Obama And Acorn: The Relationship
The current criticisms against ACORN are, in part, an attempt to attack President Obama because he was once a lawyer who represented them. ACORN is the new Van Jones. Here is the relationship between Obama and ACORN.
•Fact: Barack was never an ACORN community organizer.
• Fact: ACORN never hired Obama as a trainer, organizer, or any type of employee.
• 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.
Here is the story of that case:
Obama Was One Of Three Miner Barnhill Attorneys To Represent ACORN When The Illinois State Board Of Elections Attempted To Dismiss The U.S. District Court’s Order In ACORN v. Edgar In Late 1995. Miner Barnhill Attorneys Obama, Judson Miner, and Jeffrey Cummings were listed as Counsel for ACORN when the Illinois State Board Of Elections attempted to dismiss the U.S. District Court’s order in ACORN v. Edgar in November 1995. On January 26, 1996, the U.S. Court Of Appeals denied the Board’s motion. According to the court’s opinion, “The court dismissed the appeal of defendant governor and other state officials because the district court had not issued a final order from which an appeal could be brought. [ACORN v. Illinois State Board Of Elections, et al. No. 95-3456, U.S. Court Of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit]
Alan, please forward this as a memo to Beck. lol
P.S. I enjoy your tweets. You’re the best.
September 15th, 2009 at 9:10 pm
All this crap makes me want to get a job with ACORN.
One of the dirty little secrets is that in several of the ’sting’ operations, ACORN employees drove them out and some called the police.
average james Reply:
September 16th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
Seriously,
I am more pro-ACORN now than ever before.
I want a bumper sticker.
karthiks030977 Reply:
September 16th, 2009 at 1:57 pm
You know, I am going to research this Acorn Brothel prostitute thingy once I get some free time.
I bet I come up with something like this:
1.Bunch of prostitutes doing business on the streets/cars because they have no home.
2.Acorn finds some contributors to help them find a place to live in and conduct their business.
Whoa, a place where prostitutes conduct business is a brothel, so Acorn is promoting prostitution, and promoting brothels for prostitutes.
If its true, it will just be 1 more example of how Fox Entertainment twists something decent into something awful.
average james Reply:
September 16th, 2009 at 2:02 pm
I am being conditioned.
If fox is against something, I am for it !!!
September 15th, 2009 at 10:05 pm
GROAN…..Enough with the ACORN crap. Another group that has some corrupt figures in it. Like that’s rare in America!
September 15th, 2009 at 10:08 pm
Fox nation is going after ACORN to justify their lost
in nov 2008.
September 16th, 2009 at 12:30 am
So … where are all the conservatives on this thread to explain how this group cooks babies and cannibalizes the elderly?
Nobody?
September 16th, 2009 at 5:44 am
Video of ACORN employees advising a couple on how to run a prostitution ring, using 13-15 year old minors for El Salvador, and on how to cheat on their taxes and what to name the operation to seem above the law. And those who blow the whistle on them are the ones being investigated!!!!!
60 Minutes did this type of thing all the time. 20/20 did this type of thing all the time. Dateline did this type of thing all the time. None of them were attacked or investigated.
And there have been four ACORN offices that have offered help to set this prostitution ring up. And still those who expose these corrupt ACORN offices are the ones being villified.
Typical liberal MO.
karthiks030977 Reply:
September 16th, 2009 at 8:41 am
“Typical liberal MO.”
Ohhh, when a few loonies go around killing abortion doctors, they’re just the “minority” of the anti-abortion movement, but when Members of one Liberal leaning organization, All Liberals are responsible for it?
Nothing better than I expect of you Daddido. “Responsibility is for others, but not for me” is your M.O.
OldLefty Reply:
September 16th, 2009 at 8:45 am
ACORN story is so old, I first saw it on the Huffington Post.
If the latest charges about ACORN are true, (we don’t forget cointel pro), they should be investigated, (unless it’s just a “few bad apples”.)
What’s the difference between ACORN and THESE stories:
Salem bin Ladin bailing out GW Bush’s Arbusto Energy, caging Lists, David Iglesias and the US att. Scandal, ~ Pat Robertson and….Operation Rescue planes used for mining in Liberia, then getting FIRST listed on FEMA’s website after Katrina, for donations., Wally O’Dell, the Diebold machines and his pro Bush fundraising letter, in 2004.
The crack corporate media were all over THOSE stories.
I guess these guys are to ACORN as the pedophiles are to the church.
September 16th, 2009 at 8:38 am
Well, in fairness to those who live in Wingnuttiaville, Community Organizations does sound a lot like Community Organizer. Nobody on either side of the political spectrum had even heard of ACORN until Fixed News starting demonizing them during the 2008 presidential campaign. ACORN is the latest word du jour – it’s an acceptable subsitute for the “N” word.
karthiks030977 Reply:
September 16th, 2009 at 9:53 am
“ACORN is the latest word du jour – it’s an acceptable subsitute for the “N” word”
The Republicans are satisfied with a debate where the goal, standard is to find “brand names” to tag the opponent with. The core base can be trusted to be dumb enough(or rabid enough) to not sift through the evidence and figure the “brand name” is a smokescreen to evade accountability.
Trouble for them is, it isnt working even to a limited extent outside the core base.
OldLefty Reply:
September 16th, 2009 at 10:02 am
Hey, SOUTHERN GIRL LIB and karthiks030977,
Check this out, because I fear it got lost…Or maybe others just don’t love these guys as much as I do.
Great job by the Billionaires For Wealthcare at the DC rally on Sat:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1I9xsV-g9Y&feature=player_embedded
Just a sample,
To the tune of, Glory, Glory, Hallelujah
If our health care corporation
Never faces regulation
We’ll be brimming with elation
Let’s save the status quo!
karthiks030977 Reply:
September 16th, 2009 at 10:14 am
Will check it from home tonight,Old: At work, with a fire-breathing boss.
Thanks, I do have an idea of what you wrote about,above.
TDro319 Reply:
September 16th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
I saw that on Rachel Maddow’s show. I noticed the main stream media didn’t cover the “Billionaires for Wealthcare” people. They were part of the 40,000 to 60,000 in attendance (NOT 2 million+ as Glen Beck states.
My stats came from the DC Fire Department
Beck’s stats came from the “University of I Don’t Know”. Hmmm, I wonder where the UIDN is located.
Sarah Reply:
September 16th, 2009 at 5:18 pm
That was awesome.
September 16th, 2009 at 9:47 am
I thought Van Jones was the new ACORN…and the more I learn about ACORN the more crazy they seem…
in unrelated/related news my esteem for Barack Obama goes up 100% after he gets caught calling Kanye West a jackass…
karthiks030977 Reply:
September 16th, 2009 at 10:42 am
“in unrelated/related news my esteem for Barack Obama goes up 100%”
Just curious, can you qualify that better?
is the esteem up 100% from 0.000000000000001 or from a number that makes the increase in esteem appreciable?
September 16th, 2009 at 10:32 am
See the REAL FACTS listed below–
• Fact: ACORN never hired Obama as a trainer, organizer, or any type of employee.
REAL FACT: Notice the words “never hired”—Obama’s Website had to change the wording because Obama did in fact train for ACORN, just technically not receiving a salary directly from ACORN:
“At the time, Talbot worked at the social action group ACORN and initially considered Obama a competitor. But she became so impressed with his work that she invited him to help train her staff.” (LA Times, March 2, 2008)
“Since then, we have invited Obama to our leadership training sessions to run the session on power every year, and, as a result, many of our newly developing leaders got to know him before he ever ran for office. Thus it was natural for many of us to be active volunteers in his first campaign for State Senate and then his failed bid for U.S. Congress in 1996. By the time he ran for U.S. Senate, we were old friends.”
“I’ve been fighting alongside ACORN on issues you care about my entire career.” (Obama, Nov. 2007, address to ACORN group)
• Fact: ACORN was not part of Project Vote, the successful voter registration drive Barack ran in 1992.
REAL FACTS:
Obama said during a speech to ACORN leaders in November 2007: When “I ran the Project Vote voter registration drive in Illinois, ACORN was smack dab in the middle of it.”
“Obama took the case, known as ACORN vs. Edgar (the name of the Republican governor at the time) and we won. Obama then went on to run a voter registration project with Project VOTE in 1992 that made it possible for Carol Moseley Braun to win the Senate that year. Project VOTE delivered 50,000 newly registered voters in that campaign (ACORN delivered about 5,000 of them). (Source: 2004 article – Case Study: Chicago- The Barack Obama Campaign – written Toni Foulkes, a Chicago ACORN Leader, which was published in the journal Social Policy)
September 19th, 2009 at 7:18 pm