And now ACORN is getting $140 billion in the bailout? Are we a banana republic? Barack is Daniel Ortega?
Was about to say the same thing! What kind of a President do we have that wanted to ram this bill down the throats of the taxpayer?
If they are not Democrat operatives, they certainly ARE un-American operatives! There is no justification on this planet for these criminals to get ANY bailout money!
“And now ACORN is getting $140 billion in the bailout? Are we a banana republic? Barack is Daniel Ortega?”
Yes, we are. The Marxists are making a blatant power play after dumbing down the population for 30+ years by taking over the public education and media institutions. At least a third of the public is wholly deceived or actively involved in helping them. The $140B grab shows that they aren’t even trying to hide their motives anymore, which means they are confident that they have enough backing to throw off all restraint.
I hope they’ve jumped the shark, but either way, it’s going to get ugly and soon.
Either the leadership of ACORN encourages fraud, or it hasn’t the competence to keep it from happening. Given the convictions of some of its workers for fraud and the continuing instances of it, it doesn’t appear that ACORN has any desire to stop fraud, and indeed operates for the purpose of committing it.
8/11/08
Criminal probe launched v. ACORN in Wisconsin
Union-backed voter-fraud group in more hot water
A Milwaukee County prosecutor says a criminal investigation is under way into irregularities involving a voter registration drive. Assistant District Attorney Bruce Landgraf says his office and the Milwaukee police are following up on referrals made by the city’s election commission.
The Associated Press reported Wednesday the commission had referred the names of 6 special deputy registrars for possible prosecution. Commission director Sue Edman says the canvassers worked for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. She says they fabricated hundreds of voter registration forms.
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ACORN and Obama’s Democratic national criminal platform: “We oppose laws that require identification in order to vote or register to vote.”
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The Milwaukee district attorney is investigating 39 ACORN employees for criminal violations, including offering gifts to sign up voters and falsifying driver’s license numbers, Social Security numbers or other information on voter registration cards.
Five ACORN employees were convicted and imprisoned in Washington state, in 2007, for what was described by Washington’s Secretary of State Sam Reed, as, “was the worst case of election fraud in our state’s history. It was an outrage.”
“(ACORN) Workers ... said they were under pressure from the community-organizing group that hired them to sign up more voters,” The Seattle Times reported . “Workers told investigators they went to the Seattle public library and filled out the voter registration forms, by using contrived names, addresses and Social Security numbers and in some cases plucked names from the phone book.”
Numerous ACORN-related indictments and, or convictions, have been seeded across the country in recent years.
Four part-time ACORN employees were indicted in Kansas City, Mo., for voter registration fraud in November 2006. Two Colorado ACORN workers were sentenced to community service, in January 2005, for submitting false voter registrations.
During the 2004 election, ACORN, and its sister group Project Vote, ran a nationwide voter mobilization drive that was rife with allegations of voter fraud. A worker for one ACORN affiliate in Ohio was allegedly given crack cocaine in exchange for fraudulent registrations that included underage voters, dead voters and voters named Mary Poppins, Dick Tracy and Jive Turkey. Four Ohio ACORN employees were indicted by a federal grand jury for submitting false voter registration forms.
Messrs. Rathke and Wiley formed ACORN in the early 1970s, expanding their involvement beyond welfare recipients to all issues touching low-income and working-class people. According to Discoverthenetworks.org, they enlisted civil rights workers and trained them in a program at Syracuse University patterned after the Saul Alinsky school of activist tactics in Chicago.
The New York Times reported in July 2008 that a whistleblower forced the organization to publicly disclose an embezzlement of almost $1 million in 1999 and 2000, involving Dale Rathke, the brother of the organization’s founder Wade Rathke.
Some ACORN executives kept the information from board members and did not tell law enforcement. Meanwhile, Dale Rathke remained on the payroll until June 2008, when disclosure of his theft forced the organization to dismiss him.
Truth is, nobody knows how much ACORN would get from the Dims’ bailout bill. The framework calls for them, and LaRaza, and others, to get a percentage of the returns on fedgov’s sales of assets from the bailout.
It doesn’t call for them to get a percentage of the $700B, though. They ARE getting part of the earlier $300B bailout directly at borrowers in trouble, if I understand that correctly.