Posted on 09/16/2008 5:37:11 AM PDT by pissant
bttt
Our dead gave us Jon Corzine.
McCain’s already blown it with his effusive praise for Obama’s “outstanding” community organizer record last week at Columbia University.
I wish McCain would stop subliminally endorsing O.
Bookmarked. Thanks for the find.
Malkin is rocking this month!
Obama to amend report on $800,000 in spending
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (PA) - August 22, 2008
Author: David M. Brown
EXCERPT
The Ohio primary was March 4. According to FEC records, the Obama campaign paid Citizens Services Inc. $832,598.29, from Feb. 25 to May 17.
A Trib analysis of campaign finance reports showed Obama paid CSI for services that stood out as unusual. For example, CSI received payments of $63,000 and $75,000 for advance work. Excluding the large payments to CSI, the average amount the Obama campaign spent with other organizations was $558.82 per check on more than 1,200 entries classified as advance work.
Citizens Services Inc. is headquartered at the same address as ACORN ‘s national headquarters in New Orleans. Citizens Services was established in December 2004 to “assist persons and organizations who advance the interests of low- and moderate-income people,” according to paperwork filed in Louisiana. In a 2006 ACORN publication, Citizen Services Inc. is described as “ ACORN ‘s campaign services entity.”
ACORN describes itself as the nation’s largest grass-roots community organization of low- and moderate-income people, operating in 110 cities across the country, including Pittsburgh.
Founded in Arkansas in 1970, ACORN long has been considered a political ally of the Democratic Party. It has received praise from leading Democrats, such as Howard Dean and former President Bill Clinton, for its community activism, especially regarding efforts to increase housing for low-income people and restoration work after Hurricane Katrina.
Early in his career, Obama worked as an organizer for Project Vote, an ACORN offshoot, and represented ACORN in legal actions, according to various published reports, including Associated Press articles. ACORN ‘s political action committee endorsed Obama in the primary.
The organization has sparked controversy.
Accusations of voter fraud have followed ACORN ‘s canvassing projects in about a dozen states. ACORN has dismissed the charges as politically motivated allegations from conservative groups, yet cases are pending and, in other cases, ACORN workers have entered guilty pleas. For example, three ACORN workers pleaded guilty to submitting phony voter registration forms in Washington, and eight ACORN employees pleaded guilty to federal election fraud in Missouri.
ACORN is at the center of a scandal involving a $1 million embezzlement by Dale Rathke, brother of ACORN founder Wade Rathke. ACORN discovered the embezzlement in 2000 but did not alert law enforcement officials.
ACORN ‘s management committee instead negotiated an agreement to have the Rathke family repay the stolen funds, according to a report in The New York Times. The Rathke brothers resigned from ACORN this summer after news reports disclosed the embezzlement. A donor agreed to repay the most of the money, the Times reported.
Sunday Alabi, an ACORN activist and spokesman in St. Paul, is one of CSI’s three-person board of directors. Alabi described CSI as a nonprofit consulting firm related to ACORN .
“I do not know the day-to-day work of what they do. I’m on the board,” Alabi said, referring other questions to Robinson, the executive vice president.
Robinson said CSI is a “not-for-profit political and campaign management firm, much like any political consulting firm.”CSI is not tax-exempt under any IRS code, he said. Without tax-exempt status, the organization isn’t bound by IRS restrictions for nonprofits on political activities.
“We have a wide range of clients. We provide political campaign management. We provide field services,” Robinson said. “Our clients are typically considered liberal. Our clients are labor unions, liberal to progressive candidates, nonprofit organizations on the liberal side of the political spectrum.”
In 2006, CSI collected all the signatures and managed successful statewide ballot measure campaigns in Missouri, Ohio, Colorado and Arizona to increase the minimum wage, he said. “We have a good reputation. We provide good services.”
Regarding CSI’s nonprofit status, Robinson said: “We are organized specifically not to make money, but we make money. There are no profits. We have a staff of 60 people around the country, and that eats up our entire profit. We’re not a for-profit corporation, but we are not a group like a United Way.”
CSI is a “separate organization entirely” from ACORN , he said.
” ACORN is a client of ours,” Robinson said. “ ACORN has a lot of different partner organizations. We are a partner, but we are separate.”
Robinson is listed on several Web sites as national deputy political director for campaigns and elections at ACORN . He is also listed as political director at the nonprofit Communities Voting Together and as a consultant at Project Vote. He did not return phone calls or an e-mail request for a follow-up interview.
Money flows back and forth between ACORN , Citizens Services Inc., Project Vote and Communities Voting Together. ACORN posts job ads for Citizens Services and Project Vote. Communities Voting Together contributed $60,000 to Citizens Services Inc., for example, in November 2005, according to a posting on CampaignMoney.com. Project Vote has hired ACORN and CSI as its highest paid contractors, paying ACORN $4,649,037 in 2006 and CSI $779,016 in 2006, according to Terry of the Consumers Rights League.
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That means Obama is going to get 140% of the black vote..
I pray your are wrong too. The election in 1960 was the same with dead people in Illinois (mostly Chicago) deciding it for Kennedy. Nixon was the “gentleman” and let JFK have it but he should have fought and fought hard.
Easiest way for ACORN to have little influence is to have McCain/Palin win in a landslide.
This stuff goes on in every election in every major urban area in this country. In Philly, the buses roll in from South Carolina early in the afternoon full of voters who are registered as living in empty lots and abandoned homes. It’s a fact and nothing is done about it mainly because of the intimidation factor and it happens in the most dangerous of neighborhoods where no one with any sense would ever go, especially to challenge someones vote. Federal intervention is needed.
Too little and too late. All part of that “...new tone...”
BS! The refusal of the outgoing admin. to work with the transition team and their trashing of the White House shouldda given him a clue it wasn’t gonna work. This was BEFORE 9/11, so that excuse doesn’t fly. Bush had the WH, Ashcroft had the DoJ and the Reps. had Congress but nobody did anything.
For the last seven and one half years the Bush DoJ has allowed the ongoiing, interstate, criminal enterprise known as ACORN to flourish.....WHY???
What does a community organizer do in Chicago? Passes out the bottles of wine to homeless and assures every dead person’s vote is counted.
Eric Shawn (sp)
Thank you!!
People from the 1800s voting in NJ? Confirmed?
Hello Eric Shawn,
I wrote this in June, after the NJ Primaries. I believe I've found the influx! Active voters are on our rolls from the 1800s.
It seems to be confirmed, inadvertently, by our own Secretary of State.
June 3rd is really showing to be an interesting election. Especially the reporting and the lack of reporting.
The buzzword of June 3rd seems to be consistently maintained, low voter turnout.
Yet, numbers show otherwise. Why the conflict in reporting then?
Early reporting on districts show very low voter turnout. The odd part is, that reporting is still maintained by poll workers. Since the numbers changed, drastically, where was the influx?
Up to about 10:30pm June 3rd, early reporting was consistent and showed Sabrin and Pennacchio Columns ahead in districts where their strengths were.
Sometime after 10:30pm, a drastic number in vote count reporting changed everything. Yet, poll workers have yet to show where these numbers came from.
Eagleton Institute show there are 123,531 registered voters in the 3rd District.
Of those registered voters, 17.3% are Republicans.
The total unofficial votes for the 3rd district congressional races show a total of 24,164 votes as reported by Dave Levinski of Burlington County Times.
Statistically, that is more than registered party members. If I was with the Burlington County Republican Organization, I would be proudly tauting that type of showing for a Primary.
Yet, the polling districts still maintain a low turn out. Where was the influx?
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Influx found? Was our influx from a 'get out the vote' of the NJ citizens of the 1800s?
New Jersey the Dead and Your Vote
Excerpt from added comment on blog:
Secretary of State Nina Mitchell Wells states in her press release that the letters went out to peolpe on the active voter rolls from 2004 to present.
These letters went out to voters that may have had a discreptency that needed to be updated in their data but they wouldn't be disenfranchised and be removed.
Active Voter Rolls? People born 200 years ago?
http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/jersey/index.ssf?/base/news-11/122093494096820.xml&coll=1&thispage=1
Excerpt:
Emphasis:
**Evans said 300,000 letters went out to residents of Essex, Bergen and five South Jersey counties. She did not know how many were erroneous. Before the mailings resume, she said, the data will be scrubbed -- in particular to keep those voters listed as 208 years old from getting 'unduly alarmed.' **
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Sept 9-09 Secretary of State and Division of Elections offer Additional Information to Assist Voters
Trenton, NJ - In an effort to identify people who may not have been offered the opportunity to register to vote when they applied for a driver’s license or those whose driver’s license information was different from their voter registration information, the Secretary of State’s Office is mailing letters that include voter registration forms to ensure that those individuals have the opportunity to register to vote.
The Division of Elections, using records from the Motor Vehicle Commission (MVC) and the Statewide Voter Registration System, identified 880,000 residents going back to 2004 who may not be registered to vote or who may have such discrepancies.
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A mailing list was created by comparing information from MVC with the Statewide Voter Registration System to send letters to those individuals with no apparent voter registration record. In an effort to match the records the Division of Elections did a seven-level comparison with the MVC file using last name and date of birth as the final match criteria.
In cases where a discrepancy in information was discovered, a letter was sent to correct the information of the voter. The discrepancy could have been as minor as a missing date of birth if the original registration occurred when only legal proof of being eighteen years of age was required, or if some aspect of the individual’s name did not match on both an individual’s voter registration record and driver’s license.
**A small percentage of people who received letters were registered voters who had been voting for years. Although they received a letter because of a minor discrepancy in their record, their status as registered voters was not changed and they will continue to be eligible to vote. **
Every diocese has a church envelope for this campaign.
If I find out this is going on in my church, I will raise a ruckus. I’ll pull my kid out of school so fast their heads will spin and they can forget about some “improvements” that were about to go down. They have a very active pro-life group at my church.
The only suggestion I have is JOIN THE N.R.A. If McCain won’t
get some b***s in this campaign and start fighting back,I don’t what anyone else can do,all the cameras ore on him!
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