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1 posted on 10/08/2008 6:08:22 AM PDT by NoobRep
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I hope the Feds call in "Uncle RICO."

ACORN = organized crime.

2 posted on 10/08/2008 6:09:35 AM PDT by The G Man (The NY Times did "great harm to the United States" - President George W. Bush 6/26/06)
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Could this be our oct surprise due to that ones support for acorn. All that being said McCain still has to bring it up


3 posted on 10/08/2008 6:10:23 AM PDT by italianquaker (McCain when are you going to fight these rats)
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Okay, this is something that could work for McCain via 527 ads. Tell the American people how ACORN cheats and that they are trying to steal the election.


4 posted on 10/08/2008 6:10:23 AM PDT by misterrob (Obama-Keep the Change!)
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They are the victims? wHAT A LAFF..............


5 posted on 10/08/2008 6:10:26 AM PDT by Red Badger (My wallet is made out of depleted you-owe-mium........)
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Acorn wins ---

They won't throw out all the fraud.

6 posted on 10/08/2008 6:10:51 AM PDT by Dan(9698)
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ACORN says they are the victim because they can't control their workers.

The same way a pimp is a "victim" because of his whores?

7 posted on 10/08/2008 6:11:08 AM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (I Love The Smell Of Schmidt Storm in the Morning...and Afternoon....and at Night!!!!!)
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ACORN says they are the victim because they can't control their workers

Just like the leaders on Enron, Worldcom and Freedie/Fannie said...

8 posted on 10/08/2008 6:11:56 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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ACORN says they are the victim because they can't control their workers

Oh, it's not MYYYY FAULT

When did it become chic in this country to never take responsibility for ones actions?

Makes me sick.

9 posted on 10/08/2008 6:11:57 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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Someone please tell me why this organization is still allowed to register voters. IMO the whole voter registration apparatus needs to be scraped, and make it so EVERYONE has to get off of their butts and go show proof of citizenship and a photo ID to register,, you know, just like I had to do.


10 posted on 10/08/2008 6:11:58 AM PDT by Airwinger (Semper Fi, (a deep deep deep undercover lurker!))
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Good!


11 posted on 10/08/2008 6:12:29 AM PDT by xcamel (Conservatives start smart, and get rich, liberals start rich, and get stupid.)
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To: HowardLSmith.ô¿ô; hoosiermama; darth; Liz; backhoe; Certified Horticulturist; KylaStarr; Cindy; .
NW_Arizona_Granny said she heard on the radio that the Las Vegas ACORN office was raided last night.


14 posted on 10/08/2008 6:14:11 AM PDT by Calpernia (Hunters Rangers - Raising the Bar of Integrity http://www.barofintegrity.us)
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ACORN says they are the victim because they can't control their workers.


How convenient!

15 posted on 10/08/2008 6:14:30 AM PDT by Paleo Conservative (Drill Here. Drill Now. Pay Less.)
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Barney Frank got money for ACORN in the bail out bill. What more evidence do we need?


18 posted on 10/08/2008 6:14:35 AM PDT by realcleanguy ("I have not yet begun to fight")
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Unless the MSM shows the connection of ACORN to Obama before Election Day, nothing will come of it.

It will all come out eventually, but not until the MSM elects Obama. It will make for great ratings.

20 posted on 10/08/2008 6:14:55 AM PDT by tiredoflaundry (McCain/Palin '08 ----- It's October, SURPRISE ME!)
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Background on ACORN excerpted from a post by Freeper Fred Nerks:

ACORN - ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS FOR REFORM NOW

ACORN is the largest radical group in America, with 175,000 dues-paying member families, and more than 850 chapters in 70 US cities Implicated in numerous reports of fraudulent voter registration, vote-rigging, voter intimidation, and vote-for-pay scams during the 2004 election. They maintain close ties to organized labor unions.

ACORN is a grassroots political organization that grew out of George Wiley’s National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO). Their members in the late 60s and early 70s invaded welfare offices across the U.S. — often violently — bullying social workers and loudly demanding every penny to which the law “entitled” them. In the late 60s, ACORN co-founder Wade Rathke was a NWRO organizer and a protegé of Wiley. Rathke also organized draft resistance for the militant group Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) during the same period.

In 1970 Rathke — along with the aforementioned Wiley (best known for his effective use of the so-called “Cloward-Piven strategy,” which called for swamping the welfare rolls with new applicants and thereby creating an economic crisis) and Gary Delgado (a lead organizer for Wiley’s NWRO) — formed a new entity called Arkansas Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). The group’s name was later changed to Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, but the acronym ACORN remained. Instead of focusing only on welfare recipients, ACORN’s mandate included all issues touching low-income and working-class people.

Rathke and his ACORN co-founders enlisted civil rights workers and trained them in a program (at Syracuse University) patterned after Saul Alinsky’s activist tactics.

Today ACORN claims 175,000 dues-paying member families, and more than 850 chapters in 70 U.S. cities in 38 states. ACORN owns two radio stations, a housing corporation, and a law office, and maintains affiliate relationships with a host of trade-union locals. ACORN also runs schools where children are trained in class consciousness; a network of “boot camps” for training street activists; and operations that extort contributions from banks and other businesses under threat of racial violence and trumped-up civil rights charges.

In 1998, ACORN founded the Working Families Party in New York, which endorses candidates for political office. The Working Families Party endorsed Hillary Clinton in her 2000 Senate race. Canvassers from ACORN and its sister groups launched a statewide voter-mobilization drive that proved influential in Clinton’s victory. In November 2001, a coalition of radical politicians led by ACORN-sponsored candidates running on the Working Families Party ticket won a veto-proof majority on the New York City Council, giving ACORN de facto control of the New York City government.


22 posted on 10/08/2008 6:15:23 AM PDT by Calpernia (Hunters Rangers - Raising the Bar of Integrity http://www.barofintegrity.us)
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Looks like Warren Rudman and John Danforth are doing their jobs.


23 posted on 10/08/2008 6:15:26 AM PDT by what's up
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Say it isn’t so (// sarcasm off)


25 posted on 10/08/2008 6:16:02 AM PDT by navygal (retired navy and proud of it.)
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A Pittsburgh, Pa. man called in to the Quinn & Rose morning show and said he got a call from Allegheny county. They wanted to verify that he was changing his party from Republican to Democrat. They said the signatures didn’t match. He said he had no intention of changing.


28 posted on 10/08/2008 6:16:24 AM PDT by sneakers (Liberty is the answer to the human condition.)
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It's about dam time

These ACORN shenanigans of busing winos to voter sites and dumping 3 foot high stacks of faux registrations on small county officials- - on live TV no less - make New Orleans looter guy look like an honest consumer

The Bush administration at least owe the taxpayers, honest voters and GI’s dying in war for our democracy ... a stab at an honest election

IF our Justice department and AG can tear themselves away the vital mission of testifying to Congress about why they fired 9 partisan AG’s 4 years ago

29 posted on 10/08/2008 6:16:52 AM PDT by silverleaf (Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
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30 posted on 10/08/2008 6:17:00 AM PDT by Bobalu (Obama cannot win without the kind of people that Palin appeals to.)
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