Posted on 03/01/2009 3:53:58 AM PST by Perseverando
WASHINGTON -- Activist group ACORN is subverting America's election system by using fraud and corruption to mislead poor, minority communities, and the media is complicit in the effort, an organization of Republican lawyers claims.
“[ACORN’s] antics include embezzlement, cover-ups, document destruction, misuse of taxpayer funds for political purposes, voter fraud, campaign finance violations, and non-profits abuse,” said Heather Heidelbaugh, a Pittsburgh attorney and vice president of the Republican National Lawyers Association (RNLA).
“Most of us think ACORN is all about trying to conduct massive voter register drives, but that’s just a ruse,” Heidelbaugh said as part of a panel discussion at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday. “What ACORN is trying to do is change the very core of what America is. And they’re using poor people and people of color to do it.”
The group discussed ACORN’s track record of election fraud, which is concerning considering the group is the largest grass roots organization in America with 170 affiliated organizations. Despite a series of complaints of voter registration fraud by ACORN representatives, however, the mainstream media is reluctant to report on the group’s transgressions, RNLA officials say.
Heidelbaugh, who in October of 2008 tried a preliminary case on behalf of the Pennsylvania Republican State Committee alleging voter fraud, misrepresentation, violation of the equal protection code and due process by ACORN, claims the New York Times refused to go with a story brought to the court about a woman who testified in court about Barack Obama’s link to ACORN.
“If somebody testifies in court, under oath, and tells the truth and has evidence, certainly then the truth will come out,” Heidelbaugh surmised. She then brought the court transcript to the CNN investigative reporter covering the court case.
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Sooo where are all the conservative lawyers organizing monitoring, interrupting and suing the crooked Acornistas and their leader Zerobama?? Now he is going to fund them lawishly?? Very soon dead and bused “voters” will outvote Americans.
“[ACORN’s] antics include embezzlement, cover-ups, document destruction, misuse of taxpayer funds for political purposes, voter fraud, campaign finance violations, and non-profits abuse/Strange none of the msm seems to care about such things yet they pimp obama and his scam the msm is now dead.
“...where are all the conservative lawyers organizing monitoring, interrupting and suing the crooked Acornistas...?”
Good conservatives with pockets full need to hire them....although you’d think that SOME would do some pro-bono patriotic work here...
As I understand it, one can hang an entire association around one criminal or violent act without showing actual conspiracy and thus secure punitive damages. It is one thing to bring an action before a jury against the Ku Klux Klan and quite another to bring an action against Acorn where you have the danger of an OJ jury.
As long ago as 20 years a federal prosecutor candidly but privately confided to me that they were practically unable in many jurisdictions to secure convictions for black on white crime because of jury nullification. Venue shopping would be absolutely crucial to any hope of success in such a RICO action.
ACORN will be the core of the Obama Civilian brownshirt operation . ACORN may be who takes the next census.
Obama has been with this organisation from the start and is perfectly aware of what is going on. Media is frightened to death of ACORN and the NAACP as they shun throwing a light on their activities because of the race of the participants.
Organised racism ignored because of fear of being called racist.To see the government writing a porkulus bill with ACORN to receive millions of dollars to carry on their racist attack on America is scary.
ACORN must be eliminated. I’m thinking prosecution under existing organized crime statutes will do it.
It took these educated lawyers this long to figure this out. The average Freeper knew this 5 years ago.
Heidelbaugh said the Obama campaign provided a spreadsheet listing its maxed-out donors to ACORN to raise funds, which was admitted into evidence and was released to every media outlet in Pennsylvania, the Associated Press, and CNN. “After two days of working with the news outlets, the investigative reporter for CNN said, ‘We’re shutting the story down,’ simply because the Obama campaign called the court house and said, ‘We did not provide that.’ So they killed the story.”
“But liberals constantly deny that voter fraud exists. When prosecutions are started, they try everything they can to stop them. They also stop states from taking any steps through legislation or regulation that will prevent it.”
Who says the ENEMEDIA and tyrants in black robes do not rule the world?!?!
Hey! Don't agitate the handicapped. All those years of indoctrination has very serious side effects.
So, where is Galt’s Gulch and when are we all planning to leave for it?
ACORN needs to be taken down. We need a prominent tepublican to take on the cause.
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Conservatives need to come up with a group like ACORN. They should demand the same things ACORN gets from the government. It may slow the amount of our money going to this thug group if we could demand equal $$$s.
Sure we do. I'm drawing a "blank" on just who that might be?
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