Posted on 10/15/2008 12:16:19 PM PDT by Salena Zito
On the eve of the Democratic convention, Trib colleague David M. Brown reported that Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign paid more than $800,000 to an offshoot of ACORN for services the Democrat's campaign says it mistakenly misrepresented in finance reports. An Obama spokesman said then that the FEC reports would be amended to show Citizens Services Inc. -- a subsidiary of ACORN -- worked in "get-out-the-vote" projects. The original FEC finance reports listed the ACORN underling activities as polling, advance work and staging major events.
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Hmmmm....was that a Christian wedding?
Wow. Everybody here has known this for two days, but it’s nice to see at least somebody in Not-Quite-Big-Media is publishing it.
actually we ran that story August 22nd. i just blogged about it again because it was lost in the lead up to the convention
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