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Obama's Acorn Problem
Hyscience — Readers should be sure to check out the new story out in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review about some questionable Obama campaign spending reports and Obama's troubling ties to ACORN. As Howard Kurtz tells it, Obama may well have used the Chicago Annenberg-Challenge to channel money to ACORN (and other radical groups of "community organizers"), few or none of whom had particular expertise in improving public education. Michelle Malken has more: ACORN Watch, Pt II: Obama hid $800,000 payment to ACORN through "Citizen Services, Inc." ...

ACORN, Obama, and Voter Fraud
The Discerning Texan — They are at it again. Your tax dollars at work. Part I: Milwaukee’s election chief on Wednesday turned 32 more voter registration workers in to the district attorney’s office for possible prosecution, saying they tried to submit falsified registration cards. That brings to 39 the number of registration workers under scrutiny, and the number could grow, Election Commission Executive Director Sue Edman said. An organization warned the commission staff late Wednesday afternoon about some questionable cards in the ...

No Surrender To Obama's Fascist Thugs
Hyscience — ... with TV stations that have dared to air the ad. They have the gall to champion campaign finance integrity -- even as Obama has just admitted hiding payments to his Chicago cronies at ACORN. The Obama campaign can't cite anything false or defamatory about the ad because it is accurate and truthful. This intimidation campaign is of a piece with the left-wing MoveOn effort to bully GOP donors. ...

Obama Hires ACORN: Covers It Up
Stubborn Facts — Michelle Malkin is on the case. Obama hid $800,000 payment to ACORN through “Citizen Services, Inc.” There’s much more to the story of Obama’s amended campaign finance reports than what Obama and the Obamedia will tell you. I will fill you in on what’s missing in a moment. What we have here, essentially, is Obama using a non-profit group called Citizens Services Inc. as a front to funnel payments to ACORN for campaign advance work. Obama officials say it’s no big deal. Nothing to see here. Move along. But where there’s left-wing ...

Was Tony Rezko Obama's First Donor? It Depends.
The Volokh Conspiracy — ... . If one includes loans as well as donations, then Rezko ties for the second donor to Obama’s campaign, though even that earlier loan came from someone who has ties to Rezko. What the early donation patterns show is that Rezko (and people Rezko has had business ties to) were the primary people launching Obama’s finances in his first campaign. By a few months later, others had donated, including prominent liberals, lawyers from his firm, real estate developers, and the ACORN-linked union, SEIU . Obama’s fundraising started in July 1995. Before mid-September 1995, he had one ...

From New Mexico: More ACORN Fraud?
The Discerning Texan — More of your tax dollars at work. How does it feel to be paying for widespread voter fraud? --Like this --Like this --Like this --Like this --Like this --Like this --Like this --Like this And remember that "community organizing" that Barack Obama did? You guessed it.

ACORN Shenanigans in North Carolina
Moonbattery — ... Engaging in a little election fraud on Obama's behalf is the least ACORN can do. After all, the Obamessiah worked for them for years as a "community organizer," training these militant activists in their highly dubious tactics. He also secretly funneled $800,000 to ACORN through the nonprofit front group Citizens Services Inc. to conduct what's euphemistically referred to as "campaign advance work." ...

WILL ACORN STEAL THE ELECTION FOR OBAMA?
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS — ... and Obama go way back. (Backgrounder on ACORN here. Excerpt: Largest radical group in America, with 175,000 dues-paying member families, and more than 850 chapters in 70 US cities Implicated in numerous reports of fraudulent voter registration, vote-rigging, voter intimidation, and vote-for-pay scams during the 2004 election Maintains close ties to organized labor) More here - on how Obama has tried to hide payments/payoffs to ACORN. And ACORN ...

Housing Slump?
Mudville Gazette — ... Ritz-Carlton Residences for $4.9 million. The condo has a rooftop terrace with a hot tub, a butler’s pantry, and three parking spaces. Raines, director of the US Office of Management and Budget under President Clinton, was CEO of Fannie Mae from 1999 to 2004.From what I hear it's a real buyer's market out there these days. Likewise from what I hear he could pay cash if he wanted. So I'm betting he got a real sweetheart of a deal. (And I'm no politician, but I will promise ...

HOW TO STEAL OHIO
Right Wing Nut House — ... of ACORN in Ohio. One must give credit where credit is due. ACORN should win some kind of award for its spectacular creativity in finding new ways to game the system and flood it with false, forged, and illegal voter registration applications. First, it is important to recall that the Obama campaign funneled more than $800,000 to ACORN and then tried to hide it by designating it as payment to “Citizens Services, Inc.” for work such as $310,000 for “Stage, Sound, and Lighting.” Michelle Malkin looked deeper into this fraud and found some startling facts: For your ...

ACORN's 15 State Strategy for Voter Fraud
The Next Right — ... With the news out the Obama campaign hired ACORN, paying them $800k for voter registration it seems likely the heat is not going to do anything but increase.  Stay tuned and stay informed.  Alert and knowledgeable citizens outflank 15 state strategies every time! ...

ACORN Registers Mickey Mouse
Moonbattery — ... What a coincidence: the Obama campaign furtively paid this same group $800,000 to get out the vote, presumably by using tactics ACORN activists were ...

ACORN Registers Mickey Mouse
Stop The ACLU — ... , it is “stamped with the logo of the nonprofit group ACORN.” What a coincidence: the Obama campaign furtively paid this same group $800,000 to get out the vote, presumably by using tactics ACORN activists were ...

Keith Olbermann Rails Against Voter Registration Fraud
Say Anything — ... Can we just admit that all voter registration fraud is bad?  And that some Republican guy engaging in voter fraud does not excuse the tens of thousands of fraudulent voter registrations ACORN has filed all over the country after receiving $800,000 in cash from the Obama campaign for “get out the vote” efforts? ...

ACORN In Hot Water, This Time Over Tax Fraud
Say Anything — ... When is the FBI going to get involved here?  And when is the media going to start asking pointed questions about Obama’s $800,000 payment to this group for “get out the vote” efforts? ...

A Timeline Of Democrat Support For ACORN
Say Anything — ... Add in to this the $800,000 the Obama campaign gave ACORN this election cycle and you begin to see a pattern. ...

ACORN is the new Cosa Nostra
PoliGazette — ... He IS ACORN. And ACORN is him. The “accountability” that White House flack Robert Gibbs says they take “extremely seriously” doesn’t extend to Team Obama itself — and the accountability they have evaded for pouring more than $800,000 into an ACORN front group for campaign advance work that was mysteriously re-classified as “get-out-the-vote” work. ...

Our 'Clueless-in-Chief'
Hyscience — ... (My guess is that he particularly doesn't want to talk about the $800,000 he stealthly paid ACORN during his presidential campaign). ...

Hear No ACORN, Speak No ACORN, See No ACORN
Moonbattery — ... for some vague investigation — despite killing one recently — and let loose with this whopper: I didn't even know that ACORN was getting a whole lot of federal money. Who else would try to funnel literally $BILLIONS of our money into this depraved syndicate of left-wing radicals if not the former Senator From ACORN, who has been using ACORNistas for his foot soldiers his entire career, even paying them $800,000 for their extremely dubious election services in 2008? Rather than insult us with ...

ACORN Closing Down 40% of its Offices
Moonbattery — ... ... about ACORN gave them $800,000 out of his campaign coffers for "get out the vote" activities. ACORN's questionable voter tactics secured a margin of Obamacrat victory in normally sane states like North Carolina and Indiana. Despite (or perhaps because of) multiple allegations of and indictments for voter fraud, ...

Bertha Lewis's Rolodex Reveals Ties to White House
Moonbattery — ... group ACORN has been exposed as downright satanic, the governmedia may be forced to acknowledge its extensive and longstanding ties to Comrade Obama. Now doubt it will pretend these are all in the past. But even after ACORN had launched Chairman Zero on his career, and he found still more powerful patrons in the liberal establishment media and on Wall Street, he continues to have his uses for the nation's largest ultra-left activist group, as we saw when he paid them $800,000 to use their nefarious tactics to help him win election, and again ...

Who is behind today’s anti-banker demonstrations? The usual suspects
The Volokh Conspiracy — ... in Blagojevich’s effort to shake down the Obama team. One of the improper proposals that Blagojevich floated was a job at Change to Win, another of the organizations that is sponsoring today’s demonstrations against bankers. Another sponsor is Citizen Action, the organization that received a large, suspicious payment from the Obama campaign. ...