http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/nv-news/ en-us Sun, 12 Oct 2008 19:03:13 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2103931/posts The Associated Press Article Launched: 10/12/2008 11:04:30 AM PDT LAS VEGAS—A newspaper poll measuring the presidential race says Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain are about even in Nevada, with Obama up two percentage points over his Republican rival. The numbers released Sunday by the Las Vegas Review-Journal show that 47 percent of likely voters say they would vote for Obama, while 45 percent say they will vote for McCain. The difference between the candidates is within the poll's margin of error of 4 percentage points. AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2103931/posts#comment Sun, 12 Oct 2008 19:03:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2103392/posts Interactive site at link. RNC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2103392/posts#comment Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:49:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2103077/posts Fresh reports of voter registration irregularities involving ACORN cropped up from Florida to Pennsylvania yesterday - as John McCain's campaign tried to link Barack Obama to the activities of the left-leaning group. NEW YORK POST http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2103077/posts#comment Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:03:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102583/posts I think this says it all Thank you, Mark Gregg, wherever and whoever you are. Dear Mr. Obama, It is October 2, 2008. My name is Mark Gregg. I am a 50 something conservative white male. I have followed your campaign closely, including the speeches you and others made at the democratic national convention. I am respectfully providing you with seven simple (probably shallow) reasons why I could never vote for you. I believe my opinion is shared by many people. While there may not be quite enough to prevent you from becoming president of this nation, I do think... Received via email http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102583/posts#comment Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:34:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2101950/posts As the investigation of voter registration applications continues, the Nevada Department of Corrections said today that it was unaware of any voter fraud when it asked a contractor to stop allowing inmates to work as canvassers. The Corrections Department sent out a statement today that said on July 31 the department learned inmates from the Casa Grande Transitional Housing Facility in Las Vegas were conducting vote registrations. The inmates, put to work through contractor Choices Group, were participating in a work release program that provides job development and placement services for the department's re-entry program. The contractor had sent 59... Las Vegas Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2101950/posts#comment Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:37:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2101359/posts For the past several weeks, Republican operatives have been stepping up their efforts in critical swing states claiming voter registration groups have been engaged in a massive voter fraud effort in an attempt to influence the outcome of November’s presidential election. The allegations took on a new sense of urgency Tuesday when law enforcement authorities in Nevada raided the offices of The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), an organization that advocates voter registration and participation among low-income people and minorities. The Public Record-Nation/World http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2101359/posts#comment Thu, 9 Oct 2008 14:38:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2101699/posts Bonnie Smith-Greathouse, right, the head organizer for Nevada’s Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now, chants with staff members and volunteers outside their offices in Las Vegas on Tuesday. The Nevada Secretary of State’s office has accused the organization of voter fraud and seized documents from the office. They chanted, “Who are we? ACORN! What do we want? Justice! When do we want it? Now!” Las Vegas Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2101699/posts#comment Thu, 9 Oct 2008 21:22:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2101164/posts Thousands of allegedly fake voter registrations by a nationwide organization are being investigated. At least nine states are reviewing voter paperwork, and Allegheny County police are looking into similar accusations. Employees of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, commonly known as ACORN, are under investigation in Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin since local election officials started noticing irregularities among the thousands of registrations submitted by ACORN. The ACORN organizer in one state said the organization had no way of checking all registrations. Officials in Missouri, a hard-fought jewel in the presidential... The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2101164/posts#comment Thu, 9 Oct 2008 08:13:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2101160/posts US election officials believe they have uncovered massive attempted voter fraud less than a month before the country goes to the polls to choose its new president. Eleven separate investigations have now been launched into a voter registration group called the Association of Community Organisations for Reform – or Acorn. The authorities believe they may have duplicated voter forms, employed convicts to register people and even stolen the names of the American football team the Dallas Cowboys in order to create fake voters. The suspicions started when authorities in Las Vegas raided the organisation's offices, removing eight computer hard drives... Sky News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2101160/posts#comment Thu, 9 Oct 2008 07:48:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2101003/posts Yesterday, the Las Vegas offices of the Association of Community Organizations (ACORN) was raided by Nevada State Agents. ACORN is an organization that works to get low income people to vote. The Nevada Secretary of State's office said that the investigators were looking for evidence of voter fraud. ACORN Has Been Implicated In Similar Schemes In 14 Other States - Including Ohio, Where A Worker Traded Crack Cocaine For Fraudulent Registrations." So, what does this have to do with Barack Obama and his possible withdrawal as the Standard Bearer of his Party? To find out the answer to that we... MSNBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2101003/posts#comment Thu, 9 Oct 2008 01:52:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100897/posts <p>Officials in Missouri, a hard-fought jewel in the presidential race, are sifting through possibly hundreds of questionable or duplicate voter-registration forms submitted by an advocacy group that has been accused of election fraud in other states.</p> <p>Charlene Davis, co-director of the election board in Jackson County, where Kansas City is, said the fraudulent registration forms came from the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN. She said they were bogging down work Wednesday, the final day Missourians could register to vote.</p> KEZI-TV ABC 9/The Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100897/posts#comment Wed, 8 Oct 2008 23:48:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100277/posts A Nevada voter-fraud task force Tuesday raided the state headquarters of a Democrat-allied organization that works to get low-income people to vote, setting off a skirmish over efforts to expand the electorate on behalf of Sen. Barack Obama. Authorities searched the Las Vegas office of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, which is accused of submitting multiple voter registrations with duplicate and false names, including names of former Dallas Cowboys players. Bob Walsh, a spokesman for Nevada Secretary of State Ross Miller, a Democrat, whose office leads the task force, stressed that ACORN was not charged... Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100277/posts#comment Wed, 8 Oct 2008 09:44:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100041/posts A handful of inmates at Casa Grande had been convicted of identity theft-type crimes and were hired as canvassers by ACORN. Read the devastating affidavit at right. Read ACORN affidavit Las Vegas Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100041/posts#comment Wed, 8 Oct 2008 00:50:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099890/posts Nevada state authorities seized records and computers Tuesday from the Las Vegas office of an organization that tries to get low-income people registered to vote, after fielding complaints of voter fraud. Bob Walsh, spokesman for the Nevada secretary of state's office, told FOXNews.com the raid was prompted by ongoing complaints about "erroneous" registration information being submitted by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, also called ACORN.... FoxNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099890/posts#comment Tue, 7 Oct 2008 21:18:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099747/posts LAS VEGAS -- Nevada state authorities are raiding the Las Vegas headquarters of an organization that works to get low-income people to vote. A Nevada secretary of state's office spokesman said Tuesday that investigators are looking for evidence of voter fraud at the office of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, also called ACORN. Fox http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099747/posts#comment Tue, 7 Oct 2008 18:24:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099791/posts Nevada state authorities seized records and computers Tuesday from the Las Vegas office of an organization that tries to get low-income people registered to vote, after fielding complaints of voter fraud. Bob Walsh, spokesman for the Nevada secretary of state's office, told FOXNews.com the raid was prompted by ongoing complaints about "erroneous" registration information being submitted by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, also called ACORN. The group was submitting the information through a voter sign-up drive known as Project Vote. "Some of them used nonexistent names, some of them used false addresses and some of them were... FoxNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099791/posts#comment Tue, 7 Oct 2008 19:20:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099758/posts LAS VEGAS, Oct. 7 (UPI) -- Nevada authorities said Tuesday they raided the Las Vegas offices of the controversial voter-registration activist group, ACORN. The Secretary of State's Office confirmed to the Las Vegas Review-Journal that a search warrant was served at the ACORN office as part of a probe into suspected voter registration fraud. The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, has been under withering attack from the Republican Party for allegedly signing up unqualified voters in order to boost Democratic presidential candidate Barrack Obama. ACORN has stated that while it indeed targets low-income voters, it is... UPI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099758/posts#comment Tue, 7 Oct 2008 18:35:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099723/posts State officials search ACORN office in voter registration fraud probe Agents with the state attorney general's and secretary of state's offices served a search warrant this morning on the new ACORN headquarters. The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now office is located at 953 E. Sahara Ave. Las Vegas Review Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099723/posts#comment Tue, 7 Oct 2008 17:49:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099029/posts One does start to wonder just how massive the Democratic voter fraud effort will be - and whether it will be enough to tip the election to Obama: As we fly headfirst into election 2008, it is worth noting how big Nevada figures in the outcome. Our measly five electoral votes are not only up for grabs, they could be the difference. There’s no greater proof of that than how many times the presidential candidates have been to Nevada — and not just in the population centers of Las Vegas and Reno. By my count, Sen. Barack Obama’s been to... Blogs for Victory http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099029/posts#comment Mon, 6 Oct 2008 22:39:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2098808/posts LAS VEGAS (AP) - Jurors who convicted O.J. Simpson of armed robbery and kidnapping said Sunday that they did not trust witness testimony and instead relied on recordings and other documented evidence to convict the former football star. It might have been a waste for prosecutors to give plea deals to several Simpson co-defendants in exchange for their testimony, since the jury did not rely on it, foreman Paul Connelly said. Seven members of the 12-person jury agreed to the extraordinary news conference two nights after the verdict was announced because they said they were being hounded by reporters. They... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2098808/posts#comment Mon, 6 Oct 2008 17:59:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2098493/posts LOOSE LIPS CAN BUFFET BLIMPS. That was clear last week when some remarks by a senator raised fears about the health of big insurers -- including MetLife, owner of the famed dirigible. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D.-Nev.), in pressing for passage of the financial bailout bill, claimed that a well-known insurer was on the verge of bankruptcy. Insurance stocks plunged, with MetLife (ticker: MET) falling some 15%. The company said Reid's remarks didn't apply to it, and the senator's spokesman said he misspoke. Barrons http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2098493/posts#comment Mon, 6 Oct 2008 08:18:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2097977/posts Text of the letter I rec'd from Rep. Dean Heller: September 30, 2008 Thank you for contacting me in opposition to the proposed federal financial bailout included in H.R. 3997, the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. I appreciate your thoughts on this important issue, and want you to now that I agree with you. I voted against the bailout bill for a number of reasons, but most importantly I opposed this bill in defense of taxpayers and Nevada families. I could not in good conscience put Nevada's taxpayers on the hook for the foolish excesses of Wall Street. This... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2097977/posts#comment Sun, 5 Oct 2008 15:08:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2097921/posts As we fly headfirst into election 2008, it is worth noting how big Nevada figures in the outcome. Our measly five electoral votes are not only up for grabs, they could be the difference. There's no greater proof of that than how many times the presidential candidates have been to Nevada -- and not just in the population centers of Las Vegas and Reno. By my count, Sen. Barack Obama's been to Elko three times, and he even granted the editor of the Elko Daily Free Press a one-on-one, sit-down interview. Elko? Three times? If anything tells you how tight... Las Vegas Review Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2097921/posts#comment Sun, 5 Oct 2008 13:42:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2097249/posts LAS VEGAS -- Jury finds O.J. Simpson guilty in Las Vegas armed robbery-kidnapping trial. ESPN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2097249/posts#comment Sat, 4 Oct 2008 06:06:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2097225/posts OJ Simpson jury to announce decision tonight in Las Vegas at 10pm Pacific. KFI in Los Angeles http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2097225/posts#comment Sat, 4 Oct 2008 04:47:33 GMT