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Remember ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now), the organization under federal investigation for allegedly registering untold numbers of fraudulent voters during last year's election?
Well, FOX News recently reported that ACORN "signed on as a national partner with the U.S. Census Bureau in February 2009 to assist with the recruitment of the 1.4 million temporary workers needed to go door-to-door to count every person in the United States."
You read that right... ACORN will be receiving your tax dollars to knock on doors all over the country and "pretend" to count Americans the way they allegedly pretended to register voters.
What more needs to be said?
Congress should be investigating ACORN, not giving ACORN your tax dollars to make a mockery of our government!
A few short months ago, when ACORN stood accused of registering untold numbers of bogus voters for the election, House Minority Leader John Boehner talked of cutting off federal funding for ACORN:
"Election cycle after election cycle, this organization has been at the forefront of breaking the law in order to promote their left-wing agenda. All the while, they have been the recipients of millions of dollars of federal funding through various federal programs and third-party groups."
"ACORN spent decades promoting the housing policies that brought America's economy to the brink, and similarly over the years has committed fraud on our system of elections, making American voters question the fairness and accuracy of the exercise of their most fundamental right under the Constitution."
Barack Obama, on the other hand, has a different opinion when it comes to ACORN. Last December he told a cheering mob of extremist groups, including ACORN:
"We're going to be calling all of you in to help us run the agenda. We're going to be having meetings all over the country."
And now your tax dollars are being sent directly to ACORN for the census as Obama appears to be making good on that promise?
We can't let ACORN get away with it.
Tell them that organizations being investigated for voter fraud - like ACORN - should not be allowed anywhere near our tax dollars or the United States Census. This is nothing more than a brazen move to subvert America and permanently entrench the extreme left. Demand that they propose legislation to stop ACORN dead in its tracks.
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What's the Big Deal?
Other than the fact that our tax dollars should NOT be going to an organization accused of such widespread fraud, the 2010 census will determine how many Members of Congress each state gets.
The Census also determines the how many Electoral Votes each state will receive in the next presidential organization.
That means, when it comes to the potential for committing wide-scale fraud, ACORN is moving on up and the opportunity for manipulation is HUGE.
Massive voter fraud? That's bush-league. Why stop at voter fraud when you can permanently - albeit fraudulently - entrench the extreme left into power for generations to come?
But that's not all. The census also provides the data that Congress uses to allocate government spending -- highways, schools, airports, police support, you name it.
That means, if the process is compromised, some states -- and the politicians who believe that their job is to "bring home the bacon" -- will be rewarded handsomely.
States that "vote right" could be swilling pork. States that "vote wrong" won't be allowed near the trough.
Will ACORN -- which has been perennially accused of voter fraud, embezzlement and other illegal activities -- engage in every form of deceit and treachery to cook the figures and give the extreme left greater traction in the 2012 election?
They shouldn't be given the opportunity. Not with your tax dollars! Not if we have anything to say about it!
Tell them that organizations being investigated for voter fraud - like ACORN - should not be allowed anywhere near our tax dollars or the United States Census. This is nothing more than a brazen move to subvert America and permanently entrench the extreme left. Demand that they propose legislation to stop ACORN dead in its tracks.
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ACORN Has a Long and Dubious History.
Powerline.com once commented: "It is reasonable to ask whether ACORN is in fact a criminal conspiracy to subvert the voting rights of Americans."
Michael Gaynor with Canada Free Press recounts:
"ACORN's history is riddled with criminal activity. During the last major election [2006], the Wall Street Journal did a story about ACORN. Four ACORN workers had been indicted by a federal grand jury for submitting false voter registration forms to the Kansas City, Missouri, election board; other ACORN workers were convicted in Wisconsin and Colorado and investigations, at the time the article was written, were under way in Ohio, Tennessee and Pennsylvania."
Gaynor also writes of more recent indictments and investigations:
"Last year, The Seattle Times reported the biggest voter-registration fraud scheme in Washington history. Three ACORN employees pleaded guilty, and four more were charged for filling out and submitting more than 1,800 fictitious voter-registration cards during a 2006 registration drive in King and Pierce counties.' (Keith Ervin, 'Three plead guilty in fake voter scheme,' 10-30-2007)"
"This year, an ACORN employee in West Reading, PA, was sentenced for up to 23 months in prison for identity theft and tampering with records. A second ACORN worker pleaded not guilty to the same charges and is free on $10,000 bail.
"There are also examples of indictments this year, such as the four ACORN employees in Kansas City charged with identity theft and filing false registrations during the 2006 election and the Reynoldsburg fellow indicted on two felony counts of illegal voting and false registration, after being registered by ACORN to vote in two separate counties. And there are current investigations into ACORN for voter fraud all over the map... ."
But that's not all. The allegations of fraud are staggering.
The Associated Press reported that the Milwaukee ACORN office hired at least seven felons who were convicted of crimes ranging from drug possession to robbery.
According to the Washington Post: "Nevada Secretary of State and Attorney General who alleged in an application for a search warrant that ACORN had hired 59 felons through a work release program as canvassers..."
ACORN's Wisconsin political director Carolyn Castore rather matter-of-factly told the Associated Press: "We have a lot of folks with felony records and, frankly, they need jobs."
And your tax dollars ARE STILL going to ACORN. You're actually paying them despite their long history of undermining your government just as surely as if you wrote the check yourself!
Tell them that organizations being investigated for voter fraud - like ACORN - should not be allowed anywhere near our tax dollars or the United States Census. This is nothing more than a brazen move to subvert America and permanently entrench the extreme left. Demand that they propose legislation to stop ACORN dead in its tracks.
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More Accusations Of Fraud... .
CNN's Drew Griffin filed the following report from Lake County, Indiana:
"ACORN's in trouble all across the country with it's a huge voter-registration drive. Actually, 1.3 million new voters registered according to ACORN. The problem is, are they really voters? Up in Lake County, Indiana, they're finding out they are not. Some 5,000 applications came in, all filled out by ACORN, and there they are. They went through the first 2,100 of them, every single one of them, fraudulent."
On October 13, FOX News interviewed two newly registered young men in Ohio. One said he'd registered with ACORN 15 times! Another said he registered 73 times! Both said the ACORN representatives pleaded: "If you don't sign I'll lose my job."
The New York Post reported:
"Last July, ACORN settled the largest case of voter fraud in Washington state history. Seven ACORN workers had submitted nearly 2,000 bogus voter forms. According to case records, they flipped through phone books for names to use on the forms, including 'Leon Spinks,' 'Frekkie Magoal' and 'Fruto Boy Crispila.' Three ACORN election hoaxers pleaded guilty in October. A King County prosecutor called ACORN's criminal sabotage 'an act of vandalism upon the voter rolls.'"
And The Wall Street Journal reported:
"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."
The sheer number of accusations are overwhelming. ACORN must be stopped.
Tell them that organizations being investigated for voter fraud - like ACORN - should not be allowed anywhere near our tax dollars or the United States Census. This is nothing more than a brazen move to subvert America and permanently entrench the extreme left. Demand that they propose legislation to stop ACORN dead in its tracks.
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The Largest Radical Group in America... .
Testifying before the House Administration and House Judiciary Committee, James Terry, Chief Public Advocate, Consumers Rights League, said:
"Here are the most important questions right now: We know about the thousands of potentially fraudulent voter registration cards turned in by ACORN and caught by officials. But given the size of ACORN's efforts and the fact that the abuses appear to be systemic, we believe it is fair to question how many more fraudulent registrations have not been discovered , Furthermore, as this mega organization with a decades long history of violating the law is turned to get out the vote efforts, we believe it is fair to question how many fraudulent registrations may lead to fraudulent votes or what other activities they are willing to undertake to influence the election."
Stanley Kurtz of National Review called ACORN "the largest radical group in America."
He describes ACORN's tactics as violent and in-your-face:
"On July 31, 1997, six people were arrested as 200 Acorn protesters tried to storm the Chicago City Council session. According to the Chicago Daily Herald, Acorn demonstrators pushed over the metal detector and table used to screen visitors, backed police against the doors to the council chamber, and blocked late-arriving aldermen and city staff from entering the session."
"Acorn protestors in Baltimore disrupted a bankers' dinner and sent four busloads of profanity-screaming protestors against the mayor's home, terrifying his wife and kids."
Kurtz also tells us about ACORN's role in bringing about our current economic woes:
"How did we get into this financial mess in the first place? Well, to a large degree, it's because lenders gave mortgages to borrowers who were unqualified, who shouldn't have been given loans in the first place. Why did they do that.... Obama at the time had his hands on the purse strings of two organizations. He was a director of the Woods Fund, and he was Chairman of the Board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC). He gave money from both organizations to ACORN, and also provided training for ACORN workers. ACORN succeeded in drawing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into the very policies that led to the current disaster. ACORN put pressure on banks by threatening them with accusations of racism if they didn't give loans to minorities, even if they were completely unqualified."
Kurtz said of Madeleine Talbot, head of ACORN in Chicago:
"[She] boasted of 'dragging banks kicking and screaming' into dubious loans."
The election of Barack Obama and the recession we now endure are Siamese twins -- joined together by ACORN.
Do we want this poisonous gang of left-wing ideologues to continue destroying our country by perverting the census? Only by banding together and acting quickly can we prevent ACORN from doing more harm to America than they already have!
Tell them that organizations being investigated for voter fraud - like ACORN - should not be allowed anywhere near our tax dollars or the United States Census. This is nothing more than a brazen move to subvert America and permanently entrench the extreme left. Demand that they propose legislation to stop ACORN dead in its tracks.
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Jeffrey Mazzella
Center for Individual Freedom
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