Guilty Party: ACORN, Obama, and the mortgage mess.

News Type: Opinion — Seeded on Tue Sep 30, 2008 10:10 AM EDT

Article Source: National Review Online

The financial markets were teetering on the edge of an abyss last week. The secretary of the Treasury was literally on his knees begging the speaker of the House not to sabotage the bailout bill. The crash of falling banks made the earth tremble. The Republican presidential candidate suspended his campaign to deal with the crisis. And amid all this, the Democrats in Congress managed to find time to slip language into the bailout legislation that would provide a dandy little slush fund for ACORN.

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ShaunV

The ACORN workers told state investigators that they went to the Seattle public library, sat at a table and filled out the voter registration forms. They made up names, addresses, and Social Security numbers and in some cases plucked names from the phone book. One worker said it was a lot of hard work making up all those names and another said he would sit at home, smoke marijuana and fill out the forms."

ACORN explained that this was an "isolated" incident, yet similar stories have been reported in Missouri, Michigan, Ohio, and Colorado — all swing states, by the way. ACORN members have been prosecuted for voter fraud in a number of states.

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#1 - Tue Sep 30, 2008 12:13 PM EDT

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ElliePhat

ACORN does many things under the umbrella of "community organizing." They agitate for higher minimum wages, attempt to thwart school reform, try to unionize welfare workers (that is, those welfare recipients who are obliged to work in exchange for benefits) and organize voter registration efforts (always for Democrats, of course). Because they are on the side of righteousness and justice, they aren't especially fastidious about their methods. In 2006, for example, ACORN registered 1,800 new voters in Washington. The only trouble was, with the exception of six, all of the names submitted were fake.

This group is subversive and dangerous. To think the orig Dem bailout bill included at $20 billion windfall to this group is pretty telling.

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#2 - Tue Sep 30, 2008 1:55 PM EDT

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ShaunV

To think the orig Dem bailout bill included at $20 billion windfall to this group is pretty telling.

Agreed.

I can't understand how any money can go to this organization, at this point.

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2 votes

#2.1 - Tue Sep 30, 2008 2:02 PM EDT

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SHAUNV

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