The only surprise in this story is that Barack Obama hasn’t denied it. ACORN — a leftist community-organizer outfit long allied with Barack Obama — is under investigation now in “a dozen” states over allegations that it engineered thousands of fraudulent voter registrations. Guess where they got the money to do it? Partly from Barack Obama’s campaign, to the tune of $832,598:
Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign distanced itself Thursday from its $800,000 payment linked to the liberal ACORN organization, which is under investigation in several states where it is suspected of filing fraudulent voter registrations.
Federal Election Commission reports show ACORN-affiliated Citizens Services Inc. got $832,598 from the Obama campaign for get-out-the-vote work during the primaries. But those payments stopped in May and the Obama campaign says they should not be an election issue.
So Obama stopped committing voter fraud in May — after registering thousands of faux voters — so, we should all be OK with the result in November? This campaign has Raila Odinga and Kenya written all over it, in bold letters. CORRUPTION, GRAFT, FRAUD. But Barack Obama is an eloquent, engaging young man with a incredible capacity for “social perception.” And he’s going to make JFK look like a choir boy.
More at WT.
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Get-Out-the-Vote, or Manufacture it? It is not just weird, it is out- and-out-SICK for a campaign to be paying a group known for voter fraud to register voters.
This is utterly consistent with Obama hanging out with thugs like slumlord Frank Rezko, the Syrian Chicago bagman, and one of his chief advisers is yet another slumlord, Valerie Jarrett, who is also one of the Obamas’ closest friends.
Obama is one of the sleaziest politicians to ever get this close to the White House. He is in the class of Lyndon Johnson, and that is not easy to do.
Gravitas: You failed to mention Cecil Butler, another Obama donor, who “had one of his apartment complexes confiscated by the government when city inspectors found over 1,800 code violations.” See Obama the Slumlord Senator, Human Events, 8/8/08. Guilt by association? Not hardly. That covers it only when that association is an exception to the rule. In Obama’s case, you would have look hard to find “innocence by association.” All of his friends have a distinctive odor.
This has a distinctly Odinga feel to it. I hope America realizes that this dude is up to no good.
I have personal friends attached to this. Give you a hint, Google (or not!) Obama, Lufkin, and Secret Service. I got a personal email about this situation from her friend who lives down the street: (This can be verified by local news sources such as the Chronicle)
This took place here in Lufkin people.
Dear Friends: We have had some interesting things going on our street
this week but this “takes the cake”. The election is less than a month
away – people need to be aware of this information of the tactics that have
been used this week on my neighbor. This is not a political agenda I am on,
this is a matter of principle. She is not a ‘mental case nor political
activist’ just your everyday young Mom with small children and a husband out
of
the military. If this is the kind of “change” Mr. Obama is referring to, we
are definitely in for more than what has met the eye. What has
happened here is not only appalling but frightening to think we may no
longer have the freedom to speak against “the powers that be” without the
Secret Service showing up at your door. Keeping in mind, there is no taped
conversation – simply a disgruntled volunteer who was not getting the
response
she was looking for. Jessica has contacted several politicians and news
organizations – some who have told her “this is out of my
jurisdiction” . Please! Enough is enough – I for one will stand behind this
young woman and notify every person I can possibly think of to make people
aware of this travesty! I hope you will forward this on as well to as many
people as you possibly can – especially to our elected officials and news
organizations. Feel free to email me for verification. Connie Wells
On Wednesday the 1st of October I received a call on my cell while in the
car with my husband. It was a woman who identified herself as calling from
the Obama Campaign. The phone # she called from was 903-798-6020 which
lists as “Obama Volunteers of Texarkana” ( Texas ).
She asked if I was an Obama supporter to which I replied:
“No, I don’t support him, your guy is a socialist who voted four times in
the State Senate to let little babies die in hospital closets; I think
you should find something better to do with your time.” I hung up.
Thursday, October 2, I answered the front door to find the Secret Service.
Immediately I thought of the call and was furious that
apparently you are not allowed to call Obama a Socialist without the Secret
Service coming to investigate. Instead, they asked me about the following
comment, relayed by the Obama Volunteer of Texarkana who called me,
unsolicited on my cell phone:
“I will never support Obama and he will wind up dead on a hospital floor.”
My husband laughed and told them “No, she called him a socialist but she
never said a word about him dying.” I gave them my actual quote. The woman
asked insolently “Oh? Well why would she make that up?” I replied that I
supposed she wasn’t happy about what I said about her candidate and the
Agent said “That’s right, you were rude!” The last time I checked being
rude wasn’t a crime in America .
Luckily the big file they had gathered on me didn’t indicate mental
instability or a past life of stalking/crime, however they did want to know
how
I felt about Obama. That was my limit. I told the Agent in no uncertain
terms that my thoughts were not pertinent to their investigation,
that this was America and the last time I checked I was allowed to think
whatever I wanted without being questioned by the Secret Service. In fact,
even if I had said what she claimed, that isn’t a threat. I told them
(again) and my husband verified that the statement reported by Obama’s
volunteer was a lie. I
asked them if there was a tape of the call and they said no. I said, “So on
the word of a ticked off Obama supporter you are on my porch with
no other evidence and you want to question me about my THOUGHTS!?” They
informed me that there was no evidence she was an Obama supporter.someone
calling from his campaign.are you kidding?
I was not allowed to know the name of my accuser at which point they
informed me that it wasn’t like I was in a court of law, YET, as if this was
a
good thing. I recognized this as a veiled threat. I told them I would
happily go to court since I did nothing wrong and at least then my
accuser would have to face me rather than sending the thought police to my
house. They then said they were trying to do me a favor, that they came to
me first before “embarrassing you by going to all your neighbors and
family”, another threat? I told them to be my guest and talk to whomever
they
wanted but they weren’t going to investigate my thoughts on my porch.
They also informed me that it would be easier if the next time a supporter
calls me I just say “Yeah sure count me in, or just hang
up” apparently so she won’t get her undies in a bundle and give them more
useless trips. Yeah right. I said “Look, someone calls me unsolicited
on my cell phone to ask me to support their candidate and I can’t tell them
why I don’t?” I said I was sorry they made a wasted trip but if they had
a problem with some made up lie they needed to go talk to her about it
because it wasn’t my fault they had to drive from Houston for nothing.
At one point I went inside and got a notepad to record their badge numbers
and they refused to show me their badges. They had done the quick
flip when they arrived. I asked for a card and the female Agent refused to
give me one stating “You’re not going to get a card.”
The male Agent gave me a card and told me I could contact Houston with any
questions. The fact that the volunteer lied, the fact that the Secret
Service came to my house to question me about my thoughts and feelings and
threaten to embarrass me to my neighbors and go to court if I didn’t
cooperate is not really the tragedy here. Because that girl on the phone
doesn’t have the pull to send the Secret Service to my home. Someone high
in the ranks of a campaign
working for a man who may be the next President of the United States of
America felt comfortable bringing the force of the Federal Government to
bear on a
private citizen on nothing but the word of a partisan volunteer. I want to
file a counter complaint that false charges were made, that a false report
was given to a peace officer. The Secret Service told me I cannot because
they will protect the identity of the complainant. I also want the file
they have on me destroyed and I want to know that my phone isn’t tapped,
etc. I am hearing a lot of “Out of my Jurisdiction” . Do I also hear
jackboots?
Jessica Hughes Lufkin,
Texas Note:
I have contacted several news organizations, Rep Gohmert, Sen Hutchison,
the Atty General, Local Police Will keep you updated, pass it along