Any fraud having to do with any voter registration should be a federal offense with heavy jail time for conviction.
Wouldn’t Michelle Malkin make a terrific White House Press secretary?
Did you see John Fund on Hannity last night? Watching Alan Colmes and David Boies (yes, of Gore Recount fame) defend ACORN and Obama’s connections to them was a sight to behold. Liberals are filth.
Better watch it, guys. Gov. Paterson has decreed that “community organizer” is code word for “black”. </sarc>
I've been saying for a couple of years that Nov. 2000 in FL will seem like a paper cut compared to the bloodbath that will occur in. Nov 2008. The Bush DoJ had seven and a half years to get serious about vote and voter fraud.
BTTT!
We need spies within these organizations immediately and the whistle blown on those committing voter fraud. Prison time should be served by those caught red-handed.
Frankly, any democracy that doesn’t have the will to secure its elections deserves to fail.
Good post!
BTTT!
Oh, come on, Michelle! You know that is never going to happen.
If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em ?
The low-income people drive would actually be amusing, if our broken election system wasn’t so scary.
This activism has been in full force signing up transient voters. That is the politically correct term for homeless people.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jNpDn7t8QzwKUyyYpmQ4-av_1-SAD927MR0O0
More homeless people expected to vote this fall
The voter registration forms have been addressed to soup kitchens and cross roads of parks that the homeless frequent.
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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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.
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.
Every diocese has a church envelope for this campaign.