I'M VOTING FOR SARAH
liar!
I wonder how many “votes” they promised for that 800 grand.
BTTT.
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An Obama spokesman said Federal Election Commission reports would be amended to show Citizens Services Inc. -- a subsidiary of ACORN -- worked in "get-out-the-vote" projects, instead of activities such as polling, advance work and staging major events as stated in FEC finance reports filed during the primary.
FEC spokeswoman Mary Brandenberger said it is not unusual for campaigns to amend reports, even regarding large sums of money.
But, said Blair Latoff, spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee: "Barack Obama's failure to accurately report his campaign's financial records is an incredibly suspicious situation that appears to be an attempt to hide his campaign's interaction with a left-wing organization previously convicted of voter fraud. For a candidate who claims to be practicing 'new' politics, his FEC reports look an awful lot like the 'old-style' Chicago politics of yesterday."
In response to the RNC's position, Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt said in an e-mail: "The RNC can concoct all of the outlandish conspiracy theories they want, but when we saw that our FEC report didn't accurately reflect the field work CSI was hired to perform we corrected it. It's pretty bold for the RNC to attack us for a clerical error after John McCain's campaign was just forced to return $50,000 raised by a foreign national through a number of contributors who weren't even supporting McCain."
Melanie Sloan, executive director of the liberal-leaning Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, said the campaign's error on FEC documents doesn't seem extraordinary, especially considering the huge amounts of money being spent.
"It's rare that people don't file any amended reports. If he has a pattern of lots and lots of amended reports, that would be more noteworthy than an occasional one," Sloan said.
Jim Terry, spokesman for a group that tracks ACORN, said Citizens Services Inc.'s involvement in the Obama campaign raises bigger questions.
"All of this just seems like an awful lot of money and time spent on political campaigning for an organization that purports to exist to help low-income consumers," said Terry, chief public advocate for Consumers Rights League, a Washington, D.C., advocacy outfit with a libertarian outlook.
That’s going to leave a mark.
800,000 is a clerical error.
The question is, will the McCain’s seize on this?
The other media will ignore it if they ignore it.
How many times have I looked at a big story regarding Obama and thought to myself - Aha! Now THIS will be the end of him!
But to no avail.
But here I go again - always an optimist!
I don’t know HOW Obama can wriggle out of this one.
This stinks to high heaven and gets right to the heart of the validity of our elections.
Pretty soon we’re all going to demand purple ink for our fingers at the polling sites.
But does GWB's Attorney General have the guts to throw the book at anyone who isn't a border guard?
John McCain will respectfully find fault with this and promise to carefully think through whether to mention it, in a respectful way of course, during the next debate.
ACORN Files Voting Rights Suit on Behalf of Imaginary-Americans
http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2008/10/acorn-files-vot.html
I’m looking forward to the headlines in tomorrow’s papers.
/sarcasm
This paragraph sticks out like a sore thumb. ...this is from August.
Howcome when a demRat ‘fails to disclose’ it’s only an oversight but if a pubbie it’s off with their heads? (Rhetorical)
This is topical - frosting on the ACORN story cake. Let’s get it out to our media list. You know the formula:
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/election/s_584284.html
The office people that screen the emails only pass them on when they get X-amount on a given subject.
So this is OUR part - WE the PEOPLE - in protecting our freedoms.
and the McC/Sarah campaign at:
info@McCainPalinVictory2008.com
Be sure to add your name and town and email - or they won’t read them.
IMPORTANT when emailing. they won’t read mass emails - SO,
put just one email add in the “to” line then click on BBC at the end of that line. a BCC line will open just above subject line. copy paste the rest of the addresses in there and each recipient will see ONLY their name - and in the subject line make reference to ACORN $800,000 OBAMA
Let’s make it happen. This is our part in protecting our freedoms = WE THE PEOPLE - we act now or get ready for Jack Boots and Brown Shirts...Obama already has his personal police force plans ready
copy the email addresses for use for the rest of the campaign
800 thousand dollars is minor compared to the cost of an illegal war in Iraq, a war supported by John McCain.
(Just thought I’d write the MSM angle.)
Yeah, I’m sure it was an innocent mistake! This stinks to high heaven.