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rob61872
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Obama claims he has never been associated with ACORN, other than as an attorney in a lawsuit.
From Obama's "Fight The Smears" website:
http://fightthesmears.com/articles/20/acornrumor
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Barack Obama Never Organized with ACORN
Discredited Republican voter-suppression guru Ken Blackwell is attacking Barack Obama with naked lies about his supposed connection to ACORN.
• Fact: Barack was never an ACORN community organizer.
• Fact: Barack was never an ACORN trainer and never worked for ACORN in any other capacity.
• Fact: ACORN was not part of Project Vote, the successful voter registration drive Barack ran in 1992.
In his capacity as an attorney, Barack represented ACORN in a successful lawsuit alongside the U.S. Department of Justice against the state of Illinois to force state compliance with a federal voting access law. For his work helping enforce the law, called “Motor Voter,” Barack received the IVI-IPO Legal Eagle Award in 1995. (For more about Barack’s career, check out our Obama bio.)
Ken Blackwell is best known today for disenfranchising Democratic voters in his dual role as Ohio Secretary of State and chair of George Bush’s Ohio campaign in 2004. To see him shed crocodile tears for the integrity of the vote while making accusations about Barack and ACORN with absolutely no basis in fact is disturbing.
Blackwell’s attacks against ACORN and community organizers continue a vile Republican pattern of mockery and viciousness against this noble profession. Community organizers are the very individuals Republicans should be celebrating for helping people to help themselves rather than depending on the government. |
Oddly enough, this is from a blog posted on Obama's "Barack Obama.com" site.
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/samgrahamfelsen/gGC7zm
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Post from Sam Graham-Felsen's Blog:
ACORN Political Action Committee Endorses Obama
By Sam Graham-Felsen - Feb 21st, 2008 at 6:36 pm EST
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NEW ORLEANS, LA -- ACORN’s Political Action Committee today announced that it has endorsed Sen. Barack Obama for President.
ACORN PAC’s representatives went through an extensive process of interviewing each of the major Democratic candidates. ACORN is a national anti-poverty organization which has hundreds of thousands of members in low- and moderate-income neighborhoods in 104 cities.
“Last night, Sen. Obama received the more than necessary two-thirds of the majority needed from our elected national leadership to secure the endorsement,” said Maude Hurd, ACORN’s National President. “Over the past months, we have worked with the leading candidates; ACORN’s members have deep appreciation and respect for Senators Clinton and Edwards and their work on behalf of our communities. What it came down to was that Senator Obama is the candidate who best understands and can affect change on the issues ACORN cares about like stopping foreclosures, enacting fair and comprehensive immigration reform, and building stronger and safer communities across America.”
Alicia Russell of Arizona, ACORN’s western regional representative, said Obama relates to the issues facing low- and moderate-income people. “I think he will commit himself to providing us the necessary path for the low-income and moderate-income families to improve their lives,” Russell said. “He’s on the same level as we are, and sees our issues as we do.”
In the past three weeks, Sen. Obama has met with ACORN leaders regarding foreclosure prevention solutions, including a roundtable discussion on Tuesday in San Antonio.
“Texas ACORN members are proud to stand with Senator Obama in calling for fundamental change in our economy to protect homeowners and neighborhoods from the scourge of foreclosures that is sweeping communities across Texas,” said Texas ACORN president Toni McElroy.
When Obama met with ACORN leaders in November, he reminded them of his history with ACORN and his beginnings in Illinois as a Project Vote organizer, a nonprofit focused on voter rights and education. Senator Obama said, "I come out of a grassroots organizing background. That's what I did for three and half years before I went to law school. That's the reason I moved to Chicago was to organize. So this is something that I know personally, the work you do, the importance of it. I've been fighting alongside ACORN on issues you care about my entire career. Even before I was an elected official, when I ran Project Vote voter registration drive in Illinois, ACORN was smack dab in the middle of it, and we appreciate your work.”
ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) is the nation's largest community organization of low- and moderate-income families, with over 350,000 member families organized into 800 neighborhood chapters in 104 cities across the country. Since 1970 ACORN has taken action and won victories on issues of concern to its members, including better housing for first time homebuyers and tenants, living wages for low-wage workers, more investment in our communities from banks and governments, and better public schools. |
Note to Obambam*
If you're gonna lie about your past associations, you might wanna remove evidence of these past associations from your website, dolt.
Change? Seems like the same politician lies to me. Has anyone else noticed that Obambam doesn't talk about how he was a community organizer anymore? I wonder why. Hello Obambam, according to ACORN's own founder, Wade Rathke, Project vote is part of ACORN's family of organizations, that is who actually does the voter registration for ACORN. This scumbag hasn't even condemned the group, that he so proudly was acknowledging their support, for what is currently going on.
And as a side note... McCain was one of the people that helped create Project Vote.
I'm definitely writing in a name this year. |
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I heartedly concur with the Obama stuffs.
McLame I will vote for, a write in or a "don't vote" is a vote for BO "BIG EARS" HUSSEIN Obama.
Don't forget he also claims to care about everyone. Yet while he dines on the wing on in his $1.6mill house paid for by Tony Rezko, and Bill Ayres;
This man BO "BIG EARS" HUSSEIN Obama has family that lives in squalor in Kenya, family, his actual family.
If this man really cared would he not also care about his family before caring about power? |
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