ACORN is the New Dirty Word
The attack on ACORN isn't about fighting corruption. If it was, then dozens of corporations with federal contracts far larger than ACORN's would be under investigation now.
The attack on ACORN isn't about fighting corruption. If it was, then dozens of corporations with federal contracts far larger than ACORN's would be under investigation now.
John Wellington Ennis | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics
Lost in all of the sensationalism and selective truths is that there has been no connection between ACORN and underage prostitution, until a kid walked in and started talking about it to anyone he could get to listen to him.
John Atlas | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics
The right goes after the left's most effective groups. Because ACORN does not rely on government funds the organization will survive the orchestrated attacks against it. But if it's to restore its strength, it needs progressive support.
Will Bunch | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics
The reality -- that ACORN is an established group with worthy goals and some success but also poor management -- is not what's driving the story. Conservatives want to destroy ACORN and the things it does. Period.
Casey Gane-McCalla | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics
If the government decides to cut funding of organizations due to the actions of low level employees, they must apply the same rules to the GOP's favorite government-funded organizations.
The Huffington Post | Megan Slack | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics
RNC Chairman Michael Steele is teaming up with Rep. Michele Bachmann, asking Republicans for their help blocking public funding for ACORN, the progres...
Bertha Lewis | Posted 12.09.2008 | Politics
If I could hug everyone at once, I would. Without everyone who stood with us it would have been impossible to fight back the way we did.
ProPublica | Posted 12.03.2008 | Politics
For weeks Republican leaders have warned that widely reported problems with fake voter registrations could result in a flood of phony votes in pivotal...
Bertha Lewis | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics
We want to assure you that partisan attacks will not interfere with ACORN members' determination to involve low-income, minority, and new American voters across the country.
Judah Freed | Posted 12.01.2008 | Home
Republicans are seeking to suppress the voter turnout among youth, minorities and poor people. If Republicans can prevent enough Democrats from casting ballots, McCain could win the election.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Greg Palast | Posted 11.30.2008 | Politics
You can have all the paper ballots in the world, but if you don't demand to look at them, publicly, in a recount, you might as well mark them with invisible ink. Democracy requires vigilance.
David Misch | Posted 03.28.2009 | Entertainment
From: Ex. VP, Destroying Fabric of Democracy Comm. To: All fraudsters Re: Fraud Fellow Fraudsters: After months of planning, the DFoD Committee has ...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Greg Palast | Posted 11.27.2008 | Politics
While Republicans had the media searching for links between Obama and ACORN, RNC operatives were busily completing one of the most massive voter suppression and purging efforts in American history.
Sarah van Gelder | Posted 11.23.2008 | Politics
The issues of ACORN and voter fraud are a smokescreen designed to cover a much more serious issue with a long and ugly history: the suppression of the vote of groups that tend to vote Democratic.
AP | JIM ABRAMS | Posted 11.22.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — House Republican leader John Boehner on Wednesday urged President Bush to block all federal funds to a grass-roots community group ...
Linda Bergthold | Posted 11.21.2008 | Media
What is most disgraceful about this interview is the flaccid and uncritical role of the interviewer -- Drew Griffin. How can he call himself a journalist?
WBBM 780 | Nancy Harty | Posted 11.21.2008 | Chicago
A longtime community group that is a point of controversy in the presidential election over voter registrations is NOT registering voters here in the ...
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 11.21.2008 | Politics
Brave New Films explains what the voter fraud allegations against ACORN are really about: suppressing the low-income vote and throwing the election re...
Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics
If McCain cannot attract voters to him, the only strategy left is to prevent voters from getting to the polls to support his opponent.
Rick Hasen | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics
Fraudulent voter registrations don't translate into election fraud at the polls that has any reasonable chance of influencing an election, much less a presidential election.
Media Matters | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics
From October 6 through October 15, CNN ran at least 54 segments mentioning allegations that the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now ...
AP | LARA JAKES JORDAN | Posted 11.16.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The FBI is investigating whether the community activist group ACORN helped foster voter registration fraud around the nation before...
Think Progress | Posted 11.16.2008 | Politics
As the 2008 election process draws near -- and with early voting in many states having already begun -- conservatives are raising a great hue and cry ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics
In the clearest sign yet that we Americans do in fact have portions of our minds left to lose comes this news of the ever-evolving attempts of the rig...
Christina Bellantoni | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics
First published at WashingtonTimes.com The accusations against ACORN keep on coming, with more and more examples piling up of fraud in critical battl...
Rinku Sen | Posted 10.02.2009 | Politics