Most lead paint watchers knew that ACORN - The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now - was pretty lame.
In protesting against the companies like Sherwin-Williams which had manufactured and sold a product that had at the time been legal, ACORN, for instance, would put together a few signs, a ragtag band of people, and stand outside one of the companies's retail stores. Yeah, real performance art. Saul Alinksy they weren't.
But it wasn't until the almost million-dollar embezzlement by an ACORN employee related to the founder that we began to wonder if ACORN was more than just ham-handed. Now we know.
The ongoing exposes in media ranging from Law.com to THE NEW YORK NEWS to today's THE WALL STREET JOURNAL document that these could be very bad people. There have been reports of alleged attempted and accomplished voter fraud registration by ACORN in Nevada, Florida, Michigan, New Mexico, North Carolina, Missouri, and Ohio. The election board in OH is contending that the presidential election could be thrown in disarray if these alleged fraudulent registrations result in fraudulent voting.
It's THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, which certainly has down cold its defamation and libel laws, which refers to ACORN today as a "shady outfit." It also notes that ACORN uses government dollars to carry out its various missions. One of them is to register low- and moderate-income voters.
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL goes on to note, "The organization's real genius is getting American taxpayers to foot the bill. According to a 2006 report from the Employment Policies Institute, ACORN has been on the federal take since 1977." Just this year it is spending $16 million to register voters. But, asks THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, "how many of these registrations are real."
The publication's call to action is this:
"The Justice Department needs to treat these fraud reports as something larger than a few local violators. The question is whether ACORN is systematically subverting U.S. election law - on the taxpayer's dime."
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