Putting the ACORN Lies to Rest

aps · 10-15-08, 07:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by EgoffTib

You do realize that McCain gave the keynote speech at a 2006 ACORN rally right? Oh no, you wouldn't know that... Blind partisanship is a bitch huh?

ACORN to McCain: Have You Lost That Loving Feeling? Senator Allied With ACORN as Recently as 2006, Now Turns Cold Shoulder

THANK YOU for posting this. I was just going to post this myself!

Panther · 10-15-08, 07:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by EgoffTib

You do realize that McCain gave the keynote speech at a 2006 ACORN rally right? Oh no, you wouldn't know that... Blind partisanship is a bitch huh?

ACORN to McCain: Have You Lost That Loving Feeling? Senator Allied With ACORN as Recently as 2006, Now Turns Cold Shoulder

He spoke at an event where ACORN was one of many sponsors. Only an idiot would classify that the same as Obama's involvement and financial support of ACORN.

ADK_Forever · 10-15-08, 07:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Panther

He spoke at an event where ACORN was one of many sponsors. Only an idiot would classify that the same as Obama's involvement and financial support of ACORN.

Facts are really that hard for you to swallow, ehh? Maybe a good cough syrup would help.

RightinNYC · 10-15-08, 09:50 AM

As pointed out above, this has been mentioned with the same "AHA OMG!" tone on probably half a dozen threads. Since I don't feel like retyping my explanation of why it's idiotic, feel free to reference those threads yourselves.

JMak · 10-15-08, 09:51 AM

I saw this thread title and I thought, "You've got to be kidding me."

But you're not. You're an Obama/ACORN apologist.

Obama gives ACORN $800K to do their "thing" and yet there's no relationship except for legal counsel years ago, huh? He didn't receive ACORN training, he didn't train ACORN volunteers, he didn't funnel government money to ACORN? Obama and ACORN are not involved in a coordinated effort to not only register new voters but for ACORN people to campaing on Obama's behalf?

ACORN routinely submits fraudulent registrations, thousands at a time, but ACORN not only has no responsibility for this but it also means that ACORN is a "victim"?

Pajamasmedia has this:

Quote:

In December 2004, in St. Louis, six volunteers pleaded guilty of dozens of election law violations for filling out registration cards with names of dead people and other bogus information. Authorities launched an earlier investigation after noticing that among the new voters was longtime St. Louis alderman Albert “Red” Villa, who died in 1990. The volunteers worked for “Operation Big Vote” — a branch of ACORN — in St. Louis.

On February 10, 2005, Nonaresa Montgomery, a paid worker who ran Operation Big Vote during the run-up to the 2001 mayoral primary, was found guilty of vote fraud. Montgomery hired about 30 workers to do fraudulent voter-registration canvassing. Instead of knocking on doors, the volunteers sat at a St. Louis fast food restaurant and wrote out names and information from an outdated voter list. About 1,500 fraudulent voter registration cards were turned in.

In October 2006, St. Louis election officials discovered at least 1,492 “potentially fraudulent” voter registration cards. They were all turned in by ACORN volunteers.

In November 2006, 20,000 to 35,000 questionable voter registration forms were turned in by ACORN officials in Missouri. Most all of these were from St. Louis and Kansas City areas, where ACORN purportedly sought to help empower the “disenfranchised” minorities living there. But the ACORN workers weren’t just told to register new voters. The workers admitted on camera that they were coached to tell registrants to vote for Democrat Claire McCaskill.

In 2007, in Kansas City, Missouri, four ACORN employees were indicted for fraud. In April of this year eight ACORN employees in St. Louis city and county pleaded guilty to federal election fraud for submitting bogus voter registrations.

And, that was just Missouri.

ACORN is merely a victim, eh?

Over a dozen states are investigating ACORN for voter registration fraud. Here's a list compiled by Pajamasmedia:

Quote:

North Carolina — State Board of Elections officials have found at least 100 voter registration forms with the same names over and over again. The forms were turned in by ACORN. Officials sent about 30 applications to the state Board of Elections for possible fraud investigation.

Ohio — The New York Post reported that a Cleveland man said he was given cash and cigarettes by aggressive ACORN activists in exchange for registering an astonishing 72 times. The complaints have sparked an investigation by election officials into the organization, whose political wing has supported Barack Obama. Witnesses have already been subpoenaed to testify against the organization.

Nevada — Authorities raided the headquarters of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now on Tuesday October 7, 2008, after a month-long investigation. The fraudulent voter registrations included the Dallas Cowboys starting line-up.

Indiana — More than 2,000 voter registration forms filed in northern Indiana’s Lake County filled out by ACORN employees turned out to be bogus. Officials also stopped processing a stack of about 5,000 applications delivered just before the October 6 registration deadline after the first 2,100 turned out to be phony.

Connecticut — Officials are looking into a complaint alleging ACORN submitted fraudulent voter registration cards in Bridgeport. In one instance, an official said a card was filled out for a 7-year-old girl, whose age was listed as 27. 8,000 cards were submitted in Bridgeport.

Missouri — The Kansas City election board is reporting 100 duplicate applications and 280 with fake information. Acorn officials agreed that at least 4% of their registrations were bogus. Governor Matt Blunt condemned the attempts by ACORN to commit voter fraud.

Pennsylvania — Officials are investigating suspicious or incomplete registration forms submitted by ACORN. 252,595 voter registrations were submitted in Philadelphia. Remarkably, 57,435 were rejected — most of them submitted by ACORN.

Wisconsin — In Milwaukee ACORN improperly used felons as registration workers. Additionally, its workers are among 49 cases of bad registrations sent to authorities for possible charges, as first reported by the Journal Sentinel.

Florida — The Pinellas County Elections supervisor says his office has received around 35 voter registrations that appear to be bogus. There is also a question of 30,000 felons who are registered illegally to vote. Their connections with ACORN are not yet clear.

Texas — Of the 30,000 registration cards ACORN turned in, Harris County tax assessor Paul Bettencourt says just more than 20,000 are valid. And just look at some of the places ACORN was finding those voters. A church just next door is the address for around 150 people. More than 250 people claim a homeless outreach center as their home address. Some listed a county mental health facility as their home and one person even wrote down the Harris County jail at the sheriff’s office.

Michigan — ACORN in Detroit is being investigated after several municipal clerks reported fraudulent and duplicate voter registration applications coming through. The clerk interviewed said the fraud appears to be widespread.

New Mexico – The Bernalillo County clerk has notified prosecutors that some 1,100 fraudulent voter registration cards were turned in by ACORN.

But ACORN is a "victim,"right?

Rather, it's that ACORN is a special interest Democratic group seeking to affect elections via voter fraud and they have Obama's explicit endorsement.

JMak · 10-15-08, 09:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ADK_Forever

Facts are really that hard for you to swallow, ehh? Maybe a good cough syrup would help.

No, it appears that facts are difficult for you to

. LOL!

McCain appeared at an event co-sponsored by ACORN where the issue was immigration.

On the other hand, we have Obama who has been in bed with ACORN providing legal representation, funneling government dollars to, funneling campaing dollars to, engaged in a plan with ACORN to have ACORN workers campaing on his behalf...all of this having to do with registering voters.

Now, I know the Obama people want to believe that there's some sort equivalency between McCain and ACORN to Obama and ACORN but that equivalency fails when you apply actual facts to it.

missypea · 10-15-08, 10:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JMak

On the other hand, we have Obama who has been in bed with ACORN providing legal representation,

Barack Obama, with the Department of Justice and others, sought to force the state of Illinois to implement a federal voter-registration law.

Quote:

funneling government dollars to, funneling campaing dollars to,

One of Barack Obama's successes was to get at the grassroots of the country and engage people to get out to vote. Good on him!

GottaHurt · 10-15-08, 10:01 AM

I saw the thread title and immediately thought a mod would change it to:

The Neverending Thread.

ACORN is a lie, and it'll never change from that status.

GottaHurt · 10-15-08, 10:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by missypea

One of Barack Obama's successes was to get at the grassroots of the country and engage people to get out to vote. Good on him!

You're seriously delusional. Obama's community organizing efforts have been massive failures on every level, he's never completed anything.

He bailed on his asbestos removal project, he failed at training and organizing voter registration efforts (uh, ACORN

) and his work with William Ayers in their $50 million education fiasco has produced SQUAT in terms of results.

missypea · 10-15-08, 10:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by missypea

Barack Obama, with the Department of Justice and others, sought to force the state of Illinois to implement a federal voter-registration law.

One of Barack Obama's successes was to get at the grassroots of the country and engage people to get out to vote. Good on him!

Quote:

Originally Posted by GottaHurt

You're seriously delusional. Obama's community organizing efforts have been massive failures on every level

The polls reflect that Barack Obama's grassroots efforts have been extremely effective.

10-15-08, 09:50 AM	#24
RightinNYC GIRTH 2.0 Mod team member Join Date: Mar 2005 Last Seen: Today 08:28 PM Location: New York, NY Posts: 21,303 Thanks: 2,421 Thanked 8,907 Times in 4,449 Posts Lean: Slightly Conservative Gender: Total Awards: 1	Re: Putting the ACORN Lies to Rest As pointed out above, this has been mentioned with the same "AHA OMG!" tone on probably half a dozen threads. Since I don't feel like retyping my explanation of why it's idiotic, feel free to reference those threads yourselves.
	__________________ People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

10-15-08, 10:01 AM	#28
GottaHurt Sexual Deviant Join Date: Jun 2005 Last Seen: 05-07-09 02:58 PM Location: Florida Posts: 2,899 Thanks: 833 Thanked 798 Times in 546 Posts Lean: Slightly Conservative Gender:	Re: Putting the ACORN Lies to Rest I saw the thread title and immediately thought a mod would change it to: The Neverending Thread. ACORN is a lie, and it'll never change from that status.
	__________________ Pain can be such a beautiful thing

Thread Tools
Show Printable Version Email this Page
Display Modes
Linear Mode Switch to Hybrid Mode Switch to Threaded Mode