ACORN REGISTERS ‘MICKEY MOUSE’
I am not sure which is worse; the fact that Mickey registered, or the idiot that wrote this article:
Nationwide, ACORN is a favorite GOP target for allegations of voter registration fraud this year.
That’s not new. Similar complaints followed the 2004 elections. A criminal investigation in Florida found no evidence of fraud. ACORN even has a cameo role in the scandal over the 2006 firings of several U.S. attorneys by the Bush Justice Department.
Under attack again, ACORN leaders defend their work. Often, they say, things are as not simple as they’re portrayed.
Take Mickey Mouse.
Yes, that’s their logo. But they say their workers routinely scanned all suspicious applications.
“We don’t think this card came through our system,” said Brian Kettenring, ACORN’s head organizer in Florida.
With more than 450,000 member families nationwide ” 14,000 in Florida ” ACORN is a grass roots advocacy group focused on health care, wages, affordable housing and foreclosure.
Bell, the truck driver, certainly, is more representative of ACORN’s work in Florida than the cartoon mouse is.
This year, ACORN signed up 1.3-million voters nationwide and about 152,000 in Florida, mostly in Orange, Broward and Miami-Dade counties. ACORN estimates it flagged 2 percent of its Florida registrations as problematic because they were incomplete, duplicates or just plain bogus.
That’s enough to give headaches to election officials and to provide ammunition to Republican activists.
A favorite GOP target? ACORN should be the target of every American, not just Republicans. Here is a piece done by CNN that is very interesting. 2100 applications reviewed, 2100 applications rejected because of fraud!
Remember, ACORN got Indianapolis up to 105% registration.
As the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday:
At the recent Emmy Awards, historian Laura Linney averred that America’s Founders had been “community organizers” — like Barack Obama. Too bad they aren’t like that any more. Mr. Obama’s kind of organizers work at Acorn, the militant advocacy group that is turning up in reports about voter fraud across the country.
Acorn — the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now — has been around since 1970 and boasts 350,000 members. We’ve written about them for years, but Acorn is now getting more attention as John McCain’s campaign makes an issue of the fraud reports and Acorn’s ties to Mr. Obama. It’s about time someone exposed this shady outfit that uses government dollars to lobby for larger government.
Acorn uses various affiliated groups to agitate for “a living wage,” for “affordable housing,” for “tax justice” and union and environmental goals, as well as against school choice and welfare reform. It was a major contributor to the subprime meltdown by pushing lenders to make home loans on easy terms, conducting “strikes” against banks so they’d lower credit standards.
But the organization’s real genius is getting American taxpayers to foot the bill. According to a 2006 report from the Employment Policies Institute (EPI), Acorn has been on the federal take since 1977. [...]
Which brings us to Mr. Obama, who got his start as a Chicago “community organizer” at Acorn’s side. In 1992 he led voter registration efforts as the director of Project Vote, which included Acorn. This past November, he lauded Acorn’s leaders for being “smack dab in the middle” of that effort. Mr. Obama also served as a lawyer for Acorn in 1995, in a case against Illinois to increase access to the polls.
During his tenure on the board of Chicago’s Woods Fund, that body funneled more than $200,000 to Acorn. More recently, the Obama campaign paid $832,000 to an Acorn affiliate. The campaign initially told the Federal Election Commission this money was for “staging, sound, lighting.” It later admitted the cash was to get out the vote.
Tuesday’s Investor’s Business Daily editorialized on Obama’s connections to this organization (emphasis added):
Barack Obama lies about his ACORN past while agreeing to let the group shape the policies of his administration. He hopes his community organizer pals will help him make America “less mean-spirited.”
As far back as Harvard Law School, Obama dreamed of transforming America in the image of community organizations such as ACORN with whom and for whom he trained.
In the May 3, 1990, edition of Chicago’s Daily Herald newspaper, there’s an article in which Obama, while attending Harvard Law School, gives his skewed view of American society and his plans for it. “I’m interested in organizations, not movements,” the young Obama said, “because movements dissipate but organizations don’t.”
Through these organizations, Obama hoped that “more and more people will begin to feel their story is somehow part of this larger story of how we’re going to reshape America in a way that is less mean-spirited and more generous.”
Via Ohio Daily Blog, here’s the February 2008 ACORN/Obama connection in black and white:
GOTV for Obama! Ohio ACORN is doing a Get Out The Vote project with the OBAMA Campaign. Ohio ACORN is hiring canvassers to go door to door encouraging voters to vote for Barack Obama.
ACORN is hiring in Cleveland (216)431-3905, Columbus (614)425-9491, Cincinnati (513)221-1737, for Dayton (call Cincinnati), and for Toledo call Cleveland. Or email polnatoh@acorn.org and your inquiry will be routed to the appropriate person in each of these cities. Intake and training will be held daily at local ACORN offices. Canvass begins on Wednesday Feb. 27th and will work through election day. Please, only persons wishing to work all or most of these days (Saturday and Sunday included) should inquire.
Please do not contact the Obama campaign directly regarding this post as they are not the organization doing the hiring and it will only distract their staff and volunteers from the other important work they are doing on behalf of Senator Obama.
MM:
John McCain is damaged, but not fatally so, by his own dalliance with the ACORN mob. If he can’t capitalize on this nationwide ACORN fraud outbreak to nail Barack Obama on his longtime radical alliances, he doesn’t deserve to win.
Now is not the time to play Mickey Mouse with the thug thizzlers.
Jim Hoft provides a guide to ACORN fraud.
Others blogging:
- StopACORN.org « Gunservatively!
- ACORN tries to register Mickey Mouse « Right Minded Online
- : ACORN tries to register Mickey Mouse as a voter in Florida: : P.U.M.A
- ACORN Tries To Registers Mickey Mouse To Vote In Florida « The Chronicles Of A Rogue Jew
- Obamacorn « Kerfuffles and Flourishes
- have you seen this? | Blatherings Blog
- JammieWearingFool
- ACORN REGISTERS ‘MICKEY MOUSE’ | Right Voices
- Obama: Tied to ACORN | Axis of Right
- This ain’t Hell, but you can see it from here » Blog Archive » ACORN-registered phony voter caught
- silent E speaks – Conservatively Speaking from Western Waukesha County » Mickey Freakin’ Mouse!!!!
- Obamacorn, Mickey Mouse, and John McCain « Thoughts Of A Conservative Christian
- This is not the ACORN I knew: « A Political Dookie
- ACORN Is Out Of Control « Desert Martini
- ACORN Link Dump « Nice Deb
- Jules Crittenden » Life Imitates TPM
- Elephant Owners » Blog Archive » Obamacorn
- Hot Air » Blog Archive » Transcript: Palin and Limbaugh on Obama and ACORN
- Vote fraud: The ACORN Breakdown | The Anchoress
- Obama camp feverishly distancing itself from ACORN | Mofo Politics | Everything McCain, Obama, Palin, and that other guy-related
- DSCC-Funded Group Under Investigation for Voter Fraud | The American Pundit
- NAACP Endorses McCain, KKK, Obama Halloween Display | BigMouthFrog
- Heads Up: ACORN Clone Progressive Future–More Voter Fraud? « Pronk Palisades
October 14, 2008 - 09:14 PM on October 14th, 2008
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October 14, 2008 - 10:33 PM on October 14th, 2008
Mickey Mouse? He’s a cartoon character. Did the idiots at ACORN not think people knew that?
October 19, 2008 - 11:06 AM on October 19th, 2008
Mine is WAY to werid so i shall not say mine unless your VERY open minded about things