Conservative Talking Points views ACORN as a huge national gang bent on dragging our country into the socialist abyss with their man Barack Hussein Obama at the helm.
Their True Colors Took Them Out
· The left wing activist group ACORN folded in March of 2010 amid falling revenues. This was just a few months after video footage exposed its workers giving tax tips to conservative activists posing as a pimp and prostitute. (Source: Associated Press – March 2010)
Corrupt Organization
· "The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) has repeatedly and deliberately engaged in systemic fraud," (Source: Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee)
· In Clark County NV, ACORN submitted 91,002 completed forms of which only 23,186 turned out to be valid new voters, which means 74% of voter forms were fraudulent. (Source: New York Times - May 2009)
· A former ACORN Las Vegas field director, Christopher Edwards, was hit with a 13 count indictment for creating an incentive program called "blackjack" where $5 was offered for signing more than 21 prospective voters. (Source: New York Times - May 2009)
· ACORN's former deputy regional director, Amy Busefink, was indicted on 13 counts of principle to the crime of compensation for registration of voters. (Source: New York Times - May 2009)
· 12 ACORN workers in Missouri were convicted of violating voter laws in connection with 2006 elections. (Source: Kris Kobach, former Bush administration national security/immigration enforcement official and constitutional lawyer)
ACORN's Ties To Obama
· Obama provided yearly service as a key figure in Acorn's leadership-training seminars. (Source: Toni Foulkes - Chicago Acorn Leader)
· Obama, after law school, played a major role organizing ACORN's "Project VOTE" in 1992. (Source: Toni Foulkes - Chicago Acorn Leader)
· Acorn specifically hired out Obama's representation in the "Motor Voter" case in Chicago. (Source: Toni Foulkes - Chicago Acorn Leader)