Posted on 09/14/2008 8:25:49 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
In recent weeks, there has been much discussion about the definition (and responsibilities) of the "community organizer."
As the Democrats have touted, Obama started his "career" as a community organizer.
And, Obama has close ties to one of the largest "community organizer" organizations in the country - ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now).
As Stanley Kurtz writes in National Review:
Obama has had an intimate and long-term association with the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (Acorn), the largest radical group in America.
In her convention at the Republican National Convention a few weeks ago, Sarah Palin sarcastically hinted that community organizers don't have any "actual responsibilities."
But a story in today's Detroit Free Press shows one of the responsibilities of an ACORN community organizer: voter fraud.
Several municipal clerks across the state are reporting fraudulent and duplicate voter registration applications, most of them from a nationwide community activist group working to help low- and moderate-income families.
The majority of the problem applications are coming from the group ACORN, Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, which has a large voter registration program among its many social service programs. ACORN's Michigan branch, based in Detroit, has enrolled 200,000 voters statewide in recent months, mostly with the use of paid, part-time employees.
"There appears to be a sizeable number of duplicate and fraudulent applications," said Kelly Chesney, spokeswoman for the Michigan Secretary of State's Office. "And it appears to be widespread."
... In recent years, ACORN's voter registration programs have come under investigation in Ohio, Colorado, Missouri and Washington, with some employees convicted of voter fraud.
You can learn even more about ACORN's questionable activities at www.RottenAcorn.com.
Once again, we see an Obama tie to a radical and/or corrupt group, person or organization. Rev. Wright...Bill Ayers...ACORN...the list goes on and on.
And, as the Obama-Biden camp continues to attack Sarah Palin, the contrast between her record of reform and Obama's corrupt ties couldn't be more clear.
They should be prosecuted under RICO.
Amen to that
LOL.
LOL.
Roger that.
Obama needs to be beat about the head and shoulders regarding his “community organizing” with ACORN.
They are the reference standard for corruption. It boggles the mind that the press has utterly ignored this connection for Obama and has twiddled away so many hours on silly nonsense against Sarah Palin.
“It boggles the mind that the press has utterly ignored this connection for Obama and”
The press will wake up on an early morning in November and may realize what they have done.
With the friends of Obama, how can they over look whats ahead. They can’t all be so stupid.
But *will* anything be done about it??
Yes... they can.
With any luck, that’s not how it will turn out. If it does, at least it’s our side that has all the guns. :-)
Yep. Call one ACORN, another Public Allies, or whatever name the left calls them. They all are shady and use tax dollars.
And ACORN gets many of our tax dollars.
Surely more still if the Obamanator gets elected.
Before giving us a tour of Acorn's pro-Obama but somehow "non-partisan" election activities, Foulks treats us to a brief history of Obama's ties to Acorn. While most press accounts imply that Obama just happened to be at the sort of public-interest law firm that would take Acorn's "motor voter" case, Foulkes claims that Acorn specifically sought out Obama's representation in the motor voter case, remembering Obama from the days when he worked with Talbot. And while many reports speak of Obama's post-law school role organizing "Project VOTE" in 1992, Foulkes makes it clear that this project was undertaken in direct partnership with Acorn. Foulkes then stresses Obama's yearly service as a key figure in Acorn's leadership-training seminars.
At least a few news reports have briefly mentioned Obama's role in training Acorn's leaders, but none that I know of have said what Foulkes reports next: that Obama's long service with Acorn led many members to serve as the volunteer shock troops of Obama's early political campaigns - his initial 1996 State Senate campaign, and his failed bid for Congress in 2000 (Foulkes confuses the dates of these two campaigns.) With Obama having personally helped train a new cadre of Chicago Acorn leaders, by the time of Obama's 2004 U.S. Senate campaign, Obama and Acorn were "old friends," says Foulkes.
It was posted somewhere here that Obama is paying ACORN to assist him with get-out-the-vote efforts, so how long is it going to be before this thing turns up as a full-blown voter fraud scandal?
A GREAT site. Definitely worth checking out.
St. Louis’ crazy voter situation of 2000 with people registering same day and keeping polls open by court order until 11 PM was a result of ACORN involvement. I think that 19 ACORN workers have been convicted of voter fraud. It’s about time that Obama’s affiliation with this corrupt organization is investigated with a fine-tooth comb!
“It’s about time that Obama’s affiliation with this corrupt organization is investigated with a fine-tooth comb!”
Yeah...
Right...
You have to understand some basic truths here. Democrats can commit NO CRIME according to today’s MSM, no matter how many crimes they commit.
Could you just IMAGiNE the media outcry, especially at election time, if a REPUBLICAN had done what Charley Rangell had done?
True. No way will the media investigate Obama or ACORN.
Everyone should watch the youtube 4 part series by the PUMAS “We Will Not Be Silenced” that shows how Obama stole the nomination from Hillary.
For which we should be eternally grateful, LOL.
This guy is one of those Ivy League Dummies totally out of touch, so easy to beat, he’s a great punching bag, Hillary would have been much tougher.
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