Acorn part of Democrat culture of corruption
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I think Acorn should be pursued for several reasons. One they are acting like a RICO entity when it comes to the election laws. In fact they should be investigated under that act. They are also important to rebranding the Democrats' as part of a culture of corruption. In this case they are facilitating the corruption of the election process for the benefit of Democrats.
The fact that Democrats are so silent about them only adds to the impression that are working with them in this regard.
It’s almost as if the 2008 presidential campaign never ended: The community organizing group known as ACORN continues to find itself in legal jeopardy and the Republican Party continues to spend an inordinate amount of time obsessing about it.There is more.
Six months after an election where the controversial liberal group became a partisan lightning rod, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now remains a prominent GOP target, a subject of intense, feverish pursuit seemingly out of proportion with the return on political investment.
Consider the past week alone.
In the House, Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) and other GOP lawmakers called on the Census Bureau to sever ties with ACORN, one of several hundred organizations teaming up with the bureau to conduct the crucial Census count in 2010.
At the same time, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), one of ACORN’s most vocal opponents in Congress, tangled with Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) over an “ACORN amendment” she introduced that would have prohibited any organization indicted for voter fraud from receiving certain federal housing grants.
In the Senate, Republican David Vitter of Louisiana introduced his own amendment that sought to prohibit ACORN from receiving federal volunteer funds through the National Service Act. The Senate rejected it on Thursday.
Outside the legislative arena, Republicans also zeroed in on ACORN.
The Republican National Committee splashed on its home page a story about voter registration charges filed against ACORN in Nevada. The Florida GOP produced a YouTube video aimed at freshman Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson that shows a member of Grayson’s staff calling him the “congressman from ACORN.”
On Friday, Americans for Limited Government, a conservative group, targeted several vulnerable Democratic freshmen by issuing individualized press releases slamming them for voting to fund “criminal enterprise ACORN.”
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At the heart of the GOP’s grievance is the belief that ACORN is a shady liberal front group that regularly engages in fraudulent voter registration activity or outright voter fraud. John McCain suggested as much in one of his debates with Barack Obama when he referred to ACORN by name and accused Obama of not fully explaining his association with the group.
“This could violate the most fundamental aspect of democracy and that is a free and fair election,” McCain said at the debate last October.
Indeed, ACORN has continually run afoul of the law in recent years. Most recently, in Nevada, law enforcement officials charged the group with voter registration fraud on Monday, accusing ACORN of illegally setting quotas for its canvassers and paying employees bonuses for signing up more than 21 new voters per day.
And in Pennsylvania on Thursday, authorities charged seven ACORN workers with falsifying voter registration forms – six of those employees face felony counts.
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I think Acorn should be pursued for several reasons. One they are acting like a RICO entity when it comes to the election laws. In fact they should be investigated under that act. They are also important to rebranding the Democrats' as part of a culture of corruption. In this case they are facilitating the corruption of the election process for the benefit of Democrats.
The fact that Democrats are so silent about them only adds to the impression that are working with them in this regard.
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