"The rightwing echo chamber got exactly what it wanted--an end to a community-based organization that registered millions of voters, was instrumental in rebuilding homes for lower-income families post-Hurricane Katrina, worked on wage and hour enforcement, and helped hundreds of thousands of people facing foreclosure, among other issues.
As Bill Moyers said, "More than any group I've covered over my long career in journalism, ACORN was devoted to helping poor people become their own best champions."
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"The evidence illustrates that things are not always as partisan zealots portray them through highly selective editing of reality," said Brown. "Sometimes a fuller truth is found on the cutting room floor."
Brown joins the Congressional Research Service, former Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger, Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes in finding no criminal wrongdoing. (CRS also found no instances in which ACORN violated the terms of its federal funding in the last five years.) In all, ACORN has been subjected to at least 46 federal, state, and local investigations, according to CRS.
Maybe it's Sean Hannity who should be fired for demonizing so many workers who were, in fact, innocent of the charges against them.
Senator Bernie Sanders is one of the handful of legislators who didn't get caught up in the FOX-fueled hysteria; he voted against defunding ACORN.
"ACORN has had its share of problems, as have dozens of other organizations funded by the federal government, including some of the largest defense contractors and drug companies in the world," he told me. "What is distressing is that the Senate was steamrolled into voting to strip ACORN of its funding based on an apparently distorted video played over and over again on Fox."
Sanders noted that the ACORN fiasco "followed the same forces drumming Van Jones out of the White House."
"The rightwing echo chamber is two for two," he said. "And no one should have any illusions that it won't be back again."
http://www.thenation.com/blog/right-wing-smear-machine-theyll-be-back
On Monday, September 1, 2014 12:20:36 PM UTC-5, jgg1000a wrote:ow
I see you refuse to address the question of the lack of responsibility for not voting...
On Monday, September 1, 2014 12:29:39 PM UTC-4, Ragnar wrote:"Hey back in the date "...I assume you mean "back in the day"....so? That is not what is going on today. rwingers encourage lower turnout in a variety of ways, including making politics so odious to millions of Americans that they don't bother to participate.
On Monday, September 1, 2014 3:21:08 AM UTC-5, jgg1000a wrote:What happen is the AA population did not come out and vote in the municipal elections... That is not voter suppression.... Hey back in the date voting took place in bars to make voting easy... Also made the buying of votes as easy as a round or two of beer...
On Monday, September 1, 2014 2:06:44 AM UTC-4, Ragnar wrote:I still have my doubts jiggie that you have any fucking clue that voter suppression only purpose is suppress likely dem voters, and by its very false essence is undemocratic and fascist.
On Sunday, August 31, 2014 9:14:42 PM UTC-5, jgg1000a wrote:good... May question is why did this not happen before.... With all the headlines the Democrats shout about how important voter registration drives are, how in 2014 did Ferguson have a 8% to 12% voter turnout... A shameful institutional failure on the left... If in Ferguson, where else???
And of course, the NYT uses as a backdrop Republican policies as the cause... Instead they should point the finger to where it belongs, the failure by Ferguson voters to vote... The failure of the Democrats to get their vote out and registered... This is what grassroots should be about... Instead Democrats focus on OWS rather than what grassroots should be about...
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/31/us/getting-ferguson- majority-to-show-its-clout-at- polls.html?_r=0
>>>N.A.A.C.P. leaders are creating a door-to-door voter registration effort with a jarring reminder as its theme: "Mike Brown Can't Vote, but I Can." Senator Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat, is working with others to hold a "candidate school" for people, including young black residents who say they want to serve on a city council or school board but need guidance on what a political campaign requires.
The attempt to galvanize voting comes against a backdrop of intense political struggles over the ballot in the state. In 2000, polls were kept open late in St. Louis because of long lines, and Republicans complained about possible voter fraud — one chapter in what would be a long battle over elections and voting.
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