ACORN SCANDAL!

Do you believe everything Fox News reports? You are simply regurgitating propaganda. And you could have answered your own question about what Acorn does. This was a very shallow story. Thumbs down!!!

The following text is the other side of the story:

GOP vs. ACORN
ACORN is a group that is dedicated to registering young and minority voters. It claims to have registered 250,000 in Ohio alone. The Republicans hate ACORN because, quite frankly, it is effective in registering millions of voters who aren't Republicans. As part of their anti-ACRON smear campaign they are spreading charges that ACORN is submitting fraudulent voter registertion forms in order to commit voter "fraud."

Now, what's interesting about this claim is that in Ohio, as well as other states, the GOP got the state to pass voter idenfication laws. In Ohio, when you vote, you have to produce identification. If a person is registered fraudulently, then they won't be able to produce a proper id and they won't get to vote.

The GOP, of course, doesn't point this out, nor do they point out how rare voter fraud is in Ohio or any other state. Instead, led by McCain and Palin, they just keep throwing crap against the wall of public opinion, hoping that some of it will stick.

Because Democrats are going to be hearing more and more about ACORN as the GOP gets more and more desparate, here is a statement from ACORN in the form of a political memo they recently sent out to their political allies:

To: Interested Parties
From: Bertha Lewis and Steve Kest
Date: October 9, 2008
Re: The Truth About ACORN's Voter Registration Drive

Election Day is less than a month away, and our efforts to make sure that low-income and minority voters have a voice and vote on November 4th are in full swing. Unfortunately, just as we've seen in previous election cycles, the more success we have in empowering these voters, the more attacks we have to fend off from partisan forces making unfounded accusations to disparage our work and help maintain the status quo of an unbalanced electorate. We want to take this opportunity to separate the facts of our successes from the falsehoods of our attackers.

On Monday, October 6, as voter registration deadlines passed in most states, ACORN completed the largest, most successful nonpartisan voter registration drive in history. In partnership with the nonpartisan organization Project Vote, we helped register over 1.3 million low-income, minority, and young voters in a total of 21 states. Highlights of this success include:

We collected over 151,000 registrations in Florida, 153,000 in Pennsylvania, 215,000 in Michigan, and nearly 250,000 in Ohio.

An estimated 60-70 percent of our applicants are people of color.

At least HALF of all are registrations are from young people between 18-29.

We are proud of this unprecedented success, and grateful to everyone who supported us in this massive effort, from our funders and partners to the literally thousands of hardworking individuals across the country who dedicated themselves to the cause and conducted the difficult work of registering 1.3 million Americans, one voter at a time.

And this work is far from over: now begins our effort mobilize these new voters around local and national issues, getting them to the polls and helping to channel their commitment and conviction into an ongoing movement for change in our communities.

As The Nation pointed out recently, ACORN's success in registering millions of low-income and minority voters has made it "something of a right-wing bogeyman." Though ACORN believes that the right to vote is not, and should never be, a partisan issue, attacks from groups threatened by our historic success continue to come, motivated by partisan politics and often perpetuated by the media without full investigation of the facts.
For more info: http://mcdac.blogspot.com/2008/10/gop-vs-acorn.html

Stop the madness!

this is crazy