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A Further Perspective
ACORN Visits Obama White House
New evidence also reveals that it lobbies the Justice Department to prevent voter fraud enforcement.
Leaders of the resurrected radical group ACORN are lobbying the Obama administration in what appears to be a concerted effort to game the electoral system to help Democrats, new evidence suggests.
At least five Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now leaders have visited the White House this year alone. One of those ACORN officials has been involved in vetting Department of Justice hires who may help to enforce the voter fraud-enabling National Voting Rights Act (NVRA), also known as the Motor-Voter law. The Department has come under fire for refusing to enforce Section 8, which requires states to remove the names of ineligible felons, the dead, and non-residents from voter rolls, while zealously enforcing Section 7, which requires states to register voters at welfare offices.
As I argue in my book published earlier this year, Subversion Inc.: How Obama’s ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers, those on relief tend to support Democrats, so Section 7 amounts to a taxpayer subsidy for Democratic candidates. Project Vote founder Sanford Newman openly admits his group’s work helps the Left almost exclusively. “While our work is nonpartisan, it is realistic to assume that upward of 90 percent of the people we register on unemployment and other social service distribution lines will oppose politicians who have supported cuts in the programs on which they rely,” he said. “They are likely to vote Democratic in most instances.”
President Obama long ago endorsed the strategy of using welfare recipients to expand the size and scope of government. “All our people must know that politics and voting affects their lives directly,” he said in 1992. “If we’re registering people in public housing, for an example, we talk about aid cuts and who’s responsible.”
According to documents obtained by Judicial Watch under the Freedom of Information Act, former ACORN attorney Estelle H. Rogers, who is now director of advocacy at ACORN-affiliated Project Vote, wrote T. Christian Herren, Chief of the Voting Section in the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, recommending three prospective new DOJ employees.
Project Vote is the unit of the ACORN network that President Obama worked for in 1992 when he ran a successful get-out-the-vote drive in Illinois that helped to solidify his reputation as an effective leader and organizer. Obama went on to train ACORN activists and represent ACORN in court as the group’s lawyer. Project Vote’s official position is that voter fraud is a myth invented by Republicans to disenfranchise Democratic voters. The group vilifies as a racist anyone who thinks voter ID requirements are a good idea and constantly presses to make voting requirements even more lax than they now are.
In a Feb. 23, 2010 email to DOJ’s Herren, Rogers wrote, “I want to heartily recommend two candidates to you.” (The names of the candidates were redacted.) In a follow-up email dated April 20, 2010, Rogers wrote, “I look forward to continuing to work with you, Chris. And please let me know if you need any more feedback regarding hires.” In an Oct. 21, 2010 email, Herren told Rogers his door was always open. “If you have any issues that come up that you want us to be aware of, please feel free to shoot us an email…”
In a Dec. 7, 2010 email that DOJ redacted heavily before releasing, Rogers wrote, “I’d still love to talk for real, but in the meantime, the main reason I called is that you have an applicant for the [REDACTED] position [REDACTED] qualifies her beautifully for your position, and I hope you will give her every consideration. [REDACTED] So she would be a great fit, and I recommend her without reservation. Please let me know if I can tell you more. And give me a call if you possibly can.”
The DOJ document dump also revealed that “civil rights groups” met with Associate Attorney General Thomas J. Perrelli on March 17, 2011 to discuss Section 7 of NVRA. The groups involved were Project Vote, American Association of People with Disabilities, Demos, League of Women Voters, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Brennan Center for Justice, Fair Elections Legal Network, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and Paralyzed Veterans of America.
Rogers has been working with the Obama administration before it took office on Jan. 20, 2009. She filed what Project Vote called a “voting rights agenda” submission with the Obama-Biden presidential transition team in 2008.
It is now becoming clear what that agenda consists of. Project Vote and allied groups have filed a rash of lawsuits recently in several states in an attempt to pressure state officials into backing off investigations into voter fraud allegations, Kevin Mooney reported last week.
“The lawsuits are coming out of nowhere in multiple states and they are coming fast,” said Anita MonCrief, a former Project Vote employee who has testified in court against Project Vote and ACORN. “This is part of a coordinated effort,” said MonCrief. “These groups are very well-funded, and they have lawyers doing pro bono work.”
Rogers appeared to foreshadow the litigation offensive in a July 13, 2010 email to DOJ’s Herren and DOJ political appointee Julie Fernandes. Rogers wrote that she would be bringing Project Vote election counsel Niyati Shah to a meeting at DOJ. Shah “will be working on a lot of the litigation we’ll be telling you about.” Rogers indicated Nicole Kovite Zeitler, director of Project Vote’s public agency registration project, would also attend the meeting. Zeitler “manages Project Vote’s efforts to advocate for enforcement of Section 7 of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 through technical assistance and litigation across the country,” according to her bio on Project Vote’s website.
According to former DOJ lawyer J. Christian Adams, author of Injustice: Exposing the Racial Agenda of the Obama Justice Department, Fernandes told lawyers in the DOJ’s Voting Section that the Department would not enforce Section 8 of Motor-Voter because it “doesn’t have anything to do with increasing minority turnout.”
It needs to be noted that registering welfare recipients to vote on the public dime is an idea that was heavily promoted by the small-c communists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven. Not coincidentally, Cloward and Piven were instrumental in designing and lobbying for the Motor-Voter law. Even now Piven is a member of Project Vote’s board of directors.
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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Brian Mc| 12.8.11 @ 7:17AM
A quick fix to this issue would be rather than a voter registration card, all those wishing to cast a vote must provide a copy of the previous year's 1040. I tend to be rather cruel in such matters. If I fail to buy stock in a given corporation what right would I have to show up and demand a vote at the next board meeting?
George S| 12.8.11 @ 4:58PM
Why go through all that trouble? Just bring to the voting booth the same ID they use to cash their SSI checks.
bill| 12.8.11 @ 8:16AM
De-fund ACORN, and indict people who worked for ACORN, and committed waste, fraud, abuse of taxpayers money.
jan| 12.8.11 @ 5:48PM
Amen Bill, that also includes the muslim usurper liar in chief.
PR| 12.9.11 @ 4:20PM
Hahaha...they tried that didnt they? Said they did...hmmmm....what have i missed here? SSDD...biz as usual. They have no greater calling than to rig the upcoming election once again.
We were supposed to have stopped funding them..they changed their name..imagine that.
Planned Parenthood...same ol same ol...
Is there nothing or anyone who can stop this madness? It does no good to yell and scream about it.....how in the heck are we gonna kick this vermin out of OUR house in the next election?
Timothy L. Pennell| 12.8.11 @ 9:13AM
Everything they're doing is Cloward and Piven. They are OVERWHELMING THE SYSTEM. That IS Cloward and Piven.
The Justice department is CORRUPTED. It doesn't serve the People. And, unless you're Black, it does not Administer Justice.
There is an ENEMY OF THE STATE in the Oval Office. i wonder what it's gonna take, for the Secret Service to PUT AN END to all of this? One City in Flames? Two? Three? How many DEAD, from the inevitable RIOTS that will come Next Year, when the Domestic Enemy's "ARMY" takes to the Streets, is it gonna take, before the Secret Service HONOURS ITS' OATH to the Constitution?
I guess the answer is: We shall see.
CrackerHound| 12.8.11 @ 12:25PM
Matthew Vadum:"Leaders of the resurrected radical group ACORN are lobbying the Obama administration in what appears to be a concerted effort to game the electoral system to help Democrats, new evidence suggests."
Nothing to see here, move along.
Our democracy is not under attack by radical communist/marxists who seek to do away with the electoral process and submerge the nation into chaos and then totalitarian enslavement.....yea right.
SUBVET| 12.9.11 @ 11:52AM
Where's the closest FEMA CAMP.
Anthony| 12.8.11 @ 9:40AM
The Justice Department under Holder is the most corrupt in American history.
Holder and his cronies will insure that the 2012 election is stolen for Obozo because it is clear Obozo will lose to any R.
Obozo gave up the ghost when he and his campaign goons wrote off the white working class.
Holder's charge is to replace those lost votes by any means possible.
Besides, Holder has his own ass to save. If the Rs do win the presidency, I hope Holder will be indicted as an assessory to murder for the death of the border agent as a result of Fast & Furious.
Of course, if Obozo does lose, watch what presidential pardons the Muslim Marxist hands out, including one for himself.
Things are going to get real messy after Nov. 6th.
pineapple| 12.8.11 @ 10:14AM
Not to worry. On Jan 13 2013 a "real American President" will be inaugurated.
TrueBlue| 12.9.11 @ 11:23AM
Assuming we don't have pre-staged riots and martial law...
Ken (Old Texican)| 12.8.11 @ 10:58AM
Ladies and gentlemen,
The thing that irks me most is the number of “good Americans” who sat out the last Presidential election. You sat on your fat butts and allowed these communists to take over our government!
That brings me to today.
Every time I read one of your posts about who you will NOT vote for, either sitting this next election out…or writing in…or throwing your vote away in a third party…I get very ill.
Then I get very angry all over again. We non-communists must have ONE goal. Out-vote the communists and fraudulent votes in a landslide.
I don’t give a damn if the last Republican standing is an idiot. He or she will at least be an innocent idiot, and we won’t have another chance to replace the growing power of our communists.
Speaking of the “last Republican standing”, we had better go back to Reagan’s ELEVENTH COMMANDMENT and Quit killing off our candidates.
Look, knot-heads, support who-ever you respect the most during the primaries, but commit here and now to vote ANYBODY BUT OBAMA! Next November.
We still outnumber the communists and the “takers” by a pretty good margin.
The future of our country will be decided with ballots next fall…or bullets. Bullets fly in both directions.
Please!
Get your heads out of your butts.
Look…even if Ron Paul out of some cosmic irony becomes our nominee, I will get off my butt and vote for the dumb sonofabitch. He is as dumb as dirt, but he ain’t a communist!
Best regards
bobmontgomery| 12.8.11 @ 12:09PM
On TV these days, where there is mass viewership and drama and visuals, this gets no coverage these days, because Beck and Breitbart have been dissed by the center-right (what little there is) media, and because Newscorp has been threatened by Eric Holder.
TrueBlue| 12.9.11 @ 11:25AM
Irony of the Dems going after Newscorp... if you look at the financial records of the parent company and all of their subsidieries you'll notice they have given around twice as much to various liberal causes and Democrat campaign funds as they have to the other side.
Owen K.| 12.8.11 @ 1:19PM
How appropriate that the adopted colors for ACORN are red.
Anthony| 12.8.11 @ 2:17PM
Fast and Furious has heated up folks. Apparently CBS News, (who would have guessed) has revealed memos that Obozo and Holder intended F &F to become an assault on the 2nd Amendment, (as many of us had opined in the past), by putting a policy into effect that would result in guns being obtained & used by the cartels to cause death and injury.
Rep. Sensenbrenner has involked the "I" word for the 1st time during Holder's hearings, that being Impeachment.
We need to nudge our timid R leaders and Radio Talk Show hosts into involking the other "I" word. Indictment.
I'll make it simple for them to make the case. Obozo & Holder are guilty as accessories to murder. What they did, by putting into place a scheme that would allow Mexican drug lords to gain access to American weapons, is no different than a person handing over the keys to a car to an intoxicated person and allowing that person to drive off.
It is forseeable, indeed in Obozo's & Holder's case, an intended forseeability, that these weapons in the hands of drug lords would result in human deaths.
One does not need to have a specific person in mind to suffer the consequences in order to be an assessory to that death as a result of setting the wheels into motion.
If the drunk driver kills a person, the person who handed over the keys, knowing the possibility of this happening, is culpable.
Same with Obozo and Holder; by setting this program into place, they knew these weapons would end up in the hands of killers and cause deaths, including that of an American Border Patrol Agent.
Obozo and Holder must be indicted NOW.
Mike Hawk| 12.8.11 @ 2:43PM
Once again, Rush was right. Soooo right.
Sterling Abernathy| 12.8.11 @ 2:56PM
Why fight so hard to ward off efforts to stem voter fraud, if the intention isn't fraud, hmmm??? I say run the RICO act up their keisters sometime after 6 Nov. 2012!!!
David| 12.8.11 @ 3:09PM
This people were exposed as criminals a couple of years ago and no one cared enough then to do anything about it. ACORN should have been run out of town. Had it been a Republican-sided group it would have.
Nite| 12.8.11 @ 8:05PM
This is the most corrupt White House and his minions EVER! It is clear they are prepared to engage in voter fraud again this election cycle unless they are somehow stopped. Voter ID will help. They will also prevent the Military from getting ballots on time as usual.
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Al Barrs | 12.9.11 @ 7:50AM
Nothing has changed ACORN's chief Community Organizer will pull out all the unconstitutional and illegal stops to win the 2012 election. This campaign period, once a Republican candidate is elected, will get even dirtier than it is now. Already ObamaACORN operatives are attempting to manage the Republican nomination process so Obama will have the weakest Republican candidate in the 2012 general election. They should be put on notice that attempting to seal or derail an election in the U.S.A. will be arrested, put on trial and if found guilty by the people, put in prison for a very long time. This is the only way to prevent an armed revolt in the U.S. If our election process fails there will be nothing left for the people to claim justice was done.
irish19| 12.9.11 @ 10:16AM
"This campaign period, once a Republican candidate is elected, will get even dirtier than it is now."
All the more reason to hope the nomination is decided at the convention and not before.
PR| 12.9.11 @ 4:27PM
Yup...and with one goal in mind. KEEP the doors open honey!! We the people need to take our country back. Im afraid that any manufactured crisis will result in Martial Law...what else has he got? He knows he is hated...his administration is hated...everyone knows he is a liar and a cheat...Holder is a joke. Lets his Panther buddies go while killing an innocent border agent...now thats what i call class..really. They should be shown the same contempt!