Truth Will Out Even With Nuts!
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on June 13, 2010 at 1:00 PM in ACORN, Chicago politics, Congress (House & Senate), Crime, Current Affairs, Democratic Party, FBI, General Election, President Barack Obama
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That should be your big hint that this is about ACORN. Yep – you know the one. Our tax supported, partisan organization that participates in voting irregularities on a regular basis, which has now allegedly disbanded (but hasn’t really, the ones who are more than willing to bend tax law, “register” Donald Duck,” and flat out commit voter fraud. (Again, I cannot begin to list all of the articles I have written on ACORN. Links above are a start.))
And you most likely know that acknowledging those facts about ACORN has gotten me a whole lot of grief from people who absolutely refuse to believe the facts, not rumors, facts about ACORN.. Even when said facts are laid out one by one – with citations, mind you – right in front of their eyes. The refrain is always, “you hate poor people,” and “ACORN does great work for the poor!” Uh, no – I hate organizations that pretend to work on behalf of poor people, and for all people when they are working for one party but paid with everyone’s tax dollars. That kind of unethical, immoral, illegal behavior rubs me the wrong way, you know? That’s just how I roll.
Maybe this article will finally get these Pollyannas to open their eyes(though I am not holding my breath). It may also serve to make each and everyone of us even angrier that our tax paying dollars, our HARD earned dollars, have been handed out to this organization like freakin’ candy while they broke law after law. How do I know? Because they admitted as much in this article (h/t to Pat Racimora):
ACORN Employees Tell FBI Of Deliberate Election Fraud, According To New DocumentsThe radical activist group ACORN “works” for the Democratic Party and deliberately promotes election fraud, ACORN employees told FBI investigators, according to an FBI document dump Wednesday.
The documents obtained by Judicial Watch, a watchdog group, are FBI investigators’ reports related to the 2007 investigation and arrest of eight St. Louis, Mo., workers from ACORN’s Project Vote affiliate for violation of election laws. All eight employees involved in the scandal later pleaded guilty to voter registration fraud.Project Vote is ACORN’s voter registration arm. Project Vote continues to operate despite the reported dissolution of the national structure of ACORN.
The handwritten reports by FBI agents show that ACORN employees reported numerous irregularities in the nonprofit group’s business practices.
One employee told the FBI that ACORN headquarters is “wkg [working] for the Democratic Party.”
Oopsy daisy! Evidently, this employee didn’t realize they weren’t supposed to say that out loud. Loose lips and all that. But you know there is more to this story:
According to one report, an ACORN employee said the purpose of “[f]raudulent cards” was “[t]o cause confusion on election day to keep polls open longer,” “[t]o allow people who can’t vote to vote,” and “[t]o allow to vote multiple times.”
Another report quotes an employee saying, “Project Vote will pay them whether cards fake or not – whatever they had to do to get the cards was attitude.” Project Vote pays based on the number of cards and “that’s why they were so reckless,” the report says.
A report quotes an employee saying, “I don’t like our system. I don’t think we should do voter registration.” The report also notes that employees were “[c]onstantly threatened” and that the staff were “instructed on what to say to FBI.”
Another report indicates an employee told the investigator, that ACORN “[t]old employees not to talk to the FBI.” The FBI is “‘trying to intimidate you.’”
“These documents show the need for a national criminal investigation by the Obama Justice Department into ACORN,” said Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch.
“Is Attorney General [Eric] Holder doing nothing because of Obama’s close connections to ACORN and Project Vote? The information in these new documents has national implications that cry out for further investigation,” Fitton said.
President Obama’s ties to ACORN go back to the 1980s.
“ACORN noticed him when he was organizing on the far south side of the city with the Developing Communities Project,” according to Toni Foulkes, a former member of ACORN’s national board. From 1985 to 1988 Obama ran the Developing Communities Project from an office located in Chicago’s Holy Rosary Church.
Obama later worked for Project Vote, leading a very successful voter registration drive in Chicago in 1992 that helped elect then-Sen. Carol Moseley Braun, Illinois Democrat.
Just what do they mean by “successful voter registration drive”? Do they mean like the ones for which ACORN was under investigation in 14 different states? That kind of “successful”? Don’t get me wrong – after the way Obama conducted his 2008 campaign, I wouldn’t be surprised one tiny bit. And we can’t forget that Obama paid ACORN over $800,000 for “voter registration.” Birds of a feather and all that, you know?
And as I stated at the top, don’t believe the hype that ACORN has disbanded. It’s all a ruse (big surprise):
Meanwhile, Politico reports that ACORN isn’t going away – it’s merely changing form.Ben Smith writes that radical housing activist John Atlas’s new highly sympathetic institutional biography of ACORN, “Seeds of Change,” acknowledges that ACORN’s current rebranding process is aimed at re-constituting ACORN in the not-too-distant future.
Writes Smith, who includes a direct quotation from the book:
But strong local ACORN chapters swiftly regrouped under new names, like the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment and New York Communities for Change. Those groups “will retain ACORN’s commitment to building national power and are beginning discussions” about relaunching a national organization some time after November …
The rebranding maneuver was first reported months ago.
Atlas elaborated on ACORN’s plan during a panel discussion Tuesday at the left-wing “America’s Future Now” conference in Washington, D.C.:
The good news is that a lot of people who were involved in ACORN, members and leaders as well as their allies, are organizing in over a dozen states to resurrect ACORN using its model, focusing on the same constituency, learning from ACORN’s strengths as well as its mistakes, so it is happening.
So far ACORN has rebranded in 13 states plus the District of Columbia.
ACORN Housing, which is the ACORN network’s primary vehicle for getting its hands on federal tax dollars, has renamed itself Affordable Housing Centers of America.
Oh, brother. See, they know there’s no way in hell we can keep up with all of the name changes they are employing. Tricky little devils, aren’t they? Just like their compatriots, SEIU.
But, hey – at least they finally admitted – to the FBI, no less – that they are a wing of the Democratic Party, and they are actively engaging in voter fraud. Any other administration might take a closer look, but when there’s a Fraud in the White House, I don’t reckon we should expect him to look into fraud by one of the organizations that helped get him where he is today, right?
Too bad we are no longer a “country of laws.” If we were, maybe ACORN would truly get its comeuppance, we’d get our damn money back, and even more, have a chance at fair elections again. But we know Obama would never stand for that – how else could he retake the White House without their “help”?
November cannot come soon enough. Maybe then we can get enough “Change!” to hold ACORN accountable. Until the, watch out for those “new” community groups. Chances are they didn’t fall far from the tree…
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