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Cracking ACORN Requires Comprehensive Electoral Reform
Pajamas Media ^ | Sept. 17 | Tom Blumer

Posted on 09/17/2009 9:30:26 AM PDT by AJKauf

James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles have rocked our world like no two twenty-somethings I can recall.

As of when this column was finished on Wednesday afternoon, as chronicled at Andrew Breitbart’s breakout BigGovernment.com site since September 10, multiple ACORN offices had been caught on tape providing guidance to O’Keefe and Giles, who are 25 and 20, respectively(!), on how to obtain home financing for a prostitution business that would include Giles and 13 illegal immigrant girls, with the ultimate purpose of generating funds for a future congressional run by O’Keefe. Helpful instruction from ACORN employees, many of whom are now ex-employees, included how to maximize tax benefits by claiming dependent exemptions and child tax credits for a few of the underage girls (not too many, so as not to raise red flags), how to hide the money (in a tin can, in the backyard, covered with grass), and how to keep the business covert (i.e., never talk about business, because “loose lips sink ships”).

Meanwhile, the establishment media, with the exception of Fox News, has only very belatedly been dragged kicking and screaming into recognizing the story’s existence. On Tuesday morning, ABC’s Charles Gibson, asked why “no one’s covering the story,” stunned a Chicago morning show’s co-hosts when he nervously laughed and said that “I didn’t even know about it” (full audio is accessible here). It seems that even Comedy Central’s left-leaning fake journalist Jon Stewart felt that he had to deal with the story or risk losing his credibility with his youngish audience — and he is still ahead of most of the media elite....

(Excerpt) Read more at pajamasmedia.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: hannahgiles

1 posted on 09/17/2009 9:30:26 AM PDT by AJKauf
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To: AJKauf

Actually I think photo IDs to vote would do a lot.


2 posted on 09/17/2009 9:33:09 AM PDT by Tarpon (The Joker's plan -- Slavery by debt so large it can never be repaid...)
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To: Tarpon

I think only people that show up with a complete IRS form filled out should vote. If they haven´t paid taxes, they can´t vote. AND, they need to put black ink on their thumb, and a lot of other measures to stop voter fraud.


3 posted on 09/17/2009 9:34:27 AM PDT by rovenstinez
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To: AJKauf

http://www.theobamafile.com/ObamaACORN.htm


4 posted on 09/17/2009 9:36:47 AM PDT by PLD
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To: rovenstinez

black ink????? that’s racist!!!


5 posted on 09/17/2009 9:37:40 AM PDT by Aria ( "The US republic will endure until Congress discovers it can bribe the public with the people's $.")
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To: Tarpon

True, but courts will continue to get in the way of this.

One way to get around this is to do away with all registrations submitted by a third party.


6 posted on 09/17/2009 9:38:38 AM PDT by hsrazorback1 (Seek truth.)
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To: AJKauf

7 posted on 09/17/2009 9:39:10 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: AJKauf
"James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles have rocked our world like no two twenty-somethings I can recall."

They should be more famous than Micheal Jackson. They have after all, cracked open one of the most corrupt traitorous organizations ever created by treasonous Democrat Marxists whose mission was to destroy America as we know it.

8 posted on 09/17/2009 9:40:32 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: AJKauf

Just shows the hypocrisy of the MSM.

Are THEY the only ones who can do undercover journalism and expose a story that way? Do you have to work for Dateline or 20/20 and the hidden cam footage suddenly becomes ‘real journalism’? I mean, the journalists gonig in under false pretenses are going in that way because THEY have an agenda to go after a certain group of people and expose them.

Someone who’s not in the MSM does it and does a way better job at it, and the MSM deliberately decides NOT to cover the story.

And Charlie, you’re not a very good liar. Or teleprompter reader.


9 posted on 09/17/2009 9:44:32 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: AJKauf
Wonder how many groups LIKE ACORN there are out there?...
Are we swatting insects or shooting BEARS...

Tax free groups can shape shift.. and re-paint.. and re-organize...

10 posted on 09/17/2009 9:46:42 AM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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To: AJKauf

Time to look at the relationship tree of Rathke and other:

http://www.muckety.com/Wade-Rathke/88112.muckety


11 posted on 09/17/2009 9:51:55 AM PDT by fujimoh
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To: rovenstinez
Just because you have a filled out form doesn't mean it had been filed, or paid.

Anyone who receives any form of welfare should not be allowed to vote.

12 posted on 09/17/2009 10:16:11 AM PDT by teenyelliott (Soylent green should be made outta liberals...)
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To: teenyelliott

*has been filed*


13 posted on 09/17/2009 10:17:06 AM PDT by teenyelliott (Soylent green should be made outta liberals...)
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To: AJKauf; All
I've started a running file on ACORN,
' The Issa Report- ACORN "a criminal enterprise..."'--Click the picture:


14 posted on 09/17/2009 12:06:35 PM PDT by backhoe (All across America, the Lights are going out...)
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