Michelle Malkin » Kill the bailout: More ACORN funding?! (vid link added)

Kill the bailout: More ACORN funding?! (vid link added)

By Michelle Malkin • September 25, 2008 10:26 PM

Just heard from several readers that Lindsay Grahamnesty told Fox that the Mother of All Bailouts includes a reported $100 million more in funding for the left-wing housing entitlement thugs and heavily tax-subsidized fraudsters at ACORN. Under the original bailout proposal, apparently, a large portion of any repayment of the $700 billion would go to Barack Obama’s good friends at ACORN with a smaller allocation to debt repayment. Readers heard him say it was 20 percent.

Told you not to trust Hank Paulson.

And I repeat: Fiscal conservatives need to be looking out for us tonight as they try to ram this thing through with a plethora of goodies for liberal shakedown artists.

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Update: A Freeper writes, “Senator Graham is referring to Section 5 of the Dodd counter-proposal to the Paulson Plan. To summarize, it promises a minimum 20% of the ‘profits’ from the Treasury’s sale of assets to The Housing Trust Fund and the Capital Magnet Fund.” See here.

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ACORN has been organizing protests across the country while maneuvering for their next handout.

Meanwhile, the watchdog Consumer Rights League testified on the Hill this week about rampant ACORN fraud:

James Terry, Chief Public Advocate for the Consumers Rights League, today testified at a joint House Administration and House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on “Federal, State and Local Efforts to Prepare for the General 2008 Election,” where he highlighted “corruption at every level of ACORN including embezzlement, cover-ups, misuse of taxpayer funds and voter fraud.” An excerpt of his testimony follows:

James Terry, Chief Public Advocate, Consumers Rights League:

“ACORN routinely says it will clean up its act. Yet, given its decade-long history of voter fraud, embezzlement, and misuses of taxpayer funds, ACORN’s pattern of fraud can no longer be dismissed as a series of ‘unfortunate events.’

“The problem of voter registration fraud raises serious questions for this committee, and the Consumers Rights League appreciates that the right questions are being asked.

“Here are the most important questions right now: We know about the thousands of potentially fraudulent voter registration cards turned in by ACORN and caught by officials. But given the size of ACORN’s efforts and the fact that the abuses appear to be systemic, we believe it is fair to question how many more fraudulent registrations have not been discovered, Furthermore, as this mega organization with a decades long history of violating the law is turned to get out the vote efforts, we believe it is fair to question how many fraudulent registrations may lead to fraudulent votes or what other activities they are willing to undertake to influence the election.

“These are serious questions, especially in light of recent election results which show that a just few votes can change the outcome of an election, the course of our country and the course of history.
“While we do not presume to tell this committee how to address this problem, we respectfully submit that our nation’s election system is facing a concerted campaign that raises serious issues that merit the committee’s oversight and attention.”

And fresh out of Florida this week:

Two suspicious Seminole County voter registration cards became a flash point Wednesday in the Republican effort to suggest the community group ACORN is committing fraud in its historic Florida get-out-the vote efforts.

An ACORN spokesman said the group spotted what appeared to be forged registration cards weeks ago and fired a worker over them. Seminole’s election chief, Mike Ertel, said he was still “tremendously concerned,” but stopped well short of calling the incident “fraud.” The Republican National Committee, though, levelled the accusation and blasted the housing and wage advocacy group in a nationwide conference call with reporters, saying this wasn’t an isolated incident.

In Orange County, ACORN staffers submitted multiple, duplicate registrations on behalf of six separate voters this summer. One individual had 21 duplicate applications. Election Supervisor Bill Cowles and his staff protested, noting in a June memo that ACORN had been submitting sloppy forms as well.

ACORN, or the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, changed procedures, disciplined some staffers and improved relations with Orange. ACORN has signed up 135,000 new Florida voters since January in just three counties: Orange, Broward and Miami-Dade.

That’s a fifth of all new voters. More than 58 percent are Democrats, who now outnumber Republicans by almost 500,000 voters — providing Barack Obama a potentially crucial edge in the neck-and-neck race in Florida.

Update: Vid link here.

Posted in: ACORN Watch, Subprime crisis, Voter fraud

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#470345

On September 26th, 2008 at 12:34 pm, hawkeye54 said:

It is the biggest vote buying and CYA Communist maneuver the country has ever seen.

You have that right. Communists are the enablers of the Democrat leadership (and perhaps a few RINOS)bent on destroying our capitalistic system by any means necessary.
#470414

On September 26th, 2008 at 1:01 pm, LC said:

LC, it looks like somewhere between 10:29 pm and 11:03 pm last night you took the red pill. Was it after reading this post I made in another thread at 10:32 pm?

I suspect so, and I’m glad you’ve taken the red pill. As Morpheus said, “Welcome to the real world.”

Neo: Why do my eyes hurt?
Morpheus: Because you’ve never used them before.

The United States of America was founded, on Biblical principles, by Christians.

The Communist Party is godless (or, more truthfully, worships Satan/Lucifer).

The Communist Party has joined forces with Islamic terrorists and both have been attacking the United States, both internally and externally, for decades.

This is spiritual warfare. Those who don’t understand it are ill-equipped to fight it.

I’ve had the red pill and a tepid glass of water on my bed stand for awhile now. It has now become too clear for me what is going on to reject my instincts any longer. I have swallowed the pill down hard.

ITookTheRedPill – we need to get in touch. I am also interested in personally contributing to your blog, if at all possible. I cannot stand idly by as our Great Country is taken over by Communists. I will not let Democracy fall on my watch! I am a 2001 graduate of USNA – this country has given me so much. It would be negligent on my part to turn my back in this, her most grave hour of need.

The Democrat Party has been hijaked by the Communist Party USA. Too many lines can be drawn connecting all of these corrupt institutions – and ACORN is the one of the scariest of all. Imagine what they could do to our political system with $140b just to start. That’s staggering power, not to meantion it is an UNCONSTITUTIONAL transfer of taxpayer wealth to a partisal political group.

We must resist this take-over of our government. If Obama is elected this November I fear for the future safety and security of all Americans. Most importantly, I fear for the freedoms we honor today.

“To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical.” – Thomas Jefferson: Bill for Religious Freedom, 1779. Papers 2:545
#470846

On September 26th, 2008 at 4:30 pm, Micheleeroo said:

Well, this is somewhat encouraging. I called both my democrat senators (Murray and Cantwell) and both offices seemed to indicate that neither senator was in favor of pouring profits of any sale of treasury properties into corrupt ACORN. Thank goodness! Please call your senators and tell them also to not support this ACORN travesty, either.
#472918

On September 27th, 2008 at 9:02 am, ADyer said:

Can there be any question that ACORN is an organized criminal operation? I pray that some prosecutor somewhere has the balls to take them on using our organized crime statutes. ACORN needs to burn along with everyone in it. Metaphorically of course. I’d be willing to settle for incarceration in place of conflagration.