http://www.time.com/time/magazine/articl...
TIME - Nov 14, 1988
"Ronald Reagan kept it up with his allusions to "welfare queens" and the " strapping young buck" using food stamps to buy a T-bone steak. ... "
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=DBM...
Eugene Register-Guard - Google News Archive - Feb 9, 1976
"by John Fialka of the Washington Ster
Few people realize it, but Linda Taylor, a 47-year old, Chicago welfare recipient, has become a major campaign issue in the New Hampshire presidential primary. Former California governor Ronald Reagan has referred to her at nearly every stop, using her as part of his "Citizens Press Conference" format. "There's a woman in Chicago," Reagan said last week to an audience in at Gilford. as part of his free-swinging attack on welfare abuses...."
http://www.salon.com...9/23/grayson_2/
Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) — my guest on Salon Radio today —
yesterday pointed out that
the bill passed by both the Senate and House to de-fund ACORN is written so broadly that it literally compels the de-funding not only of that group, but also the de-funding of, and denial of all government contracts to, any corporation that “has filed a fraudulent form with any Federal or State regulatory agency.” By definition, that includes virtually every large defense contractor, which — unlike ACORN — has actually been found guilty of fraud. As The Huffington Post‘s Ryan Grim put it: ”the bill could plausibly defund the entire military-industrial complex. Whoops.”.....
http://watchdogwire....n-vote-florida/
The discredited group ACORN successfully used the minimum wage issue in Florida in 2004. ”In
Red State Florida, Victory for Working People” John Atlas reported, “The decision for ACORN, which has chapters in 28 states, to invest heavily in a Florida campaign [to raise the minimum wage] was not made in haste. The group commissioned a statewide poll in November 2003 that found overwhelming support for increasing the state’s minimum wage, especially among low-income and minority residents … ACORN was betting that many low-income people, who might not otherwise register or vote, would do so to increase their pay, and once they went to the polls, they would vote overwhelmingly for a Democrat.” [Emphasis mine]
Mr. Atlas noted, “ACORN budgeted over $2 million for the campaign.