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BREAKING NEWS----Census cutting all ties to ACORN
Fox News

Posted on 09/11/2009 3:17:19 PM PDT by mockingbyrd

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To: mockingbyrd

I hope its true. But its still run by Obama.


41 posted on 09/11/2009 3:24:45 PM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com ............. http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
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To: Dr. Ursus

“WHAT! NO WHOREHOUSE CZAR!”

Hee! Hee! How will we cope without one!!??


42 posted on 09/11/2009 3:24:52 PM PDT by BelleAl
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To: dragonblustar

Negabama be dodgin and hidin.

Glenn Beck is kickin a$$ with both feet!!!!!


43 posted on 09/11/2009 3:25:05 PM PDT by dusttoyou (libs are all wee wee'd up and no place to go)
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To: mockingbyrd

Does this mean we get to have a re-vote for president?


44 posted on 09/11/2009 3:25:15 PM PDT by mlizzy (Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration Chapels Everywhere spells P.E.A.C.E.)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies
It's going to be kind of hard for them to ignore this. They'll probably spin it that Acorn and it's wholely owned subsidiary-the dimocrat party-decided-along with the Federal Government, that Acorn had more important, voter fraud chit to do, so they will bow out of the census picture.

Whatever they come up with, it'll try to make the stinking democrats smell sweet.

Damn near an impossible task if you ask me.,

45 posted on 09/11/2009 3:25:22 PM PDT by skimbell
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To: mnehring

Exactly.


46 posted on 09/11/2009 3:25:27 PM PDT by Huck ("He that lives on hope will die fasting"- Ben Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac)
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To: mockingbyrd

I certainly hope that Fox hires that brave young couple who did this extraordinary investigation on their own and out of their own pockets. They are heroes — especially that young woman.


47 posted on 09/11/2009 3:25:35 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("A cultural problem cannot be solved with a political solution." -- Selwyn Duke)
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To: mockingbyrd

(or so they say......)


48 posted on 09/11/2009 3:25:41 PM PDT by Citizen Soldier (Just got up from Bedroomshire)
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To: mockingbyrd
ACORN wee-wee'd up.

-PJ

49 posted on 09/11/2009 3:25:42 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (Comprehensive congressional reform legislation only yields incomprehensible bills that nobody reads.)
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To: mnehring

Funny you should ask..........

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/ACORN-drops-tarnished-name-and-moves-to-silence-critics-48730537.html

ACORN drops tarnished name and moves to silence critics
By: Kevin Mooney
Commentary Staff Writer
06/21/09 5:07 PM EDT
Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now (ACORN) leaders are using the threat of a law suit to silence and intimidate critics, according to current and former members of the liberal activist group.

In a letter dated June 11 an attorney for ACORN advised top whistleblowers that their unauthorized use of the organization’s name could make them liable for monetary damages and injunctive relief.
ACORN executives have also changed their organization’s name, which was tarnished by investigations in at least 14 states of allegations of voter registration fraud during the 2008 presidential campaign, and charges by current and former members of financial mismanagement and misrepresentation.
The new name will let ACORN leaders continue their operations without worrying about prior bad publicity, according to Marcel Reid of ACORN 8, a group of present and former members.
“We’ve known for many months now that the name ACORN is going to be retired,” Reid said. “The name has been so damaged to the point where the leadership knows it simply can’t go on as it has with the ACORN label out front and center, especially after all of the reporting.”
In fact, the process has already begun, she noted. Wade Rathke, who founded the organization, announced on his blog that ACORN International has officially changed its name to “Community Organizations International.”
Reid also said ACORN is in the process of dismantling Citizen’s Consulting Inc. (CCI), a New-Orleans based non-profit, which has been used to maintain centralized financial control, ACORN 8 activists claim. Tax records show that CCI is interlinked with several ACORN affiliates.
Dale Rathke, the brother of ACORN founder Wade Rathke, embezzled almost $1 million from the organization in 1999 and 2000, while he was employed as the organization’s chief financial officer with the CCI affiliate. For almost a decade Wade Rathke and other staff members concealed the embezzlement from ACORN’s board of trustees, according to the criminal complaint ACORN 8 members filed against the organization.
ACORN’s national leaders withdrew a lawsuit Reid filed with fellow board member Karen Inman last October seeking access to internal financial records. Reid and Inman were also expelled from their board positions; a move they say was illegal. Reid and Inman then came together with six other colleagues to form ACORN 8.
“ACORN has to be decapitated,” Reid said. “The senior staff and current national board should be dismantled. The only way to have reform is for the current leadership to be removed completely. We also need a forensic audit.”
Arthur Schwartz, the general counsel for ACORN, has sent a “cease and desist” letter to Reid and Inman instructing them to discontinue using the name ACORN in a connection with their activities. This same letter threatens legal action if the ACORN 8 members do not provide written assurances that they will comply with this demand by the end of June.
“It is a violation of federal and state law for you to use the ACORN name and mark without the written permission of ACORN,” the letter states. “Should you continue to do so, you will be liable for monetary and injunctive relief.”
Reid told The Examiner that ACORN 8 will not comply.
“We have no intention of not using the name ACORN 8, it is not a trademark infringement,” she said. “This get tough attitude is part of larger attempt to silence people and shut them down. We are not going to be silenced.”
Meanwhile, ACORN’s Project Vote affiliate has filed suit against Anita MonCrief, a former employee, who has testified under oath on voter registration allegations. ACORN is currently under investigation in at least 14 states for electoral irregularities. The Project Vote suit claims that Anita MonCrief and an unidentified accomplice gained access into private e-mails from group executives and stole the group’s name without permission. It also accuses Moncrief of using a company credit card for her own purposes.
“ACORN is attempting to silence me, and the allegations in the lawsuit are false,” MonCrief said in statement emailed to The Examiner.
ACORN 8 has released its own statement on “whistleblower retaliation” through its national spokesman Michael McCray that expresses support for new protective legislation.
“On behalf of the national board of ACORN 8, we are all saddened by and express great concern due to ACORN’s court action filed against whistleblower Anita MonCrief,” the statement reads. “While we do not express an opinion on the merits of ACORN’s complaint; we as reform advocates decry the tactic of suing whistleblowers – especially, low to moderate income people who do not have the financial means to effectively fight back in courts of law. Moreover, this is yet another example of why congress must enact strong corporate, government and tax-payer funded whistleblower protection laws.”
ACORN 8 has endorsed H.R. 1507, the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2009.


50 posted on 09/11/2009 3:25:50 PM PDT by COUNTrecount (Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither)
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To: mockingbyrd

Ba-BOOM!!! ;)


51 posted on 09/11/2009 3:26:07 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle (http://www.conservatives4palin.com/)
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To: mockingbyrd

Let’s hope so, and not just some bait-and-switch.


52 posted on 09/11/2009 3:26:19 PM PDT by P.O.E. (What's up with THAT?)
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To: mockingbyrd

Wait a minute! Didn’t Acorn change it’s name recently??????


53 posted on 09/11/2009 3:26:28 PM PDT by Citizen Soldier (Just got up from Bedroomshire)
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To: mockingbyrd

There has to be a whole lot of shaking going on in Washington. They don’t know where the exposure will come from next.


54 posted on 09/11/2009 3:26:28 PM PDT by swheats (Time is the greatest equalizer. Seek God in America Again. Be fruitful and multiply.)
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To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast
"ATTABOY GLENN!!!!

Glen has made a big contribution, but that young filmmaker and his assistant who did the undercover sting deserves a great deal of the credit here...without that footage, ACORN would have slithered through..

Now, if we could just get them to stop giving our tax money to that commie group, it would be even better.

I hope what the poster said, "Obama won't stand for this" is true...then this event will provide even more convincing evidence that commiebama is corrupt as those with whom he associates.

"The Kenyan" still has some "clingers-on" but I think his days as an effective "politician" are over...he has shot his proverbial wad.

"Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke
55 posted on 09/11/2009 3:26:30 PM PDT by FrankR (We are only enslaved to the extent of charity we receive....INCUMBENTS OUT!!!)
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The mainstream media will not be able to avoid covering the story now! They are now being dragged to the story.


56 posted on 09/11/2009 3:26:31 PM PDT by Heartlander2
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To: rockabyebaby

Over here and ping the COMRADES!!


57 posted on 09/11/2009 3:26:32 PM PDT by Ladysmith ("A community organizer can't bitch when communities organize." Rush Limbaugh)
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To: mockingbyrd

CNN has actually just reported the ACORN sting story. Lets see if the alphabets do.


58 posted on 09/11/2009 3:26:44 PM PDT by Rennes Templar (All Hail the Community Organizer in Chief)
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To: mockingbyrd

Call me skeptical, I think this is just some kinda miss-direction.


59 posted on 09/11/2009 3:26:49 PM PDT by JoSixChip
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To: mockingbyrd
Let's see who they hire and work with instead.

Then do a deep search to see how that entity ties back to ACORN. I suspect a bait and switch.

A PETITION ON FACEBOOK FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RESTORATION

60 posted on 09/11/2009 3:26:49 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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