ACORN?

Last night I linked this rumor.

Supposedly some radio hosts say it's true, but if you read the comments, it appears all they're doing is actually repeating the details of the rumor.

So that still appears very unconfirmed. Just a rumor.

Update: Though it appears to be true that the feds are eyeing ACORN in ten different investigations.

Nevertheless, there does seem to be a press on. John Thune is calling for an end of taxpayer funding of ACORN, and the story seems to be attracting some attention.

And of course Obama is now downplaying his extensive ties to ACORN.

For starters, Obama paid ACORN, which has endorsed him for president, $800,000 to register new voters, payments his campaign failed to accurately report. (They were disguised in his FEC disclosure as payments to a front group called Citizen Services Inc. for “advance work.”)

What’s more, Obama worked as executive director of ACORN’s voter-registration arm, Project Vote, in 1992. Joined by two other community organizers on Chicago’s South Side, Obama conducted the voter-registration drive that helped elect Carol Moseley-Braun to the Senate that year.

The next year, 1993, Obama joined the civil-rights law firm Davis Miner Barnhill & Galland, where he sued the state of Illinois on behalf of ACORN to implement the federal “Motor Voter” law, which the GOP governor at the time refused to do. Then-Gov. Jim Edgar argued, presciently, that the Clinton law would invite voter fraud.

Obama downplays his ties to ACORN, and his campaign denies coordinating with ACORN to register voters.

I don't think any of this establishes the truth of the rumor. But there does seem to be some kind of a push on.

I deemed this story to be like one about glaciers a couple of days ago -- a "so what?" kind of story, because ACORN does this every two years, and apparently has some special secret dispensation in the law to commit voter fraud. But maybe that special secret dispensation is being revisited.

posted by Ace at 10:48 AM

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