Robin Carnahan and ACORN: Too Close for Comfort

[surfman0001]

@Michael Do you still feel this way? After all the truths that have come to light about ACORN? I'm fairly certain that the Salvation Army has never been a part of voter fraud and misappropriation of funds on the scale that ACORN is. I say IS because they are still around sucking up social funds under new names.

[surfman0001]

Has anyone heard Carnahans' soundclip scoffing at anyone who votes constitutionally? How can anyone elect someone to uphold the constitution who thinks it'a joke?

Search for "Robin Carnahan's Debate Strategy"

[GroverGee]

The Acorn thing is stupid. How about a real issue like the 3 trillion dollar war to nowhere.

[Jonah42946]

MO Secretary of State Robin Carnahan running for U S Senate

According to Section 14, Article IV, EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT - of our Missouri Constitution, the Secretary of State is custodian of records, and documents and performs duties in relation to elections and corporations,

Being a candidate in an election that you are required to oversee is a serious conflict of interest. Isnt it time she resigned from her state executive position? After all, you cant referee the game youre playing in.

[MichaelJGrant]

I believe it was TOTALLY appropriate and proper for ACORN and Robin Carnahan to work together in regards to the Voter ID bill. ACORN represents thousands of Missouri citizens who would be adversely impacted by this bill. Robin Carnahan is the Missouri Secretary of State which makes her the chief election official whose responsibility is to see that every qualified citizen has the opportunity to have his or her voice heard in the ballot booth. So what is wrong with them working together?

[MichaelJGrant]

The problem I have with ACORN is the same one I have with the Salvation Army and other charities. Instead of inspriring well-intentioned volunteers who will do the right thing, they hire bums for minimum wage. Boeing was not a case of the top brass not knowing what the peons were doing. Michael Sears, who plead guilty, was Boeing's CFO. Darlene Druyan was the second ranking procurement officer for the Air Force.

[mylittlebugaboo]

Hmmmm..."scum," "moron," "park these nuts..." It's interesting to see reader comments and be able to tell who the liberal nut jobs are, just by their foul language. Uneducated? Jealous? Class envy? It shows. Facts are facts, guys, whether you like them or not. Not all who work for ACORN are corrupt, but the organization itself appears to lack much moral standard to speak of and is corrupt to the core. Instead of calling names, why don't you do your own homework. You might learn something.

[suckmaballs100]

hey bugaboo, fyi, i am extremely educated, content with my class, and far from liberal. When some one is tired of seeing corruption, and tired of working hard to pay for such b.s., being fed up is only the beginning. This shit brings out aggression, deal with it. If you think being educated is talking softly and sounding like mother theresa, then you must have a doctorate. It's lack of action that permits this country to continue to decline in morals, corruption, greed, etc.

[mylittlebugaboo]

Hey, suckmaballs, if you're so "extremely educated," why is it that you can't spell and can't put a period at the end of a sentence? No matter. Just wondering.

I'm tired of corruption, too, but I don't need to say crass, disgusting things and be "aggressive" to get my message across, nor do you. As far as "action," there is a HUGE conservative action out there, bordering on a revolution. If you want to do something about it, why don't you hop on board? We'd love to have you. Or join a tea party!

[suckmaballs100]

Spelling is on point, periods are in place, and the i's are dotted and the t's are crossed. God Forbid a possible typo!! I own and operate my own business and have limited time to write what i have to say, hence the abbreviated sentences and words. You must not text message much! Anyway... i have been looking into the tea party events. Especially the one in april 2010. I guess you had me wrong with your liberal implications. Any suggestions of websites for this movement?

[Ed76638]

Morons

[suckmaballs100]

hey n2dep2care.....it's lazy people like you who don't care that lets everything get lop sided and then all you can say is yawn??? well while you're busy yawning, layin back and whatchin' , why don't park these nuts in your mouth

[jeffmagic32]

this leaves only one question - is she a fan of underage prostitution?

[fsfbritton]

Her ties to ACORN are enough to end her political career... and rightfully so. We need to end the corruption that's brought us to this.. on both sides of the aisle. Let's not make excuses just because we like which side of the aisle some people sit. If you vote in bad people along partisan lines, you're not really helping your party or the country.

[bergermang]

This is soooooo laughable. Get a life conservative scum

[MichaelJGrant]

The Carnahan family has given much to Missouri and Robin is no exception.

[Fareslols]

@MichaelJGrant

I can't agree more, they have done a ton for Missouri. More than idiot Blunts could dream of.

[rodmofo]

And if you are easily persuaded with videos like this, you probably vote republican already.

[suckmaballs100]

where did voting democratic get you???

[BornInAmerica]

Robin Carnahan is evil.

[Cortelco1]

Any politician associated with ACORN will go down in the next election.

The ACORN name is has become synonymous with corruption and union thugs.

[airborne373]

Missouri is full of hard core communist.

[MichaelJGrant]

Just how many VOTES were illegally cast in Missouri due to ACORN? It was ACORN who reported the irregularities. For what they paid for registering people, that was bound to happen. If you want to punish organizations for the misdeeds of its employees, start at Boeing. I believe there are some people doing time over a procurement deal with the Air Force. And Boeing wasn't paying them just $6 an hour. I bet you hate MoPIRG as well, right?

[mylittlebugaboo]

Okay, so you could be right about that, and I don't know about Boeing (wouldn't be surprised). But when organizations become so large and diversified that the head doesn't know what its feet are doing, then what you inevitably end up with is corruption, and you need to pull in the reins. ACORN is totally out of control. We don't need any more new programs or legislation right now in government. We need to address the corruption and fix the old first, i.e., ACORN, big unions, welfare...

[EricDadOf3]

God Bless O'Keef and Giles for uprooting ACORN for us. Anita Dunn, Rahm Emmanuel and David Axlerod are mistaken if they think we can be so easily fooled that Fox News is not an honest news reporting network. I am an average citizen but I am confused with regard to who these Obama representatives think they are fooling! We watch the other networks like ABC, CBS and NBC also folks and their bias and censored information is very obvious to us. ACORN is their pet and needs to be put to sleep.

[ramonesrocket2russia]

You are not only an average citizen but also a very fooled and played individual, to believe that bias and opinion are the basis of rash decisions, such as those by the GOP, are absolutely outrageous. Stop your demonizing.

[mylittlebugaboo]

America is comprised of mainly "average citizens," of whom I am PROUD to be one. Who set you up and made you God? Also, you need to understand that "conservatism" and the GOP are often very different animals. FOX is mainly conservative, not Republican. So instead of throwing around yet more liberal attack speech, why don't you actually try to use some common sense and ask yourself why the mainstream media are always on the attack of FOX, who is leaving them wayyyyy behind in the ratings?

[freeperjim]

As ACORN's former attorney who pressured banks to loan money to illegals and people who could not repay the loans, OBOZO will insure ACORN will receive new funding effective Oct 1.

[suckmaballs100]

the acorn system is the same as the welfaresystem,lazy bastards sit around all day doing nothing,while hard working people bust there ass to pay for it,revolution coming,enjoy while you can.

[n2dep2care]

YAWN!!! Really? Whatch' gonna do?

[wildboy789789]

i know the 1 problem with capitalism... inheritance

if your poor and become richer than everybody, then you deserve it for being smart... but when you give all that money to their dumb kid then an uneducated person is incharge of the gov and money

when people die... donate their money to charities and then capitalism will be fixed

[StupidExtravert]

lol not that simple.

[decentdad]

Any people posting to defend Acorn are stupid. How can you defend the out right stupid people working for Acorn? Helping degenerates get loans for houses they should never be getting in the 1st place. 5 million new voters that can't spell the word vote. Good job !!!! The whole ideology behind Acorn and the welfare recipients it helps is insignifigant.The system designed to breed entitlement programs great !!!

[manonthemount]

.001% of ACORN employees have been found guilty of breaking the law. .75% of Americans are in prison, not counting ex-cons and those on parole and probation.

Statistically speaking, ACORN employees are less likely to be convicts than the average American.

[decentdad]

Manonthemount, Are you defending Acorn? WTF? The six different branches that invited loans and tax evasion for a 13 year old prostitution ring. Just because the crooked democrat politicians don't want to prosecute the evil that helped them get in office doesn't mean they are not guilty of numerous felonies. I'm sure if we had more under cover investigations we would find many more felonies. Also this organization is deeply connected to the SEIU and Obama is knee deep in dealings with SEIU.

[barbarianopinion]

I have some problems with those stats...is ACORN now one of the largest employers in the world? Who is paying for these half a million "workers"? In addition, in my county alone 12 of them have been convicted in the last couple years...I know of more than 100 in other states when added up...where are your stats coming from?

[barbarianopinions]

I sniff old man testes in my spare time.

[barbarianopinion]

Just checked ACORN's site...they have 400,000 MEMBERS! With 1,200 chapters, I know my local chapters each have 2 employees, a total of 4-5,000 employees is probably a generous guess...unless you count the part-timers they hire during election time for day at a time employment. I also found out they recruit for "members" within the prison system...but they don't say how many of these members were obtained therein.

[mylittlebugaboo]

If that's true, then it's most likely 400,000 relatively poor, uneducated folks who couldn't get a better job, and ACORN reigned them right on in with lots of promises. ACORN operates on quantity, not quality.

[barbarianopinion]

True; and they don't care much where they find them. If you're org identifies with felons and those who seem happy to help felons get tax write-offs, that tells you something about the org itself.

Look at their founders...the Rat brothers...embezzled 5 million from the poor folks they keep saying their helping. Cons, crooks, criminals, and scuzzbags run the thing...and they our money to do so. And the congressmen who send them our funds...not much better.

[herbs814]

ACORN is still a drain on the finances and resources of honest Americans. Cut off their funding of taxpayer's blood, sweat, and tears.

[n2dep2care]

I bet you don't even have a job!

[flotron9]

Only six out of half a million workers convicted? That sounds like a record any American organization would be bragging about! Too bad this attack ad doesn't mention who Acorn really is and how many underprivileged people they've fought to help lift themselves out of poverty through honest hard work!

[brkncntry]

If it wassn't in six different cities and if Acorn wasn't sueing the people that exposed them instead of praising them as whistle blowers,then maybe you could hold that belief. You know Obama rode Acorn to the White House,do you know you're a communist now,and that people that defend Obama & Acorn(fraudulent voters included) a communist(community)organizati­on?

When you commies try to come and shoot me & my family in the back and steal what we've earned in life,come heavy!

[ktmchick1]

Anyone from Missouri with a brain in their head knows that the whole Carnahan family would serve the country better by working as cashiers at a grocery store. They do/did nothing good for the state of Missouri and they never will. Robin is the worst one of the whole bunch. Glad I didn't vote for her.

[zrac09]

acorn is not the enemy...how about the corruption of halliburton fucking over our troops...acorn fired workers doing wrong halliburton just shipped them out of iraq when they killed innocent iraqi citizens...no legal penalties....double standard here? acorn mostly black halliburton mostly white see a pattern?

[brkncntry]

Hey Scmuck,It's idiots like you we have these bullshit rules of engagment and can't finish a war,funny I never hear any Idiots on the street talk like you faggots do on the internet.

You and liberal scum like you have the blood of our soldiers on your hands,we do everything to not kill civilians.

Good Job ObamaBot2008,what other tricks can you do?

Halliburton/Halliburton

America Bad/America Sorry

Detainee/Torture/Detainee/Tort­ure

Bush Defense Spending Outrage!!!!!!

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[barbarianopinion]

Haliburton supplies food and logistical support to overseas forces. They did overcharge a couple of million...but paid it back with interest and were fined in addition. Are you thinking of private security groups perhaps? There was an incident when half a dozen civilians were caught in a crossfire and criminal charges are still pending...could that be what you're speaking of?

[scottie1f]

So the democrats used this opportunity to say that we should stop funding to acorn, but we should also stop funding to ANY OTHER companies that have engaged in fraud with taxpayer money. I agree with this, but it would also mean cutting funding for a very large number of republican endorsed organizations so the republicans are against it. Get the point? They aren't worried about corruption, they're worried about poor people registering to vote!

[barbarianopinion]

I'm all for a total and complete cut-off. That would include the artsy fartsy groups, the community organizing groups, the unions, public radio and tv, and the groups the Republicans give money to...like the uh...uh...well there's...uh...can someone name one?

[mylittlebugaboo]

Uh...well...maybe the Ronald Reagan Library??? LOL!

I agree completely. By the way, just where did George Soros get all that money he now donates to all those socialist causes? Oh yeah, it was the capitalistic free enterprise system!!

[tmo7759]

And in related news . . . ACORN helped 12,000 people not sign for morgages with predatory lenders who hide the balloon payments people would be stuck trying to pay for down the road.

Oh wait, that is good work . . no that is bad work against the mortgage industry . . . no wait, that is good work that helps people. . . . no wait, it is bad for the mortgage industry .. . but wait, it helps the average person. . .

Get the point?????????????

[blackbeard456]

What about those people that acorn setup on phony criminal charges or had beaten up. What about those people. I happen to be one of them.

Don't worry Wade and Dale and Spencer and Alexandra and Steven are all heading to prison for real estate fraud.

[barklikeamonkey]

I think Carnahan should come clean about her involvement in that young boys death...

[mistergarth]

Great, Republicans. Thanks for the serious proposals to address the real problems in America today. No, wait...

Really, is this all you've got? A meeting with the rightwing's imaginary boogie man? No real issues at all?

Absolutely pathetic.

[jeffmagic32]

regarding ACORN-underage-hooker-gate - what did Carnahan know and when did she know it?

[daisymom4]

Regarding the corruption in acorn in general is enough.....corruption is corruption, no matter the letter after the politician ;)

[herbs814]

ACORN had engaged in voter fraud and embezzlement of (taxpayer) funds even before they were exposed for conspiring to aid prostitution, aid illegal immigration of minor girls for prostitution, launder money, and cheat on taxes.

[STLPushBack]

OMG. Someone from ACORN once said, "It was a pleasure to meet you" to Carnahan! This is the most scandalous scandal evah!!!!

[daisymom4]

Ever heard....birds of a feather flock together? Too much corruption with this organization to even be involved in any way ....vote her out!!!!

[jinx13big]

What a great ad. carnaflimflam is another acorn democrook