Comments on: Republicans: ACORN Schemed to Sabotage Itself

By: nonplussed

nonplussed — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:20:30 +0000

ACORN held a press conference today where they denied either assigning their signature collectors a quota. It was quite interetsing, I was actually quite surprised when the spokesman denied it.

I tried to link the video but it wouldn’t link, the link is to the Cspan recent programs page, the press conference is there and lasts 45 minutes. The Q&A at the last 15 minutes or so is the best.

fwiw, This is the link to it: rtsp://video1.c-span.org/archive/c08/c08_101408_acorn.rm

By: hackworth

hackworth — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:40:24 +0000

For the sake of fairness, Republican Goobernors should do what JEB did in 2000 in Florida – set up vehicle road blocks and check points in poor neighborhoods on the routes to the polls.

By: cinnamonape

cinnamonape — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:06:49 +0000

I just posted this on another blog but it’s relevant here. I think that it should be pointed out the amount of signature fraud perpetrated by Republicans in the initiative and referendum process…all without any charges of fraud or fines. In fact, Secretary of States simply “accept” very high levels of false signatures as an acceptable cost of encouraging participatory democracy in the case of these initiatives. The certainly aren’t sending DOJ or FBI agents out raiding and shutting down the initiative groups!

The Ward Connelly-sponsored Initiative (in McCain’s home state of Arizona)
to end any State support of schools that allow clubs, groups or scholarships based upon ethnicity.

http://www.azcentral.com/news/…..llot2.html

“Secretary of State Jan Brewer said she disqualified Proposition 104, the “Arizona Civil Rights Initiative,” because its 194,961 valid signatures fell short of the 230,047 required for proposed amendments to the Arizona Constitution. Supporters had turned in just under 334,735 signatures.”

So lemme see only 194,961 of 334,735 signatures were actually valid!

That’s a 42% False signature rate! I wonder how many people involved in this massive effort of fraud were ever jailed or even fined. Were THEIR offices raided? Yet ACORN who actually flagged and notified the Secretary of State about questionable registrations gets raided by Republican-appointed AG’s? They’ve essentially shut down voter registration operations in many areas…just as the registration deadlines loom!

This is a pattern of fraud that can be found in almost every state where such right-wing backed initiatives are attempted to be placed on the ballot. In many cases the signature collectors actually deceive people to sign right-wing backed petitions by “rubber-banding” initiatives above that are less controversial, and then telling people that they have to sign twice, or three times.

By: AlbertFall

AlbertFall — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:11:05 +0000

It is not important to the Reps that the story makes sense or be true.

They just need to outrage their base by being “victimized” by the left.