Thread: An Acorn Falls From the Tree

I just read the following on the Townhall site by Ken Blackwell. It's about the connection of Acorn with Obama and with this Bail out issue. We need LOTS of awareness on this one!

As negotiations over Congress’s emergency rescue bill continued over the weekend, repeated rumors leaked out that the Democrats were trying to funnel money to a hyper-partisan organization involved in criminal voter fraud. I’m speaking of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now — known by its acronym, ACORN. Although ACORN was cut from the final legislation, it’s important to understand this organization and its long history with, of all people, Barack Obama. And it’s important to see how partisan this emergency legislation has become.

As the weekend progressed, reports were constantly emerging of the sticking points preventing a final agreement. One of these reputed points of contention was whether 20 percent of the profit proceedings for asset sales in the future would go to what is called the Housing Trust Fund, subsidizing certain groups for ostensibly nonpartisan activity. One of these groups that this trust supports is ACORN.

ACORN has often been in the news since 2004. Officially, they work to register voters and support housing. In reality, everyone in public life knows that they are hardcore supporters for the Democratic Party, and employ bare-knuckle tactics. Their organization is plagued by repeated investigations of voter fraud and other crimes.

In Ohio, where as secretary of state I oversaw elections for eight years, ACORN has been busy. One ACORN man in Reynoldsburg was indicted on two felony counts of voter fraud, and another was indicted in Columbus. Other such problems surfaced in Cuyahoga County, where criminal investigations are ongoing.

It’s not just Ohio. ACORN personnel are facing criminal charges in over a dozen states. In Washington State, for example, seven ACORN leaders had felony charges filed against them for voter fraud.

And there’s an unexpected twist. One of the organizations accused of pushing banks into making many of the unwise loans at the heart of the current crisis is … ACORN. Now that’s ironic. An organization that possibly contributed to our current financial profits is now being considered to make money off of it. And by “money,â€

This has to be talked about even more. Here lies much of the subprime mortgage problem as many news articles state, and we have been giving them money to continue the problem, not to mention voter fraud charges.

Ephesians 4:32

What I am now a bit worried about is that the House Democrats will rewrite this bill and add back in all the awful stuff--including lots of money to Acorn. Tomorrow is apt to be another wild ride!

You know DJ, ACORN has been a big topic on FOX and elsewhere. We can keep contacting the news media and different shows to expose what ACORN is continuing to do. Even with a bailout, what would be different if more banks and lenders are going to repeat their mistakes?

This information needs to reach more lawmakers, though most if not all know what ACORN does. They may not know that 22 banks are part of a new plan to help continue the mortgage scam and to continue it with illegal aliens.

Ephesians 4:32

I was gratified that Lou Dobbs mentioned it today. I think it will take EVERY radio talk show host along with FOX and Lou Dobbs talking and talking to get the word out there.

Economic things are so complex for most of us. We just don't understand all the ramifications of any course of action. The days of us just living our lives seem to be over. We have to be ever viligent just to keep our country from falling apart.