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  • Mahdi Bray's Secret, Checkered Past

    03/26/2009 3:34:20 PM PDT · by Cindy · 5 replies · 920+ views
    IPT News - An IPT Investigation ^ | March 25, 2009 | n/a
    SNIPPET: "For all his public activity, Bray has rarely, if ever, discussed his life story in detail. His own MAS biography offers vague descriptions of his work as "a long time civil and human rights advocate." A charismatic African-American convert to Islam, Bray spent this entire decade working for Islamist organizations. Prior to joining MAS, Bray was political director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC). Those jobs have helped him build a growing public profile and given him access to politicians and policy makers. And that may explain his reluctance to discuss his life before political activism. The Investigative...
  • Thousands of voter registrations thrown out in Jeff (ACORN et al. in New Orleans suburbs)

    10/20/2008 8:40:57 AM PDT · by SeafoodGumbo · 19 replies · 1,003+ views
    WWL ^ | 10-18-08 | Lucy Bustamante
    Merely 18 days from the November 4 election and one group that is designed to get inner city and lower income people registered to vote is now being charged with voter registration fraud in 12 states. ACORN International's headquarters is right on Canal Street in New Orleans, and although this chapter hasn't been charged, the Secretary of State is investigating the group along with several others. At the Registrar of Voters Office in Jefferson Parish, they have had to make boxes to store thousands of faulty new voter registration cards. Rejected applications were thrown out because they were from felons,...
  • Potential voter registration fraud investigated in Caddo (Louisiana)

    10/15/2008 4:04:58 AM PDT · by TornadoAlley3 · 14 replies · 745+ views
    ksla ^ | 10/14/08 | Fred Childers
    SHREVEPORT, LA (KSLA) - "They walked in here just mounding up cards," said Registrar of Voters for Caddo Parish, Ernie Roberson while looking over a box full of thousands of voter registration cards. "They" are a group called Voting is Power, that went door to door in Caddo Parish to register people to vote, "They turned in about 8600 applications, out of that number 1400 new ones, sorted out the new and then we had around 1400 address changes, the rest of them were non existent," says Roberson. Before the organization ACORN appeared in the headlines for reported registration fraud,...