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Congress Hears About ACORN's Extortion Racket
American Specator ^ | March 19, 2009 | Matthew Vadum

Posted on 3/19/2009, 5:25:13 PM by vadum

In recent months demands for ACORN to be investigated under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) for repeated incidents of electoral fraud have been growing.

But voting-related fraud is just the tip of the iceberg.

ACORN runs a mob-style "protection" racket known within the radical direct-action group as the "muscle for the money" program, a lawyer told the House Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties today.

Lawyer Heather Heidelbaugh filed an unsuccessful lawsuit last year against ACORN, specifically, a court injunction in Pennsylvania against ACORN's voter registration efforts in last year's presidential campaign. (A transcript of the Oct. 29 hearing in Moyer v. ACORN is available here.) [...]

(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...


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KEYWORDS: acorn; census; crime; election; fraud; votes
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1 posted on 3/19/2009, 5:25:13 PM by vadum
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To: vadum

And....

SEIU....ACORN with a day job.


2 posted on 3/19/2009, 5:26:08 PM by xcamel (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
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To: vadum

bookmark


3 posted on 3/19/2009, 5:27:34 PM by GOP Poet
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To: vadum

ACORN GOT OBAMA ELECTED BY FRAUD!......Gee! No one saw that?Where the hell was the F.B.I.?


4 posted on 3/19/2009, 5:29:45 PM by AngelesCrestHighway
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Where the hell was the F.B.I.?

Looking for white supremacists in a van.

5 posted on 3/19/2009, 5:30:49 PM by Tijeras_Slim
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To: vadum

And the corruption just keeps growing.
... on a side-note: I’d like “conspiracy to commit voter fraud” be a capital offense.


6 posted on 3/19/2009, 5:32:37 PM by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: vadum

Rent-a-mob!


7 posted on 3/19/2009, 5:33:03 PM by I am Richard Brandon
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To: vadum

Watch Fox News’ Megyn Kelly take down an ACORN spokescreep: http://www.thehopeforamerica.com/play.php?id=599


8 posted on 3/19/2009, 5:39:29 PM by fullchroma (I want my country back.)
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To: vadum

I looked in the local phone directory and did not find ACORN as a social agency. How does one find their offices, to start a little survellance?


9 posted on 3/19/2009, 5:43:10 PM by JimRed ("Hey, hey, Teddy K., how many girls did you drown today?" TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: Tijeras_Slim
When ACORN board members Marcel Reid and Karen Inman demanded to see the financial documents, they were expelled from the group.

Interesting little factoid.

10 posted on 3/19/2009, 5:43:51 PM by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Or some one with a shotgun barrel sawed off at 17 15/16 inches.


11 posted on 3/19/2009, 5:45:05 PM by devistate one four (Impatiently waiting for the next tea party! Tet '68)
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To: devistate one four

more like 17 63/64


12 posted on 3/19/2009, 6:03:11 PM by jrd
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To: Tijeras_Slim; AngelesCrestHighway
Where the hell was the F.B.I.?

Looking for white supremacists in a van.

Down by the river?

13 posted on 3/19/2009, 6:03:55 PM by Disambiguator
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To: JimRed

ACORN lists its offices at:

http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=12345


14 posted on 3/19/2009, 6:04:15 PM by vadum
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To: vadum

And ACORN will be involved in the 2010 census. (posted elsewhere on FR but here’s a link to the original:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/03/17/lawmakers-concerned-role-acorn-census/


15 posted on 3/19/2009, 6:10:12 PM by JoyjoyfromNJ (Psalm 121)
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To: vadum
I guess Congress will be giving the Gambino crime family a few billion next. Both are being investigated for racketering and fraud but so far only one is being given billions in "stimulus" funds and being asked to handle the US Census.

I'm sure given enough time the Obama administration will find a way to funnel a few billion to the mob, just to make it fair!

16 posted on 3/19/2009, 6:10:51 PM by marlon
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To: JimRed

Go to your neighborhood mighty oak tree.


17 posted on 3/19/2009, 6:19:45 PM by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: vadum

But will Congress do anything to keep ACORN out of the US Census?


18 posted on 3/19/2009, 6:24:39 PM by HighlyOpinionated (The Constitution & Bill of Rights stand as a whole. Remove any part & nullify the whole.)
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To: JimRed

Pick the one nearest you.
Jersey City ACORN

862 Newark Avenue
Jersey City, NJ 07306

>> Visit Local Website

Phone: 201-963-9132
Fax: 201-963-9133
njacorn@acorn.org
Newark ACORN

45 Bloomfield Ave.
Newark, NJ 07104

>> Visit Local Website

Phone: 973-485-1407
njacorn@acorn.org
Paterson ACORN

175 Market Street
#306
Paterson, NJ 07505

>> Visit Local Website

Phone: 973-684-8880
Fax: 973-684-8890
njacornpa@acorn.org
Trenton ACORN

395 W. State St.
2nd Floor
Trenton, NJ 08618

>> Visit Local Website

Phone: 609-392-7954
njacorn@acorn.org


19 posted on 3/19/2009, 6:25:27 PM by Ed Condon (Wanted, newer tag line in good condition.)
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To: vadum

Sometimes I think it would be good for a bunch of us to join ACORN just to document their illegal activities.


20 posted on 3/19/2009, 11:40:10 PM by Darwin Fish (God invented evolution. Man invented religeon.)
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