Acorn and other left-wing hate groups like the teachers unions are evil:
Acorn -- the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now -- has been around since 1970 and boasts 350,000 members. Acorn is now getting more attention as John McCain's campaign makes an issue of the fraud reports and Acorn's ties to Barack Obama. It's about time someone exposed this shady outfit that uses government dollars to lobby for larger government, says the Wall Street Journal.
Acorn is spending $16 million this year to register new Democrats and is already boasting it has put 1.3 million new voters on the rolls. The big question is how many of these registrations are real?
* The Michigan Secretary of State told the press in September that Acorn had submitted "a sizeable number of duplicate and fraudulent applications."
* Earlier this month, Nevada's Democratic Secretary of State Ross Miller requested a raid on Acorn's offices, following complaints of false names and fictional addresses (including the starting lineup of the Dallas Cowboys).
* Nevada's Clark County Registrar of Voters Larry Lomax said he saw rampant fraud in 2,000 to 3,000 applications Acorn submitted weekly.
* Officials in Ohio are investigating voter fraud connected with Acorn, and Florida's Seminole County is withholding Acorn registrations that appear fraudulent.
* New Mexico, North Carolina and Missouri are looking into hundreds of dubious Acorn registrations.
Also:
* Wisconsin is investigating Acorn employees for, according to an election official, "making people up or registering people that were still in prison."
* Then there's Lake County, Indiana, which has already found more than 2,100 bogus applications among the 5,000 Acorn dumped right before the deadline; "All the signatures looked exactly the same," said Ruthann Hoagland, of the county election board.
* Bridgeport, Connecticut estimates about 20 percent of Acorn's registrations were faulty.
* As of July, the city of Houston had rejected or put on hold about 40 percent of the 27,000 registration cards submitted by Acorn.
The Justice Department needs to treat these fraud reports as something larger than a few local violators. The question is whether Acorn is systematically subverting U.S. election law -- on the taxpayer's dime, says the Journal.
Source: Editorial, "Obama and Acorn; Community organizers, phony voters, and your tax dollars," October 14, 2008.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122394051071230749.html
Originally posted by der schwarze RitterYou do see the hypocrisy, don't you?
Acorn -- the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now -- has been around since 1970 and boasts 350,000 members. Acorn is now getting more attention as John McCain's campaign makes an issue of the fraud reports and Acorn's ties to Barack Obama. It's about time someone exposed this shady outfit that uses government dollars to lobby for larger government, says the Wall Street Journal.
You despise one "outfit" for using government dollars to lobby for a form of government, yet at the same time have absolutely no problem with other "outfits" using government dollars to lobby for another form of government.
Originally posted by shavixmirAnd which 'outfits' would those be?
You do see the hypocrisy, don't you?
You despise one "outfit" for using government dollars to lobby for a form of government, yet at the same time have absolutely no problem with other "outfits" using government dollars to lobby for another form of government.
Originally posted by der schwarze RitterIsn't ACORN just a whole bunch of 232 year old chickens coming home to roost?
Acorn and other left-wing hate groups like the teachers unions are evil:
Acorn -- the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now -- has been around since 1970 and boasts 350,000 members. Acorn is now getting more attention as John McCain's campaign makes an issue of the fraud reports and Acorn's ties to Barack Obama. It's about ti ...[text shortened]... it that uses government dollars to lobby for larger government, says the Wall Street Journal.
Originally posted by shavixmirThere is a problem with your argument shav, it requires that the dSZAR should actually have been able to have applied logic, reasoning and comprehension to the preceding exchange. So outing him for hypocrisy will not actually register as being a valid criticism. More than likely it will only serve to heighten his persecution complex, and send him off running to watch at least a couple of hours of FOX and Friends just so as to re-affirm his sense of self and security.
You do see the hypocrisy, don't you?
You despise one "outfit" for using government dollars to lobby for a form of government, yet at the same time have absolutely no problem with other "outfits" using government dollars to lobby for another form of government.
Originally posted by kmax87Shavixmir could say the sky is blue and DSR would regard it as a tainted communist statement.
There is a problem with your argument shav, it requires that the dSZAR should actually have been able to have applied logic, reasoning and comprehension to the preceding exchange. So outing him for hypocrisy will not actually register as being a valid criticism. More than likely it will only serve to heighten his persecution complex, and send him off running ...[text shortened]... ast a couple of hours of FOX and Friends just so as to re-affirm his sense of self and security.
Then again Shav's got his own set of idees fixes.
Sense of self and security = egoism.
dsr suffers from pathological hate. the majority of racism and other bigotries are learend responses. There are some however that are so deep and ingrained, that they cause a pathology. Normal bigots can be reasoned with, or will simply blend into the background not making any waves at all. DSR is not your normal bigot. Given the opportunity, I believe that he would commit acts of violence and hate if he didn't think he would get caught. In fact I believe under the right circumstances he would even if he knew he was going to get caught. He see's himself as a martyr for the cause; a dangerous and unstable person.