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Harry Reid doesn't want illegal immigration, ACORN provisions in unemployment extension bill - 10/26/09

... about illegal immigration and ACORN, but Harry Reid - not surprisingly - does not (link): McConnell is insisting on consideration of an amendment to prevent ACORN from receiving federal funds, and another designed to filter illegal immigrants out of the workforce. The Kentucky Republican said the eight amendments Republicans are offering won’t take much longer to consider than the six provisions...

WaPo corrects Darryl Fears, Carol Leonnig race card smear of ACORN sting videomakers - 09/22/09

... offered "The $1,300 Mission to Fell ACORN/Duo in Sting Video Say Their Effort Was Independent" (link), an attempt by the WaPo to undercut the recent undercover reporting videos showing highly questionable activity by ACORN workers. Now, the WaPo has corrected a smear that Fears and Leonnig put in the article: This article about the community organizing group ACORN incorrectly said that a...

Joe Arpaio goes after ACORN over funding (?), Obama administration links (racial profiling case) - 09/18/09

... latter in a good way) regarding ACORN. He's trying to see if that organization has any links to the lawsuit claiming his deputies engaged in racial profiling; see that link for the backstory. Apparently the press release from his office said he wanted to know whether they're using any funds in relation to the suit, but the actual subpoena from his office was different and appears to want to find...

George Soros gives $5 million to push Obamacare (HCAN, NCLR, ACORN, SEIU, etc...) - 08/11/09

... committee includes the following: * ACORN * AFL CIO * American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) * Campaign for Americas Future * Center for American Progress Action Fund * Campaign for Community Change (part of Center for Community Change) * MoveOn.org * NAACP * National Council of La Raza * National Education Association * Service Employees International Union *...

DOJ blocks Georgia from checking citizenship of voters; GA has evidence of non-citizen voting - 06/02/09

... activist organizations such as ACORN to register non-citizens to vote in Georgia’s elections, and the state has no ability to verify an applicant’s citizenship status or whether the individual even exists. DOJ completely disregarded Georgia’s obvious and direct interest in preventing non-citizens from voting, instead siding with the ACLU and MALDEF. Clearly, politics took priority over common...

ACORN denies knowledge of "tea parties". Ergo, they must be planning to sabotage them - 04/08/09

... any evidence whatsoever that ACORN was planning on infiltrating and sabotaging the tea parties. This rumor has now spread to Neil Cavuto on Fox News; they might have actual sources, or they might have just been relying on the original unsubstantiated claim. Over to Adam Serwer at TAPPED (link): I called up ACORN Executive Director Steve Kest and asked him about it. "I saw some mention of this on...

Morgan Weiland of Media Matters leaps to defense of illegal aliens, ACORN - 04/07/09

... scapegoat undocumented immigrants, ACORN" (mediamatters.org/items/200904070005). That former United Nations intern is here to defend both, even if she doesn't do it so well. There are several parts and discussing what's wrong with those is left as an exercise. However, here are two:

ACORN doesn't need to sabotage the tea parties, they're doing a bang-up job on their own - 04/06/09

... of the tea parties - is that ACORN is trying to sabotage the "parties" [1]. There's certainly the possibility that they might be doing that, but they don't need to for at least a couple reasons: 1. The partiers are already doing a great job marginalizing and discrediting themselves on their own, and 2. The "parties" are a great way to keep Obama's opponents occupied doing something completely...

"'New York Times' Spiked Obama Donor Story" (voicemail message from reporter?) - 04/01/09

... an anti-Obama story involving ACORN appeared: link On tonight's Bill O'Reilly show, he played a voice mail from the reporter involved - Stephanie Strom - in which she apologized to her source for not being able to follow up on some of the allegations the source was making. Paraphrasing, she said it wasn't her decision but that of higher-ups. UPDATE: Video of the segment added, via this. As...

ACORN is helping the U.S. Census Bureau recruit workers (4 billion Americans, all Democrats?) - 03/17/09

... with a history of voter fraud, ACORN, is participating in next year's count, raising concerns about the politicization of the decennial survey. The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now signed on as a national partner with the U.S. Census Bureau in February 2009 to assist with the recruitment of the 1.4 million temporary workers needed to go door-to-door to count every person in...

DOJ investigating Sheriff Joe Arpaio over supposed racial profiling (Lofgren, Conyers, Nadler, Robert Scott, ACORN) - 03/12/09

... Organizing Network, NDLON) and ACORN launched petition drives and rallies in support of the probe. The investigation focuses on Sheriff Joe Arpaio and dozens of officers under his command who were trained through the Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Agreements of Cooperation in Communities to Enhance Safety and Security (ACCESS), which partners federal and...

Stimulus bill: billions for "nonprofit entities" like ACORN? - 01/26/09

... resources... Groups like the Obama-associated ACORN are certainly experts, due to their illegal squatting campaigns. But, don't worry: some of the hundreds of millions those non-profits - almost all of which are far-left - would trickle down into the pockets of local real estate professionals, turning those far-left organizations into major political players as distributors of the government's...

Obama campaign itself turned in fake voter registrations (St. Charles County, MO; but, just 15 of them) - 10/28/08

... i.e., Obama for American and not ACORN - turned in 15 bogus voter registration forms in St. Charles County, Missouri (link). However, that might be out of 3000 total that they submitted, and the person who turned those registrations over to the FBI and discussed this with the media, St. Charles County elections directorRich Chrismer, may be a McCain supporter.

"The Obama campaign willfully and intentionally defrauded the American public by systematically undermining the caucus process" - 10/27/08

So said this site in August: I've spent the past two months immersed in data from the 2008 Democratic caucuses.

The Barack Obama/Bill Ayers/ACORN/Klonsky/Dohrn/SSW/TLA document dump - 10/18/08

"TLA" means "three letter acronym", but the others are real people or organizations. However, there's too much here to look through but others are willing to give it a go. * Rethinking Schools, Joyce Foundation, Deborah Leff, etc.

John Podesta/CAP/Obama transition team has minor link to ACORN - 10/18/08

... Obama's transition team. And, from acorn.org/index.php?id=8516 [1]: On September 22, ACORN and Floridians for All partnered with John Podesta, former chief of staff to president Bill Clinton and director of the Center for American Progress, and economist Robert Pollin to release a study on the economic impacts of raising Florida's minimum wage by one dollar per hour. The study, "Economic...

Justin Rood/ABC: no worries about voting fraud! (Dem-linked experts say; ACORN) - 10/17/08

... Rood of ABC News offers "McCain Acorn Fears Overblown/Charges of Voter Fraud Are Out of Proportion to Reality, They Say" (link). As it turns out, the "they" refers to three sources: a Barack Obama contributor, a former director of the leftwing, illegal immigration-supporting People for the American Way, and FactCheck. No others sources are allowed to weigh in.

ACORN-related voting fraud in New Mexico - 10/17/08

From this: The Republican Party of New Mexico alleges 28 people voted fraudulently in one Albuquerque state House district in the June Democratic primary. Party representatives said at a news conference Thursday they found the suspect voters in a review of 92 newly registered voters in House District 13... [State Rep.

Live coverage: John McCain/Barack Obama Hofstra "debate", 10/15/08 - 10/15/08

... lies about his involvement with ACORN, which is much more extensive - and recent - than he indicated. Now he's off on a distraction about who his advisors are. Obama then misleadingly called McCain's contention that Obama "started a campaign" at Ayer's house a lie; that's where he had his introductory party, according to one of those who was there. McCain gets in a good point about renegotiating...

Land reform, ACORN-style: squatting campaigns they admitted were illegal - 10/15/08

... instance, this). As it turns out, ACORN - a group with which he's been linked in one form or other for several years - was working on something similar, although they were serious.

Barack Obama funded radical Afro-centric schools (Annenberg Challenge, Rev. Wright) - 10/14/08

... groups funded by BHO - including ACORN - here.

ACORN Ohio worked with Obama campaign on GOTV; ACORN/Project Vote did GOTV in battleground states - 10/13/08

... long-term ties to the far-left group ACORN. And, those ties continued at least as late as February 2008, when ACORN's Ohio branch worked with the Barack Obama campaign on a GOTV effort. See this job announcement from Mari Engelhardt, political director of Ohio ACORN: GOTV for Obama! Ohio ACORN is doing a Get Out The Vote project with the OBAMA Campaign.

Has Barack Obama admitted that he was an ACORN trainer? - 10/10/08

... posted Barack Obama lied about ACORN involvement (he was a trainer). Now, quicker than you can say "down the memory hole", the BHO campaign has changed their website to apparently admit that he was indeed a trainer for that organization.

Barack Obama lied about ACORN involvement (he was a trainer) - 10/10/08

... to admit that he was indeed an ACORN trainer.] Barack Obama has been caught in yet another of his lies. Here's what his "Fight the Smears" website says about his involvement with ACORN (fightthesmears.com/articles/20/acornrumor): Discredited Republican voter-suppression guru Ken Blackwell is attacking Barack Obama with naked lies about his supposed connection to ACORN. * Fact: Barack was...

Barack Obama was New Party member (far-left; Democratic Socialists of America?) - 10/08/08

... involved with the SEIU and with ACORN; regarding the last, BHO is now lying about being linked to them. While the New Party certainly appears to be quite far-left, the exact links between the NP and the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), as outlined here, aren't exactly clear. See also the many unverified-by-me claims made here; there are too many to list. However, if true, they provide a...

FactCheck presents real Barack Obama birth certificate. Or do they... - 08/21/08

... she claimed they, Obama, and ACORN were colluding in some way. On a sidenote, I haven't found FactCheck completely credible. Fact Check also has some fun with an announcement that appeared in a Honolulu newspaper a weak after BHO's birth, mocking the idea that it could have been part of a conspiracy. Another possibility is that it was planted, in case of divorce (link). UPDATE: Since precision...

Housing bailout bill includes millions for ACORN, National Council of La Raza - 08/11/08

... Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN. There's more on this here and here.

Mexico admits: Matricula Consular ID cards are for illegal aliens (Elizabeth Llorente/North Jersey Record; ACORN?) - 06/09/08

Some years ago, the Mexican government found a new purpose for their old Matricula Consular ID card: indentification for illegal aliens.

Arkansas Friendship Coalition: ACLU, Tyson Foods, ACORN join to support "immigration" - 11/01/07

... linked to the Mexican government), ACORN (far-left group; three members recently pleaded guilty for fraudulent voting registration), a Tyson Foods senior vice president (Archie Schaffer), two people from the Clinton School of Public Service (Skip Rutherford and Penelope Sur), and the publisher of the Arkansas Times (Alan Leveritt). Now, I know what you're thinking: this is yet another group...

March 10 Committee - 10/30/07

... here. From the PDF: ANSWER ACMMI ACORN AIO coalition NYC Asociacion De Clubes Immigrantes Michoacanos BEW 1 Borderlinks Casa Aztlan Casa Michoacan CBS-TU CENA Chicago Celts for Immigration Reform Chicago Federation of Labor Chicago IMC Chicago Jobs with Justice Chicago JWJ Chicago Rail Latino CAUCUS Chicago Wefs Chicago Workers Collaborative Church of Holy Spirit -...

Everything Ready For the March for the Millions of Undocumented Foreigners - 10/11/07

Farmers Branch: 68% vote for anti-illegal immigration ordinance; ACLU, MALDEF file TRO - 05/15/07

Last week, Farmers Branch (outside Dallas, Texas) passed a city ordinance requiring landlords to check the immigration status of renters.

Dallas Mega March Coalition 2007 - 04/02/07

Organization that organized the April 1 2007 Dallas march site: megamarch.com The file megamarch.com/Portals/0/megadocs/MegaEndorsementForm.pdf lists the following sponsors: League of United Latin American Citizens American Civil Liberties Union Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now Southwest Voter Registration Education Project League of United Latin American Citizens...

ACLU, LULAC, ACORN, SVREP endorsed Dallas April 1 illegal immigration march - 04/02/07

... chapter, but the national ACLU), ACORN, the Southwest Voter Registration Education Project, and various LULAC chapters. While the organizers stress their citizenship drives, the fact remains that what they're fighting for - immigration "reform" - is almost completely about the illegal variety thereof. Now, let's turn to the hugely biased "Immigrants rally for rights, unity" by Dianne Solis and...

We Are America debates in Chicago - 03/18/07

New York Coalition to Expand Voting Rights - 02/21/07

... represent." Members of the group: ACORN - NY ADCNY African American Progressive Association Alianza Dominicana Alliance for Inmates with AIDS ABFA Asian Pacific American Voters Alliance Asian American Legal Defense & Education Fund Asociacion Tepeyac de New York Astorians for Peace and Justice Batey Relief Alliance Breakthrough: building human rights culture Catholic Migration...

Rallies sound immigration drumbeat - 02/21/07

Immigration forums in Connecticut, Fort Worth - 02/07/07

The League of Women Voters is conducting at least two immigration forums around the country, and I urge anyone in the area to turn out and ask tough questions of their apparently pro-illegal immigration panelists. Weds. 2/7/07; Wilton, Connecticut; reservation required; link; the only panelist is an immigration attorney Thu. 2/8/07; Fort Worth, Texas; link All three panelists at the last are pro-...

LULAC beginning amnesty/immigration "reform" push - 01/09/07

The League of United Latin American Citizens, the Southwest Voter Registration Education Project, the Hispanic Federation, and America Votes are starting an astroturf campaign to push the Dems into support immigration "reform", aka amnesty. America Votes (take