Posts about ACORN as of August 20, 2009

Find the sane person . . . Well, frumps, I have a real eye-opener for you today.  I’ve been in a ‘right swivet’ lately trying to digest and make sense of the American political scene today.  From my vantage point, the best that I’ve been able to conclude is that Americans now reside in two distinct parallel universes.  Now I’ve had many years to hone my garden-variety innate rational, deductive skills; and, in addition, I’ve dabbled in the formal study of Logic, as well as Debate.  The current situation, however, defies Logic, so that’s no help.

by DefendUSx August 20, 2009 14:17 The Obama-ACORN Anti Gun Conspiracy ACORN — the Association of Community Organizations for Reform — a publicly funded national organization is using your tax dollars to actively interfere with the Second Amendment exercise of gun rights in New Jersey and elsewhere. ACORN went public with its gun control activism when it intervened in an unsuccessful attempt to defend Jersey City, New Jersey, a hot bed of anti-gun rights extremists, to disarm its citizens with a local gun control ordinance.

If the DOJ would do its job abd rid America of CRIMINAL ORGANIZATIONS, ACORN would not be! The greatest SHAME is that the Liberal Democrats of Congress give them BILLIONS of our TAX DOLLARS! Submitted by: John Butler  The Obama-ACORN Anti Gun Conspiracy ACORN — the Association of Community Organizations for Reform — a publicly funded national organization is using your tax dollars to actively interfere with the Second Amendment exercise of gun rights in New Jersey and elsewhere.

There is an anti-Health Care Reform email circulating that claims to “read the bill” and points to specific problems. The email is taken from this post by Gary North. North writes – “Here are some of the bad highlights. After you read them, you will begin to see what you will be facing if this bill passes.” The highlights were selected by Larry Schweikart. Good! This is excellent. Now we can have a debate. Someone has actually gone through the bill and pointed out what’s wrong with it.

by ToddK on August 20, 2009 From: Doug RossFox4KC reports that ACORN has all but admitted its guilt related to various Pennsylvania vote fraud indictments:So, what do you do if you are the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) and you are accused of violating state election laws? What else but hire the ACLU to try and get those laws thrown out as unconstitutional?In Pennsylvania, six members of ACORN have been indicted for violating a state election law prohibiting groups from setting quotas for voter registration drives.

“A person may not give, solicit or accept payment or financial incentive to obtain voter registration if the payment or incentive is based upon the number of registrations or applications obtained.”-Pennsylvania State LawACORN (also known as COI) has six of its workers on trial in Pennsylvania. Turns out they violated campaign laws in the state by firing several workers for failing to achieve quotas of getting new voter registrations. They’re also being charged with obstruction and fraud (probably paperwork and reporting on the firings).

ACORN Watch: What happens in Vegas… By Michelle Malkin  •  August 20, 2009 06:22 AM Another former ACORN worker is about to spill the beans. Via the Las Vegas Sun: The attorney general’s office turned up the heat Monday on a national organization at the heart of a voter registration fraud investigation. Christopher Edwards, 33, the former Las Vegas field director for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, pleaded guilty to two gross misdemeanor counts of conspiracy to commit the crime of compensation for registration of voters.

Amy Busefnik (l.) and Chris Edwards (r.) in court June 3rd.The Nevada field director of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) has pleaded guilty to conspiracy for organizing a scheme that illegally paid workers to register new voters.As ACORN field director for Nevada, Christopher Edwards paid canvassers – described as “lazy crack heads” by an ex-employee in the police affidavit – to register voters for the 2008 US presidential election.

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“This is not a Lion’s Club or a social club that tried to have a voter registration effort and made some mistakes. This is a group with a history of systematic fraud around election day.” – Former Governor Matt Blunt in Human Events Magazine (Oct. 16, 2006) Related: OpenMarket.org: Former ACORN Las Vegas Director to Testify [...]

How about where Obama holds a rally and people are bused in from 140 miles away? Several readers have criticized the Citizen Patriot’s coverage of last week’s health care rally outside U.S. Rep. Mark Schauer’s office, where hundreds came out — both to support and oppose — President Barack Obama’s reform plan. The chief criticism was that we failed to mention that some supporters were bused in from around the state. It is true, and it wasn’t included in the original story, but not because we were trying to slant coverage.

Another former ACORN worker is about to spill the beans. Via the Las Vegas Sun:The attorney general’s office turned up the heat Monday on a national organization at the heart of a voter registration fraud investigation.Christopher Edwards, 33, the former Las Vegas field director for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, pleaded guilty to two gross misdemeanor counts of conspiracy to commit the crime of compensation for registration of voters.As part of a plea agreement,

I had the pleasure of spending an evening in the company of the Adam Smith Institute’s Eamonn Butler at their annual boat party last month. Conversation inevitably turned to the state of the right in both the UK, where they have a chance at power the next election (if you can call Cameron of the right), and in the U.S.As with the set of interviews I have been doing with leaders of the

And this is the group that Obama wants to take over the census?? They’re just a bunch of criminals!!!! I guess that’s why he likes them so much. ACORN Director Pleads Guilty ViewDiscussion.Last Updated: Wed, 08/19/2009 – 10:35am A high-ranking official at the taxpayer-funded leftist group that conducts fraudulent voter registration drives has pleaded guilty to conspiracy for organizing a scheme that illegally paid workers to register new voters.

Now we know that Karl Rove spearheaded the firing of David Iglesias, the U.S. Attorney in New Mexico who refused to follow the Bush White House’s orders to intimidate low-income voters by making false charges of “voter fraud.” What the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal and other major papers missed in their stories last week was that Rove was specifically targeting ACORN, the community organizing group that has waged some of the most effective voter registration drives in recent memory.Rove viewed ACORN as a threat to the GOP because of its success in registering low-income voters and turning them out to vote on election day.

From the Associated Press, August 19, 2009: “Ex-ACORN Vegas director to testify against group By OSKAR GARCIA (AP) – 2 hours ago LAS VEGAS — A former Las Vegas director for a political advocacy group accused of illegally paying canvassers to register voters during last year’s presidential campaign has pleaded guilty to a reduced charge and agreed to testify against the group and another employee. Christopher Edwards pleaded guilty this week to two gross misdemeanor counts of conspiracy to

From the Associated Press, August 19, 2009: “Ex-ACORN Vegas director to testify against group By OSKAR GARCIA (AP) – 2 hours ago LAS VEGAS — A former Las Vegas director for a political advocacy group accused of illegally paying canvassers to register voters during last year’s presidential campaign has pleaded guilty to a reduced charge and agreed to testify against the group and another employee. Christopher Edwards pleaded guilty this week to two gross misdemeanor counts of conspiracy to commit the crime of compensation for registration of voters.

Ex-ACORN Vegas director to testify against group LAS VEGAS — A former Las Vegas director for a political advocacy group accused of illegally paying canvassers to register voters during last year’s presidential campaign has pleaded guilty to a reduced charge and agreed to testify against the group and another employee. Christopher Edwards pleaded guilty this week to [...]

by ToddK on August 19, 2009 And ACORN just keeps on chuggin’ along…From: TownHallFrom Judicial Watch:A high-ranking official at the taxpayer-funded leftist group that conducts fraudulent voter registration drives has pleaded guilty to conspiracy for organizing a scheme that illegally paid workers to register new voters.As a Nevada field director for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), Christopher Edwards paid canvassers—many of them “lazy crack heads”—to register new voters for the 2008 presidential election.

The former director of the Las Vegas chapter of the far-left advocacy group ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) has agreed to testify against the organization , in exchange for a plea to reduced charges: two counts of conspiracy to illegally pay canvassers registering voters. While any instance of ACORN being brought to account for breaking the law is welcome, this is only the tip of the iceberg. ACORN’s history of scandal goes back years.

This past May charges of voter fraud were brought up against the Nevada arm of the President’s favorite community organizers, ACORN. The state alleged that ACORN had policies requiring employees in Vegas to sign up 20 new voters a day or be fired. And, if you turn in 21 or more new registrations, you get a blackjack and a bonus of $5 per shift (hey it is Vegas). It’s against the law in Nevada to pay individual registrants to register people based on the total number of people that you’ve registered.

ACORN Funder JPMorgan Chase Doesn’t Look Good in New Madoff Book NLPC A new book by Barron’s reporter Erin Arvedlund asserts that banking giant JPMorgan Chase became aware of Madoff’s Ponzi scheme months before his arrest, prompting the bank to liquidate its positions in a Madoff-related fund. Yet, the bank continued to accept deposits into Madoff’s main account at the bank from unsuspecting investors who were about to lose everything.

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A high-ranking official at the taxpayer-funded leftist group that conducts fraudulent voter registration drives has pleaded guilty to conspiracy for organizing a scheme that illegally paid workers to register new voters. As a Nevada field director for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), Christopher Edwards paid canvassers—many of them “lazy crack heads” —to register new voters for the 2008 presidential election.

These are perilous times. Last November’s election of Barack Obama and a filibuster-proof majority of Democrats in both houses allowed a virulent criminal cabal to capture our nation’s seat of power. As with the Democrat takeover of Congress in 2006, it was a disaster of epic proportions. With one shocking, enormous, blatantly partisan, self-serving and destructive proposal following on the heels of another, the sheer enormity of their power grab defies description.

We didn’t even know ACORN had an office in Kabul. Source: BBC Related posts: Fraud! Corruption! Racism! Glenn Beck boots Acorn spokesman from his studio Barney Frank supports ACORN’s freakin’ fraud ACORN to change its name because every knows the old one

ObamaCare would provide community-based organizations, like ACORN with your tax money to ‘promote healthy living and reduce disparities’ and to monitor your weight, eating and exercise habits, and other behaviors which could affect your health. This smacks so much like the communist neighborhood party member overseeing what everyone in the neighborhood is doing, that I find it unbelievable. In America, the government is going to come into our homes and evaluate and obviously improve upon our eating habits! How in the hell did we get here? Oh, dinglebarry was elected president.

Buon giorno. Readers of this Weblog know that I actively point out double standards by Leftists in politics and the media. I have also said that I agree with the statement that politically correct speech is, in reality, an attempt to stifle free speech. And we have a doozy here! One thing I should point out at the outset: Most of the time, I do agree with Glenn Beck. However, he has said things that I strongly disagree with on occasion, and I’ve been irritated at times by his remarks.

  September 28, 2008                                                                                 Elected november 2008 Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis America waits with bated breath while Washington struggles to bring the U.S. economy back from the brink of disaster. But many of those same politicians caused the crisis , and if left to their own devices will do so again.

Last month House Republicans released a report telling us something we all know, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform (ACORN) has been engaging schemes to use misuse taxpayer money to support a partisan political agenda. The executive summary of the report includes this charge. “Both structurally and operationally, ACORN hides behind a paper wall of nonprofit corporate protections to conceal a criminal conspiracy on the part of its directors, to launder federal money in order

ACORN opens Kabul branch. Election fraud found in Afghanistan.Tags: Afghanistan This entry was posted on Tuesday, August 18th, 2009 at 9:28 am and is filed under Broken News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

  I think one of the facts about Obama that will puzzle future historians is how a man so little known to the American public managed to win the White House.  The ObamaCare debacle has given us a grand opportunity to fill in the blanks regarding this man who came to the White House after just four years in the national spot light.  Much of what we have learned merely confirms what observant Obama watchers have already suspected, although confirmation is always useful.  Here is some of what I think we have learned about our President.

I.O.: Witness the healthcare thrust, of the Cloward-Piven tear-down, of free, authentic America. It is Marxist revolution through systemic violence and societal terrorism. Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn are smiling. Add the names, Obama, Pelosi, and Soros. While they euphemistically call it “disruption,” it costs livelihoods and lives. What do you mean by “sustainable?” What do they mean to end, and to sustain? by James Simpson These are perilous times.

Back in March, when House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers announced that he and his staff had reached an agreement to have Karl Rove and ex-White House Counsel Harriet Miers testify privately about their roles in the firings of nine U.S. attorneys he said his panel also reserved the right to haul the former Bush administration officials before Congress to testify publicly about the matter.