ACORN

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Soros Election-Rigging Project Dies? The mysterious disappearance of the Secretary of State Project.
I have a piece in the American Spectator: Soros Election-Rigging Project Dies? The mysterious disappearance of the Secretary of State Project. Here is how it begins: Soros Election-Rigging Project Dies?…
by vadum on May 2, 2012

Organization Trends
Leftist spring training is ACORN-approved
Admitted communist Van Jones is working with various leftist groups “to train over 100,000 young people to engage in acts of massive civil disobedience throughout the country,” Ron Radosh writes in…
by vadum on April 10, 2012

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Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
(PDF available here: FW0312    ) Anti-American filmmaker Michael Moore may be the most famous celebrity from Flint, Michigan, but he has not made the greatest impact…
by Kirk MacDonald on March 3, 2012

Organization Trends
DOJ directing settlement money to ACORN clones
Community organizers are always seeking out new ways to feed at the public trough. Investor’s Business Daily reports Bank of America (BAC) must turn over excess funds from a…
by Matthew Vadum on January 12, 2012

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ACORN tie-in as four convicted of voter fraud in New York
Voter fraud, the crime the Left says doesn’t exist, keeps rearing its ugly head. Four Democrats associated with ACORN’s political party, New York’s Working Families Party, have entered guilty pleas…
by Matthew Vadum on December 21, 2011

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ACORN Visits Obama White House
Leaders of the resurrected radical group ACORN are lobbying the Obama administration in what appears to be a concerted effort to game the electoral system to help Democrats, new evidence…
by Matthew Vadum on December 8, 2011

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Well, duh! Of Course New York Agency for Community Affairs is a front group for ACORN.
President Obama’s Department of Justice finally noticed that the New York Agency for Community Affairs is a front group for ACORN. In a new report the dawdling gumshoes of DOJ explain…
by Matthew Vadum on December 4, 2011

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Obama’s HUD Funded ACORN Housing Despite Big Accounting Problems
The Obama administration has showered its allies at ACORN Housing with $729,849 so far this year despite powerful, newly unveiled evidence of corruption and massive accounting irregularities at the longtime…
by Matthew Vadum on November 29, 2011

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ACORN Founder Wade Rathke Praises the Tea Party
ACORN’s loathsome, corrupt founder Wade Rathke compliments the Tea Party movement in a new Daily Caller article: Rathke was unequivocal about the Occupy movement, telling TheDC that “in no…
by Matthew Vadum on November 27, 2011

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Ex-Dem Congressman: Voter Fraud Is Commonplace, Voter ID Is The Cure
I had an article up on Big Government yesterday. Here it is:   Ex-Dem Congressman: Voter Fraud Is Commonplace, Voter ID Is The Cure By…
by Matthew Vadum on November 23, 2011