The Truth About ACORN (Video: YouTube, via One Good Move)
Robert Greenwald and Brave New Films released the above video in response to the incessant ACORN-bashing by the McCain-Palin campaign and the vast right-wing pundit conspiracy.
ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, is a community-based NGA (Non-Governmental Organization), with chapters in over 100 cities, that advocates for low- and moderate-income families by working on neighborhood safety, health care and other social issues — including voter registration.
Paul Weyrich, for the record, is the Emperor Palpatine of the radical religious right. Dr James Dobson, might be considered Weyrich’s Darth Vader. From beneath his dark cloak, Weyrich sends his minions out to sabotage democracy from sea to shining sea, one school board, one ballot initiative, and one election at a time.
As far as voter registration fraud, how about this from Evan Halper, writing in the Los Angeles Times:
Ontario police arrest man in voter fraud case
Mark Jacoby, who owns a firm hired by the California Republican Party, violated state laws with his own registration, authorities say.
SACRAMENTO — The owner of a firm that the California Republican Party hired to register tens of thousands of voters this year was arrested in Ontario over the weekend on suspicion of voter registration fraud.
State and local investigators allege that Mark Jacoby fraudulently registered himself to vote at a childhood California address where he no longer lives so he would appear to meet the legal requirement that all signature gatherers be eligible to vote in California. His firm, Young Political Majors, or YPM, collects petition signatures and registers voters in California and other states.
Jacoby’s arrest by state investigators and the Ontario Police Department late Saturday came after dozens of voters said they were duped into registering as Republicans by people employed by YPM. The voters said YPM workers tricked them by saying they were signing a petition to toughen penalties against child molesters.
The firm was paid $7 to $12 for every Californian it registered as a member of the GOP.
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In a written statement Sunday, the state Republican Party called the charges against Jacoby “politically motivated.” The party said the charges do not support accusations from voters and Democratic officials that YPM has been duping voters into joining the GOP.
The statement accused Secretary of State Debra Bowen, who announced the arrest, of “using her office to play politics.”
Bowen is a Democrat.
(Emphasis: mine)
Yeah, right. What’s next? Joe the oppressed Republican voter registrar who can’t get a tax break from Barack Obama?
