Posted on 09/26/2009 9:09:54 PM PDT by GVnana
EDITORIAL: Reid blocks ACORN probe
Tracking abuse by political allies could be 'distracting'
ACORN -- the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now -- is stinking up Washington.
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ACORN receives and spends taxpayer money -- lots of it -- and had carried the imprimatur of official partnerships with the IRS, the Census Bureau ... the kind of "cred" that in the political world comes only from "who you know."
Yes, ACORN has friends in high places -- friends who are still stonewalling attempts to trace where all that tax money went ... perhaps because they know who still has cookie crumbs all over their hands.
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Here in Clark County, Registrar of Voters Larry Lomax said last year he saw "rampant fraud in the 2,000 to 3,000 registrations ACORN turns in every week," with some 48 percent of those forms being "clearly fraudulent."
The Las Vegas headquarters of ACORN, "a Democrat-allied organization," was raided after being "accused of submitting multiple voter registrations with duplicate and false names," the Washington Times reported last fall. The outfit claimed it had registered to vote in Nevada, among others, the starting lineup of the Dallas Cowboys.
The raid "set off a skirmish over efforts to expand the electorate on behalf of Sen. Barack Obama," the Times reported.
Mr. Lomax noted ACORN had hired 59 inmates from a work-release program at a nearby prison and that some inmates who had been convicted of identity theft had been made supervisors. "That led some local wags to joke that at least ACORN was hiring specialists to do their work," reported John Fund at The Politico, last November.
ACORN's 2008 Las Vegas field director, Christopher Edwards, pleaded guilty last spring to two gross misdemeanor counts of conspiracy to commit compensation for registration...
(Excerpt) Read more at lvrj.com ...
Very good news. “Just keep it up stupid and you’ll be back in Searchlight selling used cars where you belong!”
2010. And his poll numbers aren’t good. Still that’s a year away.
Yup. Reid told them he hoped they would go out of business. Hopefully the paper will dig into every dirty deal that Reid is involved in. There are a lot including his sons.
You can bet they are saving some good stuff until election time.
Reid is up in 2010. Trust me, the stuff that will come out will make you cringe.
Oh goody I can hardly wait!
I’m thinking....... multiple wives some of them under age, taking payoffs under the table, vote fraud.......... etc etc.
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