Comments on: Cracking ACORN Requires Comprehensive Electoral Reform

By: Now and Then

Now and Then — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:02:26 +0000

71. Charles Kirtley:
Little, if anything, will happen to ACORN. After a name change, a few firings, and an “investigation” or two, everything will go back to normal. :

Blackwater much?

By: Charles Kirtley

Charles Kirtley — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 11:44:22 +0000

Little, if anything, will happen to ACORN. After a name change, a few firings, and an “investigation” or two, everything will go back to normal. In case you white racists haven’t noticed, ACORN is a largely black organization. Whites have had their turn at the trough, now it’s the blacks’ turn.

By: EyesOpened

EyesOpened — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:22:46 +0000

ACORN drops tarnished name and moves to silence critics. NEW NAME = COI

“The new name will let ACORN leaders continue their operations without worrying about prior bad publicity, according to Marcel Reid of ACORN 8, a group of present and former members.”

“Wade Rathke, who founded the organization, announced on his blog that ACORN International has officially changed its name to “Community Organizations International.”

see the whole article at:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2339896/posts

By: Gringo

Gringo — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 04:42:01 +0000

29 Look sAskance

Plus, from your comments it sounds as if some of you would institute a writing test in these “inner city precincts” if you could get away with it. It is racism, whether you like it or not, and don’t forget Becky played that “card” first.

It is a lack of integrity on your part to put words into the mouths of others that they did not say.

By: Bohemond

Bohemond — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:36:52 +0000

39 2face:

The problem here is that goups like ACORN and corrupt politicians, mostly leftists, have successfully prevented any sort of meaninful provisions against vote fraud being implemented.

By: William

William — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:11:12 +0000

Defund ACORN? Forget it. The bills passed by the Senate and House covered separate issues, purposefully. Now these bills will go through the labyrinth of Congressional committes, rules, procedures, etc. until any legislation that might be suitable for the President’s signature will be either buried in the congressional wilderness or hopefully (by Obama) forgotten. This is typical of a Congress not wanting to do anything to upset their base and because they think we are stupid.

By: Sebastian Shaw

Sebastian Shaw — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:03:01 +0000

Michael (#64), ACORN is a non-profit entity; hence, it’s status to be supposedly non-partisan & status to receive tax payer money from the federal government. However, ACORN is a pervasive corrupt organization & quite partisan. Partisan meaning they support Democrats only. This alone betrays their status as a non-profit. However, their own corruption will bring down many Democrats as the ACORNS hatch into Harpies. The fact remains that these journalists can simply record to show ACORN’s corruption is evidence enough.

Bertha Lewis has said many contradictory things about the videos & none of them are consistent (hence the contradictions). I hope ACORN does sue Fox News. The discovery will lead to more Harpies for ACORN & the Democrats.

By: Sapwolf

Sapwolf — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:03:52 +0000

This would be a great issue to tackle at the state and local level.

The Tea Party Movement in one sense is an anti-ACORN movement too.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:47:07 +0000

Give it up guys. ACORN is if not a criminal organization is at least a fatally flawed corporate entity. Your supposition that the tapes are doctored is unsupported and just wishful thinking on your part just as all their voter fraud investigations.

Next point. Community organizer is an odious phrase. Whatever it started as it is now a byword for a partisan political action group. If ACORN continues after the house cleaning so deservedly needs then it must be treated as a political action committee.

By: Tom Holsinger

Tom Holsinger — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:14:25 +0000

ACORN is a classic racketeering enterprise whose chief form of income is fraud on the government – federal, state and local. The predicate RICO acts are chiefly interstate wire fraud (i.e., email). ACORN bought protection from prosecution by sharing with the federal, state and local Democratic parties. I.e., there is a national racketeering enterprise comprised of ACORN and the Democratic politicians who protect it.

If ACORN is so unwise as to sue Fox and/or BigGovernment.com for defamation, its senior officers will be in great risk of premature death because the ensuing civil discovery process will gut the Democratic party. Too many of its senior elective and appointive office-holders with real power have non-trivial criminal exposure risks due to being co-conspirators with ACORN in this long-standing racketeering enterprise.