Webloggin » Alert - Bailout Talks Include Funding to Corrupt ACORN

Yup, as the Democrats tried to blame the GOP and John McCain for the failure to get the bailout completed we learn from Lindsey Graham that over $100,000 and perhaps billions of dollars were going to go into the pockets of ACORN.

Do you understand just how corrupt these people are? Playing with our money, sinking the economy and still having the audacity to give taxpayer money to a pro-Obama entitlement group that is currently under investigation for voter fraud, including testimony in front of the House Judiciary Committee today with ACORN in the crosshairs of corruption?

Market Watch reported the following about ACORN today:

WASHINGTON, Sept 25, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ — James Terry, Chief Public Advocate for the Consumers Rights League, today testified at a joint House Administration and House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on “Federal, State and Local Efforts to Prepare for the General 2008 Election,” where he highlighted “corruption at every level of ACORN including embezzlement, cover-ups, misuse of taxpayer funds and voter fraud.”

Michelle Malkin has more here.

Correction: I had inadvertently linked up an FEC fine about ACT when I meant to link up the 2006 indictments against ACORN. I regret the error and have updated the article.

Flashback 2006 - WSJ The ACORN indictments:

Operating in at least 38 states (as well as Canada and Mexico), Acorn pushes a highly partisan agenda, and its organizers are best understood as shock troops for the AFL-CIO and even the Democratic Party. As part of the Fannie Mae reform bill, House Democrats pushed an “affordable housing trust fund” designed to use Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac profits to subsidize Acorn, among other groups. A version of this trust fund actually passed the Republican House and will surely be on the agenda again next year.

Acorn and its affiliates have pulled some real stunts in recent years. In Ohio in 2004, a worker for one affiliate was given crack cocaine in exchange for fraudulent registrations that included underage voters, dead voters and pillars of the community named Mary Poppins, Dick Tracy and Jive Turkey. During a Congressional hearing in Ohio in the aftermath of the 2004 election, officials from several counties in the state explained Acorn’s practice of dumping thousands of registration forms in their lap on the submission deadline, even though the forms had been collected months earlier.

“You have to wonder what’s the point of that, if not to overwhelm the system and get phony registrations on the voter rolls,” says Thor Hearne of the American Center for Voting Rights, who also testified at the hearing. “These were Democratic officials saying that they felt their election system in Ohio was under assault by these kinds of efforts to game the system.”

This is how stupid these people take you for.