ACORN News

VIDEO: Maddow Slaps Down B.S. ACORN Videos From Breitbart & Co.

11:38 pm EST April 6th, 2010 | Conservative | 16 Comments

Edited, deceptive videos. Shocker.

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Rich Guys Caused The Economic Collapse, Not Poor Minorities

1:15 am EST March 15th, 2010 | Economy | 7 Comments

This 60 Minutes report with Michael Lewis goes into the details, again. No, it wasn’t poor minorities getting mortgage loans via the Community Reinvestment Act as conservatives keep lying/believing. It was rich guys on Wall Street, enabled by conservative deregulation (under Clinton and Bush) and a sense of superiority to us ants, that caused this mess.

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

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Myths and falsehoods about the purported link between affordable housing initiatives and the financial crisis

Did Liberals Cause the Sub-Prime Crisis?

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Government Report Says No Voter Fraud From ACORN

12:43 pm EST December 27th, 2009 | News | 23 Comments

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A newly-issued Congressional Research Service (CRS) study on the activities of the community group ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) found no evidence the group has engaged in fraudulent voting or violations of federal financing rules over the last five years. Two members of the U.S. House of Representatives ordered the study after conservatives accused ACORN of conducting voter registration fraud in poor neighborhoods and contributing to the country’s financial crisis by ‘pushing the banking system into a sinkhole of bad loans.’

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GOP, McCain Inciting Violence Vs. ACORN

6:02 pm EST October 17th, 2008 | News | 6 Comments

It’s how the right rolls.

An ACORN community organizer received a death threat and the liberal activist group’s Boston and Seattle offices were vandalized Thursday, reflecting mounting tensions over its role in registering 1.3 million mostly poor and minority Americans to vote next month.

Attorneys for the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now were notifying the FBI and the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division of the incidents, said Brian Kettenring, a Florida-based spokesman for the group.

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The ACORN Boogeyman Is Another Conservative Fraud

12:53 pm EST October 17th, 2008 | Politics, Republicans | 51 Comments

But it will be the story they tell themselves if/when they lose the election.

“There’s no evidence that any of these invalid registrations lead to any invalid votes,” said David Becker, project director of the “Make Voting Work” initiative for the Pew Charitable Trusts.

Becker should know: he was a lawyer for the Bush administration until 2005, in the Justice Department’s voting rights section, which was part of the administration’s aggressive anti-vote-fraud effort.

“The Justice Department really made prosecution of voter fraud of this sort a big priority in the first half of this decade, and they really didn’t come up with anything,” he said.

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