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Bigger Than Watergate
So says Rep. Steve King about ACORN corruption and its one-party government protectors.
ACORN critic Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) is mystified that both the Democratic-controlled Congress and the Obama administration aren’t doing much about the tax-subsidized organized crime syndicate ACORN even as evidence of its wrongdoing continues to pile up.
In an exclusive interview, the House Judiciary Committee member describes the ACORN saga as “the largest corruption crisis in the history of America.”
“It’s thousands of times bigger than Watergate because Watergate was only a little break-in by a couple of guys,” said King. “By the time we pull ACORN out by its roots America’s going to understand just how big this is.”
Unlike the Nixon-era Watergate scandal, the ACORN scandal reaches not only to the highest levels of government, but also to states and localities across America. The president himself and his political advisor Patrick Gaspard used to work for ACORN and the radical advocacy group has allies throughout congressional leadership who are bending over backwards to protect it. President Obama has also hired as White House counsel Bob Bauer, whom King described as “the number one defender of ACORN in the country.”
ACORN has ties to unions such as SEIU and has business relationships with Wall Street. It has offices across the globe in places like Canada, Kenya, and India. Quite apart from the hidden camera videos that emerged in September showing ACORN employees providing advice on establishing a brothel and financing it with government grants, in the U.S. it stands accused of political corruption, election fraud, racketeering, money laundering, and countless other violations of the law. It is involved in major campaigns pushing for socialized medicine, green energy and cap-and-trade, enhanced welfare benefits, higher minimum wages, greater federal regulation of the financial services industry, and for a major expansion of the Community Reinvestment Act.
“The legislative branch will not investigate. [House Judiciary Committee chairman John] Conyers will not. [House Judiciary subcommittee chairman Jerrold] Nadler will not. It’s not going to come out of [House Ways & Means Committee chairman Charles] Rangel’s committee. It’s not going to come out of [House Financial Services Committee chairman] Barney Frank’s committee or from anybody in the Senate. They’re going to protect ACORN.”
Congress is deliberately dragging its heels on ACORN, just as Democrats did during the Clinton impeachment process in 1998, King said. As a member of the Iowa state senate, in December of that year King spent three days observing the proceedings against Clinton in the House Judiciary Committee.
“I saw the climate and the culture of the left’s shield of former President Clinton,” King said. “No transgression could have been too bad to cause their morality to flip the other way on him and for them walk away from him.”
Today defenders of ACORN in Congress are acting like the 42nd president’s defenders.
“It is the same pattern. There was the shock, then the revulsion, and then it was ‘the step away until you understand where the crossfire’s coming from,’ and then it was ‘get your tools in your arms and come back and circle the wagons and dig in to defend your guy, defend your leader.’”
In Congress Democrats “got out their arsenal and now they’re using everything to protect ACORN because that’s the machine that keeps them in office.”
King was particularly incensed by U.S. District Judge Nina Gershon’s ruling in favor of ACORN on Dec. 11. The Department of Justice has reluctantly filed an appeal of the judge’s ruling.
“Now the Democrats have the district court decision that Jerry Nadler solicited and now they will hide behind it if pressed. They will ignore it if they’re not pressed. They’re never going to move legislatively. They never wanted to unfund ACORN.”
Gershon, a Bill Clinton appointee, issued a temporary injunction prohibiting Congress from cutting off funding for ACORN. She determined that the funding ban was an unconstitutional “bill of attainder” that singled out ACORN for punishment without trial.
Only in the through-the-looking-glass world of a leftist activist judge could cutting off taxpayer funding to an advocacy group be deemed punishment. This injunction itself is unconstitutional and an affront to the separation of powers. It appears to rely on a novel, insidious legal doctrine known as “legislative due process.” Simply put, groups have rights in the appropriations process and have a right not to be deprived of government funding without some kind of cause being shown. In other words, Congress no longer has the power of the purse regardless of what the Constitution says.
About the Author
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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Stephanie| 12.21.09 @ 7:04AM
Why in the world would King be "mystified"?
This president is all about ACORN, worked for them, defends them and they got him elected. The democrat filth in congress will turn their heads at first and become rabid dogs to protect ACORN when and if somebody with any cohones decides to investigate, prosecute and shut down this corrupt organization.
I can't believe this is happening to us.
Ret. Marine| 12.21.09 @ 8:29AM
If you wish to have a real time explaination of the players and those who have gained from this Org., check out M. Malkin's book, Culture of Corruption. Be prepared to be angry like you never have before.
JimE| 12.21.09 @ 6:03PM
He's mystified because he is the type of idiot we on the right elect, a moron. Obama will say that ACORN has committed no crime and the republicans will grovel at his ass and agree.
Grzmlyk| 12.21.09 @ 8:20AM
Toddard, if they bring ACORN down, where's your next stipend going to come from?
Kidding. I know you're "gainfully" employed as an assistant librarian at Wellesley College. You merely volunteer for ACORN. I guess life among the stacks gives you a pretty distorted outlook.
We know the meaning of monomania. Here are a couple of other words you really ought to acquaint yourself with:
So-pho-ma-ni-a: (n):
Unrealistic belif in one's own intelligence; delusion of superintelligence.
De-ni-al:
An unconscious defense mechanism used to reduce anxiety by denying thoughts, feelings or FACTS that are consciously intolerable.
No charge, Toddard. Tomorrow we'll work on another word you'd do well to familiarize yourself with:
Su-i-cide. It would be a Christmas gift from you that will keep on giving into perpetuity.
S.L. Toddard| 12.21.09 @ 8:49AM
Wow. Thinking and writing about me AGAIN.
Gryzmlk - this crush is getting out of hand.
Margie| 12.21.09 @ 1:14PM
Well if he works in the Library he must after all have a lot of "book knowledge".... right?
Ret. Marine| 12.21.09 @ 8:26AM
What do you suppose King will do when this CONgress is taken back, the Senate rules and We the People actually have an American President again?
My guess he and his other repukeagain bud's will themselves turn a blind eye to this culture of corruption because there will be too many priorities before them to untangle.
Many of us who have paid attention to this mess known as ACORN know what they have done to this country, and we also understand the evilness of it's adherents. Count the black caucus as the primary benefitearies of this fraud, the likes of Jackson, Sharpton, et al. and too many SOS's as well. And We the People wonder why it is the arm of the law cannot/will not touch them.
There will be a day of reckoning for these types, the law of unintended consequences will prevail and they will have their day of judgement before the ultimate decider of truth, God.
Cav16| 12.21.09 @ 8:27AM
If ACORN and SEIU continue to run rampant unchecked I am afraid it will eventually lead to armed revolt! The court system has been stacked with liberals. Just look at black panther fiasco! Look at recent stolen elections (Al Franken). We are to blame for letting political correctness dominate our actions. Sure hope I am wrong because it will not be pretty.
TruthSeeker| 12.22.09 @ 2:06PM
Don't worry, Cav16. You're definitely wrong. If 8 years of GWB didn't cause an armed revolt, then nothing will.
barb w| 1.2.10 @ 2:15PM
Stolen elections ... Al Franken.... ACORN vote counters... simple to do when you lie and cheat, any Democrat will tell you that! oH, No ... they deny it, but everything that comes out of their mouth is a lie... so remember that and never let them pull the wool over your eyes again!
dsrdhtg | 12.21.09 @ 8:30AM
If you wish to have a real time explaination of the players and those who have gained from this Org., check out M. Malkin's book, Culture of Corruption. Be prepared to be angry like you never have before.
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S.L. Toddard| 12.21.09 @ 8:48AM
"Bigger Than Watergate"
Wow - that IS big. Can anyone tell me how many crimes ACORN has been convicted of perpetrating?
Grzmlyk| 12.21.09 @ 8:54AM
Just doing my part to clean up the environment.
Jeff Wahlen | 12.21.09 @ 8:58AM
I thought falsifying voter registrations was illegal. Seems to me ACORN has been cited for that in 11 states. That's a start.
S.L. Toddard| 12.21.09 @ 8:59AM
That IS a start. Still, can anyone tell me how many crimes ACORN has been convicted of perpetrating?
S.L. Toddard| 12.21.09 @ 9:24AM
Is the list of convictions so long that it's taking you guys all this time to compile it? There must be dozens. Heck - scores. Just give me a ballpark idea, if that makes it easier on everyone.
Grzmlyk| 12.21.09 @ 9:49AM
Answer: so far, 30 convictions - you do accept "guilty" pleas, don't you? http://www.rottenacorn.com/activityMap.html#wa
But regardless. We know libs are reality-challenged.
Still, there is an upside: By your logic, the Bush Administration is completely innocent of wrongdoing vis a vis warrantless wiretaps, for which no one was convicted and as the result of which there were ZERO victims (versus literally millions of victims of ACORN).
And until they nailed him for income tax evasion, Al Capone had zero convictions. I guess that means he wasn't a murdering thug, eh? Why, with his resume, he could be Treasure\y Secretary.
Nixon was never convicted for Watergate. Guess that means he was innocent. Despite the uh, what is the word???? Oh yes. MONAMANIA of Bob Woodard and Carl Bernstein.
And I'm sure you cheered when OJ's glove didn't fit. Ipso facto, his acquittal proved his innocence, did it not?
How many more convictions can we expect? Well, with Eric Holder the AG, probably zero. When it comes to ACORN and Democrat politicans, how many foxes do think would convict their fellow foxes of raiding the henhouse?
When you have crooks passing judgment on crooks, what do you expect? Honor among thieves, Toddard. Surely you are familiar with that axiom.
You know, the ONLY way people like you can argue is by patent dishonesty. But then it's all liberals have. And it is what they inevitably fall back on.
Now be a good little turd and go summarily reduce your carbon footprint to zero.
S.L. Toddard| 12.21.09 @ 10:09AM
"Answer: so far, 30 convictions - you do accept "guilty" pleas, don't you?"
30 convictions against ACORN - did you post the wrong link, perhaps? Maybe I missed it on that page.
Grzmlyk| 12.21.09 @ 10:28AM
Look again. Real hard.
S.L. Toddard| 12.21.09 @ 10:36AM
OK I'm done. That's definitely the wrong link. Could you post the right one, please?
Grzmlyk| 12.21.09 @ 10:52AM
Very amusing. I get it - you simply refuse to acknowldge them. There is no depth to which you will not descend. Out-and-out lying, as I say, is central to liberal rubric.
Ok, let's pretend you are right and no convictions have obtained in the ACORN case. And, according to you, no convictions means proof of innocence, correct?
So how do you explain your apoplexy over the Bush Warrantless Wiretaps, over which there have been NO convictions? Why do you continue to harp on it, since the lack of convictions proves there was no wrongdoing?
Please explain the disparity in your logic.
S.L. Toddard| 12.21.09 @ 11:12AM
"I get it - you simply refuse to acknowldge them"
Not at all. They simply are not there. Or honestly I truly might be missing them. Perhaps you could cut and paste these 30 convictions. I see a couple convictions of ex-ACORN employees, 3 individuals who worked for ACORN pled guilty to voter fraud (did you mean to write "3" instead of "30"?), some other individuals indicted, accused etc. I don't see any where the organization itself was found guilty of malfeasance. And that's assuming this list is legitimate, which is not by any means even remotely clear. If I were to provide a list of convictions against, say, Blackwater or any other number of defense contractors that was far more extensive and damaging than this handful of individuals you've cited would you agree that de-funding these contractors should be prioritized over defunding ACORN? Assume the list of offenses includes murder and defrauding the American taxpayer out of millions.
"And, according to you, no convictions means proof of innocence, correct?"
Of course not. How bizarre.
Grzmlyk| 12.21.09 @ 11:44AM
How bizarre indeed. Precisely my thought. So why do you believe it?
As you well know, with Obama in office ACORN itself will never be convicted of anything since he is product of ACORN (you do know that, right?). And I'm sure it won't matter to you if 30 of 300 ACORN-affiliated people are convicted.
According to you, the organization is above reproach regardless.
So where are the Bush administration warrantless wiretap convictions? You claim Bush himself was guilty, but no conviction + no guilt according to you.
And while you're at it, you never provided me with a list of the innocent victims of Bush's wiretapping. Can you maybe list the names of the individuals for me?
You're a peach.
S.L. Toddard| 12.21.09 @ 11:59AM
You're going off on all sorts of wild tangents. What we're left with - and correct me if I'm wrong - is that ACORN has never been convicted of any malfeasance in all of the many decades it has existed, although some individuals who work for it (at least three of its 400,000 members, or .0000075%) have been convicted of wrongdoing. Is that wrong?
I wonder why it's so hard to get a straight answer here.
Grzmlyk| 12.21.09 @ 12:33PM
If by "wild tangents" you mean consistency in application of the law, I'm with you.
I'll give you a straight answer when you give me one. How many innocent people were wiretapped by Bush? How many convictions resulted in the Bush warrantless wiretapping?
Besides, we both know the truth here. You are lying. ACORN is corrupt, through and through.
Tell me how many individual convictions it will take before a tipping point is reached? Give me a number.
What's good for the goose, etc.
DA HAMMA| 12.21.09 @ 12:52PM
S.L. Turdboy, I went to the website and saw the evidence against your stinkhole Acorn. GRZMLYK was right. Acorn is a criminal enterprise. Now, turdboy go back into that sewer drain you call your mind and leave the INTERNET! Any further word from you would be a violation of human intelligence.
Josh| 12.22.09 @ 11:55AM
Wow, you sound just like a lawyer (and former president) I know..."that depends on what your definition of "is" is"
I guess that we could convict every person working for ACORN of voter fraud and the organization would still be unblemished.
Your arguments (like all liberal arguments) only have value in a court room with a group of asshole lawyers, but in the real world we all know that you are lying through your teeth to protect your distorted views
WRTolkas| 12.21.09 @ 12:43PM
Dear Grzmlyk,
Mr. Toddard cannot conjure a defense so he is toying with you. I am barely computer literate; however, I clicked on the link and read the damning information.
Merry Christmas,
WRTolkas
Grzmlyk| 12.21.09 @ 1:05PM
Hello DA Hamma and WRTolkas:
Thank you both for confirming the reality does exist. I appreciate the support.
I am aware that Toddard is lying because he has no defense. Hell, Walter Duranty, of the New York Times, never DID realize that Stalin was killing people by the millions, even though he was inside the USSR, reporting daily on the brave new world Stalin had created (for which he was rewarded with a Pulitzer).
It's not like there isn't a myriad of Web sites out there - including this one, by the way - enumerating ACORNs crimes.
The Turd is a classic liberal: One rule for them, and one for the real world. So Bush wiretapping = CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE (even though there was ZERO evidence of actual victims), but ACORN's proven institutional criminality WITH CONVICTIONS = INNOCENCE.
Wouldn't you love to be able to mold reality that way, like it was cheap clay?
I guess this is the same way pedophiles justify abusing kids, or other assorted sociopaths justify things like genocide.
But, with health care "reform" becoming law, many more will become aware of the lengths liberals will go to lie in order to arrogate power.
Margie| 12.21.09 @ 1:20PM
Hot Toddy is a Leftist and his posts so prove it.
I Picture the insane paranoid in the asylum saying.."It's not ME that's insane.. it's all of YOU, I tell you! It's YOU!"
Grzmlyk| 12.21.09 @ 1:30PM
Margie, you made me smile.
There are only two kinds of liberals: Fools and liars.
Toddard is a liar - a footsoldier in the liberal mafia.
Liberal Reader is a fool - a babe in the woods who thinks if he just clicks his heels three times, truth and love will permeate the earth.
Obama is both - a resentful, simpleton ideologue who is willing to lie as blatantly as Toddard does in order to obtain utopia.
Of course, to do that, you have to subjugate an entire population. You know, enslave people in the name of freedom, destroy in the name of building a better society, kill in the name of preserving life.
Margie| 12.21.09 @ 2:10PM
Grz is on fire today!! Love it.
..well at least I can make somebody smile today!
Oh, that "insane rant" comes from an old movie.. I love those.. things from them have stuck in my head for decades. That gives me an idea. I think I'll start posting links to video clips of them if I can find them.
Anyhow~~ keep on slaying them with the truth.
p.s. LibRead was hailing Socialism oh so joyfully in another thread. He was beside himself.. or hisselves, whichever the case may be/ :*)
Grzmlyk| 12.21.09 @ 2:16PM
Margie, what movie does that come from?
I myself am a huge fan of old movies. Believe it or not, I saw Gone With the Wind from beginning to end for the first time ever the other night. I'd seen lots of it in snippets, but never sat down and watched all 4 hours.
We must compare faves some time!
Margie| 12.21.09 @ 2:32PM
Grz,
I'm trying to find the movie. If I can I'll post a clip if there is one.
p.s. Victor's my hubby.. he's like you.. you he can put it so much better than I can.. "the facts ma'am. just the facts!"
Rock on!
Klabautermann| 12.21.09 @ 7:42PM
Grzmlyk, Please do a little more research on Duranty. He certainly knew of the Soviet genocide and admitted it.
matt| 3.23.10 @ 5:13PM
coksuker
S.L. Toddard| 12.21.09 @ 3:16PM
"I am barely computer literate; however, I clicked on the link and read the damning information"
I don't recall asking if that page had information that die hard Republican party-loyalists would consider "damning". I asked: "can anyone tell me how many crimes ACORN has been convicted of perpetrating?"
So far the answer is "zero". And to be honest, I assumed it was more than zero - I thought there had to be at least a few. I still suspect this may be the case. It's telling, though, that you people consider this organization the embodiment of evil yet none of you have even heard of any convictions against the organization, and cannot cite even one.
"It's not like there isn't a myriad of Web sites out there - including this one, by the way - enumerating ACORNs crimes."
I am not sure how that is relevant. I am not sure that these right-wing websites have the authority to convict ACORN of crimes (despite the fact that, for the Fox News Right, they pretty much do). I asked: "can anyone tell me how many crimes ACORN has been convicted of perpetrating?"
So far the answer is "zero".
" Sight Less Toddard: AR 1998 A contractor with ACORN-affiliated Project Vote was arrested for falsifying about 400 voter registration cards... etc"
Victor, I asked: "can anyone tell me how many crimes ACORN has been convicted of perpetrating?" I see a couple convictions of ex-ACORN employees, 3 individuals who worked for ACORN pled guilty to voter fraud, some other individuals indicted, accused etc. I don't see any where the organization itself was found guilty of malfeasance. Even if you considered convictions against individual ACORN members (which would be ridiculous: American soldiers have been convicted of murder. Is the United States military therefore a criminal organization?) we are looking at... three? Is that right? Seven? Now before everyone starts shrieking that of course ACORN is dangerous, evil freedom-stealers because it says so on die hard Republican-loyalist websites I will concede that yes, there are hundreds, perhaps thousands of die-hard Republican Party loyalist websites that assert this. I did not ask whether there are any die-hard Republican Party loyalist websites that assert ACORN is evil, though. I asked: "can anyone tell me how many crimes ACORN has been convicted of perpetrating?"
So far the answer is "zero".
I will ask one more time, though, in hopes that if the group of you work diligently and in concert, you can answer:
Can anyone tell me how many crimes ACORN has been convicted of perpetrating?
HINT: "I don't know" is an acceptable answer. "RUSH LIMBAUGH SAYS ACORN BADDY BAD" is not.
victor| 12.21.09 @ 2:03PM
Sight Less Toddard:
AR 1998 A contractor with ACORN-affiliated Project Vote was arrested for falsifying about 400 voter registration cards.
CO 2005 Two ex-ACORN employees were convicted in Denver of perjury for submitting false voter registrations.
2004 An ACORN employee admitted to forging signatures and registering three of her friends to vote 40 times.
CT 2008 The New York Post reported that ACORN submitted a voter registration card for a 7-year-old Bridgeport girl. Another 8,000 cards from the same city will be scrutinized for possible fraud.
FL 2009 In September, 11 ACORN workers were accused of forging voter registration applications in Miami-Dade County during the last election. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the state attorney’s office scoured hundreds of suspicious applications provided by ACORN and found 197 of 260 contained personal ID information that did not match any living person.
2008 Election officials in Brevard County have given prosecutors more than 23 suspect registrations from ACORN. The state's Division of Elections is also investigating complaints in Orange and Broward Counties.
2004 A Florida Department of Law Enforcement spokesman said ACORN was “singled out” among suspected voter registration groups for a 2004 wage initiative because it was “the common thread” in the agency’s fraud investigations.
IN 2008 Election officials in Indiana have thrown out more than 4,000 ACORN-submitted voter registrations after finding they had identical handwriting and included the names of many deceased Indianans, and even the name of a fast food restaurant.
MI 2008 Clerks in Detroit found a "sizeable number of duplicate and fraudulent [voter] applications" from the Michigan branch of ACORN. Those applications have been turned over to the U.S. Attorney's office for investigation.
2004 The Detroit Free Press reported that “overzealous or unscrupulous campaign workers in several Michigan counties are under investigation for voter-registration fraud, suspected of attempting to register nonexistent people or forging applications for already-registered voters.” ACORN-affiliate Project Vote was one of two groups suspected of turning in the documents.
MO 2008 Nearly 400 ACORN-submitted registrations in Kansas City have been rejected due to duplication or fake information.
2007 Four ACORN employees were indicted in Kansas City for charges including identity theft and filing false registrations during the 2006 election.
2006 Eight ACORN employees in St. Louis were indicted on federal election fraud charges. Each of the eight faces up to five years in prison for forging signatures and submitting false information.
2003 Of 5,379 voter registration cards ACORN submitted in St. Louis, only 2,013 of those appeared to be valid. At least 1,000 are believed to be attempts to register voters illegally.
MN 2004 During a traffic stop, police found more than 300 voter registration cards in the trunk of a former ACORN employee, who had violated a legal requirements that registration cards be submitted to the Secretary of State within 10 days of being filled out and signed.
NC 2008 County elections officials have sent suspicious voter registration applications to the state Board of Elections. Many of the applications had similar or identical names, but with different addresses or dates of birth.
2004 North Carolina officials investigated ACORN for submitting fake voter registration cards.
NM 2008 Prosecutors are investigating more than 1,100 ACORN-submitted voter registration cards after a county clerk found them to be fraudulent. Many of the cards included duplicate names and slightly altered personal information.
2005 Four ACORN employees submitted as many as 3,000 potentially fraudulent signatures on the group’s Albuquerque ballot initiative. A local sheriff added: “It’s safe to say the forgery was widespread.”
2004 An ACORN employee registered a 13-year-old boy to vote. Citing this and other examples, New Mexico State Representative Joe Thompson stated that ACORN was “manufacturing voters” throughout New Mexico.
NV 2009 Nevada authorities indicted ACORN on 26 counts of voter registration fraud and 13 counts of illegally compensating canvassers. ACORN provided a bonus compensation program called “Blackjack” or “21+” for any canvasser who registered more than 20 voters per shift, which is illegal under Nevada law.
2008 Nevada state authorities raided ACORN's Las Vegas headquarters as part of a task force investigation of election fraud. Fraudulent registrations included players from the Dallas Cowboys.
OH 2008 ACORN activists gave Ohio residents cash and cigarettes in exchange for filling out voter registration card, according to the New York Post. Some voters claim to have registered dozens of times, and one man says he signed up on 72 cards.
2007 A man in Reynoldsburg was indicted on two felony counts of illegal voting and false registration, after being registered by ACORN to vote in two separate counties.
2004 A grand jury indicted a Columbus ACORN worker for submitting a false signature and false voter registration form. In Franklin County, two ACORN workers submitted what the director of the board of election supervisors called “blatantly false” forms. In Cuyahoga County, ACORN and its affiliate Project Vote submitted registration cards that had the highest rate of errors for any voter registration group.
PA 2009 Seven ACORN workers in the Pittsburgh area were indicted for submitting falsified voter registration forms. Six of the seven were also indicted for registering voters under an illegal quota system.
2008 State election officials have thrown out 57,435 voter registrations, the majority of which were submitted by ACORN. The registrations were thrown out after officials found "clearly fraudulent" signatures, vacant lots listed as addresses, and other signs of fraud.
2008 An ACORN employee in West Reading, PA, was sentenced to 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.
2004 Reading’s Director of Elections received calls from numerous individuals complaining that ACORN employees deliberately put inaccurate information on their voter registration forms. The Berks County director of elections said voter fraud was “absolutely out of hand,” and added: “Not only do we have unintentional duplication of voter registration but we have blatant duplicate voter registrations.” The Berks County deputy director of elections added that ACORN was under investigation by the Department of Justice.
TX 2008 In Harris County, nearly 10,000 ACORN-submitted registrations were found to be invalid, including many with clearly fraudulent addresses or other personal information.
2008 ACORN turned in the voter registration form of David Young, who told reporters “The signature is not my signature. It’s not even close.” His social security number and date of birth were also incorrect.
VA 2005 In 2005, the Virginia State Board of Elections admonished Project Vote and ACORN for turning in a significant number of faulty voter registrations. An audit revealed that 83% of sampled registrations that were rejected for carrying false or questionable information were submitted by Project Vote. Many of these registrations carried social security numbers that exist for other people, listed non-existent or commercial addresses, or were for convicted felons in violation of state and federal election law.
In a letter to ACORN, the State Board of Elections reported that 56% of the voter registration applications ACORN turned in were ineligible. Further, a full 35% were not submitted in a timely manner, as required by law. The State Board of Elections also commented on what appeared to be evidence of intentional voter fraud. "Additionally,” they wrote, “information appears to have been altered on some applications where information given by the applicant in one color ink has been scratched through and re-entered in another color ink. Any alteration of a voter registration application is a Class 5 Felony in accordance with § 24.2-1009 of the Code of Virginia."
WA 2007 Three ACORN employees pleaded guilty, and four more were charged, in the worst case of voter registration fraud in Washington state history. More than 2,000 fraudulent voter registration cards were submitted by the group during a voter registration drive.
WI 2008 At least 33,000 ACORN-submitted registrations in Milwaukee have been called into question after it was found that the organizations had been using felons as registration workers, in violation of state election rules. Two people involved in the ongoing Wisconsin voter fraud investigation have been charged with felonies.
2004 The district attorney’s office investigated seven voter registration applications Project Vote employees filed in the names of people who said the group never contacted them. Former Project Vote employee Robert Marquise Blakely told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that he had not met with any of the people whose voter registration applications he signed, “an apparent violation of state law,” according to the paper.
This is a CRIMINAL organization aided and abetted by a CRIMINAL president and Atty Gen'l.
Very little of what they do is inside the law.
But that all escapes Sight Less Toddard's eagle eyes.
Grzmlyk| 12.21.09 @ 2:18PM
Victor, you rock.
Of course, toddard would say, "but ACORN itself has never been sent to jail."
You see, apparently toddard thinks organizations can be incarcerated.
BTW, Toddard, please feel free to shoot me that list of Blackwater convictions - not individuals, mind you, which you apparently think don't count. I want to know when Blackwater itself was frogmarched into prison after being convicted.
I'm waiting.
victor| 12.21.09 @ 2:55PM
Thanks so much.
Toddard graduated from the school of debate that answers unasked questions and dismisses questions that cannot be answered with convolutions.
Hence, in that case "S.L." can stan for Sense Less.
BTW, his focusing on the organization and not the members is his way of avoiding the whole matter of criminality.
He is deliberately conflating the organization and its members as if they were the same.
PS this is why "ACORN" is changing its name.
Any legal action will not be able to include them with the old name.
As an example, read the following:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?f.....eId=119685
Michael Savage sued CAIR, but they changed their name and avoided being sued.
Now they are involved with two men who got possesion of papers due to be shredded that implicated them with terrorists.
They(CAIR) now contend that the papers belong to them(CAIR), but CAIR no longer exists, because they are now CAIR-AN.
The papers all reference CAIR so they belong to the Gauberts and the FBI.
S.L. Toddard| 12.21.09 @ 3:22PM
"You see, apparently toddard thinks organizations can be incarcerated."
Um... organizations cannot be found guilty of fraud?
Margie| 12.21.09 @ 2:28PM
But now you are just trying to confuse Dear Toddy with the facts!
Grzmlyk| 12.21.09 @ 2:41PM
A fact will never cross the threshold between Toddard's ears, nor will one ever be emitted from his lips, except in the service of a larger lie.
How do you put handcuffs on a holding company, which is what ACORN essentially is (being an amalgamation of dozens of smaller entities)?
Then again, how do you frisk an idea?
By the way, it might interest the Turd to know that the Nazi party was never convicted of anything at Nuremberg - strangely, it was individuals who were sentenced to the gallows.
However, the Nazi party was outlawed in Germany. Maybe we can take a page from post-WWII Germany and outlaw ACORN outright.
Margie| 12.21.09 @ 2:51PM
The weird thing is, this person Toddard claims to be a conservative.. yet at every angle on the dangle he defends Obummer & Gang with this ACORN criminality when he KNOWS the truth... it's mind boggling. But then, Liberalism is mind boggling. I'm just glad made me with a mind that doesn't enjoy being boggled!
Margie| 12.21.09 @ 2:53PM
*God made me with a mind that doesn't enjoy being boggled!
victor| 12.21.09 @ 2:59PM
S.L. Toddardovich( a fellow traveler) is really a Paleo-Con, but in some circles would be called a Neo-Lib on account of their common dream of non-interventionism, loathing of Israel and no foreign aid to budding democracies and republics.
Grzmlyk| 12.21.09 @ 3:26PM
Wow, Margie - I had no idea you and Victor were married. What a potent one-two punch you provide!
Victor, I don't know that Toddard is a paleo-con -I consider Pat Buchanan sort of the prototypical paleo-con, and somehow I don't think the Turd would agree with him on much - though, granted, their foreign policy views might be similar.
But I don't think Buchanan would downplay Iran's rumblings - he might recommend we do nothing, but I don't think he'd deny their appetite for the bomb, which Toddard has done.
And I don't think Buchanan would genuflect before ACORN.
Anyway, Margie, one of my favorite movies is Chinatown - it's a bit bleaker than most of my favorite movies (such as Bringing Up Baby, The Big Sleep, It Happened One Night, etc.), but it's a morality tale for the ages.
Jack Nicholson's character always tries to do the right thing, but his tragic flaw is that he always underestimates the pervasiveness and persistence of evil - leading to tragic consequences.
John Huston plays the embodiment of evil, with his withered hand in everything. He reminds me of liberalism - a decayed, disgusting vestige of an earlier era whose only goal in life is power for its own sake.
We must never underestimate the lengths people like toddard and his ilk will go to in order to grab power.
victor| 12.21.09 @ 3:42PM
Grzmlyk:
"We must never underestimate the lengths people like toddard and his ilk will go to in order to grab power."
All kidding aside, we must never let Toodard and Hairy Reider divert us from our mission to root out corruption, their allies and fellow travelers in the pursuit of Conservative Ideals.
To quote Churchill:
"we shall fight on the beaches,
we shall fight on the landing grounds,
we shall fight in the fields and in the streets,
we shall fight in the hills;
we shall never surrender"
This Republic was not built by slackers, deadbeats, layabouts or those who give in.
2010 is coming and "those who have sown the wind shall reap the whirlwind"
Hosea 8:7
S.L. Toddard| 12.21.09 @ 3:57PM
"To quote Churchill..."
You ROCK!!!
S.L. Toddard| 12.21.09 @ 3:49PM
"Victor, you rock"
"Grz is on fire today!!"
"What a potent one-two punch you provide!"
Oh man this is great. This is a perfect example of what the great Dr. Thomas Fleming noted happens on right-wing radio (though in this instance it is happening in the internet sphere of the right wing echo chamber). Tell me if this doesn't perfectly describe yourself, Gryz, not to mention Victor and Marjorie (esp the part between the asterisks - I don't know how to put things in boldface here, sorry):
"Half of what they say comes from GOP talking points memos or the vacuous political rhetoric of the Wall Street Journal, National Review 20 years ago. In listening to all of them, I have never been confronted with a notion I had not read hundreds of times in the past. It is an endless feedback loop. *Foolish women pick up some opinion fourth hand and call into Limbaugh or Levin or Beck, and they call each other brilliant and patriotic*. There is no “public opinion” in America except what is manufactured in the factories of the phony left and phony right. The dimwits can be trapped into caring about Russia or Iran because that agenda was shaped over several generations. Naturally, to gain an audience, each new radio on air celebrity has to be a little less responsible than the his predecessors. That is why it will always be a race to the bottom. On the left, it is very easy to see the progression from radical intellectuals to college professors to the New Republic to the New York Times to CNN and SNL. Al Franken is not any more independent-minded than Sean Hannity. Who really matters, then? The people who create, or modify, or destroy the paradigm. Rousseau and Marx, for example. On the right, perhaps no one in the 20th century, at least not anyone who developed a mass following, though there are eccentrics who at least changed the minds of some people. Chesterton and Belloc, Eliot and Pound, Davidson and Lytle. But in these shouting matches between children, the only winners are the powerful special interest groups that benefit and fund them, on both sides. The late Paul Weyrich, in desire to lead the masses, used to create new programs and movements every year, but all he and the conservative movement were doing was to get out in front of the goose-stepping parade and pretend to lead it, and it is a long way down from Weyrich to Beck and Levin. There is no “better,” only different stinks of excrement."
It's almost like he read this very thread and commented on it! You really should read Dr. Fleming (and the rest of the crew at Chronicles). It will seem foreign and strange to you guys - it is, after all, a "conservative" organ - but despite all of your intemperate, impertinent shrieking and state-worshiping, I bet even you have some conservatism deep down inside. Give it a shot!
Grzmlyk| 12.21.09 @ 4:01PM
You don't have a clue what you're talking about.
On the other hand, if Dr. Fleming said pseudo conservatives all follow blindly what other people say, then it must be true that pseudo conservatives all follow blindly what other people say!!!
By the way, vacuous is a subjective term.
And just because Dr. Fleming says it's so doesn't make it so.
You are rich with unintended irony.
By all means, cut and paste some more to show us what an original thinker you are.
S.L. Toddard| 12.21.09 @ 4:06PM
"By all means, cut and paste some more to show us what an original thinker you are."
I don't recall passing that quote off as my own. I specifically noted who wrote it, actually. What are you talking about now?
Margie| 12.21.09 @ 3:57PM
Grz,
Toddard has said he's a Paleo in many other threads. He's thoroughly insulted and demeaned me (or tried to) for disagreeing with it.
Tell 'em, Toddy.
~I'm gonna go see if I can watch China Town online and watch it, Grz.
And I will NEVER underestimate the lengths the Left will go to in order to grab power.
The Left comes in many shades of gray... a love of the truth clears the vision.
At this time all we have is the Republican Party and its platform is right. We conservatives just need to take it back by helping to back same in elections. I pray everyone isn't too asleep at the wheel and that they don't stay home or not vote at all in the 2010 elections.
God bless!
S.L. Toddard| 12.21.09 @ 4:03PM
Sure, Marge: "paleoconservative" is a fairly apt description of my politics. I am a traditionalist, constituionalist, small government, America First, decentralist, localist, states-rights conservative. Call it what you will.
As for me "insulting and demeaning" you, just scroll up and down, Marge, and see who insulted who first in this thread (or any other).
The truth is there for all to see.
S.L. Toddard| 12.21.09 @ 3:34PM
"Toddard claims to be a conservative.. yet at every angle on the dangle he defends Obummer & Gang with this ACORN criminality when he KNOWS the truth..."
Marge, could you cite where I "defend" ACORN (or Obama, for that matter)? I seem to have forgotten doing that (old age!).
victor| 12.21.09 @ 3:46PM
Slow Todd:
"where I "defend" ACORN (or Obama"
So, you are claiming that you are not defending Obama or ACORN?
Does that mean that you are condemning them?
S.L. Toddard| 12.21.09 @ 3:50PM
"Does that mean that you are condemning them?"
You know, you can just scroll up or down to answer that question. I have neither condemned nor defended ACORN. I have merely asked a question. Apparently an extremely difficult one.
S.L. Toddard| 12.21.09 @ 3:57PM
To answer your next question, Victor (I don't know why I'm doing this, because no one will believe me): I would like to see ACORN found guilty of perpetrating some sort of fraud on a scale that would render it de-funded (and defunct). Not because I believe they are singularly evil, but because they register Democrat voters, who then agitate to keep our borders open and centralize, centralize, centralize. I have not seen any evidence of fraud or malfeasance of any sort that is even remotely in the same league, though, as those of myriad defense contractors who are still being funded with tax dollars. That is the whole problem with the defund-ACORN act: it is a de facto bill of attainder, and unconstitutional.
arloguthrey@rocketmail.com| 1.17.10 @ 5:19PM
S.L.ToddarI know it's been almost a month since this thread, but I'm hoping this site might have an e-mail feature that would allow this to reach you. It strikes me that you are legally minded and possibly searching for a much less messy solution to what is playing out nationally. I suggest looking to the Constitution, specifically the constitutional definition of treason. I believe we had a sitting President that had his ability to execute a war deliberately undermined. Second, the same people are aggressively pursuing the "one world government" through the climate
change scam (foreign power).
I would submit to you proving the link with this scenario might actually be easiest way forward. But, it will be messy, however I would opine that given the stakes effectiveness can not be underrated or dismissed.
Sir| 12.22.09 @ 1:01PM
Mr. Toddard, given the legal concept of Agency, I'd say ACORN is as guilty as they get. If the guilty persons associated with ACORN had been Independent Contractors it would have been bad/guilty enough, but that's not the case. They were (probably still are) Employees. Worse.
I know you're not that dense, so shame on you for being such a semantic twit.
TruthSeeker| 12.22.09 @ 2:29PM
"...given the legal concept of Agency, I'd say ACORN is as guilty as they get."
If you're familiar with legal agency, then you're no doubt aware of the prodigious case law establishing that the principal cannot be held libel for the unilateral actions of an agent.
There is no evidence that the illegal acts of ACORN employees were known of or approved by the organization.
Sir| 12.23.09 @ 8:28AM
I'm no lawyer. You couldn't pay me enough to be one these days. Further, I'd say that you're not either, given that you confuse "liable" with "libel."
Merry Christmas, "Truth"Seeker.
TruthSeeker| 12.23.09 @ 9:49AM
That was a very weak attempt at obfuscation. Please explain how ACORN is legally culpable for the independent actions of its employees. Happy Holidays* to you, Sir.
*including; Christmas & New Years, Chanukah, Kwanzaa, and Druid Tradition Alban Arthan
Margie| 12.21.09 @ 3:47PM
By the very act of me answering you I am giving you the opportunity to play more games... but why? Why do you insist?
Your entire purpose in this thread is to obfuscate and play games with the truth.
You must have a very miserable existence!
Oldefarte| 12.21.09 @ 10:58AM
Wow, what a DUMBARS you obviously are----if the president originated from Acorn, if his attorney general [alsong with the equally corrupt liberal members of congress under whose authority any such actions would initiate] takes orders from him and refuses to investigate and prosecute Acorn; then HOW IN THE HADES do you expect any 'CONVICTION' to possibly come about??????????????
S.L. Toddard| 12.21.09 @ 11:14AM
OH - so you're saying that ACORN never committed any crimes until after January 2009, when Obama took office?
Oldefarte| 12.21.09 @ 11:52AM
Acorn [under that name or others, usually titled 'Community...'] has been funded by the federal government [and me the TAXPAYER] for my entire 63 years on this earth; and they ALL exist to promote in partisaned fashion the election of liberal Democrats and/or their WELFARE programs/policies. Our government should not be in the business of paying for PARTISANSHIP, DUMBARS [but unfortionately has been doing so for decades]!!!
S.L. Toddard| 12.21.09 @ 12:00PM
OH - so you're saying that ACORN never committed any crimes until after January 2009, when Obama took office?
jeff wahlen | 12.21.09 @ 8:49AM
This kind of behavior will continue to go unchecked until the people want their government back. Half the country apparently wants Socialism and dismisses this corruption of what was once man's finest governing system in the world. It is now broken. I don't know how to fix it. My Senator (Bill Nelson-who patently bartered for no Medicare cuts for three counties in Florida to justify his Yes vote on healthcare) doesn't answer the phone and the voice mailbox is "full." You get canned email responses to any question you send him. I can't take the time to camp out on his lawn. I cannot fix this. I've sent 4 handwritten letters requesting an explanation of the Black Panther Get Out Of Jail Free Card eliciting no response. This system is broken.
sandyinohio| 12.21.09 @ 12:59PM
Same here with Sherrod Brown of OH, a BHO lapdog. How come Ohioans aren't getting any special deals Sherrod?????
Ken (Old Texican)| 12.21.09 @ 9:58AM
Folks,
I had hoped by now that most of us had already figured out that AG Holder and Obama are on the same team as ACORN and the Black Panthers.
As mentioned above, Malkin's "Culture of Corruption" connects most of the dots, but sadly only with the written word.
Heh!
I sorta like Glen Beck's blackboard and charts in pictoral form.
Jeff Wahlen...
Take heart, my man. George Washington and crew were a small minority in 1776.
See, most of those clowns on the left are merely squawky cowards.
They won't stand up when push comes to shove.
That is one of the reasons I laugh out loud at the Toddards of the world blabbering about third party or "paleo party" or whatever.
See, there are dozens of thousands of tea-partiers signing up as poll watchers and vote counters and get out the vote volunteers. They will be teaming up with the dozens of thousands of local Republican volunteers already in place across the country. Most of those local Republican groups are just as frustrated as you and I with the limp wristed Republicans in DC. I truly know that. I visit with them daily.
So,
Ironically, the worse things get, and the more the communists, (pardon the shorthand), push their jack-boots across American kitchen tables, the third party loons along with the leftie loons will be increasingly marginalized.
Most reasonable people will in 2010 have some great conservative Republican candidates to root for...and vote for. The Republican vehicle is already in place to stop and reverse our country's direction. Most reasonable people will choose not to try to re-invent a wheel in 10 months.
We simply step into the driver's seat. Republican "principles" are in the most part the things all of us can get behind.
Heh...
Then we get behind the Republicans elected...so we can continually kick them in the arse..to stand for those principles.
Margie| 12.21.09 @ 1:23PM
THANK YOU KEN!!
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Obama does nothing about tax-subsidized organized crime syndicate ACORN | anti_commi. links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Doctor Right| 12.21.09 @ 10:57AM
ACORN is proof-positive that the Democrat Party is a fully corrupt, bought-and-paid for political organization that is actively working against the American people to manipulate our lives, undermine the Constitution, and line their own pockets.
In short, ACORN proves that the Democrat Party is a treasonous, criminal organization...And like all treasonous, criminal organizations, it needs to be thoroughly investigated, probed, picked-at, prosecuted, and destroyed. They are the single largest threat to our nation's prosperity and survival.
God-willing, we'll have a Republican Congress and Republican President by 2012, and hopefully they'll have the intestinal fortitude to kick-over this rock and expose all the slime that lies underneath.
That means full House and Senate investigations. That means censure, expulsion, indictment, and (hopefully) imprisonment of the likes of Barney Frank, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Rahm Emmanuel, Andy Stern, Wade Rathke, and even Obama. It means that the assets of SEIU be seized and frozen, and that ALL of their books be scrutinized.
In short, it basically means the largest investigation of corruption that this nation has ever seen...And it will be made all the more difficult in that the Government will basically be investigating itself, much like Italy's infamous "Mani Pulliti" investigations of the 90's.
But it all hinges upon our ability to seize control of the White House, Senate, and House...And doing so with the right people, people who have guts and don't give a damn what the nitwits in the press will say.
If we have the opportunity, we can DESTROY the Democrat Party...Not because we don't like thir policies, but because they are criminals...And if we have the opportunity, we must do it. Our Constitution demands it...As do our consciences.
Oldefarte| 12.21.09 @ 11:08AM
Folks, I hate to burst your ALICE IN WONDERLAND bubble, but this cr*p has been going on politically for my entire 63 year lifetime. It may not have been labeled 'Acorn', but it was aid to this, that or the other thing; and it was initiated, promoted, voted for and passed by liberal [mostly Democrats] politicians going back to the Great Society of Lyndon Johnson. You have to realize that liberals sit around constantly thinking and scheming of ways to get an Acorn in place [or Obamacare legislation passed]. It's what they do-----they do not work for a living, raise families, attend church, pay taxes, coach little league sports, volunteer for charities,etc [like normal Americans do]. This is hopefully why they must be defeated/stopped beginning with 2010 in each/every election race throughout America!!!!!
Grzmlyk| 12.21.09 @ 1:54PM
Oldfarte, you are right on the money.
BTW, if you're 63, you shouldn't call yourself Oldfarte.
Anyone who's younger than Mick Jagger isn't old.
And that tells you how old I am. :-)
Margie| 12.21.09 @ 2:36PM
But that old Strolling Bone is still going...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2M5-RirLbvI
victor| 12.21.09 @ 3:17PM
Well then, how about "Olde Geezer"?
Old enough to remember the Beatles on Ed Sullivan.
Margie| 12.21.09 @ 3:21PM
To: Olde Farte, Grz, Ken & all other youngsters~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related
God bless!
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The American Spectator : Bigger Than Watergate American Me links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
sandyinohio| 12.21.09 @ 1:06PM
I hope Old Texan Ken is correct, because we will need good, hardy people at election centers because the Black Panthers aren't about to stop showing up after Holder allowed charges to be dropped. See how much the "do-nothings" care about the real worker bees? They really believe that communist crap that wealth has been "stolen" from them; like they ever saved money or borrowed to start a successful business!
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ACORN: Bigger than Watergate « Just Americans Making Ethical Statements Weblog links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
jack| 12.21.09 @ 2:46PM
The Democrat looting of Fannie and Freddie was bigger than Watergate. We have lost our country and lunatics are in control. At this stage only revolution will bring change and too many are still doing great to get involved so we will slide further down the road to serfdom
Ken (Old Texican)| 12.21.09 @ 4:54PM
But Jack!
That is precisely what I was writing about above. The "Revolution" is already in progress, guy! Hop aboard the troop train.
(here)
""So,
Ironically, the worse things get, and the more the communists, (pardon the shorthand), push their jack-boots across American kitchen tables, the third party loons along with the leftie loons will be increasingly marginalized.""
So, Jack,
Of course keep your powder dry, and rotate your clips. That should go without saying, but we here are NOT going to slide into serfdom!
Who said it, guys?
"One cannot enslave a free man, you can only kill him."
Look, Jack, we here are committed to honoring all the men and women who built this country, often with their very lives. We will do our utmost to turn this whole mess around in 2010 at the ballot box. If that fails due to ACORN or anyone else, all bets are off and you will note that we here will get very quiet. About all you will hear is..."click" .
TruthSeeker| 12.22.09 @ 2:39PM
That's excellent, Ken!
So tell me, just whom are you going to shoot? Are you planning to overthrow the US Gov't.? Mow down the people's duly elected representatives in Congress? The President himself?
I’d love to hear all about your “revolution”, Ken.
lman| 12.21.09 @ 3:23PM
You can learn all about the enginneered housing bust .. forced nationalization of major market sectors and more here http://www.repubx.com
RAMIII| 12.21.09 @ 5:56PM
The thing that is so ironic is that when the people who benefit from all this corruption become either useless to the "Machine" or convicted of their evil consciences, they will no longer have a voice to be heard.
Then they will only have their shame and the consequences of their own evil actions poured upon them.
Also people who seek RAW POWER will always gather around themselves those who are lower than themselves. I recall the situation with Jezebel and Naboth's vineyard (toward the later part of I Kings in the Old Testament). Everything God said in Judgement about and to them came to pass.
Here's hoping for their repentance before it is too late for all of us.
N Waff| 12.21.09 @ 6:11PM
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When you talking about the amount of corruption in Washington, it's no wonder no one gives a second look at ACORN.
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The American Spectator : Bigger Than Watergate capital university links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Liberal Reader| 12.21.09 @ 9:33PM
Bigger than Watergate?
Again, Mr. Vadum. I question your basic knowledge about history.
Do you know what the word "Watergate" refers to?
The lack of historical sense -- to say nothing of common sense -- on the right these days is absolutely amazing to me. It's a damn shame, too.
Die Fledermaus| 12.22.09 @ 5:52PM
I doubt you know what "Watergate" refers too.
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The American Spectator : Bigger Than Watergate links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
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The American Spectator : Bigger Than Watergate links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Rob| 12.22.09 @ 1:41AM
Ladies and gentlemen, the only reason why the "mainstream" media focuses on anything is to distract you from something else. The ACORN scandal is irrelevent compared to the fascist power grabs our elected representatives are making.
Rose C| 12.22.09 @ 2:40AM
President Obama was the mentor for ACORN. He is a constitutional attorney who said, "The U.S. Constitution is a charter of negative laws that need to be changed." And, through ACORN, the news reported that Obama funded a book that Ayres was writing and later the news reported that Ayres wrote or helped write Obama's book. So, what did he teach ACORN to do and how did they learn how to do so many unethical acts across the nation in such a short period of time and gain so much access to the White House and to U.S. tax dollars without accountability to anyone except themselves? So, why is the 111th U.S. Congress dragging their feet and investigating what they used our tax dollars to do and who was involved and hold them accountable? Well, I guess, it's like the housing crisis and illegal sub-prime loans - they don't want to point the finger at each other in the liberal democratic party because they'd have to investigate their own.
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Must Know Headlines 12.22.2009 — ExposeTheMedia.com links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
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Tuesday: December 22, 2009 : DBKP REPORT links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Tim| 12.22.09 @ 10:30AM
Watergate-while wrong was like a ten year old stealing a bar of candy from a Walgreen drug store while Acorn's army helped to steal an American Election in favor of a bunch of Haters of the U.S. Constitution bent on taking freedoms away from the average citizen.
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ACORN Still Out There links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Marc Jeric| 12.22.09 @ 6:33PM
Obama, our Community Organizer-in-Chief (aka Abu Hussein from Kenya) is in fact the boss of both the ACORN brownshirts and the SEIU thugs; these constitute Obama's system of local soviets getting ready to raise the revolution. His system of White House advisers, so-called czars, is the bunch of komissars charged with specific tasks of government takeovers in elections (by voting fraud), private industry (by applying cap™), in education (by indoctrination of the young), by takeover of industries (banking, utilities, automobiles, oil&gas; companies), etc. Just like in the communist hell from which I escaped lo so many years ago. And the MSM and universities are already taken over by the far-left.
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The Atheist Conservative: » ACORN protected by a corrupt regime links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
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Yello, yello? Anybody listening? America? Or: Where are the Republicans? « The Radio links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
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With Eyes Finally Wide-Open, Reconsider Why The Economy Collapsed In The First Place links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
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Report Says ACORN Didn’t Commit Voter Fraud or Misuse Federal Funding | Amauta links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Gerald Gallagher| 1.11.10 @ 8:32AM
acorn will never be investigated because the people charged with doing so are all criminals. If another politician (one not "in" on the scam) raises his( or her) hand in opposition,the charge of "racism","homophobe","American with American values","muslum hater"- on and on and on. The president ( don't get me started on that jive-ass) says this is what the "American people want". What fucking planet is he really from?
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we are look for this for a long time
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Hercules won’t help you until you have all five items from Zeus’ quest. Once you have the five items, bring them to Athena. Zeus will appear and steal them. The big jerk! Once this happens, talk to Athena and she will tell you that Hercules will help you. You’ll need to have the magic mirror from Aphrodite because Hercules doesn’t want to have to walk. He’s so lazy!
Getting the Hydra Scale
You can see how to do this in the videos, but basically you need to jump up when the Hydra is about to strike. He will rear one of his heads back to attack and his eyes will bulge out. When this happens, jump up in the air and then try to land on top of his head. That head will get knocked out. When all five heads get knocked out, the Hydra will be asleep and you can click on him to get one of the scales. Poptropica I’ll have a Poptropica full written walkthrough very soon, but in the meantime, here are some answers to some of the frequently asked questions about Mythology Island. Having trouble? Post a question in the comments and I’ll try to answer it!
Getting Hercules to Help You
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