This is just part of an e-mail that I recieved and I in no way am claiming it it true or false. But since there are so many different places, including some of Obama's own people that are now starting to try and distance themselves from ACORN I thought I would post it. All the usual discalimers are herby invoked by me.
What does Obama know about ACORN fraud?
posted at 7:55 am on October 9, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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Investors Business Daily asks what Barack Obama knows about the epidemic of voter fraud in ACORN, and it's not an unfair question. Not only has Obama publicly endorsed ACORN, he has paid them at least $800,000 for their services, an amount that he didn't immediately disclose until pressed. ACORN has responded in kind, with their voter-registration efforts that have resulted in criminal investigations in more than a dozen states:
For starters, Obama paid ACORN, which has endorsed him for president, $800,000 to register new voters, payments his campaign failed to accurately report. (They were disguised in his FEC disclosure as payments to a front group called Citizen Services Inc. for "advance work.")
What's more, Obama worked as executive director of ACORN's voter-registration arm, Project Vote, in 1992. Joined by two other community organizers on Chicago's South Side, Obama conducted the voter-registration drive that helped elect Carol Moseley-Braun to the Senate that year.
The next year, 1993, Obama joined the civil-rights law firm Davis Miner Barnhill & Galland, where he sued the state of Illinois on behalf of ACORN to implement the federal "Motor Voter" law, which the GOP governor at the time refused to do. Then-Gov. Jim Edgar argued, presciently, that the Clinton law would invite voter fraud.
Obama downplays his ties to ACORN, and his campaign denies coordinating with ACORN to register voters.
For a man with a short track record, Barack Obama spends a lot of time disassociating himself from political partners. He spent most of the campaign misrepresenting his years-long working relationship with William Ayers, the unrepentant domestic terrorist of the Weather Underground and a man who still wants the overthrow of the capitalist economic system in the US. Now he wants to hide his work over two decades with an organization that should be looking at the business end of a federal RICO prosecution.
IBD outlines the scope of their criminal behavior, and Michelle gives us the details:
Missouri - Officials now have to sift through hundreds of bogus applications submitted last August.
Connecticut - A criminal investigation has been opened into ACORN fraud.
Wisconsin - Registering convicted felons.
Ohio - ACORN tells Cuyahoga County's election board that they can't stop themselves from committing fraud.
Indiana - Over a thousand new applications from ACORN appear to investigators to be fraudulent, and that should be no surprise, since Indianapolis now has 105% of its population registered to vote.
In Nevada, officials seemed surprised by the news that the Dallas Cowboys had moved en masse to the Silver State. The entire starting lineup registered to vote in Nevada, including Tony Romo, their quarterback. However, Secretary of State Ross Miller assured Nevadans that anyone posing as Terrell "TO" Owens would get a big NO if they tried to cast a vote.
Barack Obama helped run an ACORN unit, represented them as an attorney, and is now a client of ACORN. He needs to answer for their fraudulent tactics. His money helped fuel the organization, after all, and there is little doubt that they are working on his behalf. Their fraud intends to get him elected President. Will he denounce it, and demand prosecution? Or will he keep pretending that he doesn't know them?
Update: The New York Post notes the nationwide pattern of fraud as well:
Let every vote count, is the Democratic Party's mantra these days. That slogan might better be: Let every vote count as often as we need to win.
Such, at any rate, are the tactics of ACORN, Barack Obama's favorite "community organizers," and its Project Vote - of which, the Democratic presidential candidate has boasted, "I started working as the director . . . here in Chicago."
ACORN has been implicated in voter-fraud schemes in 15 states - including Ohio, from where The Post's Jeane MacIntosh reports today that a Board of Elections investigation has unearthed evidence of widespread voter fraud.
Hey, you know who else funds these fraudsters? You do. Congress sends them money every year, usually for housing assistance.
Now more than ever we need the protection of our Armed Forces and MR. OBAMA wants to cut down the resources to our Military, in the HOPE (there is the favorite word of the democrats in this campaign again) that our enemies, will abandon their extermination plans! SOME HOPE!
I do not care about HOPE, I want CERTAINTY! Now more than ever we need a man with MILITARY experience in the White House, a strong MAN that can protect US!
Not a man with NO military experience, and a WELL KNOWN AFFINITY TOWARD, RADICALS, MARXISM, AND RADICAL ISLAM!
Sir, there is nothing IRRELEVANT about the Ayers, the Wrights, the Khalids, the Farrakhan, and the large numbers of Marxists and Muslim radicals that has orbited around Obama, with his blessing and his approval.
Sir, these people HATE AMARICANS, THEY ARE CRIMINALS, THEY ARE OBAMAS FRIENDS AND THEY WILL CONTINUE TO CONSPIRE UNDER HIS ADMINISTRATION, TO EXTERMINATE US . It is NOT that you don't see this danger, YOU PEOPLE DO NOT WANT TO SEE THIS DANGER
Ron