3. How it was ACORN that was defrauded and not the American people (despite the GOP’s cries to the contrary). Progressive organizations began to pay volunteers $1 per new voter registered
On the eve of the 2008 election, the Department leaks a FBI probe of ACORN but remains silent on widespread voter intimidation tactics.
More recently, the Obama campaign paid $832000 to an Acorn affiliate.
In May 2000, Brooklyn ACORN member Gloria Waldron testified before a hearing on predatory lending held by the House Banking and Financial Services Committee. Seven years before terms like mortgage-backed securities, pre-payment penalties and securitization entered the vocabulary of a nation …. Creating affordable housing for immigrant communities in New York City can be accomplished by simple zoning reforms say many housing advocates who were quoted in this piece.
According to the Associated Press, ACORN has the Federal Bureau of Investigation on its case to determine if the dozens of state investigations on voter registration currently underway indicate a “coordinated national scam.” …
Obama and other Chicago attorneys won a 1995 suit on behalf of ACORN , forcing the state of Illinois to implement the federal “motor- voter ” bill. In the early 1990s Obama conducted two train courses for ACORN activists.
I’m a disenfranchised voter because ACORN practices and other voter fraud is robbing me of my ability to make my …
Sarah Palin made voter fraud a centerpiece of her stump speech today, hitting her Democratic opponents hard for their connections to Acorn . Sarah Palin talks to supporters at a rally in West Chester, Ohio on Friday.
This total does not count the untold millions more that ACORN has received indirectly through state and local agencies that receive federal block grants. Boehner, who last week called for an end to federal funding of ACORN following …
ACORN filed more than 8000 voter cards in the city during its registration drive, but Borges said the piles of cards are riddled with duplicates and false information that was found by him and his staff. …