The Republicans ACORN

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The Republicans ACORN
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Sat, 10-18-2008 - 6:26pm

Voters say they were duped into registering as Republicans


Fraud


Stephen Osman / Los Angeles Times

"I am not a Republican," insisted Karen Ashcraft, 47, a pet clinic manager from Ventura who said she was duped by a signature gatherer into joining the GOP. "I certainly . . . won't sign anything in front of a grocery store ever again."

YPM, a group hired by the GOP, allegedly deceived Californians who thought they were signing a petition. YPM denies any wrongdoing. Similar accusations have been leveled against the company elsewhere.

By Evan Halper and Michael Rothfeld, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
October 18, 2008


SACRAMENTO -- Dozens of newly minted Republican voters say they were duped into joining the party by a GOP contractor with a trail of fraud complaints stretching across the country.

Voters contacted by The Times said they were tricked into switching parties while signing what they believed were petitions for tougher penalties against child molesters. Some said they were told that they had to become Republicans to sign the petition, contrary to California initiative law. Others had no idea their registration was being changed.


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Sun, 10-26-2008 - 1:02am
bump because I can....
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Sun, 10-26-2008 - 1:36am

Sorry....I should have been more specific when I asked what you knew about MI?

The state of MI is also deeply in debt, but there the main concern about voting rights has nothing to do with ACORN, but with the Republican party:

http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/20/mi-republicans-admit-to-illegal-foreclosure-scheme-surrender-to-democrats/

"Republicans Admit to Illegal Foreclosure Scheme, “Surrender” to Democrats
By: emptywheel Monday October 20, 2008 8:53 am

Democrats and Republicans have settled the suit seeking to prevent Michigan Republicans from using foreclosure lists to challenge voters. The MDP statement on the settlement says:

The settlement acknowledges the existence of an illegal scheme by the Republicans to use mortgage foreclosure lists to deny foreclosure victims their right to vote. This settlement has the force of law behind it and ensures that Republicans cannot disenfranchise families facing foreclosure.

I'm guessing--though this is an outtamyarse guess--that the Republicans weighed their options, thought discovery was sufficiently likely (and sufficiently damaging) that they chose, instead, to settle. And in return, the Democrats get to affirm that, indeed, Republicans were planning on using foreclosure lists to challenge voters...."

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http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/october/meet_the_new_health_.php

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQTBYQlQ7yM

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Sun, 10-26-2008 - 6:42pm
bump
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Registered: 08-20-2008
Sun, 10-26-2008 - 7:16pm

"The stats showing that the federal dollars spent in a state compared to federal tax revenue received from the state is interesting. Red states get much more and yet they are the ones making the big stink about earmarks."

Yup. And once again, the roaring Republican silence is deafening. And the Republicans go dark when faced with reality.

Without commenting on any Republicans on this board or ordinary people, let me say that Fox Republican officials and politicians (fops) have a big problem with reality, as in they would rather, shall we say, make things up for us.

Well, the world's greatest person at making things up, William Shakespeare, once said:

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet."

I say the same is true were the smell foul. You can call them the greatest politicians in American history - they will still be what they are: Fox Republican officials and politician, or fops, or just plain liars.

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Registered: 09-26-2008
Sun, 10-26-2008 - 10:05pm
bump
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Registered: 09-08-2008
Sun, 10-26-2008 - 10:36pm

(((((You would think McCain would apologize.))))


It would be a start, right? lol. McCain is NOT in control of his campaign. There are higher-up GOPers that McCain listens to, but in the end, he IS responsible for letting them control him. The WH will be run by them and not McCain. Obama is not perfect, but I think he is his own man. His decisions...not any one elses.

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Registered: 08-20-2008
Sun, 10-26-2008 - 10:48pm
After reading the NYT Magazine article today, which was very factual, it's pretty clear to me that no one is in control of the McCain Palin campaign. With so many different folks in the cockpit not to mention Palin fighting all the way (a whole other story), it's out of control and in a tailspin.
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Registered: 09-26-2008
Sun, 10-26-2008 - 10:51pm
Yup, looks like McCain is in a "tailspin" and losing his 6th plane - 5 physical and 1 electoral.....
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Registered: 09-08-2008
Mon, 10-27-2008 - 1:56am

((((It was the Bushies who told us with great confidence that reality didn't matter. "It was a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." The Bushies and Republicans. I think America has seen what they are about.)))))


Very true...I

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Registered: 09-26-2008
Mon, 10-27-2008 - 9:32am
bump for the righties