ACORN : It's an OBAMA scandal ! - John McCain ad

Another BARACK OBAMA scandal disclosed!

[ OCTOBER 10, 2008 ]

WASHINGTON — ACORN, a community-organizing group that has operated for nearly 40 years outside the national spotlight, finds itself a central issue in the presidential campaign.

GOP officials and advisers to Sen. John McCain have sought to paint the group — which focuses on low-income housing, voter registration, the minimum wage and other issues — as radical and have accused it of playing a role in the economic crisis and fomenting voter fraud. At the same time, the McCain campaign has sought to tie the group to Sen. Barack Obama.

Republican National Committee spokesman Danny Diaz called ACORN a "quasi-criminal group" last week, charging the group was committing fraud during its voter-registration drives.

"It's pretty shocking that anyone would say such a thing," said Bertha Lewis, interim chief organizer for National ACORN.

Media reports have cited problems in several states, including Washington, in which registration cards submitted by ACORN — the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now — were incomplete or had false or duplicate names or were turned in without a person's knowledge.

Much of the political attention has stemmed from a program in Nevada, where ACORN hired 59 inmates to help register voters. The state attorney general halted the program. Nevada authorities last week seized ACORN records after accusing the group of submitting fraudulent registration forms.

State officials in North Carolina and county officials in Missouri also are investigating ACORN's registration submissions.

ACORN routinely notifies local officials of incomplete or suspicious registration cards, Lewis said. She said local election officials sometimes use those cards to "come back weeks or months later and accuse us of deliberately turning in phony cards."

Lewis said "groups threatened by our historic success" have gone after ACORN because of whom the group registers: As many as 70 percent of the new voters are minorities and half are younger than 30.

ACORN has conducted a registration drive this fall that has added 1.3 million new voters to the rolls in 18 states, most notably in the presidential-swing states of Ohio (247,335) and Florida (151,812, mostly in Orange, Broward and Miami-Dade counties), but also in targeted congressional races in solidly Republican states like Texas (42,695) and Democratic dominated states like California (39,570).

"Out of 13,000 workers, there were inevitably a few who decided they'd pad their hours by duplicating a card and filling out another one or making up a name," said Kevin Whelan, an ACORN spokesman.

ACORN claims to be nonpartisan but its political agenda tilts Democratic on affordable and fair housing, health care and education reforms.

The McCain campaign also has sought to link ACORN to the financial crisis because the group lobbied for passage of the Community Reinvestment Act in 1977, which required banks to try to increase lending to low-income homebuyers.

By Steven A. Holmes and Mary Pat Flaherty :The Washington Post

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/presidentialrace/2008267678_acorn15.html

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[pabb22]

Obama for presidnet !! haha remember the days when martin luther king was looked down upon for what he said!! got him killed! obama is a good public speaker that about it! how all the middle class and poor class chear this goof on is a joke! everyones still gonna pay taxes and complain about money. Take some pubic speaking courses and u might become the next obama!!

[QueenZelma]

Good video. If more people had been EDUCATED re: Obama's highly questionable relationships, activities & criminal tactics plus the history of our nation & Constitution, Obama'd have lost. He was the LEAST experienced of ALL candidates (including VP candidates) & had never run so much as a Dairy Queen. He got elected due to a vastly ignorant & uneducated citizenry, racism & the fraudulent, unlawful activities of ACORN.

[Futurist2029]

That typography is awful.

[topthickproducer]

As a city dweller with an open mind, it is illustrating to learn from political ads running in other states. They easily go from 'Evil Monsters' to 'We hate'em' ads.

Oh! Boy...The USA is doomed!!

[AnneAnnalynn]

hmzi really want to chat i have pics too so

[Nado626]

lol Macain is such a sick person lol i stull like obaama

[Huckaby08]

Low educated and low-info voters were some of the main vote boosters for obama's campaign. A record number of minority voters went to the polls in an effort to elect the first "black" (which he is not completely) president. Haven't you seen the interviews of African Americans asking their opinions of Obama's choice of VP, Sarah Palin? They cheered her on and supported her completely. Excuse me you guys, his VP running mate actually wasn't Palin you ignorant parasites. Obama has done nothing

[capitalcontested]

McCain's lies didn't do much for him. That and he picked that imbecile Palin to run with him.

[PicklesandFrogs]

What has he done that showed them?