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The Acorn Watch Report 09/11/09
* THE VIDEO: ACORN Baltimore Prostitution Investigation
* ACORN Officials Videotaped Telling 'Pimp,' 'Prostitute' How to Lie to IRS
* Voters need to bring identification to Utah ballot box
* State elections board probes possible 2007 voter fraud at Topsail, NC
* ACORN Continues to Make Headlines
* Inquiry opened into New Black Panther case
* Exclusive ACORN Exposé: Stealing Democracy
THE VIDEO: ACORN Baltimore Prostitution Investigation
Posted: 10 Sep 2009 10:18 AM PDT
Undercover investigation featuring prostitution, sex trafficking, tax evasion, and money laundering. Watch the videos here: Part 1 http://budurl.com/cmlw
(http://budurl.com/cmlw)Part
2 http://budurl.com/ag3f
(http://budurl.com/ag3f
)
ACORN Officials Videotaped Telling 'Pimp,' 'Prostitute' How to Lie to IRS
Posted: 10 Sep 2009 05:11 AM PDT
Officials with the controversial community organizing group ACORN were secretly videotaped offering to assist two individuals posing as a pimp and a prostitute, encouraging them to lie to the Internal Revenue Service and providing guidance on how to claim underage girls from South America as dependents.The videotape was to be made public Thursday on BigGovernment.com (http://biggovernment.com/
), a political blog launched by Andrew Breitbart as a companion site to his BigHollywood.breitbart.com
blog.In the videotape, made on July 24, James O'Keefe, a 25-year-old independent filmmaker, posed as a pimp with a 20-year-old woman named "Kenya" who posed as a prostitute while visiting ACORN's office in Baltimore. The couple told ACORN staffers they wanted to secure housing where the woman could continue to maintain a prostitution business.Continue reading this breaking story here: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,548827,00.html
(http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,548827,00.html
)
Voters need to bring identification to Utah ballot box
Posted: 10 Sep 2009 04:26 AM PDT
ST. GEORGE - Poll workers might sound a little like patrol officers this year, but in the interest of voter protection, they're hoping not to offend when they tell voters, "I'm going to need to see some ID."With early voting already under way for this year's municipal primaries, voting officials are asking voters to remember their photo IDs, as required for the first time by state law.The Legislature passed a new statute this year that requires all voters to show an acceptable identification, which includes state-issued cards with photos such as a driver's license or passport. Two forms of other identification, which show a name and current address, may also be accepted.Continue reading here: http://www.thespectrum.com/article/20090908/NEWS01/909080317
(http://www.thespectrum.com/article/20090908/NEWS01/909080317
)
State elections board probes possible 2007 voter fraud at Topsail, NC
Posted: 10 Sep 2009 04:23 AM PDT
The N.C. Board of Elections is looking into possible voter fraud in the 2007 Topsail Beach Board of Commissioners election, state Rep. Carolyn Justice, R-Pender, says.The issue is one that has come up before on the resort island: legal residency of property owners.Justice said she had spoken with state elections Executive Director Gary Bartlett about the situation and was told the office would address it soon.“We talked about the situation of people getting other people who live outside the area but have a home at the beach changing their addresses so they could vote in an election,” Justice said. “He promised me that they would address the subject soon. He did not give me a specific time line. He said that he was very aware of it and they were going to address it.”Continue reading here: http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20090908/ARTICLES/909089906/1...
(http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20090908/ARTICLES/909089906/1...
)
ACORN Continues to Make Headlines
Posted: 10 Sep 2009 04:15 AM PDT
We need to give credit where credit is due. Today, the AP reports that acting under a tip from ACORN, authorities in Florida have arrested 11 individuals accused of falsifying hundreds of voter applications during a registration drive last year. According to the press report, "the suspects collectively turned in about 1,400 registration cards, of which 888 were later found to be faked." While this was certainly a smart move on ACORN’s part to assist in this criminal investigation, this controversial organization is far too often implicated in these falsified voter registration activities.In fact, over the years, ACORN and its employees have been the subject of investigations, indictments, and consent decrees in states all across the nation for election-related activities that run afoul of the law. Yet, since 1994, Congress has given it $53 million. And, legislation passed this year alone will make billions potentially available to this organization. Could Washington find no more worthy way to spend your money?Continue reading here: http://townhall.com/blog/g/9e887848-ebc4-47e2-acf1-18f958c81389
(http://townhall.com/blog/g/9e887848-ebc4-47e2-acf1-18f958c81389
)
Inquiry opened into New Black Panther case
Posted: 10 Sep 2009 04:12 AM PDT
The Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility has begun an official inquiry into the dismissal in May of a civil complaint against the New Black Panther Party and two of its members who disrupted a Philadelphia polling place during the November general elections.The inquiry is disclosed in an Aug. 28 letter to Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, the ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee who first raised questions about the dismissal in May and asked unsuccessfully that Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. make available the head of the department's Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division for a closed-door briefing on the decision.In the letter, Mary Patrice Brown, acting OPR counsel, told the veteran congressman from Texas that the office had "initiated an inquiry into the matter" and that it would "contact you with the results of our inquiry once it is completed." A copy of the letter was obtained by The Washington Times.Continue reading here: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/09/inquiry-opened-abou...
(http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/09/inquiry-opened-abou...
)
Exclusive ACORN Exposé: Stealing Democracy
Posted: 10 Sep 2009 04:04 AM PDT
In the parallel universe occupied by many left-of-center Americans, the increasingly controversial Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) is a high-minded poor people’s group similar to crusading civil rights groups of the 1960s.They believe ACORN is a public-spirited organization that registers the poor to vote and encourages citizen involvement in morally uplifting projects and community development. They believe it spurs production of affordable housing, protects tenants’ rights, keeps unjustly exploited borrowers in their homes and rages against predatory lenders. They believe it fights for the rights of workers, immigrants and utility ratepayers.But it does so much more.Continue reading here: http://townhall.com/columnists/MatthewVadum/2009/09/10/exclusive_ac...é_stealing_democracy
(http://townhall.com/columnists/MatthewVadum/2009/09/10/exclusive_ac...
)
* ACORN Officials Videotaped Telling 'Pimp,' 'Prostitute' How to Lie to IRS
* Voters need to bring identification to Utah ballot box
* State elections board probes possible 2007 voter fraud at Topsail, NC
* ACORN Continues to Make Headlines
* Inquiry opened into New Black Panther case
* Exclusive ACORN Exposé: Stealing Democracy
THE VIDEO: ACORN Baltimore Prostitution Investigation
Posted: 10 Sep 2009 10:18 AM PDT
Undercover investigation featuring prostitution, sex trafficking, tax evasion, and money laundering. Watch the videos here: Part 1 http://budurl.com/cmlw
(http://budurl.com/cmlw)Part
2 http://budurl.com/ag3f
(http://budurl.com/ag3f
)
ACORN Officials Videotaped Telling 'Pimp,' 'Prostitute' How to Lie to IRS
Posted: 10 Sep 2009 05:11 AM PDT
Officials with the controversial community organizing group ACORN were secretly videotaped offering to assist two individuals posing as a pimp and a prostitute, encouraging them to lie to the Internal Revenue Service and providing guidance on how to claim underage girls from South America as dependents.The videotape was to be made public Thursday on BigGovernment.com (http://biggovernment.com/
), a political blog launched by Andrew Breitbart as a companion site to his BigHollywood.breitbart.com
blog.In the videotape, made on July 24, James O'Keefe, a 25-year-old independent filmmaker, posed as a pimp with a 20-year-old woman named "Kenya" who posed as a prostitute while visiting ACORN's office in Baltimore. The couple told ACORN staffers they wanted to secure housing where the woman could continue to maintain a prostitution business.Continue reading this breaking story here: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,548827,00.html
(http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,548827,00.html
)
Voters need to bring identification to Utah ballot box
Posted: 10 Sep 2009 04:26 AM PDT
ST. GEORGE - Poll workers might sound a little like patrol officers this year, but in the interest of voter protection, they're hoping not to offend when they tell voters, "I'm going to need to see some ID."With early voting already under way for this year's municipal primaries, voting officials are asking voters to remember their photo IDs, as required for the first time by state law.The Legislature passed a new statute this year that requires all voters to show an acceptable identification, which includes state-issued cards with photos such as a driver's license or passport. Two forms of other identification, which show a name and current address, may also be accepted.Continue reading here: http://www.thespectrum.com/article/20090908/NEWS01/909080317
(http://www.thespectrum.com/article/20090908/NEWS01/909080317
)
State elections board probes possible 2007 voter fraud at Topsail, NC
Posted: 10 Sep 2009 04:23 AM PDT
The N.C. Board of Elections is looking into possible voter fraud in the 2007 Topsail Beach Board of Commissioners election, state Rep. Carolyn Justice, R-Pender, says.The issue is one that has come up before on the resort island: legal residency of property owners.Justice said she had spoken with state elections Executive Director Gary Bartlett about the situation and was told the office would address it soon.“We talked about the situation of people getting other people who live outside the area but have a home at the beach changing their addresses so they could vote in an election,” Justice said. “He promised me that they would address the subject soon. He did not give me a specific time line. He said that he was very aware of it and they were going to address it.”Continue reading here: http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20090908/ARTICLES/909089906/1...
(http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20090908/ARTICLES/909089906/1...
)
ACORN Continues to Make Headlines
Posted: 10 Sep 2009 04:15 AM PDT
We need to give credit where credit is due. Today, the AP reports that acting under a tip from ACORN, authorities in Florida have arrested 11 individuals accused of falsifying hundreds of voter applications during a registration drive last year. According to the press report, "the suspects collectively turned in about 1,400 registration cards, of which 888 were later found to be faked." While this was certainly a smart move on ACORN’s part to assist in this criminal investigation, this controversial organization is far too often implicated in these falsified voter registration activities.In fact, over the years, ACORN and its employees have been the subject of investigations, indictments, and consent decrees in states all across the nation for election-related activities that run afoul of the law. Yet, since 1994, Congress has given it $53 million. And, legislation passed this year alone will make billions potentially available to this organization. Could Washington find no more worthy way to spend your money?Continue reading here: http://townhall.com/blog/g/9e887848-ebc4-47e2-acf1-18f958c81389
(http://townhall.com/blog/g/9e887848-ebc4-47e2-acf1-18f958c81389
)
Inquiry opened into New Black Panther case
Posted: 10 Sep 2009 04:12 AM PDT
The Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility has begun an official inquiry into the dismissal in May of a civil complaint against the New Black Panther Party and two of its members who disrupted a Philadelphia polling place during the November general elections.The inquiry is disclosed in an Aug. 28 letter to Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, the ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee who first raised questions about the dismissal in May and asked unsuccessfully that Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. make available the head of the department's Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division for a closed-door briefing on the decision.In the letter, Mary Patrice Brown, acting OPR counsel, told the veteran congressman from Texas that the office had "initiated an inquiry into the matter" and that it would "contact you with the results of our inquiry once it is completed." A copy of the letter was obtained by The Washington Times.Continue reading here: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/09/inquiry-opened-abou...
(http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/09/inquiry-opened-abou...
)
Exclusive ACORN Exposé: Stealing Democracy
Posted: 10 Sep 2009 04:04 AM PDT
In the parallel universe occupied by many left-of-center Americans, the increasingly controversial Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) is a high-minded poor people’s group similar to crusading civil rights groups of the 1960s.They believe ACORN is a public-spirited organization that registers the poor to vote and encourages citizen involvement in morally uplifting projects and community development. They believe it spurs production of affordable housing, protects tenants’ rights, keeps unjustly exploited borrowers in their homes and rages against predatory lenders. They believe it fights for the rights of workers, immigrants and utility ratepayers.But it does so much more.Continue reading here: http://townhall.com/columnists/MatthewVadum/2009/09/10/exclusive_ac...é_stealing_democracy
(http://townhall.com/columnists/MatthewVadum/2009/09/10/exclusive_ac...
)
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