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3/6/10 12:41 pm | Comment (0) | Permalink | Tags: ACORN, James O'Keefe, QOTD, Sean Hannity, Stephen Colbert

ACORNs! ACORNs Everywhere!

• A majority of Republicans–majority!–are insane enough to believe that the ACORNs stole the 2008 election for their squirrel-king Barack Obama. (Public Policy Polling)
• But, in the great state of Upstate New York, even Republican election officials do not believe that ACORN stole the NY-23 election from wingnut Doug Hoffman. (Watertown Daily Times)
• Rudy Giuliani will not run for governor of New York because ACORN would just steal it back anyway. However, he did say 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11. (NYT) Update: Crafty ACORN lies?? (CNN Political Ticker)
• President Obama will not announce his Afghanistan policy until after Thanksgiving, in order to give his ACORN overlords time to look over it. (Foreign Policy)
• Charlene Lugar, wife of Sen. Dick Lugar (R-IN) was arrested for DUI at 6:18 pm yesterday in northern Virginia. Is this ACORN’s doing as well? (Roll Call)
• Former professional wrestler and secret ACORN operative Superstar Billy Graham blasted Republican Connecticut Senate candidate Linda McMahon for the terrible things that she did while running World Wrestling Entertainment. (Hartford Courant)

11/19/09 2:01 pm | Comments disabled. | Permalink | Tags: 2008, ACORN, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Charlene Lugar, CT-Sen, Dick Lugar, Doug Hoffman, DUI, Linda McMahon, NY-23, NY-Gov, Rudy Giuliani

Death of a Talking Point

It’s hard to accuse your opponent of paying off people to commit voter fraud when your campaign paid off people who committed voter fraud:

John McCain paid $175,000 of campaign money to a Republican operative accused of massive voter registration fraud in several states, it has emerged.

As the McCain camp attempts to tie Barack Obama to claims of registration irregularities by the activist group ACORN, campaign finance records detailing the payment to the firm of Nathan Sproul, investigated several times for fraud, threatens to derail that argument.

The documents show that a joint committee of the McCain-Palin campaign, the Republican National Committee and the California Republican Party, made the payment to Lincoln Strategy, of which Mr Sproul is the managing partner, for the purposes of “voter registration”.

Mr Sproul has been investigated on numerous occasions for preventing Democrats from voting, destroying registration forms and leading efforts to get Ralph Nader on ballots to leach the Democratic vote.
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“It should certainly take away from McCain’s argument,” Bob Grossfeld, an Arizona political consultant who has watched Mr Sproul’s career closely, told the Huffington Post. “Without knowing anything of what is going on with ACORN, there is a clear history with Mr Sproul either going over the line or sure as hell kicking dirt on it, and doing it for profit and usually fairly substantive profit.”

In May this year, both ACORN and Mr Sproul were discussed at a hearing of the House subcommittee on commercial and administrative law. One Republican member, Congressman Chris Cannon, concluded: “The difference between ACORN and Sproul is that ACORN doesn’t throw away or change registration documents after they have been filled out.” 

If the American press picks this story up and puts it together with the arrest of Republican fraudster Mark Jacoby, that should be the end of any discussion over ACORN.

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10/23/08 8:18 am | Comment (2) | Permalink | Tags: 2008, ACORN, John McCain, Mark Jacoby, Nathan Sproul, voter fraud