ACORN Files Voting Rights Suit on Behalf of Imaginary-Americans

[thomaska]

ST. LOUIS - Attorneys for the voting registration organizations ACORN and Project Vote filed an anti-discrimination voting rights suit in the U.S. Federal District court this morning, alleging the United States government is involved in "a widespread, systematic effort to disenfranchise Imaginary-Americans and deprive them of access to polls."

"Participation in our electoral process is a fundamental right, and the foundation of our democracy," said ASDF ASDFG, a spokesperson for the National Association for the Advancement of Imaginary People, one of the groups named as plaintiffs in the class action. "We will not be silent when government denies people access to the polls on the basis of color, or sex, or existential status."

The new suit was prompted by on a series of law enforcement raids of ACORN offices in 10 states over the past week, as well as a reported Justice Department investigation. Federal and state officials say they were acting on tips of fraudulent voter registration forms, after election officials reported a flood of unusual applications submitted by ACORN canvassers.

In Las Vegas the Clarke County election commission reported thousands of registrations signed by the Dallas Cowboys, while in St. Louis officials discovered thousands of others signed by Power Rangers, Menudo, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. In Cleveland, Ohio Republican officials complained to the Federal Election Commission after early-voting sites barred observers when thousands of Invisible-Ohioans arrived at the polls aboard hundreds of invisible ACORN buses. In Ida Grove, Iowa, Ida County Registrar Debby Ballard expressed concern when a convoy of Chicago ACORN semis submitted 4,000,000 provisional ballots, 17 seconds before a 5 pm deadline.

"I'm proud that Ida County can boast of a 114,312% voter registration rate, but I'm not sure if I can get all of them processed by Monday," said Ballard. "I've got a pilates class in Sioux City."
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[Avro]

Yeah, McCain better stop hanging around ACORN people then eh?:lol:

This is the last straw cons have to grab onto to stop Obama from booting the cons out of the white house.:roll:

It will be interesting to see if yanks are dumb enough to fall for this and "Joe the illegal plumber" come election day.

It wouldn't surprise me at all.

 

[Kreskin]

John McCain should cancel his campaign to fight the voter registration system.

 

[Ron in Regina]

Covering ACORN with a hatchet
Posted: 04:34 PM ET November 4, 2008

From CNN Investigative Correspondent Drew Griffin


(CNN) — So today I got a letter sent to all Catholic Bishops in the U.S. announcing that due to serious problems at the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), the Catholic Campaign for Human Development is suspending all funds to ACORN.

It’s significant because the Catholic Church in the U.S. has given $7.3 million dollars to ACORN projects over the past decade. Just last year, U.S. Catholics gave more than a million dollars to ACORN. And it appears some of that money filtered down to the ACORN office in Las Vegas that made headlines trying to register the Dallas Cowboys football team to vote in Nevada.

The problem for the Catholics is two fold:
1. The Catholic Church is concerned about its own tax exempt status being involved in a group that is now so deeply involved in political support of one candidate.
2. The Catholic Church says questions have arisen about ACORNS financial management, fiscal transparency and accountability.

So, of course, I immediately called ACORN’s spokesperson Scott Levenson, one of many public relations specialists brought on by ACORN to fight all this bad press. And here is Scott’s response to the question about the Catholic bishop’s freezing ACORN funding:

“The facts are wrong and we will no longer participate in a Drew Griffin hatchet job against ACORN.”

Less than an hour later, after our editorial director made a call to ACORN asking if this really was their response, we got this from another public relations specialist ACORN brought on to fight the bad publicity:

“ACORN is grateful to have received CCHD funding for many years, and proud that CCHD has enabled us to help our low income constituency achieve the American Dream. We know that CCHD is reviewing their current funding, and we are in discussions with them about continuing their support.” Steve Kest, ACORN Executive Director

The tension over at ACORN must be so thick you could cut it with a …well, I guess a hatchet.

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[Ron in Regina]

Covering ACORN with a hatchet
Posted: 04:34 PM ET November 4, 2008

From CNN Investigative Correspondent Drew Griffin


(CNN) — So today I got a letter sent to all Catholic Bishops in the U.S. announcing that due to serious problems at the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), the Catholic Campaign for Human Development is suspending all funds to ACORN.

It’s significant because the Catholic Church in the U.S. has given $7.3 million dollars to ACORN projects over the past decade. Just last year, U.S. Catholics gave more than a million dollars to ACORN. And it appears some of that money filtered down to the ACORN office in Las Vegas that made headlines trying to register the Dallas Cowboys football team to vote in Nevada.

The problem for the Catholics is two fold:
1. The Catholic Church is concerned about its own tax exempt status being involved in a group that is now so deeply involved in political support of one candidate.
2. The Catholic Church says questions have arisen about ACORNS financial management, fiscal transparency and accountability.

So, of course, I immediately called ACORN’s spokesperson Scott Levenson, one of many public relations specialists brought on by ACORN to fight all this bad press. And here is Scott’s response to the question about the Catholic bishop’s freezing ACORN funding:

“The facts are wrong and we will no longer participate in a Drew Griffin hatchet job against ACORN.”

Less than an hour later, after our editorial director made a call to ACORN asking if this really was their response, we got this from another public relations specialist ACORN brought on to fight the bad publicity:

“ACORN is grateful to have received CCHD funding for many years, and proud that CCHD has enabled us to help our low income constituency achieve the American Dream. We know that CCHD is reviewing their current funding, and we are in discussions with them about continuing their support.” Steve Kest, ACORN Executive Director

The tension over at ACORN must be so thick you could cut it with a …well, I guess a hatchet.

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So now they're going to 'lean on' the Catholic Church?
"Hey, send Vinnie & Guido over to talk to 'dem 'der Bishops and set 'dem straight! Take Paulie and Fat Tony wich ya's too!"

 

[lone wolf]

This can't be for real. If it is, ACORN's a good name for it because they're nutz. Rediculous is the lengths to which the US justice system will stretch itself to enrich lawyers....

 

[Ron in Regina]

Wolf, if you thing that's unreal...check out this weirdness.

YouTube - Black Panthers patrol polling places in Philly

 

[lone wolf]

There is a Mac's Milk on Notre Dame at King in Sudbury where there is a guard on duty at night and you have to be buzzed in....

There is a Canada Customs office in Saulte Ste Marie that's closed up and being extensively cleaned because it has mice....

Jim Morrison said it right.... People are strange....

 

[Ron in Regina]

There is a Mac's Milk on Notre Dame at King in Sudbury where there is a guard on duty at night and you have to be buzzed in....

There is a Canada Customs office in Saulte Ste Marie that's closed up and being extensively cleaned because it has mice....

Jim Morrison said it right.... People are strange....

That Mac's Milk on Notre Dame at King in Sudbury where there is a guard on duty at night and you have to be buzzed in....that's not a polling station. The video is a polling station, today, in Philadelphia.

 

[lone wolf]

Rough neighbourhood....

 

[EagleSmack]

STOLEN ELECTION! Obama Stole this one! Not my President! Don't Blame me I voted for McCain! :lol:

Oh it will be SO GREAT to be the other side for 4 years!

 

[EagleSmack]

Rough neighbourhood....

It is the new look for the USA!

A new Militia Movement

Say goodbye to our Freedoms!

 

[Walter]

Barry has some strange associates.

Illinois governor arrested for trying to sell Obama senate seat


CHICAGO (AFP) — The governor of Illinois was arrested Tuesday on charges of conspiring to sell an appointment to president-elect Barack Obama's recently vacated US Senate seat in what prosecutors called "a political corruption crime spree."
Governor Rod Blagojevich and his chief of staff, John Harris, were also accused of demanding kickbacks for government contracts, jobs and appointments and trying to get certain editors fired from the Chicago Tribune newspaper because of their critical coverage of his administration.
"The breadth of corruption laid out in these charges is staggering," US attorney Patrick Fitzgerald said.
"They allege that Blagojevich put a 'for sale' sign on the naming of a United States senator; involved himself personally in pay-to-play schemes with the urgency of a salesman meeting his annual sales target, and corruptly used his office in an effort to trample editorial voices of criticism."
"Governor Blagojevich has taken us to a truly new low," Fitzgerald said at a press conference, adding that the state's top leader "has been arrested in the middle of what we can only describe as a political corruption crime spree."
Obama said he was not aware of allegations that Blagojevich - who as governor is charged with appointing a US senator when a seat becomes vacant - was shopping it around to find the highest bidder.
"I had no contact with the governor or his office, and so I was not aware of what was happening," Obama told reporters.
"Like the rest of the people of Illinois, I am saddened and sobered by the news that came out of the US attorney's office today," the president-elect said, adding that it would not be "appropriate" for him to comment further on the ongoing investigation.
Blagojevich was released on a 4,500 dollar bond Tuesday after making a brief appearance before a federal judge in Chicago. His office did not immediately respond to a request for comment or calls for his resignation.
Fitzgerald made no allegations that Obama was aware of any scheming by the governor. The complaint included descriptions of recorded conversations in which Blagojevich complained bitterly that while Obama's team had a preferred candidate in mind, "they're not willing to give me anything except appreciation. (expletive) them."
Fitzgerald said the breadth of alleged corruption by Blagojevich was "appalling," especially given that the governor had known he was under investigation for years.
"You might have thought in that environment that pay-to-play would slow down. The opposite happened," Fitzgerald said.
Blagojevich was allegedly intercepted on court-authorized wiretaps comparing himself to a sports agent shopping the seat to the highest bidder, according to the 76-page criminal complaint.
Authorities allege he considered taking the seat himself to avoid impeachment by the Illinois legislature and to remake his image for a potential run for president in 2016.
In a conversation recorded the day after Obama's historic November 4 win, Blagojevich told an unnamed advisor: "I've got this thing and it's (expletive) golden, and, uh, uh, I'm just not giving it up for (expletive) nothing. I'm not gonna do it. And, and I can always use it. I can parachute me there," the affidavit states.
Democrat Blagojevich was elected in 2003 after vowing to reform the culture of corruption surrounding his predecessor, Republican George Ryan, who is currently serving more than six years in prison for corruption.
Blagojevich was soon involved in corruption scandals of his own as federal prosecutors investigated a host of allegations of pay-to-play politics including insider-dealing, influence-peddling and kickbacks.
Fundraiser Tony Rezko, who is a former friend of Obama and had close ties to Blagojevich, was convicted earlier this year on corruption and bribery charges.
The charges against Blagojevich also include allegations that he held back state funds from a children's hospital and highway project in order to pressure a contractor and the hospital's chief executive officer to donate money to his campaign.
Blagojevich, 51, and Harris, 46, were each charged with conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and solicitation of bribery. If convicted they face a maximum of 30 years in jail.

 

[normbc9]

And if we think the Illinois governor is brash you should see his wife. She makes him look like a piker. When I did hear a snip of one tape she can be heard in the backgound shouting obscenities and threats to whoever was being pressured for a donation by the governor. This is Chicago politics at its normal pace. If the current governor does get sentenced like his predecessor maybe they can be cellmates, compare notes and write a book. Right now no politician from Illinois has nay interest displayed in public about theis vacant Senate seat. Wouldn't it be ironic if the current governor who is trying to auction off the appointment to this seat gets it himself??

 

[Walter]

The Real Housewives of Crook County
First Lady by day, Dragon Lady by night.

By Michelle Malkin

Cable television introduced us to The Real Housewives of Orange County — an estrogen-infused reality show featuring a coven of conniving and ambitious women living pampered lives in Southern California. Blago-gate has brought us something even juicier: The Real Housewives of Crook County, Illinois. The public may be wearying of indicted Democratic governor Rod Blagojevich and the Chicago boys’ club, but the conniving and ambitious women behind the scenes of the corruption scandal are a must-see political drama all their own.

Mrs. Blago, the former Patti Mell, won the hearts of old-school thugs everywhere with her f-word-filled rants captured on FBI wiretaps, some of which were colorfully detailed in the criminal complaint against her hubby last week. It’s old news to folks in Chicago, but the woman who masquerades as a sweet gubernatorial spouse dedicated to children’s advocacy is a cutthroat wheeler-dealer in heels who schemed with the gov to fire pesky editorial writers and get herself placed on paid corporate boards in exchange for naming the president-elect’s pick to the Senate. First Lady by day, Dragon Lady by night.
Potty-mouthed Patti is the daughter of famed Democratic Chicago Alderman Richard Mell. Hardball ward politics runs in her blood. “Pay to play” is the family way. As a high-powered realtor, the Chicago Tribune reported, Mrs. B. raked in more than $700,000 in commissions on business deals after Hot Rod began raising money in 2000 for his first gubernatorial campaign. The feds have been investigating for years.

Close political observers are waiting for the other shoe to drop on Mrs. B. — or be used as leverage to force her hubby, to whom she has been fiercely loyal (to the point of alienating Daddy), to ’fess up.

Corrupto-convict and Barack Obama fundraiser Tony Rezko was one of Mrs. B.’s biggest clients of the last decade. Behind him stood his housewife-in-hot-water, Rita, who whiled away some of her time as a patronage appointee to an obscure Cook County government board before getting entangled in the land swap couples’ deal between her husband and the Obamas — the one the president-elect called “boneheaded.” On Tuesday, Rezko’s sentencing was postponed, suggesting he’ll be singing even more to the feds.

Michelle Obama was apparently friendly with the sordid sorority, according to Chicago Magazine. Writer James Merriner reported on a fashion show/political back-scratching gala chaired by Mrs. Rezko and co-chaired by Mrs. Blago two days before the November 2006 elections:

Michelle Obama, wife of the Democratic U.S. senator and presidential candidate Barack Obama, was a special guest that day (even though the news had just broken about Rezko’s participation in a funky real-estate transaction involving the Obamas’ Hyde Park home). The fashion show attracted little if any media coverage, which may have been exactly as its organizers and sponsors had hoped. Just three weeks earlier, Tony Rezko had been indicted on charges of extorting kickbacks from businesses seeking contracts from the Blagojevich administration.
​

Then there’s Anita Mahajan, wife of Chicago Mutual Bank owner Amrish Mahajan. Hubby is the Obama supporter and Blago fundraiser who handled that boneheaded Obama land deal and loaned cash to Rezko. Mrs. Mahajan hired Mrs. Blago to sell properties for her. In 2007, Mrs. Mahajan was indicted on fraud charges related to a contract from the state Department of Children and Family Services — awarded to her by the Blagojevich administration. Prosecutors say she bilked taxpayers out of $2.1 million. For the children, of course.

Democratic women have long played the feminist card in arguing that their chromosomes make them cleaner candidates. The real housewives of Crook County definitively disprove the theory.

Behind every crooked Chicago pol, there’s an even sharper-clawed wife. It’s in their political DNA. Don’t let the lipstick and perfume bleeping fool you.

 

[gopher]

How far will ACORN go without McCain's support?