of ACORN. Oh that poooor organization getting defrauded by the very people they are there to help.

ACORN’s MO for several decades has been the same. They exploit these people with criminal records with an illegal pay structure that doesn’t pay them for their time. And then cry ONLY when someone else outside ACORN complains about the names gathered on their sheets.

As a long time Dem the excuse was that the Democratic party needed to use these ACORN tactics because the Republican party was so well funded by the rich. Strange enough, I heard that same excuse rolled out last year and nearly fell out of my chair at the notion that the 3/4 of a billion dollar party/candidate needs ACORN because the Dems are at such a disadvantage.

Just because so many Obots are new at this politicial game doesn’t mean the rest of us don’t remember the same excuses from so long ago. And how they still try and echo them into the 21st Century.

Sorry Obots it just doesn’t fly to excuse ACORN’s longterm MO at the feet of the people they exploit.
ahs

@lorac:

From the Wisconsin AG’s statement, available at http://www.doj.state.wi.us/absolutenm/templates/template_share.asp?articleid=1848&zoneid=13

“Miles and Clancy are each charged with the felony offense of Falsely Procuring Voter Registration as Party to a Crime.”

i.e., they aren’t charged with election irregularities, they’re charged with registration irregularities. Two very different things. By the way, Miles and Clancy are the ACORN employees, just so we’re clear.

“Herbert and Suzanne Gunka are each charged with the felony offense of Double Voting.”

There’s your true voting fraud — voting more than once. No relationship between the Gunkas and ACORN is noted; it appears to be a completely separate crime.

It’s a funny thing about reading comprehension: sometimes it helps to know what the heck you’re talking about.
Kathleen Wynne

jwrjr said:

“The truth is inconvenient for ACORN/SEIU/Obama defenders.”

That is the core problem with these guys! Isn’t it ironic just how much the obama pack acts exactly like the deliberately obtuse GWBush pack?

THANKS RRR, for keeping the public informed at just how much our elections process is gamed to guarantee a certain result. When the American people finally come to terms with the reality that our elections are controlled by party leaders under the thumb of the power elite, and not, “we, the people”, the sooner we will stand together and demand a return to hand counted paper ballots at the precinct on election night!

It’s the best way to prevent BOTH “election fraud” (which, BTW, is more prevelant than “voter fraud”) and have the kind of elections where the people actually do chose their representives!
Kathleen Wynne

beachnan,

I’m with you totally! IMO, Brad is a political operative who co-ops the election message in order to control it. He was against hand counts before he was for them!

After years of election integrity advocates trying to convince Brad to join us in the fight to ban voting machines, he finally had to get on board ONLY after the German Constitutional Court banned e-voting because it violated the German citizen’s human rights to be able to “see” their votes counted at every phase of the process.

He flips around more than obama does and you never know what he stands for. He also uses other people’s work to write about and does not give them proper attribution! I know this because while I was the Associate Director of Black Box Voting, we went around and around with Brad demanding that he give us due credit for articles he wrote that were directly related to our investigative work.

Like obama, Brad is not what he appears to be.
Dr. Dr.

ACORN helps minorities. NQ hates ACORN. Hmm…
Rabble Rouser Rev. Amy

I mentioned you just last night, Kathleen. We were discussing at my blog how we cannot trust the election process in this country. I mentioned that the importance of your work at HCPBNow.org
cannot be understated. While there may be some possibility of shenanigans, the numbers would be so much lower.

Great comment!
Rabble Rouser Rev. Amy

LOL – good one, IALT!!
Rabble Rouser Rev. Amy

ROTFL – too funny!
Rabble Rouser Rev. Amy

Amen to that.

And in case y’all didn’t notice, I am not responding to these Obots on purpose. I trust you know that it isn’t because their attacks have any merit, it just simply isn’t worth it. No amt of facts, or evidence, even from Obama himself, will ever, ever convince them that their Messiah is aligned with a shady organization that operates with taxpaying dollars in numerous attempts to thwart democratic elections, or that they are under investigation in a number of states.

Whatever. I’m not wasting time on them and their attempts to smear those at NQ, or me, especially since it is so easy to prove they are, well, lying (like the claim above that I said there were 2 mil at the Tea Party protest in DC – completely false). I suggest others don’t get sucked into these “discussions” either…We have better things to do with our time, right?
Breeze

ACORN is out of Ohio’s electionsIn legal settlement, group agrees not to return to state <!– begin creation date –>Thursday, March 11, 2010 2:53 AM<!– end creation date –>By James Nash
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH <!– /headline-ul –><!– /freeform –><!– /ptr –>

ACORN, the liberal group notorious for allegedly trying to inflate voter rolls through fraudulent practices, has seen its last election in Ohio.

The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now will permanently surrender its Ohio business license by June1 as part of a legal settlement with the conservative Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions, both sides said yesterday.

ACORN was active in Ohio in the 2006 and 2008 elections, working to register thousands of low-income people to vote and get them to the polls. The group’s efforts were marred by irregularities, including one case in which ACORN workers allegedly induced a Cleveland man to register to vote 72 times, offering cigarettes as an incentive.

The Buckeye Institute’s 1851 Center for Constitutional Law teamed with two Warren County residents to sue ACORN in Warren County Common Pleas Court just before the 2008 election. The residents alleged that their rights were abridged by thousands of fraudulent voter registrations, each representing “a potential illegal vote that has the capacity to dilute (legitimate) votes.”
The case was moved to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.
Yesterday’s settlement is mostly confidential, said Maurice A. Thompson, the conservative group’s attorney.

“They will surrender their business license by June 1 and cease to operate in Ohio and cease to support or enable other groups to do what they do,” Thompson said.

Alphonse A. Gerhardstein, the attorney for ACORN in Ohio, said the organization already has left Ohio “for reasons that are unrelated to this litigation.” After the 2008 election, in which some credited or blamed ACORN for the election of Barack Obama as president, ACORN has dialed back its political activity across the country.

ACORN continues to deny any wrongdoing in Ohio, Gerhardstein said.

The settlement doesn’t award court costs or attorney’s fees to either side, he said.

“They’ve already stopped (working in Ohio), and they’re going to formalize that by June 1, 2010,” Gerhardstein said.

jnash@dispatch.com
oowawa

Can’t wait to see how this categorical syllogism turns out . . .
JJ Demo

“Whatever. I’m not wasting time on them and their attempts to smear those at NQ”

Because the only thing you really know you’re talking about, is that you don’t really know what you’re talking about.

“ACORN! Obama! Black Voters! Crime! Mix it all up, whaddya get?! TYRANNY!”

You’re too intellectually lazy to break up the differences, Amy. All you know about ACORN is that it’s an organization that helps both minorities and Democrats. Two groups you’re not particularly fond of. Neither are your readers. That’s good enough for you, isn’t it?
oowawa

Can’t wait to see how this logical syllogism turns out . . .
Breeze

Sorry about the format above, it’s a bit of a clustered mess at the beginning.

It looked OK before I posted it .
Rabble Rouser Rev. Amy

No problem, Breeze – and thanks for that Mighty interesting.

I love how ACORN continues to deny wrong doing in the face of allegations like this: “…ACORN workers allegedly induced a Cleveland man to register to vote 72 times, offering cigarettes as an incentive.”

If this only happened once, twice, or even three times, well okay. But at least 14 states investigating them? Yeah, it’s more “organized” than they want to admit.
Onofre’s arm

Aw Hell oowawa, apparently you didn’t see my fractured Dictionary definition of “syllogism” from last weekend, otherwise you may not have used it , so I’ll repost it.

Syllogism (n.): The physical remains of a poorly aimed attempt to ejaculate out a window.

There were other good ones that were apparently missed, back on the “Reconciliation” thread.

Scarab (n.): A frightening Arab was one of my favorites.
Onofre’s arm

Aw Hell oowawa, apparently you didn’t see my fractured Dictionary definition of “syllogism” from last weekend, otherwise you may not have used it , so I’ll repost it.

Syllogism (n.): The physical remains of a poorly aimed attempt to ejaculate out a window.

There were other good ones that were apparently missed, back on the “Reconciliation” thread.

Scarab (n.): A frightening Arab……………… was one of my favorites.
buzzlatte

ACORN: Started, run, and robbed by white guys…what’s your point?
buzzlatte

They are like polygamist men: No, they aren’t “married” to multiple wives while surrounded by several women and a zillion kids living in barracks-like housing!
Onofre’s arm

How about: ACORN exploits minorities and is a front group for illicit Progressive activities, NQ hates ACORN. So………….
Onofre’s arm

How about: ACORN exploits minorities and is a front group for illicit Progressive activities. NQ hates ACORN. So…….
oowawa

Oh, I like this logic stuff. I’ll try:

ACORN helps minorities; NQ hates ACORN; therefore, ACORN hates NQ.
or,
ACORN helps minorities; NQ hates ACORN; therefore, NQ loves majorities.
or,
ACORN helps minorities; NQ hates ACORN; therefore, NQ hates Amish people.

How am I doing? It’s amazing how much you can learn if you just use a little logic . . .
Rabble Rouser Rev. Amy

Y’all are just cracking me up!
Onofre’s arm

LMFAO oowawa!
Onofre’s arm

You know oowawa, my father played a mean trick on me when I was learning to read, he gave me his worn copy of “The Devils Dictionary”, by Ambrose Bierce, and even though I was too young to truly appreciate Bierce’s razor sharp wit and devastating observations, I still thought the definitions were legit for a long time. Hmmmm, maybe it wasn’t so mean.

Here’s his take on logic and syllogisms:

LOGIC, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic of logic is the syllogism, consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion—thus:
Major Premise: Sixty men can do a piece of work sixty times as quickly as one man.
Minor Premise: One man can dig a posthole in sixty seconds; therefore—
Conclusion: Sixty men can dig a posthole in one second.
This may be called the syllogism arithmetical, in which, by combining logic and mathematics, we obtain a double certainty and are twice blessed.
Breeze

GREAT WORK, RRRAmy -

I read that article at Lucianne early this morning.

When I finally had a chance to get here and I saw all the idiot Obamabots’
posts I got really mad!!!

I knew it would take me a lot of patience to find that article again, but I
wasn’t about to give up til I did….

Love all you write.

Thank you.

WE GOT YOUR BACK!!!
Breeze

Obama Justice Dept. shut down FBI’s ACORN investigationBy: Mark Hemingway
Commentary Staff Writer
Washington Examiner03/11/10 1:12 PM EST

Judicial Watch has unearthed some explosive new ACORN documents that, according to a press release, show the Obama Justice Department quashed an FBI investigation of ACORN. It started when the Republican Registrars of Voters of Stamford and Bridgeport, Connecticut — Lucy Corelli and Joseph Borges — filed a complaint with the FBI during the 2008 election season:

According to Corelli, on August 1, 2008, her office received 1,200 ACORN voter registration cards from the Secretary of State’s office. Over 300 of these cards were rejected because of “duplicates, underage, illegible and invalid addresses,” which “put a tremendous strain on our office staff and caused endless work hours at taxpayers’ expense.” Corelli claimed the total cost of the extra work caused by ACORN corruption was $20,000. Likewise, Borges contended that: “The organization ACORN during the summer of 2008 conducted a registration drive which has produced over 100 rejections due to incomplete forms and individuals who are not citizens…” Among the examples cited by Borges was a seven-year old child who was registered to vote by ACORN through the use of a forged signature and a fake birth certificate claiming she was 27-years old.

The FBI and Department of Justice opened an investigation into the the charges. But according to documents Judical Watch obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, the Obama Justice Department “while noting that ACORN had engaged in ‘questionable hiring and training practices,’ closed down the investigation in March 2009, claiming ACORN broke no laws.” Of course, as Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton made a point of telling me on the phone, it is illegal to knowingly submit false voter registrations so the Justice Department’s claim that ACORN didn’t violate any laws is highly dubious.

But we’re just getting warmed up. Judicial Watch has much more:

By contrast, the documents also include records related to a federal investigation of ACORN corruption in St. Louis, Missouri, involving 1,492 allegedly fraudulent voter registration cards submitted by Project Vote, a liberal non-profit organization affiliated with ACORN on voter registration drives, during the 2006 election season. Assistant United States Attorney Hal Goldsmith initiated the investigation with “concurrence” from the Department of Justice and the participation of the FBI. According to a Justice Department memo, Goldsmith “advised he would prosecute any individual responsible for submitting fraudulent voter registration cards.” Goldsmith identified the statute for prosecution: Title 42, USC 1973 (gg), which provides for criminal penalties for fraudulent voter registrations. In April 2008, eight former ACORN employees from the St. Louis office pled guilty to voter registration fraud.

The documents also encompass a fairly wide swath of information:

The ACORN documents uncovered by Judicial Watch include internal FBI memoranda, signed affidavits, subpoenas, fraudulent voter registration cards, and publications describing ACORN’s policies and practices. The documents also include details regarding numerous allegations of corruption extending beyond voter registration fraud, to include attempts by ACORN employees to coerce workers to participate in campaign activities on behalf of Democratic candidates.
Breeze

continued

Between all of these documents — which Judical Watch is making public — we have a shot at piecing together a comprehensive, systemic look at ACORN corruption. If it looks as bad as it appears and can be substantiated by documentation, the fact that ACORN has not been seriously investigated by the feds will be a damning indictment of the White House.

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Obama-Justice-Dept-shut-down-ACORN-investigation-87360097.html#ixzz0hw21aqqH
lorac

You need to take that up with the Milwaukee Newspaper, kiddo. I was citing directly what they wrote.
lorac

Ewwwww…… i didn’t need THAT image lol
lorac

Wow, they’ve really really turned out in force on this thread. Wonder what they’re afraid of now? Poor guys/gals. They had to work SO hard for two years before the selection, posting lies around the web. Now the election is over a year ago, and they STILL have to cover for Obama. I think they’re getting a little grumpy.
Onofre’s arm

Well sandshark, if Smokey The Bear came into vote, I’d KNOW IMMEDIATELY he was a fraud! It’s “Smokey Bear” not “Smokey THE Bear”. Sheesh!

We love you Smoky, if only YOU could put out POTUS fires.
Onofre’s arm

Well sandshark, if Smokey The Bear came into vote, I’d KNOW IMMEDIATELY he was a fraud! It’s “Smokey Bear” not “Smokey THE Bear”. Sheesh!

We love you Smokey, if only YOU could put out POTUS fires.
wild bob

Judge Strikes Down Congressional Ban on Funding ACORN – http://tinyurl.com/yc939mb
Onofre’s arm

Update on ACORN slayers:

http://biggovernment.com/publius/2010/03/11/court-dismisses-acorn-suit-vs-pimp-hooker-and-breitbart-com/

OK, it was procedural, but I’ll accept ANY good news these days.
oowawa

great story, Onofre
oowawa

re: syllogisms–great story, Onofre’s arm . . .
Guest

Amy,

Again you are completing pushing a bullshit narrative.

First, ACORN employees where not charged with “Voter” fraud, but with “Voter registration” fraud. There is a big diference. No one is claiming that anyone actually voted fraudlently.

Second, the victim here is ACORN itself. These workers were cheating them out of the money they paid them. There is absolutely no advantage for ACORN to pay people to register voters who cannot vote.

There is also absolutely no evidence that a fraudulently register say Mickey Mouse that an ACORN employee registered actually voted fradulently. If you can show me some evidence I would like to see it.

As usual Amy you are just pushing an agenda to trash an organization that does this country plenty of good, particularly for the poor in this country.

Why don’t you write a post saying that it is a shame that these select, out of thousands, as only a very very few have been actually charged with anything, ACORN workers are cheating ACORN by not doing their jobs. ACORN is paying these people for nothing.

It is a nice deceiving tactic by you, Amy, to melt an ACORN voter registration fraud story with a completely unrelated actual voter fraud story. The two stories have absolutely nothing to do with each other and by putting them together in this post I guess you are trying to infer that somehow ACORN is involved with actual voter fraud charges in Milwaukee. That is untrue and completely false.

Amy, how about some intellectual honesty or has your hatred for Obama gotten so much in the way. You have just become a propagandist.
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Amy,

Again you are completing pushing a bullshit narrative.

First, ACORN employees where not charged with “Voter” fraud, but with “Voter registration” fraud. There is a big diference. No one is claiming that anyone actually voted fraudlently.

Second, the victim here is ACORN itself. These workers were cheating them out of the money they paid them. There is absolutely no advantage for ACORN to pay people to register voters who cannot vote.

There is also absolutely no evidence that a fraudulently register voter, say Mickey Mouse, that an ACORN employee registered actually voted fradulently. If you can show me some evidence I would like to see it.

As usual Amy you are just pushing an agenda to trash an organization that does this country plenty of good, particularly for the poor in this country.

Why don’t you write a post saying that it is a shame that these select, out of thousands, as only a very very few have been actually charged with anything, ACORN workers are cheating ACORN by not doing their jobs. ACORN is paying these people for nothing.

It is a nice deceiving tactic by you, Amy, to melt an ACORN voter registration fraud story with a completely unrelated actual voter fraud story. The two stories have absolutely nothing to do with each other and by putting them together in this post I guess you are trying to infer that somehow ACORN is involved with actual voter fraud charges in Milwaukee. That is untrue and completely false.

Amy, how about some intellectual honesty or has your hatred for Obama gotten so much in the way. You have just become a propagandist.