"Raising our States" conference in Columbus
What do Roseanne Barr, the Rev. Al Sharpton, Sen. Hillary Clinton and former Sen. and vice presidential candidate John Edwards have in common?
They're among the speakers invited to Columbus Sunday and Monday for this year's national conference of ACORN -- the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.
Liz Kropp, a Cincinnati-based spokeswoman for Ohio ACORN, said 2,500 members of "the nation's largest grassroots community group" will meet at Ohio State University for workshops beginning Saturday. It is the 36-year-old organization's first national convention in Ohio.
Sharpton and comedienne Barr are guest speakers at a Sunday evening banquet in the Columbus Convention Center.
Edwards, a North Carolina Democrat, speaks at 1:30 p. m. Sunday at OSU's Mershon Auditorium, Wexner Center for the Arts.
Clinton, a New York Democrat, speaks Monday at 9:45 a.m., also at OSU, after a video prepared by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Massachusetts.
Kropp said key speeches will be webcast live at www.acorn.org
Monday, delegates will join U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, D-Cleveland, on a march to the Statehouse for a 12:30 p.m. rally in support of increasing the minimum wage, a statewide issue expected to appear on Ohio's Nov. 7 ballot.
At the workshops, Kropp said delegates will hear presentations on post-Katrina Hurricane organizing, immigration reform and be asked to promote the minimum wage ballot initiative.
ACORN is the nation's largest community organization of low- and moderate-income families, with over 200,000 member families organized into 800 neighborhood chapters in more than 100 cities across the country, including Cincinnati.
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Post a Comment*Isn't ACORN the same group that got into trouble for giving crack cocaine to someone in Ohio in order to get them to register to vote?
Sounds like a legitimate Democrat-supporting group to me.
What will they offer me to vote!!??
Wrong! ACORN just registered people illegally, including dead people. The NAACP paid people in crack cocaine to register to vote.
From the American Center for Voting Rights:
ACORN – Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
ACORN Submits “Blatantly False” Voter Registration Cards In Franklin County. In June 2004, ACORN fired two employees for filing false registration forms and forging signatures. The two ACORN employees claimed to be registering voters in Franklin County. Board of Election officials reviewed the forms and determined that the registrations contained “blatantly false” information. Election officials referred the matter to the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office for investigation. Registration cards submitted by ACORN and its partner group, Project Vote, contained fake first names, incorrect birth dates and Social Security numbers, forged voter signatures when compared to information on file with the Franklin County Board of Elections.
ACORN Registrations Include Dead Person, 25 Addresses For The Same Man, And Suspected Terrorist. In Franklin County, hundreds of cases of suspected election fraud were reviewed. Among the applications reviewed were: One application signed in the name of a man who passed away February 25; applications showing different addresses for the same man; one registration purportedly from Nuradin Abdi, an illegal alien and suspected terrorist charged with plotting to blow up a Columbus mall. The Franklin County Prosecutor reviewed hundreds of cases of suspected election fraud in the days leading up to the November 2004 Presidential election. Prosecutor Ron O’Brien stated that, “what causes some of this to happen is that people are being paid to register new voters.” Some of the suspected cases of fraud were submitted by the Columbus Urban League, while others came from ACORN.
Similar Handwriting And False Addresses Found On ACORN Cards In Hamilton County. In October 2004, the Hamilton County Board of Elections requested that the head organizer for ACORN appear before the Board to discuss fraudulent registrations submitted by a paid ACORN staffer. The employee submitted approximately 19 registration cards for individuals who did not exist after Board of Election officials noticed that the registration cards all had similar handwriting and false addresses. The Hamilton County Sheriff’s Department could not find the individuals, and the Board of Elections subpoenaed the individuals.
ACORN Turned In Hundreds Of Registration Cards Past Deadline. Other improprieties by ACORN workers were investigated in Franklin County when ACORN delivered 526 new voter registrations to the board of elections three days after the statutory deadline. ACORN explained that the registrations were found “in a mismarked box.”
Warrant Issued For ACORN Employee Who Forged Signature On Voter Registration Card. A Franklin County Grand Jury issued a warrant for a parolee accused of forging a signature on a voter registration form on behalf of ACORN. Kevin Dooley, a Columbus resident working for ACORN, was indicted on felony counts of false election registration and submitting false election signatures.
ACORN/Project Vote Employee Indicted In Lucas County. A Toledo woman employed by Project Vote and paid $5 per registration card was charged with submitting a fraudulent registration card to the Lucas County Board of Elections. The election board received a registration card for a woman who was already registered with a different birth date and signature. The woman advised authorities she had not filled out a registration card.
NAACP, ACORN And Other Third-Party Groups Linked To Thousands Of Fraudulent And Suspicious Voter Registrations In Ohio
NAACP National Voter Fund
NAACP National Voter Fund Worker Paid Crack Cocaine In Exchange For Fraudulent Registrations. Perhaps the most outrageous example of voter registration fraud occurred in Defiance County, where Chad Staton pled guilty to submitting hundreds of fraudulent voter registration forms for the NAACP National Voter Fund in exchange for crack cocaine. Mr. Staton filled out and submitted voter registration forms in the name of cartoon characters, action figures, celebrities and other fictitious residents of Lucas, Cuyahoga and other counties.
Elections officials throughout northern Ohio received registration forms from Mary Poppins, Jeffrey Dahmer, George Foreman, Michael Jordan, Dick Tracy and a host of other individuals. After an investigation of the matter, Defiance County Sheriff David Westrick learned that Mr. Staton was responsible for completing some of these forms and arrested him.
Mr. Staton provided a taped admission regarding these crimes, was indicted and subsequently pled guilty. Mr. Staton admitted being paid for his efforts in crack cocaine by an NAACP National Voter Fund employee, Georgianna Pitts. Ms. Pitts, a Toledo native, was reported to be an employee of the NAACP and paid Mr. Staton with crack cocaine for the falsified forms. Ms. Pitts died suddenly of a drug overdose before being prosecuted. Sheriff Westrick was able to trace the falsified registration forms and learned that they were submitted to the Cuyahoga County Board by NAACP Voter Protection Project, located in Cleveland, Ohio.
NAACP National Voter Fund Registers Man Dead For Two Decades. In Lake County, a man who had been dead for more than two decades was registered on a card submitted by the NAACP.
Actually, ACORN was cleared of all wrong-doing.
Investigations responding to fraud allegations recently ended in Colorado, Wisconsin, Florida, and Ohio after finding no evidence of pervasive voter fraud. In Ohio, a federal investigation ended with no indictments. “Our investigation is closed. No one was charged,” said Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Edwards.
ACORN uses a comprehensive quality control program developed by Project Vote. Separate quality control staff visually review all collected registration applications and then call applicants to verify submitted information. ACORN maintains a zero-tolerance policy against fraud and, by implementing these procedures, is able to identify and terminate any employee submitting fraudulent registrations.
I hope ACORN has the nuts to sue some of you whackos for defamation. The Nuradin Abdi incident was first reported, accurately, by the Columbus Dispatch and then distorted by
w(R)ong wing columnist Michelle Malkin and internet exaggerator NewsMax. Abdi used a fake ID as he got his illegal driver's license, registering to vote at the BMV. FBI and county Board of Elections confirmed this in a pair of October 2004 Dispatch articles. Additional citations on the original Truth can be found, but here is one quick link:
http://www.democrats.com/node/19
Republican incumbents are using distortions like these as excuses to further restrict voter registration while passing an Ohio law requiring government ID or proof of residency for the next election. Wait until you see the lines at the polls in November when people are being carded and turned away!! The two-year statute of limitation is closing in ACORNs!
Did wrong wing forget how to turn on his bold face?
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