In light of Democrats' incredibly audacious attempt to use the massive
bailout bill to funnel a fortune into the pockets of ACORN, Mona
Charen provides a little background on this hard-left activist group:
ACORN is where 1960s leftovers who couldn't get tenure at
universities wound up. […] Because they are on the side of
righteousness and justice, they aren't especially fastidious about
their methods. In 2006, for example, ACORN registered 1,800 new voters
in Washington state. The only trouble was, with the exception of six,
all the names submitted were fake. The secretary of state called it
the "worst case of election fraud in our state's history." As Fox News
reported:
The ACORN workers told state investigators that they went to the
Seattle public library, sat at a table and filled out the voter
registration forms. They made up names, addresses and Social Security
numbers and in some cases plucked names from the phone book. One
worker said it was a lot of hard work making up all those names and
another said he would sit at home, smoke marijuana and fill out the
forms.
ACORN explained this was an "isolated" incident, yet similar
stories have been reported in Missouri, Michigan, Ohio and Colorado —
all swing states by the way. ACORN members have been prosecuted for
voter fraud in a number of states. (See www.rottenacorn.com)
But the outrage isn't just that Dems have tried to divert bailout
money to an extremely pernicious, ultra-radical organization primarily
devoted to pushing America to the Left through election fraud. ACORN
helped cause the crisis in the first place:
ACORN recognized very early the opportunity presented by the
Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) of 1977. As Stanley Kurtz has
reported, ACORN proudly touted "affirmative action" lending, and
pressured banks to make subprime loans. Madeline Talbott, a Chicago
ACORN leader, boasted of "dragging banks kicking and screaming" into
dubious loans. And, as Sol Stern reported in City Journal, ACORN also
found a remunerative niche as an "adviser" to banks seeking regulatory
approval.
Guess which famous "community organizer" worked for ACORN for years?
ACORN attracted Barack Obama in his youthful community-organizing
days. Madeline Talbott hired him to train her staff — the very people
who would later descend on Chicago's banks as CRA shakedown artists.
The Democratic nominee later funneled money to the group through the
Woods Fund, on whose board he sat, and through the Chicago Annenberg
Challenge, ditto. Mr. Obama was not just sympathetic — he was an ACORN
fellow traveler.
He also represented ACORN as a public-interest lawyer while ACORN was
exploiting the Clinton Administration's deranged revisions to the
Community Reinvestment Act to force banks to make bad loans.
Now he's out there yelling that we need a massive bailout so as to
keep mortgages affordable to those who can't afford them. Obviously,
if a bailout occurs, another will follow, and another after that,
until our economy collapses in accordance with the Cloward-Piven
Strategy.
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