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ACORN Workers Indicted For Alleged Voter Fraud - 11/03/06
[[KMBC]]/[[November 1, 2006]]/ link
Reports that four "registration recruiters" working for ACORN were indicted in Kansas City, charged with voter fraud. Says that ACORN claims to have processed more than 35,000 voter registration applications in Kansas City since the summer, and ACORN says they turned in the workers and is quoted as "welcoming" the arrests. The workers have been fired.
Fraud alleged in St. Louis voter sign up - 10/12/06
Associated Press/Jeff Douglas/[[October 12, 2006]]/ link
Election officials say hundreds of potentially bogus registration cards, including ones for dead and underage people, were submitted by a branch of a national group that has been criticized in the past for similar offenses.
SEIU Local 2028 document - 09/28/06
The page from Service Employees International Union local 2028 (San Diego) at seiu2028.org/action/issues/mco.cfm has a link entitled "San Diego We Are America/Somos America Alliance", which leads to the (now 404) page cccaction.org/cccaction/waa_index.html, which is similar to the page hosting the We Are America Alliance. And, it includes this:
Citibank "recruiting" illegal aliens for home loans - 02/06/06
Hello, Democrats! You want to talk about corruption? How about talking about a form of corruption that will actually resonate with most Americans?
From "Home-buying program has cash, controversy. Undocumented residents being recruited for loans":
ACORN members, advocates on housing issues for low-and moderate-income people and Citibank have quietly recruited applicants in the county for more than a year...
But the market is vast and the level of interest in the program is high, especially since the loans typically offer below-market interest rates, down-payment assistance and require no...
Home loans for illegal aliens: Fresno TV station tries real reporting - 11/20/05
KFSN ABC-30 out of Fresno tries a little real reporting on the issue of banks giving mortgages to illegal aliens. It's not an in-depth report, but it's more than other sources have done.
They report on the experiences of an illegal alien known only as "David". It includes this:
But getting a loan from the bank almost didn't happen. An employee from the bank called and said it seemed they had a problem.
The problem was David's social security number ...
"How Socialist Unions Rule the Democratic Party" - 07/14/04
It's not just another anti-union piece from Front Page Mag, they've got the dirt from SEIU's past. Check out "How Socialist Unions Rule the Democratic Party":
This biggest union in the AFL-CIO, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which by year's end will have 1.8 million members, at its June convention in San Francisco agreed to spend $40 million for more than 2,000 organizers to work full-time against President Bush in 17 key battleground states.