John Fund WSJ article, More Acorn Voter Fraud Comes to Light, looks at another case being brought against ACORN and the response from the left.
On Monday, Nevada officials charged Acorn, its regional director and its Las Vegas field director with submitting thousands of fraudulent voter registration forms last year. Larry Lomax, the registrar of voters in Las Vegas, says he believes 48% of Acorn’s forms “are clearly fraudulent.” On Thursday, prosecutors in Pittsburgh, Pa., also charged seven Acorn employees with filing hundreds of fraudulent voter registrations before last year’s general election.
As usual, ACORN claims that the abuses where only the work of a few bad employees.
But Catherine Cortez Masto, Nevada’s Democratic Attorney General, told the Las Vegas Sun that Acorn itself is named in the criminal complaint. She says that Acorn’s training manuals “clearly detail, condone and . . . require illegal acts,” such as requiring its workers to meet strict voter-registration targets to keep their jobs.
What is interesting in Fund’s piece is the marked difference between local and federal Democratic response.
State and city Democratic officials — who’ve been contending with its many scandals — are moving against it. Washington Democrats are still sweeping Acorn abuses under a rug.
He cites two examples: John Conyers (D-MI) suggesting that a House Judiciary Subcommittee look into the allegations surrounding the group and later withdrawing that idea saying, “the complaints against Acorn, I have concluded that a hearing on this matter appears unwarranted at this time.” Also Rep. Barney Frank; at first voting in favor of Michelle Bachmann’s amendment that would “block groups indicted for voter fraud from receiving federal housing or legal assistance grants” but latter reversing his position.
Bachmann’s amendment is about the money, and it is a lot of money.
In the stimulus bill passed by Congress, Acorn is eligible — along with other activist groups — to apply for $2 billion in funds to redevelop abandoned and foreclosed homes.
State after state, election after election, allegations and charges have been brought against this corrupt group. So, naturally, they’ve been enlisted to help with next year’s census. Unbelievable.
In spite of every straw heaped upon the camel’s back they don’t appear worried.
“We’ve had bad publicity before, and all it does is inform the community that we’re here working for the community,” Bonnie Greathouse, Acorn’s head organizer in Nevada, assured the Las Vegas Review-Journal this week. “People always come forward to our defense. We’re just community organizers, just like the president used to be.”
I don’t know if that’s scary, sad, or just infuriating. Maybe it’s all three.
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