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Obama's ACORN Connection to Voter Fraud

October 10, 2008 06:00 PM ET | Bonnie Erbe | Permanent Link | Print

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Another story about ACORN in Florida came out last month. They paid people $3 per registration to go door to door getting black people in particular registered. When one African-American woman brought in a bunch of cards with legitimate black Republican registrations, they said there was no such thing as a black Republican and threw away the registrations and did not pay her.

This is in a state where Gore lost to Bush by a few hundred votes.

Should be a video on YouTube about it.

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Powell, Money and Acorn

Colin Powell was totally self serving by coming out for Obama. What do you want to bet he played this one down to the wire to see who would likely win and then jumped on the bandwagon. What a political coward he turned out to be.

Obama is buying the election with his hundreds of millions spent and he likely had it planned this way all along by lieing to McCain about taking public financing and then switching to private to get an advantage.

Obama is also guilty of fraud with Acorn and if there is an investigation he will end up being exposed for his lies.

RE: ACORN is a good organization

I applaud your motives in defending ACORN, and especially the contribution you made in the 70's. And I have no doubt there are still many dedicated people in the organization, working to make a difference. But the reality is that this goes beyond one or two volunteers and organizors. In 2006 five ACORN workers went to jail for fraud in Washington. There have been other convictions in other states as well. The pattern if fraud has gone back over the past decade. Don't you think it is possible the focus and leadership of the organization may have changed in the last 40 years since you worked there? NOW certainly has; why not Acorn?

Obama's Ties to Acorn

Having done research into the activities of ACORN, I am convinced that Obama has been having close ties to ACORN for more than a decade and it has played an important role in providing volunteers to work for Obama's political campaigns since 1996. He was also involved in training leaders of ACORN, and had served as a lawyer for it on one case. In addition, he was instrumental in helping ACORN get grants from two non-political foundations in which he served as a board member. Moreover, his current presidential campaign has provided $800,000 to ACORN to help with voter registration. Now widespread frauds in voter registration has come to light in many battleground states and ACORN is under investigation. Further, it is shocking to learn that ACORN was actively involved in strong-arming banks in making mortgage loans to low-income minorities. This kind of activity by community organizations like ACORN seems to be one of the reasons for the financial meltdown now being addressed with a bailout shouldered by all Americans with a price tag of $700 billion. Against the above-mentioned facts, it is surprising that Obama accuses GOP of trying to smear him with ties to ACORN that are only minor.

When in doubt - cheat, lie & steal

It is a shame we are having voter fraud on such a massive scale, by a group, ACORN, who could do good in this country. But my take is they have decided to do whatever it takes, cheat, lie & steal to get Obama elected. It is obvious this is a partisan decision, else why are all Democrats registered. And it is also obvious Obama has connections with Acorn, Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, etc. which tells me, I cannot trust him because he has the character of a man who would anything & everything to furthere himself & would associate with those, this country does not need to associate. I do not like the Clintons & was hoping Obama would beat her, but now after all that has come forth, I will not cast a vote for Obama.

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Saw this on craigslist:

Listed on craigslist with an ACORN office address with a free stuff ad.

Office closing, slow economy, everything tagged with a green, brown or white tag is free for pickup at xxxx xxxxxxx,xxxx,. After 6:00 everyday for next 2 weeks or all taken. Take all you want, so bring a truck. Door is open or key above door. Our loss is your gain. PS bring this ad with you.

Craigslist addresses

www.newyork.craigslist.org

Acorn addresses

www.acorn.org

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About Bonnie Erbe

Bonnie Erbe is a contributing editor at U.S. News & World Report and hosts PBS's weekly news analysis program, To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe. She also writes a weekly syndicated newspaper column for Scripps Howard News Service.

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