September 15th 2008
Lessons In Community Organizing
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till confused about exactly how BHO’s experience as a community organizer gives him what he needs to be president? Well, the answer is about to become very, very clear:
Several municipal clerks across the state are reporting fraudulent and duplicate voter registration applications, most of them from a nationwide community activist group working to help low- and moderate-income families.
Everyone says it’s going to be a tight election, so Obama’s deep support from ballot box-stuffing community organizers may come in very, very handy.
This report, in the Detroit Free Press, highlights the particularly nefarious (but all too routine) deeds of Acorn, the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now (aka “America’s largest radical group“), in Michigan:
ACORN’s Michigan branch, based in Detroit, has enrolled 200,000 voters statewide in recent months, mostly with the use of paid, part-time employees.
“There appears to be a sizeable number of duplicate and fraudulent applications,” said Kelly Chesney, spokeswoman for the Michigan Secretary of State’s Office. “And it appears to be widespread.”
ACORN was a recipient of BHO largess when The One was chairing the Annenberg Challenge grant with Bill Ayres in Chicago, and he’s still very much in cahoots today, says Michelle Malkin:
What we have here, essentially, is Obama using a non-profit group called Citizens Services Inc. as a front to funnel [$800,000 in ] payments to ACORN for campaign advance work. Obama officials say it’s no big deal. Nothing to see here. Move along. But where there’s left-wing laundering smoke, there’s fire. CSI has been the subject of a little-noticed complaint to the FEC by a Democrat who smelled something rotten going on between CSI, ACORN, and a left-wing 527, Communities Voting Together.
But first, the headline:
For more (much more) on Obama and Acorn, see Stanley Kurtz’ Inside Obama’s Acorn.
hat-tip: Jim
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September 16th, 2008 at 4:13 am
With the way things are, at this point… whatever it takes to win. Legal or Illegal. You can’t fight clean against a buncha dirty fighters
September 16th, 2008 at 5:19 am
Nice. And wouldn’t vote-stealing make Obama - he of “McCain can’t type” and all the lies about Palin - the ultimate dirty fighter?
September 16th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Just because Obama may be a benefactor of vote fraud does not itself make him a dirty fighter. It does, however, make some of his supporters and advocates guilty of vote fraud.Detroit is still a concern for those worried about voter fraud. Prior to the year 2004 election, Kwame Kilpatrick (of texting fame) purged 200,000 dead voters from the polls.I thought at the time that was a good start, but by no means complete. Recall, Kerry took the City of the Strait by roughly 96%. Even though Detroit is 81% African-American, it’s doubtful that Kerry got 96% support from any region.