{"id":1100,"date":"2009-10-05T13:33:34","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T17:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=1100"},"modified":"2009-10-05T19:35:13","modified_gmt":"2009-10-05T23:35:13","slug":"more-acorn-shenanigans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/1100\/more-acorn-shenanigans\/","title":{"rendered":"More ACORN Shenanigans"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s Monday.\u00a0 And, why not start the week off with another<\/span>, check that, several <\/em>new charges and allegations of fraud and corruption against everyone\u2019s favorite community organizing group, ACORN.<\/p>\n

For starters, Breitbart has this video<\/a> of a Fox News<\/em> interview with Nevada Secretary of State Ross Miller (a Democrat), whose office uncovered a paper trail implicating ACORN, the organization, of voter fraud.\u00a0\u00a0 This is significant as most of the ACORN voter fraud investigations and prosecutions to date have focused solely on the group\u2019s employees.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Specifically, Ross\u2019 office found evidence that ACORN illegally used prisoners to canvass for voters during the 2008 presidential election, among other things.\u00a0 Read more on the story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Then yesterday, The Washington Examiner<\/em> ran an editorial<\/a> in which it highlights more ACORN shenanigans from Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In Louisiana, an investigation by the Pelican Institute<\/a> revealed that a local ACORN Housing Corp. office received contracts worth $625,000, paid for by HUD Community Development Block Grants, to repair and develop low-income housing in New Orleans.\u00a0\u00a0 There\u2019s only one problem:\u00a0 According to the Examiner<\/em>, the Pelican Institute \u201cfound that no work was actually performed to fulfill the contracts\u201d and \u201cthe office address listed on the contracts for ACORN turned out to be a vacant lot.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Oklahoma City, documents from a vacant ACORN office included a memo detailing the organizations \u201cfive-year plan\u201d to elect progressive legislators.\u00a0 Those documents, many of which are now in the possession of OklahomaWatchdog.org<\/a>,\u00a0also revealed information about an ACORN\u00a0project in Houston\u00a0for “hiring Outreach Workers to remind people to get out and vote for Barack Obama in the upcoming election.”\u00a0\u00a0 As the Examiner<\/em> noted:<\/p>\n

As a tax-exempt nonprofit, ACORN is barred from participating in partisan election activities, and its national spokesmen have insisted throughout the 2008 presidential race that their organization was not working to elect Obama.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

With the\u00a0mountain of\u00a0evidence\u00a0suggesting widespread fraud and other illegal activities growing by the day, to steal from the title of the Examiner<\/em> editorial<\/a>, \u201cNow will Congress investigate ACORN?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s Monday.\u00a0 And, why not start the week off with another, check that, several new charges and allegations of fraud and corruption against everyone\u2019s favorite community organizing group, ACORN. For starters, Breitbart has this video of a Fox News interview with Nevada Secretary of State Ross Miller (a Democrat), whose office uncovered a paper trail […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[120],"class_list":["post-1100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-acorn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1100"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1121,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions\/1121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}