From the National Center for Policy Analysis
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.
- 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. o 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.
- o 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.
For text: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122394051071230749.html
4 comments:
Did you know that the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) funded ACORN in 2007 (apx. $1,000,000) and in 2006 (over $800,000)?
Maybe it is time to shut it down. I am calling for a boycott of the CCHD until they make some fundamental changes.
Thanks DC Catholic for sharing that information. I have been boycotting that collection since the '80s, and I agree with you, we should all boycott the radical agenda of the CCHD.
Thanks to Comrade General Secretary Bush and his American Duma in Washington, over US$700 Billion of our money have been stolen and redistributed to wealthy Wall Street executives. Every member of the SC delegation to congress voted yes on this measure that has done us absolutely no good. We have a health care crisis, but congressional health care plans are impeccable, therefore there is no urgency to fix it. We have a retirement gap and a failing Social Security system, but congressional pensions are solid, so there is no urgency to fix it. Wall Street fails, and Congressmen and women stand to lose a lot of money, so it all of the sudden becomes urgent to steal our money and give it to themselves. VOTE THE BUMS OUT. Join me in firing the SC Congressional delegation and hiring people who will actually represent us!
I agree with "J" and to make it worse, now, McCain in proposing that we subsidize speculators and irresponsible home "owners" as they borrowed their "equity" to finance (often) luxuries that those of us who truly followed the American dream by carefully paying our mortgages down over many years are expected to bail out with renegotiated prices and loans. So the USSR (United States Socialists republicans) want us to bail out another group who have lived on excess. What about those of us who paid the regular price in full, and now see our home values plummet and our retirement saving also plundered? It just doesn't pay to be responsible in America today! L.
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