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Originally Posted by Judy
She isn't endorsed by ACORN "fronts". That's a lie. The Working Families Party endorsed Bill Owen, the Democratic candidate, on October 9, 2009.
You are correct about the endorsement of Owen but you really need to read this article. The reason I want this brought out is because of her previous ties to these organizations who DO support amnesty. Her husband is also an active member in this. Here's a brief part:
The political blogosphere has been exploding these past couple weeks over a special congressional election in an unlikely portion of upstate New York. A key reason is the connections between the Republican candidate, Dede Scozzafava, and the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, a virtual adjunct to the more reprehensible sectors of the Democratic Party. An ACORN front group, the Working Families Party (WFP),
on October 9 formally endorsed the Democratic opponent in this tight three-person race. But the WFP has endorsed Scozzafava more than once in the past. And a major reason is that her husband, Ron McDougall, is an organizer for one of the unions that created the party back in the late Nineties. Scozzafava has yet to repudiate either ACORN or the WFP.
Deidre "Dede" Scozzafava isn't a typical Republican. Despite her support for gun rights (she's received an endorsement from the National Rifle Association), she is a reliable supporter of Democratic initiatives. She supports cap-and-trade anti-global warming legislation, the $787 billion Obama stimulus plan, and state-sanctioned gay marriage. More to the point, she is a strong supporter of federal "card check" legislation that would force private-sector employers to recognize a union as the sole collective-bargaining agent if a union organizing drive at a given work site generates signatures indicating more than 50 percent of affected workers want to join. Even by moderate Republican standards, in other words, she's on the left.
Second, and related to the first,
Scozzafava's husband, Ron McDougall, is a union man and an ally of the Working Families Party.
http://www.nlpc.org/stories/2009/10/...ed-acorn-front