ACORN Watch: Targeting your kids
Left-wing, taxpayer-subsidized ACORN fraudsters have been infiltrating the public schools.
Watch out: Your kid could be recruited to help assist and “organize” the “community” of homeless people, criminals, and illegal aliens signing up more dead people and fake people to vote for Obama.
(Hat tip: Jim Vicevich)
In the Hartford Courant:
Jahneil McMahon long ago made up her mind about the presidential election. She connected with Barack Obama’s speeches, felt his experiences would help him understand her life in Hartford. She prefers his views on education, taxes and the mortgage crisis, issues she says particularly affect her city.
Trouble is, she’s only 17.
Which is why, on Thursday morning, McMahon paced the aisles of the Hartford Public High School auditorium with a stack of voter registration forms and a handful of pens. She passed them out to her older schoolmates and monitored from the aisle as they filled them out.
“If I could start helping now, maybe someone else’s voice can be symbolic of mine,” she said.
Although most attempts at registering young voters center on college campuses, a new national effort to reach out to an even wider group of young people is underway.
Because the majority of black and Latino 18- to 24-year-olds don’t attend college, researchers have warned that focusing voter registration efforts on college campuses risks missing out on half of the nation’s young people, particularly black and Latino youth.
“This is a population that has not been tapped,” said Sharon Patterson-Stallings, a member of the Hartford Board of Education and chairwoman of the North End United ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. “We have not really educated people about voting.”
Part rally, part voter registration drive and part lecture on the importance of voting, Thursday’s program at the high school’s Law and Government Academy was one of more than a dozen assemblies held this week at high schools in cities nationwide.
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Also on the ACORN WAtch front…a new election probe in Durham, NC:
Elections Chief Asks For Voter Fraud Probe
From The Herald Sun
By Matthew E. Milliken
September 19, 2008
DURHAM, N.C. — A Durham official is asking state elections administrators to check approximately 80 voter registration forms for possible fraud.
Mike Ashe, Durham County’s elections director, said the forms were among about 4,000 submitted to his office over the past four to six weeks by a national left-wing group called Acorn, for Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.
“They will be turned over to the State Board of Elections for investigation and prosecution,” Ashe said of the questionable documents.
Most of the forms at issue bear one of six names. Ashe was not sure whether the people named existed or not.
Many of the papers are incomplete, which Ashe said is a nuisance, not a crime. But the group contains very different versions of what are purportedly the same person’s signatures.
Signing another person’s name on a voter registration form can result in up to 15 months in prison.
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A woman who visited the elections office Wednesday said that Tamion Richardson of Buffalo Way had received a mailing stating that he had been registered to vote. The woman, who said she was Richardson’s mother, said he was 14 years old and ineligible to vote.
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Also, elections officials have received calls from people saying they had received new voter registration cards with incorrect information.
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This ought to work well here in Southern California. Lot’s of illegals in the public schools to get registered.
They are in Phoenix protesting Sheriff Joe in about an hour.
It looks like Obama’s people are doing the same thing that the Brown Shirts of Hitler’s Nazi Party did.
Homeschool.
Here in Flint, Michigan, they’re putting out the word that anyone without a permanent address can register to vote & use the address of a neighborhood Police Ministation as their address.
I might suggest that EVERY form coming in from acorn be suspect of fraud and investigated. Just more from bho thinking he is the ‘one’ to be POTUS whatever it takes.
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Sounds like Texas in the earlier years when many dead people rose from their graves and voted for L.B.J. Now it is mostly illegals who are voting. Only full prosecution is going to stop this nonsense.
DO WE DARE SAY “HITLER YOUTH”
Yeah, ACORN is in town here, using city money to go door-to-door on the East Side doing “mortgage counseling”.
You could, but more accurate would be ACORN for Obama.
Please tell me again why tax money funds political organizations?
Now you know what a Community Organizer does.
The Obama Youth Corps – has this man no shame?
Wonder if he’s headed for the nursing homes yet. He wouldn’t consider it beneath himself to get maximum participation from those in the advanced dementia wards.
Which means that she’ll be able to vote next year, a pretty scary thought. This is a pretty strong argument for raising to voting age to 25 or 30.
Dead folks have been known to vote here in Louisiana, too. They are all Democrats.
This is why Obama thought he could take a vacation and hang out in Europe while campaigning.
ACORN will have this thing the bag for him. I pray this isn’t the case but if an investigation isn’t launched now… there’s no hope. What of that $800k Obama gave to ACORN and “forgot” to report?
Obamitler’s minions at work again. The problem with having high schoolers registering voters, is yeah, we get 14 year olds registered. now we have to worry about the dead, the criminal and the infants vote!
Just who is going to do the prosecuting. Not only is the MSM in the tank for Obama but so is the US Justice Department!
Read it all and weep for America.
You forgot a couple of key words…
Feh. This is precisely the reason I ditched the public school system and even the private high school I went to for a while: they were overrun by moonbats, and I couldn’t stand it.
Obama and ACORN use the REAL Messiah’s teaching when it works in their favor.
Well, I guess I could ask ACORN to sign up my three underage kids to act as a counterweight to the other kids ACORN has registered. Do you think they would help me out?
Of course, the only problem is that I would tell them to vote 3rd party like me!
Obama and Acorn: They are both nuts.
The only reason it was dropped to 18 was due to the Vietnam war. So many 18-20 year olds were fighting, it was decided that if they can fight and die for the country, they should be able to vote. I have no issue with that.
What I’d like to see is that anyone that works for the government be excluded from voting. My reasoning is that they will vote for the person that they think is likely to not cut government spending or lower taxes. Except the military (remember, they fight and die for our freedom). If you want to vote, get out of government employ. They’re just non-producing tax eaters anyway. They may provide a service, but there is no proof they provide a vital service. Like the miltary.
ACORN sees dead people…
She was passing these voter registration forms out in a school auditorium? My question is, were these students call to the auditorium for just this purpose? If so, peeee yeeew! Don’t you dare assemble for a, gasp…Christmas Program where some actual, gasp again and even harder…Christian songs might be sung. But it’s ok to load’em up to register to vote? How many young people were there to explain that John McCain sees things the way that they do? hmmmmm? Just saying
Here’s the money line from the Courant article.
I think ACORN should be able to help her out with her wish.
call=called. Jeeze!
Ah, Durham. Crystal Mangum (the liar in the Duke lacrosse “case”) lives there and is not in jail. That’s all you need to know about Durham to know what a cesspool it is.
I thought at first ACORN wanted to simply “stack” the voter rolls, but more and more, it seems to me that ACORN’s real agenda is to create chaos and confusion, which can then, of course, lead to charges of “disenfranchisement”, “racism”, etc etc on election day.
This is a vile group.
Public schools are propaganda mills. Forget academics, our taxpayer money has gone to indoctrination.
Eight to 10 years ago I would have considered this radical and offensive. Now, with the government employing more than 1.8 million civilians, not counting the Post Office, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae and AIG, it doesn’t sound so radical.
Should working for the Federal Government disqualify people from voting in Federal elections? The conflict of interest is undeniable.
As the founder of Chicago’s Democratic Machine Richard Daley is alleged to have said, “Every time I pass a graveyard, I see…Voters!”
Mr. Obama learned well from the best at corrupt machine politics and leftist activism. With mentors like the Daley machine and Frank Ayers. He’s got the best of that kind of politics.
If I ever have children I will not let these sheisters use them. This 17 year old woman is an example of either lazy parenting or broken family. I’m not surprised. I’m surrounded by such examples in the “wonderful” black community I’m living in.
rambler #30. You got that right. Think of the NEA and which way they “tend” to vote. Much less the money that is given in support of the dems.
Silly Democrats! When will they learn that registering dead people is simply no match for the ability to program Diebold machines?
So where is the effort to get ACORN’s Federal money pulled. I see nothing about that.
Yeah, you can bet if tax money went to sign up voter in the vestibules of local churches across the country, where you’d be likely to find more conservative voters, there’d be all kinds of headlines and hearings.
#14, that’s because all the dead republicans have moved on to bigger and better things in the afterlife.
Now you see why all the Democrats object to voter ID laws?
Obvious, isn’t it?
Every politician should have to read and fully understand the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independents. The country would be much better off if they did.
Don’t you remember? Newt was going to “defund the Left” back 1994.
Except when it came time to actually vote Newt and his “conservative” buddies in the House lost their nerve and caved to the Democrats in the House thus shafting the conservatives who elected him to begin with.
When will the voters in America wake up and realize “change” isn’t going to happen with either of the two major parties?
I pretty much quit caring about and listing to Newt at that point.
From little ACORNS come big, ugly, hairy, fascist oaks.
Who gave ACORN federal money and what was the congressional vote?
Not really an option as they do not give up rights for their job– I mean congressmen and women vote too. (yeah, I know, that’s even worse).The solution is to keep government small so they can never make enough of a difference. I seem to remember that being a core conservative principle……
I dare anyone to give me any REAL and SUBSTANITIVE reasons why we can have a nationwide program to check ID cards to buy liquor but we can not have national voter positive ID cards. If we can do that, no Democrat will ever win the election again.
The voting age needs to be raised and there should be some relationship established between the right to vote and the contribution of said voter to funding of government. The fact that some uninformed kid going to college on mommy and daddy’s dime can cancel out my vote annoys the Hell out of me. These kids don’t have the knowledge or life experience to make a truly informed vote. Nor have they experienced the burden of government.
So now we see the beginnings of the Obama Jungen. We already have the proposed Gestapo from He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Middle-Named so we had to know this was coming.
off topic;
I just return from town and had my revenge on a Obama supporter. A small business in which I purchase around $7000 a year in supplies, had a Obama sticker in his window. I informed the owner that my purchases would be going elsewhere. The look on his face made my week.
#28:
I live here in beautiful Nifongville. Trust me. I know. It’s the anus of North Carolina. And the entire city and county government is run by Democrats. This is a place where racial and other types of grievance politics run the show.
By law, you are required to show proof of age and citizenship in order to be hired for a job.
Why, why, why don’t we don’t we require proof of age and citizenship in order to vote?
Obama will do anything and everything in an attempt to get elected.
I received a voter registeration for my father who died in 1968.
Gotta love thse Chicago style politics
Well, when the country was founded, only property owners could vote. Since there was no income tax and no “social programs,” only land owners were affected largely by the government.
You may be onto something, perhaps the same thing the founders were onto….
You should really be an English or Journalism Professor. It’s beautiful writing. I was offered a position with ACORN and should of took it for the research.
You can’t say Hitler Youth without incurring the wrath of the Almighty B.O., but you can make the ACORN connection by calling him OakBama.
*knock knock*
Oh, there’s the little brownshirts now. Gotta run.
Tell the voter registration office about it. And when you vote, check if your father is on the registration rolls…and whether he voted before you got there.
On September 19th, 2008 at 1:49 pm, FamilyMan said:
I dare, I dare!
HITLER YOUTH!
That is not called ‘Registration’;
That’s called ‘Indoctrination’.
Young, malliable skulls full of mush in Connecticut first, asked to choose, to decide NOW between two candidates, with all the emphasis upon The One, who promises everything to everyone?
These kids have no insights into economics, let alone politics or history~!
Ye Gads.
Send these people to jail for the 15 months.
The only age demographic that Obama leads McCain in is the 18-29 range. Of course he’s going to go after the young vote. It’s his only play.
Older, wiser, more experienced voters already see through his game. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on how you look at it), we’ve seen this all before, most recently with the failed Carter administration.
If you don’t see Obama for what he really is by now – the quintessential ‘tax and spend’ liberal, a great advocate for the multiple (and ongoing) failures of these same abysmal social engineering programs, and a “true believer” in the idea of wealth re-distribution from those that have to those that won’t – then I doubt you ever will.
I just pray those that known outnumber those who don’t, at least in the states that this election will ultimately come down to…
God Bless the USA. McCain-Palin ’08. Country First!
why are ANY elections offices still accepting voter ‘registrations’ from ACORN? Where are the McCain ads connecting Obama to this group and showing how illegal and corrupt their activies are??
Acorn?
Well, the nut doesn’t fall far from the tree.
I recieved yet another voter registeration for my father 1904-1968 just today. I guess they refuse to give up.
Except for the 18-20 year olds in service to the country, nobody under 21 should be allowed to vote.
I was in high school when JFK was running. I was caught up in the “rock star” scenario that was his campaign. Although he was a great prez, I couldn’t have told you why I was for him.
ACORN? Considering their past criminal activity and convictions for fraud, they shouldn’t be allowed to be involved in any voter registration drives or be given any money to operate anything.
If Obama loses this election, and I surely hope he does, there is going to be big trouble in this country, perpetrated by those such as ACORN & the ACLU. Hopefully, the win by McCain will have such big numbers that there will be no doubt who the winner is, but as close as this race is, I don’t hold out much hope for that. The protests and lawsuits will rival this weeks financial mess.
It would be a cold day in hell. My children would NEVEr do such a thing. If it was to the point where their teacher was telling them the “had” to, they know to inform me immediately and it will be dealt with.
Besides, none of thm think The Tarnished Bovine is worthy of mucking out horse stalls, let alone being President, and therefore they would NEVEr work to have him be President.
They know better than to allow someone who thinks of their own potential grandchildren as a punishment and curse that needs to be murdered to become President.
And yes, thanks to the MSM, I have been forced into explaining what abortion was much sooner than I would have rathered.