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ACORN’s Tangled Money Tree
Getting out the vote has never been such a racket.
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The newspaper also interviewed George Hampton and Cleo Mata, two former Project Vote board members. Both denied serving on the board and Hampton, who acknowledged he had been an ACORN member, said he had never heard of Project Vote.
Ironically, Rathke condemned interlocking directorates in the corporate world. In 1980, he endorsed the proposed “Corporate Democracy Act” which would have fined directors up to $10,000 per day for “serving more than two corporations” simultaneously. (Heritage Foundation backgrounder, March 11, 1980)
Go figure.
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Matthew Vadum is an award-winning investigative journalist at a conservative watchdog group in Washington, D.C. Vadum is also author of Subversion Inc: How Obama’s ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers.
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John Oliver | 10.31.08 @ 11:20AM
Yo man!
Serious. Where. Is. The. Crack cocaine?
rickyb| 10.31.08 @ 1:55PM
Let's hope charges come out of this mess for the people responsible for the corruption within ACORN and its effect on our economy and fair voting processes our country demands.
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