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A union-backed outfit faces charges of election fraud, but hey, who needs voter ID laws?

By: Pam On: Nov/3/06 - 4 Comments

Let’s take a closer look at ACORN

  • Acorn workers have been convicted in Wisconsin and Colorado, and investigations are still under way in Ohio, Tennessee and Pennsylvania.
  • Acorn officials bill themselves as nonpartisan community organizers merely interested in giving a voice to minorities and the poor. In reality, Acorn is a union-backed, multimillion-dollar outfit that uses intimidation and other tactics to push for higher minimum wage mandates and to trash Wal-Mart and other non-union companies.
  • Operating in at least 38 states (as well as Canada and Mexico), Acorn pushes a highly partisan agenda, and its organizers are best understood as shock troops for the AFL-CIO and even the Democratic Party. As part of the Fannie Mae reform bill, House Democrats pushed an “affordable housing trust fund” designed to use Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac profits to subsidize Acorn, among other groups. A version of this trust fund actually passed the Republican House and will surely be on the agenda again next year.
  • In Ohio in 2004, a worker for one affiliate was given crack cocaine in exchange for fraudulent registrations that included underage voters, dead voters and pillars of the community named Mary Poppins, Dick Tracy and Jive Turkey. During a Congressional hearing in Ohio in the aftermath of the 2004 election, officials from several counties in the state explained Acorn’s practice of dumping thousands of registration forms in their lap on the submission deadline, even though the forms had been collected months earlier.
  • Given this history, it’s not surprising that Acorn is so hostile to voter identification laws and other efforts to ensure fairness and accuracy at the polls. In Missouri last month, the state Supreme Court held that a photo ID requirement to vote was overly burdensome and a violation of the state constitution. Acorn was behind the original suit challenging the statute, and it has brought similar challenges in several other states, including Ohio.

    • Can you think of a better reason for voter id?

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    4 Responses to “A union-backed outfit faces charges of election fraud, but hey, who needs voter ID laws?”

    1. Right on the mark
      November 3, 2006 - 03:18 PM on November 3rd, 2006

      They call it Acorn, because its a bunch of nuts???????????????????????

    2. Peejz
      November 3, 2006 - 06:33 PM on November 3rd, 2006

      1-:lol: Nice, I hadn’t even thought of that!

    3. Wake up America
      November 3, 2006 - 10:34 PM on November 3rd, 2006

      Do Democrats do ANYTHING but Whine?

      It also makes me wonder at what game is being played by those that protest SO loudly about having to bring an ID on election day…. is it because they WANT illegal votes? Are they depending on illegal votes? Or maybe depending on those votes that ar…

    4. Robert
      November 5, 2006 - 02:10 AM on November 5th, 2006

      Locally there have been problems with yard signs being stolen. Now just what side’s yard signs are being stolen? That’s right, the Republican candidate. Not content with spamming the “Letters to the Editor” section of the local paper with innuendo attacking the Republican candidate, plus attempting to create the impression that there is a grass-roots groundswell of support for their candidate, the Democrites have resorted to criminal activity. Nothing is beneath these degenerates: fraud, misrepresentation, smearing with innuendo, lying, and now criminal activity.

      I ask once again—are there general differences between the parties? You bet there are…

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