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ACORN workers charged with forging voter registrations
postgazette.com ^ | Thursday, May 07, 2009 | Dennis B. Roddy

Posted on 05/07/2009 8:54:07 AM PDT by evets

Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala today charged seven employees of ACORN

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with forgery and election law violations, saying they filed hundreds of fraudulent voter registrations during last year's general election.

The charges are part of a continuing investigation of ACORN,

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fake voter registrations were filed by hourly employees apparently attempting to meet daily registration quotas in order to be paid.

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ACORN officials have denied those charges.

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Obama's chickens are coming home, to roost!


1 posted on 05/07/2009 8:54:07 AM PDT by evets
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To: evets

DEATH to acorn

(you know the organisation...anything else would be incorrect)


2 posted on 05/07/2009 8:56:06 AM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: evets

bfl


3 posted on 05/07/2009 8:56:12 AM PDT by Voter62vb
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To: evets

Rigged elections have consequences. Or at least they BETTER have consequences.


4 posted on 05/07/2009 8:56:57 AM PDT by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (Whoever coined the term "foolproof" underestimated the ingenuity and determination of fools.)
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To: evets

Why are they handing us the peons? What about the big fish in the pond? Someone had to direct them to do these things, and I want them too.


5 posted on 05/07/2009 8:56:59 AM PDT by dajeeps
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To: evets
Glen Beck's interview with the CEO of ACORN was very reveling. The guy came off as a nut, and then made a pass at one of the female employees in the studio....
6 posted on 05/07/2009 8:57:12 AM PDT by devane617 (Republicans first strategy should be taking over the MSM. Without it we are doomed.)
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To: dajeeps
Why are they handing us the peons? What about the big fish in the pond? Someone had to direct them to do these things, and I want them too.

It's possible they are working their way up the ACORN hierarchy by getting the peons to cooperate.
7 posted on 05/07/2009 8:58:36 AM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it!)
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To: evets


8 posted on 05/07/2009 8:58:41 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: evets
Beck rips ACORN...love it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-53obYAjtgg

9 posted on 05/07/2009 8:58:50 AM PDT by demsux
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To: devane617

I liked it when Beck gave Levenson a chance to name one republican he supported then sat back to give him time to come up with a name.


10 posted on 05/07/2009 8:59:07 AM PDT by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: evets

11 posted on 05/07/2009 9:00:10 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: evets
Obamah's census counters!
12 posted on 05/07/2009 9:00:11 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: dajeeps
Why are they handing us the peons? What about the big fish in the pond?

Because ACORN is run by proffesional grifters. They hire "contractors" to insulate themselves from liability and the "contractors" they hire aren't exactly top of the heap type of folks so class action suits aren't real likely.
13 posted on 05/07/2009 9:02:04 AM PDT by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: cripplecreek
There are eight original ACORN workers/officials who are suing ACORN for a number of reasons.

Glenn Beck will have these eight people on his TV show tonight for the whole hour.

I expect we'll learn a lot.

14 posted on 05/07/2009 9:02:07 AM PDT by blam
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To: evets

**ACORN workers charged with forging voter registrations**

All of us here knew this, didn’t we? But the lamestream media would not recognize it.

Their loss, our gain!


15 posted on 05/07/2009 9:03:24 AM PDT by Salvation ( †With God all things are possible.†)
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To: evets

Fraud you can believe in!


16 posted on 05/07/2009 9:03:36 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: evets

good


17 posted on 05/07/2009 9:04:14 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
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To: devane617

I saw the fool. What a piece of work. It was either stupid or arrogant that he was willing to come on the show! He couldn’t back himself up in any way. He was a joke.


18 posted on 05/07/2009 9:05:28 AM PDT by Dudoight
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To: devane617

I saw the fool. What a piece of work. It was either stupid or arrogant that he was willing to come on the show! He couldn’t back himself up in any way. He was a joke.


19 posted on 05/07/2009 9:05:40 AM PDT by Dudoight
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To: devane617

Actually Levenson is just a spokesman for ACORN and not the CEO.


20 posted on 05/07/2009 9:05:58 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: evets

I am still FURIOUS that part of your money, and my money, and everyone who is reading this-your money in the form of tax dollars has been taken and used to pay these sleezebag democrat ACORN workers who only REGISTER DEMOCRATS and do so illegally. OUR TAX DOLLARS ARE USED TO PAY THESE ASSHOLES! I am FURIOUS!!!! FOUR BILLION DOLLARS THIS YEAR HAS GONE TO THESE JERKS! WHY???????????????????????????????????/


21 posted on 05/07/2009 9:06:02 AM PDT by Republic (Jedem das Seine)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Now that is cute! Where do you get a hat like that?


22 posted on 05/07/2009 9:06:15 AM PDT by Dudoight
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To: blam

Wanna learn a lot more? Check out ACORN Spokesman Scott Levenson’s list of clients. Lots of big money going to and passing through his lobbying firm. Names like JP Morgan, Verizon, the NY Jets, Apple computers, and verious service and government employees unions.

http://www.nyc.gov/lobbyistsearch/search?lobbyist=SCOTT+LEVENSON


23 posted on 05/07/2009 9:06:41 AM PDT by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: evets

This should expand to a full RICO investigation......but it won’t.


24 posted on 05/07/2009 9:07:23 AM PDT by Ben Hecks
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To: Dudoight
"I saw the fool. What a piece of work. It was either stupid or arrogant that he was willing to come on the show! He couldn’t back himself up in any way. He was a joke."<> .

Been watching OBAMBI huh ??

25 posted on 05/07/2009 9:07:53 AM PDT by litehaus (A memory tooooo long)
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To: evets
Find your local ACORN office on Kilby Street.
26 posted on 05/07/2009 9:08:52 AM PDT by DTogo (High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
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To: evets

ACORN signs up fake voters and then the county adds that number to the total registered. Dems can then work with that number in determining how many votes they can stuff in the ballot totals. Sometimes it gets a bit obvious, as in Philly in the ‘04 presidential election, when the vote totals exceeded the number of people over 18 years old, but hey...no one ever was investigated or went to jail for that, so it will continue.


27 posted on 05/07/2009 9:09:21 AM PDT by kittymyrib
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To: evets

Interesting because this prosecutor is a Democrat. His sister is running for Judge, and his nephew was just arrested (one of those volunteer firemen who get caught setting fires...)Maybe he is trying to rehab Sis’ image before Election Day. Whatever the motivation I am glad that he is doing it.


28 posted on 05/07/2009 9:10:02 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Vaquero

· This just in.
Based on their success in stealing the 2008 election, ACORN has changed its name.
The catchy new acronym is defined below.
Commies
On a
Rampage
Now
Have
Obama
Leaving nearly
Everyone
Really
Screwed
This, as you can see, spells “CORNHOLERS.” The leadership of the group formerly known as ACORN felt this was a more descriptive name given what they did to the rest of us in November of 2008.
They suggest all affected Americans also learn another acronym familiar to most veterans: BOHICA.
Bend
Over
Here
It
Comes
Again.
Film here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp7lGqWRnls


30 posted on 05/07/2009 9:11:07 AM PDT by Dick Bachert
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To: cripplecreek

Time for RICO


31 posted on 05/07/2009 9:11:09 AM PDT by Nevermore (...just a typical cracker, clinging to my Constitutional rights...)
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To: cripplecreek
It's the racist extortion scheme...if you don't give, you're racist and if you do give, you get good government contracts.

We'll need a civil war to correct things in this country. (We could have one with-in the next 5 years)

32 posted on 05/07/2009 9:11:44 AM PDT by blam
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To: evets

HIS dream has become OUR nightmare.

“Vote early and vote often” It’s the CHICAGO WAY!


33 posted on 05/07/2009 9:12:24 AM PDT by Dick Bachert
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To: demsux

Seems Levenson forgot the requisite teleprompter. . .


34 posted on 05/07/2009 9:12:32 AM PDT by ninergold3 ("Has it ever occurred to you that nothing occurs to God?" -Mark Lowry)
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To: evets
Glen Beck threw the ACORN spokesman out of his studio after an interaction yesterday where Beck asked him about these voter fraud issues and the ACORN guy responded by calling Beck a racist.
35 posted on 05/07/2009 9:13:04 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money -- Thatcher)
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To: evets

bump


36 posted on 05/07/2009 9:13:08 AM PDT by Centurion2000 (We either Free America ourselves, or it is midnight for humanity for a thousand years.)
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To: Vaquero

Don’t say that too loudly. It’ll awaken the FBI from their naps.


37 posted on 05/07/2009 9:14:15 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: blam

If the Repubs had any balls at all, they would have challenged all those votes - here in Ohio the voter fraud was massive and was helped right along by the RAT Secretary of State.

All that early voting, voting from home, etc - and the rebubs just sat with their thumbs up their butts.


38 posted on 05/07/2009 9:17:15 AM PDT by mom4melody
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To: Nevermore

Michele Bachmann and Barney Frank may be heading for legislative showdown

http://www.minnpost.com/cynthiadizikes/2009/05/01/8509/michele_bachmann_and_barney_frank_may_be_heading_for_legislative_showdown


39 posted on 05/07/2009 9:17:34 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB (ACORN:American Corruption for Obama Right Now)
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To: evets

By whatever means possible, the left gets its boy into the White House. We already know using fraud is just another option to the left. Anything is justified as long as the results go your way. These are free elections but the count is totally fraudulent! The republican party is totally behind the eight ball. Being moderate against this garbage will get the party nowhere!


40 posted on 05/07/2009 9:19:46 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: evets

January 31, 2006
The Mystery of the Obama Cult

Sunday, He Who Walks on Water, as I refer to our Illinois junior senator, Barack Obama, appeared with George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s This Week. Senator Obama said

‘We need to recognize, because Judge Alito will be confirmed, that if we’re going to oppose a nominee that we’ve got to persuade the American people that, in fact, their values are at stake. There is an over—reliance on the part of Democrats for procedural maneuvers.’

He added

‘There’s one way to guarantee that the judges who are appointed to the Supreme Court are judges that reflect our values. And that’s to win elections.’

As is usually the case when Sen. Obama speaks, people have been falling all over themselves today to swoon over the wisdom and eloquence of these remarks.

Once again, I find myself distressed and mystified by the cult of personality surrounding this guy. Not only does he display a profound grasp of the obvious, his reasonable words are rarely reflected in his extremist positions and votes. I can’t take it anymore. I need someone smarter than me to answer a question I’ve had for nearly two years:

Why does he keep getting away with this routine?

This whole nauseating schtick started with Obama’s speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, in which he sounded conservative themes such as personal responsibility and American exceptionalism.

(We should have known something was amiss when he thanked his introducer by saying “Thank you, Dick Durbin. You make us proud.”)

These words may sound statesmanlike and brilliant to some, but when spoken by Sen. Obama, they are just words. They are classic Obama:

state an undeniable, moderate premise when on national television; vote and act in lockstep with leftwing extremists.

This media darling knows the groupies in the mainstream press will never call him on it. Consider Sunday’s widely—praised statement regarding judicial filibusters.

Aren’t all the Obamaniacs ignoring the critical fact that the very day after he made this statement, he voted to sustain this pointless filibuster against Judge Alito’s confirmation? I guess he should have said ‘There is an over—reliance on the part of Democrats for procedural maneuvers, and I’m no exception, but don’t let that fact stop you from thinking that I am dispensing lofty pearls of wisdom, sharing insights only a preternatural being like me can see.’

His voting record in the Illinois legislature is very revealing. Did it occur to fawning George Stephanopoulos to suggest to the Senator that perhaps if his values (bigger government, socialized medicine, same—sex marriage, legally—sanctioned racism euphemistically called ‘affirmative action,’ and abortion on demand) reflected those of the American people, his party might be able to win elections?

Probably not. One does not challenge the Democrats’ rising star, at least not if he’s a member of ossified formerly mainstream media.

So I ask again. I don’t get it. What am I missing? Why does this guy keep getting away with this act?

Teri O’Brien 1 31 06

Page Printed from: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2006/01/the_mystery_of_the_obama_cult.html at May 07, 2009 - 11:47:59 AM EDT
*****
Just read an article today....

http://gunnyg.wordpress.com/2009/05/07/tancredo-obama-truly-a-cult-leader-former-gop-congressman-takes-on-swine-flu-response-amnesty-free-speech/

where Tom Tancredo has referred to aka as a “cult leader.”
Seemed to me that I had heard something similar before. I then went back and found the article above....

Tancredo, an outspoken opponent of illegal immigration, is also concerned about Obama’s plans for immigration “reform” and the popular president’s desire to facilitate “amnesty” for millions of illegal aliens living in the U.S.

“You have to admit, he is a cult leader and the cult will go with him anywhere he wants to go.

“You just don’t know about the size of the cult, how big it is, if it’s shrinking or growing, but he is a cult leader and you have to realize that he’s not just a political figure, he is truly a cult leader.”

And what does Tancredo think about a recent protest by college students that forced him to shut down his speech at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill?

“It says that the people who have always claimed to be for the right to free speech are anything but … they are total hypocrites.”
and there are many more....

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=gmail&rls=gm&q=obama%20cult

It clicks!
-RWG
*****


**********
R. W. “Dick” Gaines
THE “G” BLOG. @WordPress.com
http://gunnyg.wordpress.com/
(AKA: Gunny G’s Globe and Anchor Online....)
**********
The “G” WebLog @Network54
http://www.network54.com/Forum/578302/
**********


41 posted on 05/07/2009 9:22:26 AM PDT by gunnyg
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To: evets

that is a great shot, LOL!


42 posted on 05/07/2009 9:22:53 AM PDT by peace with honor ( they)
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To: evets
BILLIONS FOR ACORN BUT NOT ONE CENT FOR REPUTE!

Oh, wait a minute...

43 posted on 05/07/2009 9:24:38 AM PDT by Gritty (Socialism's endless appetite for power means there's never enough free pie - James Lewis)
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To: peace with honor

ACORN should be investigated in every single US state! Nevada should be just the opening shot in this battle against voter registration fraud and actual voter voting fraud.


44 posted on 05/07/2009 9:25:40 AM PDT by Ev Reeman
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To: Ev Reeman

maybe the shot heard around the world?


45 posted on 05/07/2009 9:26:48 AM PDT by peace with honor ( they)
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To: WOBBLY BOB

Just read the comments at the bottom of the article you posted. Found this idiotic comment pretty, darned telling! LOL!
______________________________________

“Barney Frank doesn’t have to read any amendment made by Michele Bachman, he should just vote against all of them.
I don’t understand why our local media isn’t jumping on some of the ridiculous things this woman says.
How she got elected boggles my brain.”


46 posted on 05/07/2009 9:28:35 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Obama. Clear and Pres__ent Danger.)
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To: Ev Reeman

Of the 39,600 voters ACORN has registered in California, 24,644 have been in San Diego. The embattled group’s state spokesman, Amy Schur, told the San Diego Union Tribune that the focus was there because, “We saw a high percentage of people who were eligible to vote.”

San Diego went dem


47 posted on 05/07/2009 9:37:46 AM PDT by Foolsgold ("We live in the greatest country in the world and I am going to change it" Barry O'boomarang 2008)
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To: Ev Reeman

What govenrment entity is responsible for investigating Acorn? Is it the county prosecutor, the state prosecutor or the US Dept of Justice? Does anybody know?


48 posted on 05/07/2009 9:38:06 AM PDT by grasshopper2
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

whenever Bachman is mentioned in the local paper...all the moonbats come out of the woodwork.


49 posted on 05/07/2009 9:40:13 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB (ACORN:American Corruption for Obama Right Now)
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To: evets

the perps...

Ashley Lucille Clarke, 21, of Pittsburgh with forgery, solicitation of registration for pay, unsworn falsification of authorities, obstructing the administration of law or government function, interference with voter registration, and impersonating another person in a voter registration application.

Alexis M. Givner, 23, of West Mifflin, forgery, solicitation, unsworn falsification, obstruction, interference and impersonation.

Mario Wyatt Grisom, 28, of Pittsburgh, with forgery, solicitation, unsworn falsification, obstruction, interference and impersonation. Mr. Zappala said Mr. Grisom solicited a county elections office employee for a registration. The person filled out the form with everything but a name and social security number by way of testing what would happen, according to elections director Mark Wolosik. The form was later submitted by ACORN with a forged signature and false social security number.

Latasha Leann Kinney, 27, no address listed, forgery, solicitation, unsworn falsification, obstruction, interference and impersonation.

Eric Eugene Jordan, 19, of Pittsburgh, solicitation for pay and interference. He is accused of filing three applications in his own name in order to meet his daily quota.

Eric Lee Jones, 20, of Pittsburgh, forgery, solicitation, unsworn falsification, obstruction and interference. He is accused of filing 30 fraudulent applications.

Bryan Williams, 22, of McKeesport, obstruction and interference. Mr. Williams is accused of filing 22 registration applications in his own name — including 19 in 2008 alone — apparently to meet his daily quota.


50 posted on 05/07/2009 9:41:29 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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