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My oh my, just in time for the continual fireworks! Very interesting read. Right out of the Saul Alinsky playbook. And ACORN got $4 billion in money? We will see about that.

Hill panel testimony to accuse ACORN of mob tactics

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A lawyer for a whistleblower on the activist group ACORN is prepared to tell a House panel Thursday that the group provided liberal causes with protest-for-hire services and coerced donations from the targets of demonstrations through a mob-style "protection" racket.

ACORN called it the "muscle for the money" program, according to prepared testimony Pittsburgh lawyer Heather Heidelbaugh plans to deliver at a hearing of the House Judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution, civil rights and civil liberties.

A copy of her prepared testimony was obtained by The Washington Times.

The protest shakedowns are among a slew of accusations that Ms. Heidelbaugh intends to make against the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. She also will accuse the nonprofit group of violating tax, campaign-finance and other laws by sharing a list of President Obama's maxed-out campaign donors to solicit more funds for a get-out-the-vote drive.

The accusations, which are based entirely on sworn court testimony late last year by ACORN whistleblower Anita Moncrief, range from unlawfully coordinating campaign activity with Mr. Obama's presidential campaign to deliberately engaging in voter-registration fraud and misusing federal grant money.

ACORN officials say none of the charges is true, though they declined to respond to any of the separate claims.

"None of this wild and varied list of charges has any credibility, and we're not going to spend our time on it," said Kevin Whelan, ACORN deputy political director. He said the group's voter-registration drive succeeded in bringing many disaffected minority and low-income voters into the democratic process.

Ms. Heidelbaugh, a member of the executive committee of the Republican National Lawyers Association, spearheaded an unsuccessful lawsuit last year seeking a court injunction in Pennsylvania against ACORN's voter-registration drive for the 2008 presidential campaign.

Republican members of the committee invited her to appear as a witness.

Ms. Moncrief, who worked for years as a clerk at the ACORN office in the District before being fired for charging about $2,000 in personal expenses on an ACORN credit card, is not scheduled to testify. Ms. Heidelbaugh said the whistleblower will be present as a guest at the hearing.

ACORN's Mr. Whelan said Ms. Moncrief was never a part of the organization's management and was fired for stealing.

"Nothing she says has any credibility," he said.

Ms. Heidelbaugh called Ms. Moncrief a "courageous woman" who has withstood threats of violence to shed light on what goes on at ACORN.

The prepared testimony described two facets of the "muscle for the money" program, an official and unofficial program.

The "official" program is the name of the ACORN voter-registration drives. The Obama campaign paid an ACORN affiliate group more than $800,000 for these get-out-the-vote services during the primary race, though the expenditure was initially misrepresented to the Federal Election Commission as for "sound and lighting equipment," but later corrected.

The "unofficial" program collected payments to organize protests. For example, the Service Employees International Union hired ACORN to harass the Carlyle Group, a global private equity firm. Other paid protests targeted Sherwin-Williams, H&R Block, Jackson Hewitt and Money Mart, according to the testimony.

The protests then became a way to extract corporate donations.

"The protesting was used to get companies to negotiate. The companies would pay money to get the protesting to stop," Ms. Heidelbaugh said, quoting Ms. Moncrief's court testimony. "In addition to calling this activity 'Muscle for the Money,' the insiders at ACORN called it 'protection.' "

The hearing likely will rekindle criticism of the financial ties and close cooperation between Mr. Obama's campaign and ACORN and its sister organizations Citizens Services Inc. and Project Vote.

The groups came under fire during the campaign after probes into suspected voter fraud in a series of presidential battleground states, including Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, New Mexico and Nevada.

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If true this is worse than voter fraud.

It's like a self propelled election racket. Take "public" money to get someone in office so they will give you more "Public" money to keep them in office.

Public money is the key here.

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Minutia here and minutia there. One would think this stuff might start adding up sooner or later.

"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies."

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Minutia here and minutia there. One would think this stuff might start adding up sooner or later.

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Title produces 12,500 hits on Google. :rofl:

ACORN...every **'s wet dream.

So, because you can no longer defend them, the insults and name-calling start at Post #5. Must be a Friday.

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Dammit, I wish I could count :blush:

Of course...because post #5 wasn't an insult at all.

No matter how many lies the Rethuglicans keep saying, defaming the reputation of ACORN, they can't actually back it up with facts. ACORN has never been found guilty of voter fraud.

Let's be honest here. The Rethuglicans hate HATE ACORN because it is a left leaning group....nothing more.

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And as to the latest allegations...sounds all too familiar... (this one dating Oct. 2008)

Ex-ACORN worker to testify for GOP

HARRISBURG -- A lawyer for the state Republican Party said Thursday that she will present a former ACORN employee to testify that the community group paid cash to workers and set quotas for collecting voter-registration forms.

Attorney Heather Heidelbaugh contends such payments are illegal. She told a state judge the witness, Anita Moncrief, worked in the Washington, D.C., office of ACORN -- the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now -- and came forward voluntarily.

The Republican Party said it is suing ACORN and the Department of State to prevent voter-registration fraud. The party is seeking voter registration lists compiled by ACORN, citing criminal investigations into alleged voter registration fraud in several Pennsylvania counties, including Allegheny.

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburgh...g/s_594965.html

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Rethuglicans, get your boners ready....it's gonna a be fun time.

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Dammit, I wish I could count :blush:

Of course...because post #5 wasn't an insult at all.

No matter how many lies the Rethuglicans keep saying, defaming the reputation of ACORN, they can't actually back it up with facts. ACORN has never been found guilty of voter fraud.

Let's be honest here. The Rethuglicans hate HATE ACORN because it is a left leaning group....nothing more.

.....

And as to the latest allegations...sounds all too familiar... (this one dating Oct. 2008)

Ex-ACORN worker to testify for GOP

HARRISBURG -- A lawyer for the state Republican Party said Thursday that she will present a former ACORN employee to testify that the community group paid cash to workers and set quotas for collecting voter-registration forms.

Attorney Heather Heidelbaugh contends such payments are illegal. She told a state judge the witness, Anita Moncrief, worked in the Washington, D.C., office of ACORN -- the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now -- and came forward voluntarily.

The Republican Party said it is suing ACORN and the Department of State to prevent voter-registration fraud. The party is seeking voter registration lists compiled by ACORN, citing criminal investigations into alleged voter registration fraud in several Pennsylvania counties, including Allegheny.

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburgh...g/s_594965.html

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Rethuglicans, get your boners ready....it's gonna a be fun time.

Voter registration fraud? Lest we forget these people get a piece of the census fraud market as well. And the census apportions representation in congress.

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Dammit, I wish I could count :blush:

Of course...because post #5 wasn't an insult at all.

No matter how many lies the Rethuglicans keep saying, defaming the reputation of ACORN, they can't actually back it up with facts. ACORN has never been found guilty of voter fraud.

Let's be honest here. The Rethuglicans hate HATE ACORN because it is a left leaning group....nothing more.

.....

And as to the latest allegations...sounds all too familiar... (this one dating Oct. 2008)

Ex-ACORN worker to testify for GOP

HARRISBURG -- A lawyer for the state Republican Party said Thursday that she will present a former ACORN employee to testify that the community group paid cash to workers and set quotas for collecting voter-registration forms.

Attorney Heather Heidelbaugh contends such payments are illegal. She told a state judge the witness, Anita Moncrief, worked in the Washington, D.C., office of ACORN -- the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now -- and came forward voluntarily.

The Republican Party said it is suing ACORN and the Department of State to prevent voter-registration fraud. The party is seeking voter registration lists compiled by ACORN, citing criminal investigations into alleged voter registration fraud in several Pennsylvania counties, including Allegheny.

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburgh...g/s_594965.html

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Rethuglicans, get your boners ready....it's gonna a be fun time.

It was if you like ostriches :blush:

As for ACORN, we'll see where the latest court action goes. With the media, left or right, reports makes little difference to me, as, no doubt you should know by now, I don't believe a word of what is reported, because there is no such thing as an unbiased media in the USA. All the media articles between now and then will be no more than distractionary fluff. So, I'll let what evidence there may be play out in court before I draw my own, personal conclusion.

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As for ACORN, we'll see where the latest court action goes. With the media, left or right, reports makes little difference to me, as, no doubt you should know by now, I don't believe a word of what is reported, because there is no such thing as an unbiased media in the USA. All the media articles between now and then will be no more than distractionary fluff. So, I'll let what evidence there may be play out in court before I draw my own, personal conclusion.

Seriously....this is total BS. Just look at how many times the Right Wingers have gone after ACORN. Look, they have the John Birch Society and the Heritage Foundation - both groups heavily involved in politics. Should the Dems go after those groups in a smear campaign with the same tenacity as the Rethuglicans have against ACORN? Nothing put pure political hackery. At least the Democratic Party has more important things on their mind, you know, like trying to clean up the mess the Bush Adminstration has left this country in. Good lawdy...

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As for ACORN, we'll see where the latest court action goes. With the media, left or right, reports makes little difference to me, as, no doubt you should know by now, I don't believe a word of what is reported, because there is no such thing as an unbiased media in the USA. All the media articles between now and then will be no more than distractionary fluff. So, I'll let what evidence there may be play out in court before I draw my own, personal conclusion.

Seriously....this is total BS. Just look at how many times the Right Wingers have gone after ACORN. Look, they have the John Birch Society and the Heritage Foundation - both groups heavily involved in politics. Should the Dems go after those groups in a smear campaign with the same tenacity as the Rethuglicans have against ACORN? Nothing put pure political hackery. At least the Democratic Party has more important things on their mind, you know, like trying to clean up the mess the Bush Adminstration has left this country in. Good lawdy...

So the Dems are trying to clear up the mess, eh? Tim "Tax Cheat" Geithner is single-handedly sending this country down the financial crapper and you think they're trying to clear up the mess?

President Obama is engaged on a political publicity tour to try and bring the country back on message, all the while being undermined by the AIG farce, of which Geithner was the primary architect, according to the New York Times, no less, and you think they're trying to clean up the mess?

You have Congress and the Senate passing a punitive directed tax legislation, aimed at AIG executives, and likely to fail the Constitutionality test, and you think they're trying to clean up the mess?

Then you have Chris Dodd admitting he knew one day what he denied knowing the day before, and you think they're trying to clean up this mess?

Even john Boehner, idiot that he is, had it right when he stood up and lambasted people for not reading the stimulus bill in all its 1100 page "glory". And now those wrong-footed Senators and Congressmen are complaining that they never knew what was in the bill because they didn't read it. #### it! If you don't know where $850bn is going to go, you have no right to vote for it.

But hey, they're in power now, so they can do whatever they like, especially if they do away with the filibuster. Then the Dems can act like thugs. And won't you be happy that there is no-one left to stop them?

Talk to me when you've grown up.

Don't interrupt me when I'm talking to myself

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As for ACORN, we'll see where the latest court action goes. With the media, left or right, reports makes little difference to me, as, no doubt you should know by now, I don't believe a word of what is reported, because there is no such thing as an unbiased media in the USA. All the media articles between now and then will be no more than distractionary fluff. So, I'll let what evidence there may be play out in court before I draw my own, personal conclusion.

Seriously....this is total BS. Just look at how many times the Right Wingers have gone after ACORN. Look, they have the John Birch Society and the Heritage Foundation - both groups heavily involved in politics. Should the Dems go after those groups in a smear campaign with the same tenacity as the Rethuglicans have against ACORN? Nothing put pure political hackery. At least the Democratic Party has more important things on their mind, you know, like trying to clean up the mess the Bush Adminstration has left this country in. Good lawdy...

So the Dems are trying to clear up the mess, eh? Tim "Tax Cheat" Geithner is single-handedly sending this country down the financial crapper and you think they're trying to clear up the mess?

President Obama is engaged on a political publicity tour to try and bring the country back on message, all the while being undermined by the AIG farce, of which Geithner was the primary architect, according to the New York Times, no less, and you think they're trying to clean up the mess?

You have Congress and the Senate passing a punitive directed tax legislation, aimed at AIG executives, and likely to fail the Constitutionality test, and you think they're trying to clean up the mess?

Then you have Chris Dodd admitting he knew one day what he denied knowing the day before, and you think they're trying to clean up this mess?

Even john Boehner, idiot that he is, had it right when he stood up and lambasted people for not reading the stimulus bill in all its 1100 page "glory". And now those wrong-footed Senators and Congressmen are complaining that they never knew what was in the bill because they didn't read it. #### it! If you don't know where $850bn is going to go, you have no right to vote for it.

But hey, they're in power now, so they can do whatever they like, especially if they do away with the filibuster. Then the Dems can act like thugs. And won't you be happy that there is no-one left to stop them?

Talk to me when you've grown up.

Yep...even when it's not the Dems fault...it's still their fault. Love the logic, Pooks.

 

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