ACORN Prosecutions Coast to Coast
Now, the Nevada prosecutor has held over ACORN and its former manager for trial on felony charges:
The political advocacy organization ACORN and a former manager will stand trial in District Court on charges that they paid canvassers to collect voter registration applications in the 2008 election cycle. Las Vegas Justice of the Peace William Jansen said on Wednesday there was enough evidence to allow a jury to decide whether the group and its former regional director, Amy Busefink, knew about an illegal bonus system run by its Las Vegas office field director, Christopher Edwards.
Busefink and ACORN are scheduled for arraignment in Clark County District Court at 1:30 p.m. on Oct. 14. Each face 13 felony counts related to the bonus program known as “21+” or “Blackjack.”
Working Family Party is simply another name for ACORN, as Roger Stone notes writing for BigGovernment.com :
The Working Families Party is not about working people or families and it isn’t really a party. The WFP is a wholly owned subsidiary of ACORN. Bertha Lewis, co-chair of the Working Families Party, is the Executive Director of New York ACORN. New York ACORN leader Steven Kest was the moving force in forming the party and WFP headquarters are located at the same address as ACORN’s national and New York office at 88 Third Avenue in Brooklyn, New York.
WFP is essentially a money funnel which pays for an aggressive door to door canvas. [snip] The Working Families Party has no county organizations or county committee men or women and no local structure beyond its top leadership and an army of paid canvassers. Since the major parties no longer have the man power to organize an effective voter canvas, Democrats have turned to the WFP for their door to door campaign activities.
But more importantly, the Working Families Party is a criminal enterprise utilizing a for-profit political consulting firm, Data and Field Services (DFS), to skirt New York City election laws regarding public finance and campaign spending limits.
Illustrative of the crudeness of the operation are the details reported by the Times Union:
Attorneys consulted by the Times Union who are familiar with voter-fraud issues said the allegations surfacing in Troy may be unprecedented here and could result in criminal prosecutions.
Two of the absentee ballots reviewed by the newspaper carry addresses in Griswold Heights, a public housing complex, and are attributed to residents who have not lived there for years, records show. One of the ballots is listed under the name of Milagros Serrano, 44, who left Griswold Heights in October 2007 and now lives in Hollywood, Fla., records show.
The signature attributed to Serrano on the ballot looks nothing like her signature from a voter registration card filed several years ago at the Board of Elections. The hand-written excuse allegedly provided by Serrano for not voting in person in the primary states: ”Dartmouth Hos. doctor appt.”
Many other ballot applications also include fictitious reasons why the person needed an absentee ballot, including casino bus trips, Cape Cod vacations, work conferences and medical ailments. Several voters interviewed by the newspaper said someone wrote the information without their knowledge.
Little wonder that with evidence like this a special prosecutor appears likely to be appointed to conduct a probe.
I can’t wait for those well-funded, crack investigative reporters at the Center for Public Integrity to weigh in on these stories. Or are they waiting for that cute Hannah Giles to break the story for them?
ACORN = OBAMA. OBAMA = ACORN nuff said.
I hope this is now the beginning of the end for ACORN and all its fictitious companies and that many of them end up in prison and never again are allowed to register voters, plus a hefty fine on top of all that!
The real thing which will annihilate criminal organization of ACORN is probe in their tax return consulting.
ACORN is finished. It has been protected the last four decades by cynically employing the race card. One was accused of racism if they dared to question ACORN’s activities. This form of intimidation is effectively over. I am somewhat reminded of the proverbial snow ball rolling down the mountain that has turned into an avalanche.
The 2008 Presidential election of Obama was 100% legiimate. ACORN will verify this.
This reminds me of the first time Chavez was elected. J Carter verified the legitimacy .
How did that turn out.
We should be prosecuting ACORN as traitors. However, with Holder in place, only the state courts have any teeth. And we know how that will turn out.
One small step for mankind. Unfortunatley, the Acorn cadre currently infests the White House, making a real housecleaning unlikely. Once upon a time we could count on the mainstream media to keep a eye on evolving government swindles, corruption, and despoilation of the body politic. Alas, no more. Ethics and journalistic responsibiity were dropped from the curriculum, and replaced by smugness, a sense of superiority, moral relativism, and self-promotion. The erstwhile guardians of truth have morphed into a pack of hucksters pushing their own agenda. Whatever the shortcomings of Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh et al, they and others have played an essential role in exposing the degradation of traditional sources of news. Sans them, no notice at all would have been paid to the festering pustule of Acorn, etc. And surely, there are other ‘Acorns’ in the wings. Eternal vigilance.
There is a very true old saying,
You hang around with sh*t and you will get some on you.
Obama has his whole life hung around with sh*t.
So whats there to be surprised with.
I had to laugh my a** off when he made the statement on video that he was unaware that Acorn had received so much taxpayer money…
just what planet does this guy think we are all from?….
They and he are a criminal enterprise.
Liars , Wilson was 100% correct in his assessment.
There are hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of corrupt, ACORN-style, “community organizing” groups waiting to take ACORN’s place as repository for government billions offered as bribes in exchange for votes and continued victimhood/obedience. The real story is the putrilage at the top who promote and fund these rackets, beginning with the White House and congressional Democrats. Their objectives are clear:
To steal from productive citizens and distribute the proceeds to the inner-city indolent.
Further the effort to create a permanent, totally dependent underclass.
Create racial tension between blacks and whites.
Consolidate their power base in an effort to build and maintain a socialist empire where once stood a Constitutional Republic.
That’s OK folks, have no fear. By the time 2012 rolls around the Democrats will have a whole “new” vote generating system in place. And the lapdog media will be cheering them on just the way they did ACORN.
Good.
Keep the pressure on. Without the river of money they depend on from corrupt politicians and organizations who don’t want a light shining on any of their other corrupt activities, soon they’ll be forced into layoffs just like every other business.
Next up: The Left Wing Media. A tougher nut to crack, but then everyone thought ACORN was invincible too. It certainly didn’t take much to get the ball rolling there. Every house of cards is similarly vulnerable.
If the Great Depression is any guide, the economy is set to take its second, deeper dip into the current recession, since BHO and his anti-American minions are ignoring the course of action that made the 1920-21 Recession so short, and instead making all the same mistakes FDR did. That will be the signal to go after The Left Wing Media directly: boycott every one of their major advertisers. Make it clear that agenda-driven, editorialized ‘news’ is no longer acceptable. Wake people up.
Ultimately, we need to do the same with academia and, of course, Congress. Reversing socialism’s long march through the institutions is the only way to get back to a sustainable Republic.
I just came from a lefty site called Media Matters. People there actually defend ACORN and vilify Fox News for it’s coverage of the ACORN scandal. How does someone become so narrow in their thinking that they can of their own free will actually publicly deny the undeniable truth?
When is Presidente for Life “Zero” going to tell us that the authorities “acted Stupidly”? Will he invite Roman Polanski and the Swiss ambassador for a beer? Has the law been suspended for Acorn in Nevada?
Two words :: Jack Justice..
* [Man with Developmental Disability] says his vote wasn’t right; Jennifer Emert; WALB.com; 2008.10.14..
* Investigation launched into questionable voting assistance; Jennifer Emert; WALB.com; 2008.10.15..
That’s a whole ‘nother can of nasty, nasty worms wholly different from the registration fraud..
Every time I think of Jack (and I do often), I wonder just how many “Jack Justices” were thusly abused in precisely this fashion last November……
Warmest from Talking Rock.
Which ‘splains ‘Stuart Smalley’.
So…the 60s radicals finally get their wish to destroy America. Wade Rathke of the SDS fame
founds ACORN..ACORN elects Obama..with the help of the former student radicals in the media..Obama
proceeds to dismantle the country both domestically and abroad. Its been a Long March boys.
Coast to coast? The article only mentions New York and nevada, and Nevada is only on the coast of that beachfront property that Obama sold the American people. It only takes a search for acorn being investigated in to turn up other states, which would have enhanced the credibility of the article.
Washington still hasn’t. though they did prosecute several workers for voter fraud in the 2004 election, it didn’t go far enough. ACORN was able to foist it off on “just workers” instead of the reality of “pattern of voter fraud” among the entire organization. We had more voter fraud in 2008.
I agree that ACORN is now being scrapped and it should be. I would like to see it re-invented in local communities with its leadership decentralized. Cities/Counties leaders could then appoint a local “housing czar” thats appointed by the mayor and/or county commissioner. The organization would then be run from the ground up, thus ensuring local accountability. Local people running their own affairs.
ACORN is going to he hard hit, but are you are seriously delusional if you think it will disappear. Those who have put years into the organization, those who depend on its services, those politicians who perceive it as a strong force for them, will guarantee its continuance. It is, in essence, a hangover from the Communist Party of the U.,S.A. and continues to have advocates in high positions within our Congress, Administration and the bureaucracy.
The likelihood is that it will become more overtly doctrinaire and aggressively political, possibly the core organization of the back radical socialists. Strong grassroots institutions, with powerful connections, have a good chance of holding together in a crisis and reorganizing to fight again another day, having rid them selves of the weaklings and criminal elements.
Who knows. When Obama leaves office, whatever the crcircumstances, ACORN could be there, waiting for a new CEO.
You cannot spell OBAMA without ACORN.
ACORN OBAMA SEIU
Axis of Corruption.
PC sez:
I agree that ACORN is now being scrapped and it should be. I would like to see it re-invented in local communities with its leadership decentralized. Cities/Counties leaders could then appoint a local “housing czar” thats appointed by the mayor and/or county commissioner. The organization would then be run from the ground up, thus ensuring local accountability. Local people running their own affairs.
Yeah, they could hand out housing assignments based on how good a “party” man you are.
can’t wait….
What goy just said in #10.
We need to clean house and to do it thoroughly. And the sooner we begin, the better.
The ACORN doesn’t fall from the Obama. The most distressing thing was the BLATANT lie from Obama regarding the ACORN funding.
2010 is comin’ up fast. Remember the lies and the liars.
So I’m assuming that we will have a “recount” on the election to see how many votes both candidates ACTUALLY received, since ACORN has been caught in voter fraud. Or maybe a totally new vote?
If ACORN has been caught in major voter fraud, how can this election legally stand without a through going over?
Oh, I forgot who we’re dealing with. Legal isn’t in their vocabulary!
#23 Sallie “2010 is comin’ up fast. Remember the lies and liars” What! Tom DeLay is making a comeback?
These ACORNS are poison; destroy them all with the sunlight. Obama is also fundamentally linked to the corrupt ACORN thug group. He should go down with them. Keep digging up the dirt since the MSM will not.
Isn’t Working Families Party the upgraded New Party – of which Obama was a member in 1995 when he ran for office in Chicago? It is the continuation of the socialist party in america. Their web site (I haven’t visited it in months) had an agenda which was the same as the American Socialist Party or the Progressive Democratic Caucus – all are anti US Constitution.
I would argue it would take decades for a complete investigation into the tenacles of ACORN’s reach. This organization is comparable to the Mafia, using the same tactics with the Alinksy Rules for Radicals playbook added and is really a subversive group of haters of America, the rule of law, and the U.S. Constitution. Obama has blood on his hands for his involvement with them. Those who voted for Obama are indirectly responsible for the criminal activities of this organization as well.
Since he took office, Obama has figuratively
been using our country as a bathroom.
Besides number one and two,
he’s vomited all over the constitutional bedrock of our country while trying to jam everything from unread stimu-jackin the box acts to ethnocentric, mentally unbalanced Sotomayor brain froths to socialized medical mistakes down our throats.
Electing Obama was like unleashing a horde of suicide bombers on every facet of this nation, from its ideals of self reliance, private ownership of land and capital to the need to preserve, protect and defend every aspect of this constitution that’s made us strong and free for 233 years and counting. We’re counting on each. We can’t let one another down in this hour of need. Of, course, years before Obama, there was acorn.
Actually Obama was Acorn’s seedling.
Acorn represents corruption at its source, stealing votes, defiling election after election, stoking the hell fires of communism.
Acorn’s offspring, President Obama, appears to be a brown eyed handsome man, but if we had the vision of the deity, he would undoubtedly resemble a fecal drenched, pus laden, Acorn tentacle, covered entity of afterbirth goo.
Acorn elected Obama in the stealth of voter fraud and corruption and now, finally, we’re shining the disinfectant of light on this evil body. We’re trying to unravel every corrosive part of this corruption laden corporation that operates in the depths of lying non-profit depravity of words and action; from poisoning school children’s minds, to leaping at the perverted chance to uses 13 year old bodies as sex slaves. Its work is dirty, nasty and perverted.
It saddens my soul that our first black President, who should have been a rallying cry for pride, hope and change, has turned into a mean, self centered, narcissistic, socialist train wreck who’s not just put us on the wrong track, but has intentionally put us on the path to destruction.
It’s like Barack has infected the greatest country on earth with the worst viruses in the world.
He laughs, dances, drinks his $600 bottles of wine on Wednesday party night at the White House while sweaty patriotic Americans try to fashion a plan to save the land of the free and the home of the brave. So far the antidote is untried. The cure is not as yet within reach.
Our economy is sick, sickened by Stimulus One, cheapened by devaluing currency, weakened by voter fraud and intimidation that’s gone unpunished. And while our NeroBama fiddles with military strategy even though he’s always run from and despised the military, our Afghan troops die every day because Ocrumbball won’t send his own General the troop strength he’s been requesting since August.
Figuring out military strategy to Obama is like asking a blind man to solve a Rubic Cube. And I’m assuming Obama is not out to sabotage the fighting men in the field. Which is a benefit of the doubt I now seriously question.
This country can be saved, our brave soldiers can be saved, a war can be won, but two million Americans must be willing to answer the call. Protest en mass. Raise your signs and make your voices be heard.
Obama’s self avowed communists and socialist czars must go. We must save our most precious national resource, our children, from perverted, pervasive, professional indoctranation of creepy socialist belief whether in mantra, song or word;
A sordid concoction of arguments conceived in hell and notarized by haters of liberty the world over to imbue our children with a love for Obama and a distrust of private enterprise and liberty must be cut off at the knees.
I know I don’t paint a pretty picture. But I know better than hoping the socialized infestation can cure itself.
Whatever it takes, we must be willing to bear any burden, meet any hardship, fight any foe.
Failure is not an option.
#29. “It saddens my soul that our first black President, who should have been a rallying cry for pride, hope and change, has turned into a mean, self centered, narcissistic, socialist train wreck who’s not just put us on the wrong track, but has intentionally put us on the path to destruction. ”
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Just one slight correction, please. “has turned into ” should read “continues to be”.
if Bertha Lewis was truly appalled and sickened by the “deplorable actions” of her employees … she would be glad that someone helped to expose those deplorable actions …. but instead she would like to see them “held accountable” for their crime of taping her employees without first asking permission.
apparently she wants to create enough “smoke” to prevent the focus from her as well.
Face it, Republicans, you lost! . ACORN mess could have been cleaned up under your idiot boy George Bush, add 1 additional failure onto the 147 documented failures of the Bush administration, that brings the total up to 148 documented failures. Republicans, go choke on your ACORN, and while you are at it, if you breathed the same air on planet earth then you are indirectly responsible for what ACORN has done.
Speaking of corrupt,the Nevada Secretary of State employs a corrupt investigator that was at the helm of this investigation, his name is colin haynes and he is currently under a private investigation himself.
The private investigation was launched once it was realized that he fixes investigations in such a way that they go in his favor.
Subpoenas have not been served as of yet as this is heading in that direction shortly.
He has only been with the Secretary of State for under 2 years and is pulling out all the stops in order to impress his superiors.
He is guilty of violating regulatory investigative procedures.
Our goal is to get colin haynes in front of a Federal Grand Jury.
Why hasn’t the Governor-elect Jerry Brown as Attorney General prosecuted the ACORN workers in San Diego? Why isn’t the the US Attorney General’s office pursuing prosecutions of voter faud? How about the Federal Election Commission? Why hasn’t the Obama campaign been investigated regarding it’s link to ACORN election activities?