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Sen. Cornyn Seeks Nationwide Criminal Probe of ACORN
Office of Senator Cornyn ^ | 10/14/08 | Senator John Cornyn

Posted on 10/14/2008 1:00:01 PM PDT by PajamaTruthMafia


Sen. Cornyn Seeks Nationwide Criminal Probe of ACORN

Sends Letter to U.S. Attorney General Regarding Reports of Widespread Election Fraud


Tuesday, October 14, 2008

WASHINGTON— In the wake of numerous reports of widespread election fraud by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, sent a letter today to U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey requesting that the Department of Justice immediately launch a nationwide criminal probe into ACORN’s voter registration activities and investigate ACORN as a “criminal enterprise.”

In his letter, Sen. Cornyn, a former State Attorney General and Texas Supreme Court Justice, said, “Election fraud imposes a real cost on our system, beyond the obvious consequence of subverting a free and fair election. Fraudulent voter registration on this scale seriously strains state and local elections resources and distracts elections officials from preparing to conduct an orderly election. Of course, ACORN’s nationwide voter registration fraud provides an opportunity for individuals to vote who should not, or for some to vote more than once.”


Sen. Cornyn closed his letter highlighting the various aspects of federal law that may have been violated by ACORN and said “because the violations of federal voting laws by ACORN employees appear to be so widespread, ACORN and its affiliates should be investigated as a criminal enterprise.”

The full text of Senator Cornyn’s letter to the Attorney General today is below. In addition, a .pdf copy of the letter is available here: http://cornyn.senate.gov/doc_archive/Mukasey-ACORN-letter.pdf


The Honorable Michael B. Mukasey
Attorney General

U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530-0001

Dear General Mukasey:

I am increasingly concerned by reports of widespread election fraud by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (“ACORN”), which seem to emerge on a daily basis.

Specifically, I call your attention to state and local investigations into potentially hundreds of thousands of fraudulent voter registration applications filed by ACORN in North Carolina, Ohio, Nevada, Michigan, Florida, New Mexico, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Washington, Connecticut, Wisconsin, and my home state of Texas. In Harris County, Texas, which includes the City of Houston, election officials either rejected or discovered serious deficiencies with nearly 40 percent of the 27,000 registration cards filed by ACORN from January through July of this year.


Most recently, election officials in Lake County, Indiana, found more than 2,100 fraudulent voter registration applications that were filed at the deadline by ACORN. According to a CNN report, at least one of ACORN’s applications in Lake County attempted to register a dead man. In addition, The St. Petersburg Times (FL) reported today that Mickey Mouse tried to register to vote in Florida this summer. Although Orange County elections officials rejected his application, it is notable that Mickey Mouse’s application had an ACORN stamp on it. In addition, The [Raleigh, NC] News & Observer also reported today that ACORN conducted a voter drive that registered nearly 28,000 people in North Carolina. But according to local election officials some of the forms it filed had information that may have been copied from phone books.

Election fraud imposes a real cost on our system, beyond the obvious consequence of subverting a free and fair election. Fraudulent voter registration on this scale seriously strains state and local elections resources and distracts elections officials from preparing to conduct an orderly election. Of course, ACORN’s nationwide voter registration fraud provides an opportunity for individuals to vote who should not, or for some to vote more than once.

Given these allegations, as well as the well-documented fraud convictions in recent years of ACORN employees, I urge you to launch a nationwide criminal probe into ACORN’s voter registration activities. As you know, federal law prohibits an individual from (1) providing fraudulent voter registration information; (2) conspiring to encourage false registration or illegal voting; and (3) paying or offering to pay another individual for registering or voting. It is also a crime to knowingly procure or submit false, fictitious, or fraudulent voter registration applications. Finally, I must add that, because the violations of federal voting laws by ACORN employees appear to be so widespread, ACORN and its affiliates should be investigated as a criminal enterprise.

Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter.


Sincerely,

JOHN CORNYN
United States Senator


Sen. Cornyn serves on the Armed Services, Judiciary and Budget Committees. In addition, he is Vice Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Ethics. He serves as the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee’s Immigration, Border Security and Refugees subcommittee and the Armed Services Committee’s Airland subcommittee. He served previously as Texas Attorney General, Texas Supreme Court Justice, and Bexar County District Judge.



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To: potlatch; holdonnow; PhilDragoo; ntnychik; MeekOneGOP; Interesting Times; Jeff Head; Grampa Dave; ..


In fact, Obama's remarks about illegal immigration reveal exactly when he crosses the line because he, himself, draws the distinction between the political and sectarian sectors, stating, :


"Now, as children of God, we believe in the worth and dignity of every human being; it doesn*t matter where that person came from or what documents they have.

-- Senator Barack Hussein Obama

IRS-Obama- tax-exempt church speech problemos


121 posted on 10/14/2008 5:31:55 PM PDT by devolve ( ________focus________)
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To: Beowulf9

“Acorn needs to be dismantled, first until the investigation is over and then, due to obvious reasons, forever.”

Do you think so? READ THE FOLLOWING....

In 1985, Gerald (Jerry) Kellman receives a grant from the Woods Fund, a Chicago foundation that gives grants for community organizing, to hire a new community organizer for the organization he heads called the Developing Communities Project (DCP). Later, from 1993-2000, Barack Obama and unrepentant domestic terrorist, Bill Ayers, sit together on the Board of the SAME Woods Fund.

In 1985, Barack “spotted an intriguing help-wanted ad in The New York Times. The Calumet Community Religious Conference (CCRC), a group that aimed to convert the black churches of Chicago’s South Side into agents of social change, was looking for a community organizer to run the group’s inner-city arm, the Developing Communities Project (DCP). Obama soon arranged to meet in New York at a Lexington Avenue diner with the organizer, Marty Kauffman, who was heading up the job search.”

From 1985-1988, Barack works in Chicago as a community organizer for $10,000/year and $2,000 to buy a used car. Having been hired by Gerald (Jerry) Kellman, a social activist who recruited him, Obama takes a staff (community organizer) position with the Developing Communities Project whose personnel work with churches to organize job training and other programs for poor and working-class residents of Roseland and Altgeld Gardens public housing projects on the city’s industrial far South Side. Perhaps his most confrontational effort was to pressure city authorities to remove asbestos from the apartments in 1986. When the on-site manager didn’t take action, Obama nudged the residents into confronting city housing officials in two angry public meetings.

In 1987, Michelle Robinson (Obama) is hired by Newton Minow as a summer associate in the Sidley Austin LLP Law Firm in Chicago. While there, she works with and gets to know unrepentent domestic terrorist, Bernardine Dohrn, (wife of Bill Ayers), who is a paralegal in the same firm.

In the fall of 1987, Obama working in his role of community organizer for the Developing Communities Project (DCP) is introduced to unrepentent domestic terrorist, Bill Ayers, while both of them are “working” the same side of the Chicago Teacher’s Union Strike of 1987. Ayers is quoted as saying, that he and Obama met “at a luncheon meeting about school reform.”

In 1987, Ayers forms a new organization called the Alliance for Better Chicago Schools (ABCs). to push for Illinois legislature approval of Local School Councils (LSCs). Obama in his role of community organizer for the Developing Communities Project (DCP) also works hard to push for legislative approval of Ayers’ Local School Council (LSC) proposal. Ayers would later Chair the ABCs.

In 1988, Barack Obama takes a position as a summer intern in the Sidley Austin LLP Law Firm in Chicago and the junior associate who is put in charge of overseeing his work is Michelle Robinson (Obama). Barack is introduced to Michelle by her coworker, friend, and unrepentent domestic terrorist, Bernardine Dohrn (Tom Ayers, Bill Ayers’ father used his influence to get the job for her).

In 1988, Barack Obama moves to Boston, MA to earn his law degree at Harvard Law School. In 1990, Barack is named President of the Harvard Law Review and spends his time in that position writing his autobiography, “Dreams from My Father”. It is now highly suspected that Bill Ayers ghost-wrote this book because of all the alliterative language and illustrative language that is used in aaobama’s memoir and a book by Bill Ayers.

From 1992-1995, Obama takes a position as a civil rights lawyer with the Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland Law Firm in Chicago.

From 1993-2002, Obama serves on the board of the Woods Fund with unrepentent domestic terrorist, Bill Ayers.

In 1992, Obama takes time off from his work at the Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland Law Firm in Chicago to direct Project Vote which was run out of the Chicago Chapter of ACORN. It is a very lucrative voter registration drive and Obama’s efforts, in large part, get Senator Alice Palmer elected. Palmer is supported by Students for a Democratic Society and other leftist political groups. Because of Project Vote’s immense success, Obama is asked by the head of ACORN in Chicago, Madeleine Talbot, to train all of her community organizer leaders in his organizing methods.

In 1992-1993, unrepentent domestic terrorist and early childhood educator, Ayers, receives grants totaling $410,205 from the Dreihaus Foundation ($10,000), Community Trust ($40,000), Coalition of Essential Schools ($61,205), Joyce Foundation ($74,500), and the MacArthur Foundation ($225,000).

From 1994-2002, Barack Obama serves as Director of the Board of the Joyce Foundation in Chicago for a yearly salary of $70,000/year.

In 1993-1994, unrepentent domestic terrorist and early childhood educator, Ayers, receives grants totaling $128,761 from the Wieboldt Foundation ($5,000), Schott Foundation ($7,000), New Prospects ($5,000, $5,000), Relations Foundation ($7,000, $10,000), McDougal Foundation ($10,000), and Joyce Foundation ($79,761).

The Chicago Annenberg Challenge was founded by Ayers. Obama and Ayers co-chair it for five years, raising and spending at least $110 million in an effort to bolster a “radical” (Ayers’ word) reform program in the Chicago Public Schools from 1994 to 2001.

From 1999-2001, both Barack Obama and Ayers are members of the board of an anti-poverty group, the Woods Fund in Chicago (The Woods Fund is the organization that supplied the money to attract Obama to Chicago and employ him at the Developing Communities Project in Chicago to begin with).

1995-1999, Barack Obama serves as the founding Chairman of the Board for a philanthropic organization that unrepentent domestic terrorist, Bill Ayers, secured the grant funding for and set up called the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC).

1995-2000, Ayers serves as Co-chair of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge’s Chicago School Reform Collaborative (CSRC), a second operating entity of the CAC.

1995-2000, Ayers serves as Co-chair of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge’s Consortium of Chicago Schools Research (CCSR), a third operating entity of the CAC.
In 1995, Ayers gives an interview in which he characterizes his political beliefs at that time and in the 1960s and 1970s: “I am a radical, Leftist, small ‘c’ communist ... [Laughs] Maybe I’m the last communist who is willing to admit it. [Laughs] We have always been small ‘c’ communists in the sense that we were never in the [Communist] party and never Stalinists. The ethics of Communism still appeal to me. I don’t like Lenin as much as the early Marx. I also like Henry David Thoreau, Mother Jones and Jane Addams.”
In 1995, Obama represents ACORN in a lawsuit against the state of Illinois over enforcement of federal law involving voter registration issues for low-income people, according to the Associated Press.

ACORN supports and lobbies for the “Motor Voter Act.”

In 1994-1995, unrepentent domestic terrorist and early childhood educator, Ayers, receives grants totaling $832,705 from the Wieboldt Foundation ($10,000), Joyce Foundation ($88,000), the MacArthur Foundation ($100,000, $224,000), and the Chicago Annenberg Challenge as co-founder and grant writer ($8,200,000).

In 1995-1996, unrepentent domestic terrorist and early childhood educator, Ayers, receives grants totaling $9,346,680 from the Relations Foundation ($15,000), Reader’s Digest ($19,274), Woods Fund ($20,000), MacDougal Foundation ($25,000), Joyce Foundation ($88,000), and MacArthur Foundation ($100,000, $290,406), the Annenberg Challenge ($175,000), Chicago Public Schools ($414,000), and the Chicago Annenberg Challenge as co-founder and grant writer ($8,200,000).

In November 1995, Obama is “tapped” by outgoing Illinois State Senator Alice Palmer to run for her seat. Obama launches his political career in elected office for a seat in the Illinois State Senate by holding his first “meet-n-greet: fundraiser in the Hyde Park home of unrepentant domestic terrorists, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. Obama is supported by the leftist New Party, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), and the Democratic Party in the Illinois State Senate race.

In 1996, Obama received the endorsement of the Chicago branch of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) for an Illinois state senate seat.

From 1996-2002, Barack Obama serves as a Senator for the State of Illinois.

In 1996-1997, unrepentent domestic terrorist and early childhood educator, Ayers, receives grants totaling $9,599,826 from Reader’s Digest ($19,274), the Joyce Foundation ($88,000, 112,333), MacArthur Foundation ($275,000), Chicago Public Schools Goals 2000 ($45,219), Chicago Annenberg Challenge ($260,000), Chicago Public Schools ($600,000), and the Annenberg Challenge as co-founder and grant writer ($8,200,000).

In 1997, unrepentant domestic terrorist, Bill Ayers (former aide to Mayor Richard M. Daley), is named Chicago’s “Citizen of the Year” for his work on the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC).

In 1998, Ayers’s brother, John Ayers, was head of an organization in Chicago called Leadership for Quality Education, a charter-school and small-school advocacy group. That year, Obama and Bill Ayers CAC gave Leadership for Quality Education an $85,000 grant. Leadership for Quality Education says its four main goals are accountability, charter schools, small schools, and principal training.

The Grassroots School Improvement, a group operated by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), received $350,000 from CAC between 1998-2002.

In 1998, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge gave $65,000 to ACORN’s Grassroots School Improvement project

In 1997-1998, unrepentent domestic terrorist and early childhood educator, Ayers, receives grants totaling $8,331,607 from Reader’s Digest ($19,274), the Joyce Foundation ($112,333), and the Chicago Annenberg Challenge as co-founder and grant writer ($8,200,000).

In 1998-1999, unrepentent domestic terrorist and early childhood educator, Ayers, receives grants totaling $8,331,607 from Reader’s Digest ($19,274), the Joyce Foundation ($112,333), and the Chicago Annenberg Challenge as co-founder and grant writer ($8,200,000).

From 1999-2004, Barack Obama and Ayers live within a few blocks of each other in the trendy Hyde Park section of Chicago, and move in the same liberal-progressive sociopolitical circles.

In 1999, Obama and Ayers at CAC give ACORN’s Grassroots School Improvement project $135,000.

1999-2002, Obama serves as a member of the Board of Directors for the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), a “philanthropic” organization that Bill Ayers secured the funding for and serves as the grantwriter and co-chair of its two operational arms.

In 1999-2000, unrepentent domestic terrorist and early childhood educator, Ayers, receives grants totaling $8,227,274 from Bright Futures Venture ($8,000), Reader’s Digest ($19,274), and the Chicago Annenberg Challenge as co-founder and grant writer ($8,200,000).

In 2000, Ayers gave an interview to The New York Times [published Sept. 11, 2001] on the occasion of the publication of his memoir, Fugitive Days. The reporter quoted him as saying “I don’t regret setting bombs” and “I feel we didn’t do enough”, and, when asked if he would “do it all again” as saying “I don’t want to discount the possibility.” Ayers has not denied the quotes.
In 2000, Obama and Ayers at CAC give ACORN’s Grassroots School Improvement project $100,000.

On Jan. 20, 2001, Outgoing President, Bill Clinton, commutes the sentences of Linda Sue Evans and Susan Rosenberg, two convicted members of the domestic terrorist group, The Weather Underground, that was founded and led by Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn,,.

In 2000-2001, unrepentent domestic terrorist and early childhood educator, Ayers, receives grants totaling $75,000 from Dreihaus ($20,000), Fry Foundation ($20,000), and Woods Fund ($35,0000).

In 2001, Ayers told an interviewer for the Chicago Tribune, “We [the Weathermen] weren’t terrorists. The reason we weren’t terrorists is because we did not commit random acts of terror against people. Terrorism was what was being practiced in the countryside of Vietnam by the United States.”

On April 2, 2001, William Ayers makes an individual contribution of $200 to Obama’s “Friends of Barack Obama” re-election fund to the Illinois State Senate.

In 2001, Ayers publishes his memoir on his days in the domestic terrorist group, “Fugitive Days: A Memoir.” (Beacon Press).

In 2001, Obama and Ayers at CAC give ACORN’s Grassroots School Improvement $50,000.

In 2003-2004, Obama runs for the U.S. Senate with support from the New Party, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), and the Democratic Party and wins. Obama campaigns for openly socialist Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont.

In 2005, unrepentent domestic terrorist, Bill Ayers [accompanied by his wife and fellow terrorist, Bernardine Dohrn], gives a presentation in Venezuela to Hugo Chavez and other government officials on the importance of Ayers’ brand of educating the young to the success of Hugo Chavez’ Marxist Bolivarian Revolution.

In 2006, unrepentent domestic terrorist, Bill Ayers [accompanied by his wife and fellow terrorist, Bernardine Dohrn], gives a presentation in Venezuela to Hugo Chavez and other government officials on the importance of Ayers’ brand of educating the young to the success of Hugo Chavez’ Marxist Bolivarian Revolution.

In 2006, Ayers, Dohrn, and Jeff Jones publish “Sing A Battle Song: The Revolutionary Poetry, Statements, and Communiques of the Weather Underground 1970-74” (Seven Stories Press).

In 2006, David Horowitz argues that U.S. universities are permeated by what he believes is anti-Americanism and a left-wing biasand publishes a book entitled The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America. Bill Ayers is one of the academics featured as being very dangerous in Horowitz’ book.

In 2006, Obama announces his run for the U.S. Presidency on the Democratic ticket.

In August of 2006, Obama travels to Kenya on the taxpayer’s dime to endorse his cousin, Raila Odinga’s, bid for the Presidency in Kenya. Odinga’s campaign theme is perhaps not coincidentally “Real CHANGE for Africa.” Odinga promised that within 6 months of becoming president he would ‘re-write the constitution of Kenya to recognize Sharia (Muslim Law) as the only true law.’ Odinga opposes the Kibaki (Christian) government whom the US backs! Odinga, who is well known to be Marxist and a very dangerous man, is seen being endorsed by his American cousin, a sitting U.S. Senator, while he campaigns throughout Kenya. The cousin Odinga loses and unleashes weeks of pillaging, burning, and genocide of people of his opponent’s tribe. Over a hundred Christian churches were burned to the ground and an estimated 1000 people were killed. Odinga’s rival who won the election by a slim margin finally concedes and agrees to give Odinga the title of Prime Minister.

In November 2007, Barack Obama makes a speech to ACORN in which he says,
“I’ve been fighting alongside ACORN on issues you care about my entire career. Even before I was an elected official, when I ran Project Vote voter registration drive in Illinois, ACORN was smack dab in the middle of it, and we appreciate your work.” — Barack Obama,

In 2008, the Obama presidential campaign pays $800,000 to an ACORN subsidiary, called Citizen Service, Inc., to operate “get out the vote” efforts, according to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

ACORN Votes, ACORN’s national political action committee, endorsed the candidacy of Barack Obama during the 2008 Democratic Presidential Primary.

On April 11th 2008, Obama addresses a private fundraiser in San Francisco and claims that people in the Midwest cling to guns and God. In 1971, Saul Alinsky’s, in his last book “Rules for Radicals”, postures that people ‘cling to fixed illusionary points that they feel are meaningful- clinging to guns and religion, a false patriotism.’ Once again we see the specter of Karl Marx when he said, in 1842, “Die Religion ... ist das Opium des Volkes” and is often referred to as “religion is the opiate of the masses.” Further - “A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie.” — Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. In the words of Norman Thomas, Socialist, Pacifist and six time presidential candidate, “The American People will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name ‘Liberalism’ they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist Program until one day America will be a Socialist Nation without knowing what happened.’

On April 16, 2008 when asked about Ayers at the ABC Primary Debate in Philadelphia, Obama said, “This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who’s a professor of English in Chicago who I know and who I have not received some official endorsement from. He’s not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis. And the notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was eight years old, somehow reflects on me and my values doesn’t make much sense…”

On April 27, 2008, Obama continued his lies about his true relationship with Bill Ayers when
Obama appeared on Fox News Sunday and repeated the claim that, “Mr. Ayers is a 60 plus year old individual who lives in my neighborhood…”

In 2008, Barack Obama wins the Democratic party’s nomination for President and names veteran U.S. Senator Joe Biden as his running mate.

Acorn chapters across the nation unleash Obama’s version of an election with massive voter fraud in 13 states (All battleground states coincidentally) including Ohio.

It is estimated that one-third of all voters will have cast their ballot BEFORE Election Day....

Are the dots between Obama, Ayers, Dohrn, ACORN here connected well enough for you?


122 posted on 10/14/2008 5:35:25 PM PDT by BIOCHEMKY (I love liberty more than I hate war.)
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To: PajamaTruthMafia

If this is as bad as it seems... They’ll probably have to postpone the election.


123 posted on 10/14/2008 5:40:39 PM PDT by TaxRelief (Walmart: Keeping my family on-budget since 1993.)
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To: TaxRelief

“If this is as bad as it seems... They’ll probably have to postpone the election.”

IT IS AS BAD AS IT SEEMS-—IT IS EVEN WORSE THAN IT SEEMS. BILL AYERS SPENT ALL THE MONEY OBAMA GRANTED HIM FROM THE JOYCE FOUNDATION, THE WOODS FUND FOUNDATION, AND THE CHICAGO ANNENBERG CHALLENGE RADICALIZING CHICAGO’S PUBLIC SCHOOL CURRICULUM AND TEACHER TRAINING PROGRAM AND WROTE NEW TEXTBOOKS THAT HAVE BEEN ADOPTED FOR TEACHER TAINING TO MIRROR MARXIST PRESIDENT OF VENEZUELA HUGO CHAVEZ’ CHANGES IN PUBLIC EDUCATION THAT IS CENTRAL TO CHAVEZ’ MARXIST BOLIVARIUAN REVOLUTION FOR SOCIAL CHANGE WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT OBAMA IS IN THE PROCESS OF PULLING OFF HERE IN AMERICA!!!


124 posted on 10/14/2008 5:50:30 PM PDT by BIOCHEMKY (I love liberty more than I hate war.)
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To: TaxRelief

“If this is as bad as it seems... They’ll probably have to postpone the election.”

ACORN took all the money they were granted by Obama and Ayers and set up a nationwide SYNDICATE of 110 ACORN agencies whose sole purpose is to STEAL THE 2008 PRESIDENTIAL election FOR OBAMA!!!


125 posted on 10/14/2008 5:53:06 PM PDT by BIOCHEMKY (I love liberty more than I hate war.)
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To: BIOCHEMKY

Try telling a Democrat TODAY that Obama is Marxist and they will call you in a nutjob.

In a few years when they finally figure it out and the brown shirts start making people they love disappear, they will say, “But how could we have known he was planning to be a communist dictator?”

Sadly, by then, folks like you and me may not be around to stick out our tongues and say “We tried to tell you!”


126 posted on 10/14/2008 5:57:35 PM PDT by TaxRelief (Walmart: Keeping my family on-budget since 1993.)
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To: Calpernia; AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...

Thanks Calpernia.

Live McCain press conference on ACORN voter fraud
CSPAN
Posted on 10/14/2008 6:52:37 AM PDT by Columbo
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2105212/posts


127 posted on 10/14/2008 6:01:32 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile finally updated Saturday, October 11, 2008 !!!)
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To: offduty

Both the registration and the absentee ballot have the “voter’s” name and address on them — the latter is not like an election-day ballot.


128 posted on 10/14/2008 6:09:29 PM PDT by expatpat
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To: BIOCHEMKY
Funny thing about that word "change"

re:
"....In August of 2006, Obama travels to Kenya on the taxpayer’s dime to endorse his cousin, Raila Odinga’s, bid for the Presidency in Kenya. Odinga’s campaign theme is perhaps not coincidentally “Real CHANGE for Africa.”..

from Tom Ayers obit: ( June 12, 2007)

........Mr. Ayers, a Detroit native and University of Michigan alumni, married Mary Andrew in 1938, the year he moved to Chicago.
‘He believed in change’.......

".........With his sons deep in protest of the Vietnam War (one, Bill Ayers, was a member of the radical Students for a Democratic Society who went underground for about 11 years) the businessman supported his children and their campaign. “Our father always stood by us,” John Ayers said. “He was an establishment guy, but he believed in us. He believed in change.”

(excerpt)

129 posted on 10/14/2008 6:19:02 PM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights (Stand Up Chuck!)
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To: PajamaTruthMafia

Senator Cornyn!!!

Excellent!!!


130 posted on 10/14/2008 6:24:43 PM PDT by Leofl (I'm from Texas, we don't dial 9-11)
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To: expatpat

I thought just the outer “sleeve” had the voter’s information on it to protect the anonymity of the vote. But, I’ll defer to you, it sounds like you have experience in that area.


131 posted on 10/14/2008 6:52:38 PM PDT by offduty (NoBama '08....Keep the Change)
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To: offduty

It probably depends on the county. I suspect that at some point before the counting of the votes they are separated, so after that you would be right.


132 posted on 10/14/2008 7:04:38 PM PDT by expatpat
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To: ClancyJ
Oh quit it. Is your life pleasure to demean Bush. Don’t you think that is a little wornout. The man did protect your family for the last 8 years, which will not be the case with Obama.

I expect him to do his level best to defend us. He has done a patriot's job of that, and I praise him for that. But I also expected him not to name a special prosecutor for the absurd Plame matter. I also expected him not to let Sandy Berger off the hook. Now he is MIA on the ACORN affair, when he should be naming a special prosecutor for that. My main beef with Bush is that he is so quietly fading into oblivion. I want him to FIGHT. To suddenly on a Sunday night name 200 recess appointments and enrage the Democrats. To sign Executive Orders permitting ANWR, and fast-track refineries and nuke plants by waiving environmental challenges. I want him to fight against the dying of the light.

133 posted on 10/14/2008 7:07:14 PM PDT by montag813
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To: devolve

Very attractive post devolve. Good link.
Lots of pingers on this thread.


134 posted on 10/14/2008 7:07:29 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: TaxRelief

I just sent the essence of my LONG post here in the form of a formal letter (via email) to Senator Cornyn.

I also copied the content of that letter to Oreill, Hannity, & Van Susteren at FOXNews and the McCain-Palin Campaign.

We all need to do something concrete about all of this NOW.


135 posted on 10/14/2008 7:09:04 PM PDT by BIOCHEMKY (I love liberty more than I hate war.)
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To: expatpat

It could be a moot point now that the 6th Circuit has ordere the Ohio SoS to verify ALL registrations prior to the election. It seems ACORN got a little overzealous in their attempt to rig this election. I’m hoping a perp walk will be in store for the thugs in the not to distant future. Further, if a person doesn’t have the drive to register themselves and then get to the polls and vote, maybe they shouldn’t be voting.


136 posted on 10/14/2008 7:09:38 PM PDT by offduty (NoBama '08....Keep the Change)
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To: BIOCHEMKY

Just don’t use all caps!

And those letters do make a difference. You are great American.


137 posted on 10/14/2008 7:36:15 PM PDT by TaxRelief (Walmart: Keeping my family on-budget since 1993.)
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To: PajamaTruthMafia

You should see the dork donkey running against him in Texas.


138 posted on 10/14/2008 7:37:30 PM PDT by shield (A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand;but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
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To: CottonBall

You are welcome.


139 posted on 10/14/2008 7:54:50 PM PDT by heatherlund
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To: PajamaTruthMafia
PUKE-ALERT!!!!*******************************************a little FYI from the pathetic DUmmy site (I know, pathetic losers on welfare!). This lefty wrote this letter to CNN today, which, of course we at FR should counter: An email to CNN on their ACORN reporting Regarding your reports on ACORN:************************* "Your "Investigative Reporter" has been repeating basically the same misleading report on ACORN for the last few days. He included footage of ACORN offices in Gary Indiana and Milwaukee that had been "closed down". This implies that they scurried out of town or where fly-by-night operations.(snip)*************************************************** His report was laden with "allegations" and "investigations" without pointing out that ACORN has never once been charged or indicted let alone convicted of anything. In fact ACORN itself turned in one paid employee when they determined that this worker had acted illegally and that they fully complied with investigations into another former employee. ************************************************************* FACTS on ACORN http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archiv... Common sense should have also lead to a consideration of the frequency of actual "voter fraud" (not to be confused with "registration fraud" or "election fraud") and the limited benefit in comparison with the cost. Since 2002 in Ashcroft and Gonzales lead Department of Justice there have been exactly 95 indictments of ALL voter/registration/election frauds in the entire United States. In 5-Year Effort, Scant Evidence of Voter Fraud http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/12/washingt... What is to be gained by one person trying to create one fraudulent vote? Fine and imprisonment to create one fake vote at one precinct? It doesn't make sense and it rarely happens. What DOES happen is voter suppression which you have completely failed to report. From the 50,000 voters illegally disenfrachised in Florida in 2000 to caging (including active duty military in the Jacksonville Fla. area in 2004) to mailers telling people to vote on the wrong date or to pay up their utility bills to the wild changes in registration standards by Ken Blackwell in Ohio in 2004 (he both officially counted the votes and ran Bush's election campaign in Ohio) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Blackwell... to phone calls telling people that their voting place had changed (Virginia 2006) http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/... This is only a short list. All of these operations have been from the Republican party either nationally or locally. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_suppres... Have you completely forgotten about WHY David Iglesias was fired as US Attorney in 2006? It was because he (and another later fired US Attorney) would not file charges just prior to the mid-term elections. CHARGES AGAINST ACORN http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/ar... Only now is this initial report slowly falling apart. I see now that you are finally pointing out that ACORN was contracted during the Democratic primaries by the Obama campaign. Why does ACORN have to file all registrations that they collect? Because of a 2002 US law changed (when Democrats briefly had a majority in the Senate) as a result of Republican/RNC shadow groups collecting registrations and then dumping them. The person who had thought they registered would show up at the polls to find out that they were not on the rolls. Report the whole story not just part of it. PLEASE NOTE-the wikipedia links are the quickest way to provide the beginning of an investigation trail for your "Investigative Reporter" ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ LOL! God, what pathetic losers on the left. They are okaying voter fruad and we (again) must counter this swiftly. Sorry about the annoying text, folks.
140 posted on 10/14/2008 8:11:08 PM PDT by heatherlund
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