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Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 11:19AM Phoenix has a challenge shared by many cities in America—downtown blight. My home city in Florida has the same problem and millions of taxpayer dollars at various levels have gone into efforts to upgrade the district that used to be the heart and core of the city.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 12:10AM by Chris Carter
Anita Moncrief is fighting for her first amendment rights, having spoken out about alleged misdeeds at ACORN. Like other whistleblowers, Anita has been targeted despite widespread acknowledgment there are complex problems in ACORN's complicated structure.Although Congress suspended ACORN's federal funding and the Census Bureau and IRS severed ties with ACORN, the scandalized community organizing group could once again receive taxpayer dollars – and soon. In addition, the federal government is allegedly still sending money to ACORN through back channels.
Monday, September 21, 2009 at 9:48AM by Kay B. Day
Marco Rubio, former speaker of the Florida House, was featured in a National Review cover story in August. Rubio is opposing Florida governor Charlie Crist for the GOP nomination to run against a Democrat for a US Senate seat in 2010.[Photo from Marco Rubio website.]Former speaker of the Florida House Marco Rubio delivered a letter to Gov. Charlie Crist on Thursday. Rubio asked for a full investigation of the controversial community organizing group ACORN, citing a number of incidents that raised questions about the group’s standards. In early September The Sun Sentinel (Broward) and other media outlets reported the Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office had issued arrest warrants for 11 people who had worked for the local affiliate in voter registration drives. ACORN turned questionable registrations in.
The Sentinel said, “The group turned in 1,400 cards, of which 888 were found to be fraudulent.” State Attorney Katherine Fernández Rundle commended the group for turning in the questionable cards. Her claims such practices did not affect the voting process brought little comfort to those who believe ACORN has not been accountable, particularly in light of the fact the organization has indirectly received federal funds. Rundle’s claims the group could not have affected the voting process cannot be documented with fact at present. There has been no formal investigation in Florida.
In the letter Rubio pointed out that a left-leaning newspaper raised questions about Crist partnering with ACORN on “several initiatives.” Rubio gave the governor the benefit of the doubt, saying, “If you partnered with ACORN, I have no reason to doubt you did so unaware of ACORN’s propensity for questionable activity, and with what you believed at the time to be the best interests of Floridians at heart.”
Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 4:17PM by Kay B. Day
ACORN is top of the fold these days because two aspiring reporters did the job journalists used to do. James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles went undercover to film ACORN employees. The rest is pretty much history, and pomp media is just now catching up. Had it not been for Fox News and Andrew Breitbart the story probably would’ve had seriously weaker legs. But a passage in a story published at The Washington Post, and that same passage memed by an Associated Press story, raise questions about how media is phrasing the storyline.
Read with me the passage from The Washington Post (Sept. 18):
‘Though O'Keefe described himself as a progressive radical, not a conservative, he said he targeted ACORN for the same reasons that the political right does: its massive voter registration drives that turn out poor African Americans and Latinos against Republicans…"Politicians are getting elected single-handedly due to this organization," he said. "No one was holding this organization accountable. No one in the media is putting pressure on them. We wanted to do a stunt and see what we could find."’
Friday, June 12, 2009 at 2:29PM Spend some time trying to track your federal dollars at work and you’ll soon realize it’s a near-impossible task. Don’t look to government. Compare the private website recovery.org with President Barack Obama’s website recovery.gov. Quite naturally the private product is superior to the government’s incomplete product. As I write this column, dastardly miscreants (profanity would sound better I know but we’re keeping it civil) in Congress are spending our dollars trying at the same time to grab more of our dollars. And all the while stimulus dollars and other dollars are being burned on projects like a federal fish cleaning station. [continues below graphic]
The private website recovery.org is far superior to the government's efforts regarding transparency with the stimulus money.
Saturday, May 9, 2009 at 11:57AM ACORN is back in the news with the most recent allegations filed in Nevada by the state’s attorney general. The Miami Herald said Nevada Secretary of State Ross Miller and Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto, both Democrats, on Monday “filed criminal charges accusing liberal community activist group ACORN and two of its employees of facilitating voter registration fraud in November's election by requiring canvassers to submit 20 applications each day or face termination.”
Neoliberal groups defend ACORN; conservative groups chastise the organization. It’s no secret ACORN leans towards the Democratic Party. Use of terminology on ACORN’s official website indicates a definite political preference. One statement there noted “false claims” by “members of the right-wing echo chamber…”
It’s certainly no secret ACORN was a significant influence in the 2008 elections, hiring workers who allegedly presented some very strange voter registration applications.
One for Mickey Mouse was reported by The St. Petersburg Times.
