ACORN in the news

Great interview by Glen Beck of an ACORN National Spokesman Scott Levenson: Hat tip to Gateway Pundit for the link. A much tamer interview with this toad was done last October by Greta van Susteren Here is Greta's introduction:

ACORN Responds to Palin Attack and More
ACORN's is under fire, but tonight ACORN's national spokesperson is here to respond.

Now the group works to register low income voters and is under investigation for voter fraud in at least 13 states. But what exactly is ACORN's relationship with Senator Obama?

Governor Palin says this in an e-mail to supporters, "ACORN's political action committee has endorsed Barack Obama, and Senator Obama himself said 'I have been fighting alongside ACORN on issues you care about my entire career.' The Obama campaign even paid more than $800,000 to an ACORN affiliate for get out the vote activity.

And now we find out that ACORN is suspected of voter registration fraud. But the Obama-Biden Democrats would rather sweep these facts under the rug and use their mainstream media allies to bury this story.

But we can't let that happen. We can't allow leftist groups like ACORN to steal this election."

And of course they are still being prosecuted for voter fraud with pending cases in Nevada and Pennsylvania. Rep. John Conyers (D-Michigan) is in their back pocket with this story at The Spectator:

Conyers Kills ACORN Probe
It would have been hard Monday for Rep. John Conyers (D-Michigan) not to understand how Bill Ayers felt the day the World Trade Center and Pentagon were attacked. Unforgiving history records that on Sept. 11, 2001, the retired domestic terrorist's "I don't regret setting bombs" comment ran in a New York Times profile.

While obviously of a much lesser magnitude, the House Judiciary Committee chairman's May 4 statement exonerating ACORN couldn't have come out at a worse time. "Based on my review of the information regarding the complaints against ACORN, I have concluded that a hearing on this matter appears unwarranted at this time," Conyers said in a statement aired that night on CNN's "Lou Dobbs Tonight."

Just hours earlier his fellow Democrats in Nevada, Secretary of State Ross Miller and Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto dropped a bombshell. ACORN and two former senior ACORN employees in the state, they announced, had been charged with a total of 39 felony counts related to voter registrations.

"By structuring employment and compensation around a quota system, ACORN facilitated voter registration fraud in this state," said Masto. "Nevada will not tolerate violations of the law by individuals nor will it allow corporations to hide behind or place blame on their employees when its training manuals clearly detail, condone and, indeed, require, illegal acts in performing the job for the corporation."

And finally, Barney Frank has his pudgy little fingers in that pie as well. From The Hill:

Frank and Bachmann do battle over key ACORN amendment
Two partisan heavyweights did battle Thursday over an amendment prized by conservatives, as House Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) withdrew backing for a bill that would have toughened regulations for community organizing groups.

Frank withdrew his support from an amendment offered by Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) that would forbid groups like the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now (ACORN) from receiving federal grants if any of their employees have been indicted for voter fraud.

And these are the people that represent us in Washington. ACORN is a corrupt vote-generating machine for the Democratic party. If the Republicans tried this shit, the outcry would be screeching and immediate. 2010 is coming -- time for a clean sweep...