ACORN
ACORN’s Bertha Lewis: Socialism is the right thing, TEA party is a bowel movement
I’m not sure how relevant the CEO of ACORN is anymore, but at least she’s not hiding her stripes. She attended a Young Democratic Socialists meeting in late March and said we are living in a time — referring to the TEA party movement — that will dwarf the era of Jim Crow and segregation.
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ACORN is back with a new name: Lawmaker (Issa) Releases Report Claiming ACORN Operates Under Different Names
A Republican lawmaker released a report Thursday that he says proves the controversial community activist organization ACORN is alive and well, contrary to its announcement that it is disbanding.
The report from California Rep. Darrell Issa, the top Republican on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, includes details of a recent business transaction between […]
ACORN IS ALIVE AND WELL - This is a trick, a public relations trick (WAKE UP AMERICA, VOTE LIBERTY AND FREEDOM)
The group, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, claims it will close its affiliates and field offices by April 1st. But some of its critics think the move is really an April fool’s switch. They claim ACORN actually isn’t going anywhere, just rebranding under different local organizations with new names but with the […]
ACORN on Brink of Bankruptcy, Officials Say
The community organizing group Acorn, battered politically from the right and suffering from mismanagement along with a severe loss of government and other funds, is on the verge of filing for bankruptcy, officials of the group said Friday.Acorn is holding a teleconference this weekend to discuss plans for a bankruptcy filing, two officials of the […]
Shocking News:ACORN slated to get nearly $4 billion in Obama’s fiscal 2011 budget
To add to the list of outrageous earmarks in Obama’s fiscal 2011 budget, ACORN, the embezzlement-prone, voter-registration-fraud-plagued, leftist community organizing group, is slated to receive nearly $4 billion from a taxpayer-funded slush fund.
The money will come from the Community Development Block Grant, one of the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s longest-running programs. The HUD […]
Mass Special Election:More than 600,000 on Massachusetts Voter Rolls Had Died or Moved, Nonpartisan Analysis Discovered (Watch out for ACORN)
More than 600,000 on Massachusetts Voter Rolls Had Died or Moved, Nonpartisan Analysis Discovered Monday, January 18, 2010 By Fred Lucas, Staff Writer
(CNSNews.com) - Massachusetts had 116,483 dead people on its voter registration rolls and another 538,567 people who were no longer living at the addresses on their registrations, according to a study released Oct. […]
NY TIMES: Attorney General Says ACORN Can Be Funded by Federal Government
The Justice Department has concluded that the Obama administration can lawfully pay the community group Acorn for services provided under contracts signed before Congress banned the government from providing money to the group.
Read the whole story at NY Times
Nevada ACORN Executive Sentenced In Vote Fraud Conspiracy
Christopher Edwards, a former Nevada ACORN executive, received a sentence of three years probation and a $500 fine today for his role in an illegal voter registration conspiracy, the Las Vegas Sun reports.
In August the former ACORN field director pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy to commit a crime of compensation for registration of […]
Ex-ACORN official gets probation for voter registration plan (Hope and Change)
A former field director for the political advocacy organization ACORN was sentenced today in district court to up to three years of probation.
Christopher Edwards, who in August pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy to commit a crime of compensation for registration of voters, a gross misdemeanor, received a suspended jail sentence and a $500 […]
Rep. Steve King: Bauer was hired to ‘erase tracks’ between Obama, ACORN
Newly appointed White House counsel Bob Bauer is “perfectly positioned to be tasked with erasing the tracks between Obama and ACORN,” one Republican lawmaker charged Friday.
The lawyer’s hiring, announced this morning shortly after Greg Craig officially resigned the post, was also an attempt by the White House to deflect any fallout that may arise from […]