Document drop: What NYTimes reporter Stephanie Strom really knew about ObamACORN
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Here are just a few of the exchanges between NYTimes reporter Stephanie Strom and ACORN whistleblower Anita MonCrief last summer and fall over the increasingly obvious links between ACORN, Project Vote, and the Obama campaign. (Both Strom and MonCrief used pseudonymous e-mail addresses while communicating). It was my blog post on the ACORN/CSI money-laundering scheme that prompted MonCrief to push the story with Strom. Thanks to MonCrief’s continued campaign to get the truth out and aided by investigative crowd-sourcing predominantly on the right side of the blogosphere (in addition to MonCrief’s testimony for Pennsylvania lawyer Heather Heidelbaugh), a plethora of documents and information continue to pour across the web. I’ll have much more on this tomorrow and in coming days. But read these and compare with NYTimes public editor’s smug dismissal of the “Tip that didn’t pan out.”
To quote Strom: “The real story to all this is how these myriad entities allow them to shuffle money around so much that no one really knows what’s getting spent on what…”
How you like these apples now, Mr. Hoyt?
Note: Emails may be a bit hard to read. I’ll put up transcripts shortly, but wanted you to see the originals.
And one of my favorites, in which Strom (”Annie Maus”) writes that she is halting her ACORN reporting efforts and muses: “One of these days, the truth is going to come out.” Yeah, it is:
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Related reading:
Anita MonCrief: ACORN, Soros, and the Census. Also must-read: MonCrief’s ACORN Central Twitter feed.
Kevin Mooney: Left-wing allies desperate to rescue corrupt ACORN.
Matthew Vadum: Crying distraction won’t work anymore.
Doug Ross: ACORN internal memo blows cover off its “non-partisan” claims.
Mitchell Blatt: ACORN’s Plan For Gerrymandering Districts
Must-read background from Michael Gaynor and more here.
See also The Harrington Report.
See also Consumers Rights League.
See also Capital Research Center.
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Update: Media barred from covering ACORN rescue pow-wow at Center for American Progress.
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During the revolution, patriots lost everything they had to fight King George. If you decide to quit paying taxes, the first place they will look for you is your home, your place of work and your relatives. Ditch your cell phone too. Basically you are incognito. In a sense you have declared war on the USA. You might as well join up into guerilla band.
I don’t understand why Patriotic American Democrats are allowing this to happen. Some are true communists some are Americans with American values.
I also think this is part of Obama plan for us to revolt so he can “detain” us.
He has this played out to a tee.
Move to Vermont. You can carry open or concealed without any paperwork.
Let’s just hope that with over 3 1/2 yrs left that even the MSM will grow really tired of Barak H.
No, this is what they want you to think.
To begin with, they won’t come looking for you. They will send you letters. Periodically, not every day.
The IRS is not the boogy man. They are not super-powerful, possessed of perfect information, and limitless resources. In fact, they are stretched very thin NOW.
There was a story only the other day about how revenues are down more than anyone expected. This is already being done.
It is appropriate for each of us to weigh our options, but please do so without allowing myths that have been carefully cultured by our government to influence your thinking.
illegals have been evading ICE for decades in some cases and not paying taxes by working for cash…if these people can do it, we Americans who are a tad bit brighter should be able to do so as well…that is if you have few ties to any gooberment money….
Just a suggestion. When you get the form all you have to answer BY LAW is how many people live in the household per Article 1 Section 2 in the US Constituion. Congress has the the right to “Enumerate” (which means count or determine the number of. Just complete first answer and send it back with a copy of Article 1 Section 2. You have now complied with the law! All of the other answers are invasion of privacy.
Section 2. The House of Representatives shall be composed of members chosen every second year by the people of the several states, and the electors in each state shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the state legislature.
No person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the age of twenty five years, and been seven years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that state in which he shall be chosen.
Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states which may be included within this union, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to service for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons. The actual Enumeration shall be made within three years after the first meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent term of ten years, in such manner as they shall by law direct. The number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty thousand, but each state shall have at least one Representative; and until such enumeration shall be made, the state of New Hampshire shall be entitled to chuse three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut five, New York six, New Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland six, Virginia ten, North Carolina five, South Carolina five, and Georgia three.
When vacancies happen in the Representation from any state, the executive authority thereof shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies.
The House of Representatives shall choose their speaker and other officers; and shall have the sole power of impeachment.
I disagree. You have obviously never had a problem with the IRS. They’re all powerful and can ruin your life. I went through it for 10 years 15 IRS agents, 2 lawyers and 1 accountant. And 10 years later it just disappeared. Within that period of time they kept changing the initial amount I owed it went from 2K to 150K minus the penalties and interest!
Dear God. Wow. Just wow. The dip$hits in DC obviously haven’t read it either since they don’t even bother to read the bills they sign. I bet $1000 that BHO’s read it however. He may have even authored that preamble!
Read my post more carefully, please. I NEVER claim they are powerless. I NEVER claim they cannot ruin your life. I also know that they can do this to you while you are being perfectly compliant.
Both personally, and as an attorney, I have fought the IRS, and “won”. I understand how Pyrrhic a “win” against the Service can be.
I also understand that $$$ is the life-blood of THE BEAST, and it is always my choice to attack the jugular.
OT… This is scary.. http://www.judicialwatch.org/news/2009/may/judicial-watch-obtains-obama-commerce-department-documents-detailing-acorn-partnership
Census
On April 23, 2009 around 10am a black census taker came to my door, since I had already filled out and mailed a census, I told him that I couldn’t let him fill out another one. He then asked to come in and look around. I told him that he could not and although his Official Census ID was visiable, I asked him for his ACORN ID. I know that no real census taker would not ask to come into my home to look around. I shut the door and locked it and ran to the back to see 3 black men in a red car start to pull in my alley and driveway, but when they saw me, they went straight. I called the police and reported the incident. Again, I had to call the police at 2am on 4/24 to report the theft of our lawnmower out of our shed by the alley. I can’t prove anything, but I took this as a threat that they thought they could do anything they wanted to. If there is a next time you can bet I’ll be waiting with my own protection.