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Former ACORN Worker Justifies Preventing Pledge of Allegiance at Illinois Candidate Debate
Publius Forum ^ | 10/24/10 | Warner Todd Huston

Posted on 10/24/2010 9:00:04 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus

Thanks to Jeff Dunetz at Yid With Lid we have found out that a former ACORN worker turned director of the League of Women Voters has been heard justifying actions of the debate moderator who tried to prevent the audience at an 8th District candidate debate from reciting the Pledge of Allegiance last week.

As the debate began someone in the crowd yelled out asking if they were going to start the night's activities with the pledge. The moderator of the debate nixed the idea saying "no we are not." Then when the crowd expressed its shock and dismay she said "excuse me," and "it has never been part of…" at which time she was interrupted by the entire crowd reciting the pledge anyway.

For days the controversy has raged since the October 20 debate where debate moderator Kathy Tate-Bradish tried to prevent the people from reciting the pledge. Then on Oct. 22, there was an outrageous story that Executive Director Jan Czarnik of the League of Women Voters was lambasting the pledge controversy as a stunt set up by GOP candidate Joe Walsh and an example of "phony patriotism."

So the LWV thinks reciting the Pledge of Allegiance is "phony patriotism," eh?

Disgusting....

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Local News; Politics
KEYWORDS: acorn; illinois; liberals; patriotism
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Figures. The anti-American debate moderator was an Obama stooge and her boss was an ACORN worker. But it is disgusting that the League of Woman Voters have allowed their supposedly non-partisan organization to be taken over by these leftists.
1 posted on 10/24/2010 9:00:11 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
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To: Mobile Vulgus

They hate America and they don’t even try to hide it.


2 posted on 10/24/2010 9:03:32 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: Mobile Vulgus
But it is disgusting that the League of Woman Voters have allowed their supposedly non-partisan organization to be taken over by these leftists.

???

The League of Women Voters has been a Democrat organization for as long as I can remember, and I'm pretty old.

3 posted on 10/24/2010 9:07:54 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Mobile Vulgus
“As the debate began someone in the crowd yelled out asking if they were going to start the night's activities with the pledge.”

Although the ACORN info is an eyeopener to the event, that statement is not true.

A gentleman, a military vet by the way, politely stood and raised his hand, waited to be called on by the LWV moderator and asked if there would be a Pledge of Allegiance.
See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSMk2dvjuCo

4 posted on 10/24/2010 9:10:03 AM PDT by Proud2BeRight
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To: Lancey Howard

I suspect the League of Women Voters are about to meet up with the Tea Movement...and find that old strategy of jerking folks around and being accommodating in nature...won’t work anymore.

Can you imagine a Presidential debate now under these circumstances? All you need is twenty Tea Movement folks to make it into the audience...and they will repeat the same episode with the Pledge. Cameras will be focused on the moderator and their foolish look will be on blog pages the next day. Forget the Newspapers and CNN crews....their moment of glory has come and gone.


5 posted on 10/24/2010 9:14:11 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Mobile Vulgus

Overt expressions of patriotism are not hip today for the disciples of cutting edge humorists like Stewart and Colbert. Patriotism is often an early casualty of a life of material abundance and spiritual poverty.


6 posted on 10/24/2010 9:14:48 AM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: Proud2BeRight

What’s “not true” about it? From the sound on the video, a guy in the crowd asks aloud if they are going to do the pledge. It seems pretty straighforward. There is no disrespect meant to the guy that asked the question, anyway.


7 posted on 10/24/2010 9:17:34 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

Oh, but Colbert displays “patriotism” all the time... in order to make fun of it, of course.


8 posted on 10/24/2010 9:18:21 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
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To: Proud2BeRight

That is a great video. Thanks for posting it. It really made me feel good watching that commie b*tch forced to hear the words she must hate with all her being, all her soul.

See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSMk2dvjuCo


9 posted on 10/24/2010 9:19:01 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: Mobile Vulgus

“someone in the crowd yelled out” and someone stood, raised their hand, waited to be called on and asked are two very different things.


10 posted on 10/24/2010 9:22:32 AM PDT by Proud2BeRight
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To: Lancey Howard

Me, too.

I think the takeover began in the 1970s. Everyone I have known who held high office in the LWV has been a staunch Democrat who has, over the years, morphed into a progressive. This is especially true in IL and WI, the two states where I have known women who achieved high office in that organization. These women are all in their 60s, now. They mentored the present batch of officers. They began by joining various charities and basically underwent training at that level.


11 posted on 10/24/2010 9:23:35 AM PDT by reformedliberal
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To: pepsionice

You make an excellent point. We have to hope and pray that the Tea Party movement is ready to shift gears after the election and take on enemies of freedom (like the hard left League of Women Voters) nationwide one after another.

The TP has clearly changed the campaign politics terrain. Now, it needs to broaden its purview into total societal and cultural transmogrification.

That, IMO, what folks like Sarah, Michele Bachmann, Breitbart, and Mark Lloyd need to tackle.


12 posted on 10/24/2010 9:23:43 AM PDT by hampdenkid
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To: Mobile Vulgus

I could see Colbert reciting the pledge at his “rally”. It would be a revolting spectacle. I think (hope) that Stewart would have more sense.


13 posted on 10/24/2010 9:26:21 AM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: Mobile Vulgus

The League of Women Voters has long been a hangout for far left zealots.

What is bad is that in too many states, cities, counties and towns, the League is the one everyone goes to to set up the candidate debates at election time.

Not surprisingly, you will end up with a League leftist as moderator and a bunch of far-left local “journalists” as questioners. The dumb Republican candidates allow this to happen, and then sit by as these leftists ask soft questions of the democrat and “do you still beat your wife” questions for the Republican.


14 posted on 10/24/2010 9:27:12 AM PDT by oldbill
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To: Mobile Vulgus
What’s “not true” about it?

someone in the crowd yelled out is not correct.

If you watch the video linked above, which was filmed from the back of the auditorium, you can see that a man stood up with his hand raised and waited to be called on.

15 posted on 10/24/2010 9:27:27 AM PDT by longjack
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She said she ran the debate in the format established by some Grayslake High students and agreed to by all three candidates, none of whom asked for the pledge in advance.

They didn't ask that Ms. Hyphenated wash her hands after she went to the bathroom - they probably didn't realize that they needed to do so...

16 posted on 10/24/2010 9:27:46 AM PDT by rockrr ("I said that I was scared of you!" - pokie the pretend cowboy)
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To: Mobile Vulgus

If you go to Hillbuzz.com there are several videos of the incident. The woman in charge was clearly obnoxious and complained after the pledge that she was being “disrespected.”


17 posted on 10/24/2010 9:34:28 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: Mobile Vulgus

Well, let’s get a picture of here right now so we can see what she is.....evil has a face here on earth and we need to remember this.


18 posted on 10/24/2010 9:37:23 AM PDT by Gaffer ("Profiling: The only profile I need is a chalk outline around their dead ass!")
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No picture yet....this crawled up in search........

Kathy Tate-Bradish’s Experience
volunteer HIV/AIDS and sex education teacher Vumilia HIV project and orphanage, Kakamega, Kenya
Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Health, Wellness and Fitness industry

June 2004 – Present (6 years 5 months)

I teach HIV/AIDS awareness and sex education during the summer in Central Province and Western Province Kenya. This summer we are expanding to train local people, especially subsistence farm women, to teach the material.

Kathy Tate-Bradish’s Education
Northwestern University School of Law 1978 – 1981


19 posted on 10/24/2010 9:42:48 AM PDT by Gaffer ("Profiling: The only profile I need is a chalk outline around their dead ass!")
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To: reformedliberal

They aren’t known as “The League of Women Vultures” for nothing!


20 posted on 10/24/2010 9:43:57 AM PDT by holyscroller ( Without God, America is one nation under)
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