Obama and two other attorneys represented ACORN represented Acorn in a lawsuit in 1995 to force the State of Illinois to implement a federal voter registration law. But ACORN was not exactly the only plaintiff in that suit: so was the DOJ and the League of Women Voters. Also a lot of right wing numbnuts quote a 2004 article in “Social Policy” by Toni Foulkes, a Chicago ACORN leader, where he states that under Obama’s leadership, Project VOTE in 1992 delivered 50,000 newly registered Illinois voters that helped Carol Moseley Braun win a Senate seat. And of those 50,000 votes, Foulkes wrote, “ACORN delivered about 5,000 of them.”
The thing is that in 1992 when Obama did some work for Project Vote, it was a separate organization from ACORN, although they often worked together on getting out the vote in poorer communities. In 1994, Project Vote went through a reorganization and began to partner more with ACORN on voter registration, but it was still a separate organization.
There — in two short paragraphs, I just provided you guys with more factual information about Obama’s connection to ACORN than the entire right wing mediasphere has managed to do do date despite gigs and gigs of blather about it. Yeah, really dark, suspicious stuff. Tools and fools.
