Somehow I missed an editorial in the Times, one that strongly supports ACORN and it’s efforts to assist low income voters in registration and apply for the low income tax credit.

See Full Editorial Here: ACORN isn’t an organization filled with nuts

What ACORN actually does on a daily basis is help struggling families with the Earned Income Tax Credit (whose benefits were expanded by both Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton). It also helps those same working families avoid foreclosure and stay in their homes. ACORN receives a comparatively small amount of government funding — $53 million in federal funds over the past 15 years — while trillions have gone to Wall Street investment banks and billions of dollars have vanished in Iraq and Afghanistan, absorbed by private contractors such as Halliburton and KBR despite questions about the quality of their work and allegations of criminal activity by employees of Blackwater and other security contractors. Where were the concerned Republicans then?

So according to this author we’re to disregard voter fraud and the sting videos showing ACORN employees giving advice on how to defraud the IRS. We are to do so because Wall Street got more money … so ACORN is too small to worry about?

*Special Note* – Secretary of State Todd Rokita will be a guest on Hoosier Access Radio this Saturday at 3:00pm.

The Indianapolis Star is reporting that Secretary of State Todd Rokita has linked the community organizing group ACORN to massive voting irregularities including possible State and Federal racketeering charges in conjunction with thousands of fraudulent voter registrations in Lake County.

UPDATE by Mike: The Hammond Times has an article of the Obama campaign denouncing Secretary Rokita’s actions .. Now back to the original article:

Secretary of State Todd Rokita said today that a preliminary investigation by his office has found evidence of “multiple criminal violations, including possible state and federal racketeering laws,” in conjunction with hundreds of fraudulent voter registration applications filed in Lake County.

The findings and a request for prosecution are detailed in a letter Rokita, Indiana’s top election official, sent last week to Lake County Prosecutor Bernard A. Carter, U.S. Attorney David Capp and Michael Welch, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Indianapolis office.
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The allegations of knowingly submitting fraudulent applications, a Class D felony, are aimed at the left-leaning activist group, Acorn, which conducted registration drives in several key presidential battleground states. Acorn is being investigated for similar issues in about a dozen other states.

Lake County election officials have alleged, and Acorn officials confirmed, that the organization submitted hundreds of potentially bad voter registration applications earlier this month.

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First, a little history on ACORN and in their involvement in voter registration fraud, their involvement in the mortgage crisis and in their involvement with many high level Senate Democrats who help push their agenda in Congress.  (The video is eight minutes long, but it’s worth watching the whole thing.)

Now after watching that, what kind of influence would they have in an Obama presidency?

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This is not what the McCain campaign needed.  Nor did the Obama campaign need this kind of distraction.  What this girl did was wrong.  That last thing we need is someone deliberately trying to make a campaign, their volunteers or their supporters look like ruthless thugs.

Again, what Ashley Todd did was wrong and she should do the time for committing the crime!  That said she also needs to get whatever mental or emotional help.  Things like this should not be tolerated, but the person committing the crime obviously needs help.

Via Breitbart.com

A McCain campaign volunteer made up a story of being robbed, pinned to the ground and having the letter “B” scratched on her face in a politically inspired attack, police said Friday.

Ashley Todd, 20-year-old college student from College Station, Texas, admitted Friday that the story was false and was being charged with making a false report to police, said Maurita Bryant, the assistant chief of the police department’s investigations division. Police doubted her story from the start, Bryant said.

Todd, who is white, told police she was attacked by a 6-foot-4 black man Wednesday night.

She now can’t explain why she invented the story, Bryant said. Todd also told police she believes she cut the backward “B” onto her own cheek, but did not provide an explanation of how or why, Bryant said.

Todd initially told investigators she was attempting to use a bank branch ATM when the man approached her from behind, put a knife with a 4- to 5-inch blade to her throat and demanded money. She told police she handed the assailant $60 and walked away.

Todd told investigators that she suspected the man then noticed a John McCain sticker on her car, became angry and punched her in the back of the head, knocking her to the ground and telling her “you are going to be a Barack supporter,” police said.

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Whoever did this needs to be punished to the fullest extent of the law!

From WTAE 4 in Pittsburgh:

Richard said the robber took $60 from the woman, then became angry when he saw a McCain bumper sticker on the victim’s car. The attacker then punched and kicked the victim, before using the knife to scratch the letter “B” into her face, Richard said.

This simply goes beyond defacing property and yard signs to assault.