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ACORN’s Moonbeam


I have an article in today’s American Spectator.

The top of it:

Californians have plenty of reasons not to trust their state attorney general to conduct an honest probe of ACORN and the hidden-camera videos that helped expose the group’s criminal inclinations for the world to see.

That’s because Jerry Brown’s one gnarly dude. Like, totally.

The radical, perpetual office holder who handed out acorns during mayoral inauguration festivities in 1999 — describing them as symbolizing “seeds of change” — goes way back with ACORN.

The New Left crusader known as Governor Moonbeam when he was the state’s chief executive from 1975 to 1983 has had close ties to the group for years, according to a former ACORN official.  […]

Matthew Vadum

The author of Subversion Inc.: How Obama’s ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers (WND Books, 2011), Vadum, former senior vice president at CRC, writes and speaks widely…
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