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Posts tagged "ACORN"

Lefties Trying Preemptive Assault on Texas True The Vote Event

-By Warner Todd Huston The left-wing website Talking Points Memo (known as TPM) is worried that the Tea Party-backed True The Vote effort in Harris County, Texas — home of the City of Houston — is going to successfully enlist Texans to join an effort to “true the vote” by battling vote fraud. Because of... Read more »
By publiusforum,
January 26, 2011 at 11:18 pm
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Waste: Feds Gave ACORN Half a Million for 'Fire Prevention'

-By Warner Todd Huston Jonathan Strong of the Daily Caller has another sad tale of massive government waste involving the criminal group ACORN. Everybody knows about ACORN, the dead, but not really dead activist group charged with all sorts of improprieties and illegalities, the most significant of which is voter fraud, including registering Mickey Mouse... Read more »
By publiusforum,
December 6, 2010 at 10:44 pm
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Former ACORN Worker Takes Plea Deal for Vote Fraud

-By Warner Todd Huston Just prior to the election we discovered that in the state of Nevada the former chief of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now’s (ACORN) affiliated Project Vote organization was under indictment for voter fraud. This week we learn that Amy Busefink has coped a plea deal on charges of... Read more »
By publiusforum,
November 11, 2010 at 10:55 pm
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Another Reminder: ACORN Isn't Dead

-By Warner Todd Huston The New York Post reminds us of an important fact: ACORN isn’t dead. It is merely attempting to morph into a new group with a different name in order to shed its ruined reputation. It has no intention, though, of disappearing entirely like it should. I’ve also mentioned before that this... Read more »
By publiusforum,
November 9, 2010 at 10:51 pm
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ACORN's Get-Out-The-Vote Operative Under State Felony Charges

-By Warner Todd Huston Contrary to popular perception, the criminal group ACORN (Association for Community Organizations for Reform Now) is not quite a’moulderin’ in the grave, folks. Many might recall that Congress turned off the spigot of federal funds flowing into the coffers of the organization responsible for federal election law crimes all across the... Read more »
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October 26, 2010 at 11:38 pm
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Vadum: A Reminder, ACORN Funding NOT Permanently Cut Off

-By Warner Todd Huston Matthew Vadum, ever vigilant on the evils perpetrated by ACORN, reminds us that the criminal community organizer has not had its federal funding cut off permanently. The temporary cut off is soon to expire and Vadum reports that there doesn’t seem to be anyone in Congress taking up a reinstatement of... Read more »
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September 28, 2010 at 11:08 pm
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Government Report Says ACORN Spinoff Illicitly Got Federal Funding

-By Warner Todd Huston A report by the inspector general of the Department of Housing and Urban Development says that the ACORN Housing Corporation improperly received millions in federal funds. The report demands that the group repay the ill-gotten gain. The organization later changed its name to Affordable Housing Centers of America after ACRON’s name... Read more »
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September 25, 2010 at 9:59 am
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New Court Decision: Congress Can Withhold ACORN Funding

-By Warner Todd Huston Looks like ACORN lost another round in court last week. New York’s 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a lower court’s decision to re-instate Congressional funding of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) ruling that halting funding did not violate the group’s rights. Congress finally cut off... Read more »
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August 15, 2010 at 1:50 pm
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Federal Funds Paid for ACORN Youth Groups

-By Warner Todd Huston If you haven’t checked out CNSNews.com, it is a great place to find stories not widely discussed in the Old Media. Often CNS hits stories before anyone else and the Old Media has to play catch-up to report what CNSNews already reported. Recently CNS had an investigative story detailing millions in... Read more »
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June 24, 2010 at 11:39 am
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ACORN's Tangled Branches

-By Warner Todd Huston News is all over the country that the often criminal group the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) is dead, folding its tent, kaput. All this is because, as Politico puts it, of a “conservative assault that never prompted any prosecutions.” But let us not get our hopes up... Read more »
By publiusforum,
March 25, 2010 at 12:58 pm
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