ACORN getting sued?

[Sugarcoated]

I've heard little snippets here and there from Republican's having a problem with the organization ACORN, and then today FOX did a story that it's getting sued? The lead in to the story was about the RNC suing ACORN for alleged voter fraud, but in the story that didn't get talked about. Whats up with this, does anyone know?

[thecrow]

1. My RW boyfriend was railing about ACORN today

It has to do with the bailout using funds for ACORN.
He says that funds from the bailout are "getting earmarked" for ACORN
and the Dems are trying to turn it into another spending bill.

All he could give me were right wing blogs about it though.
I decided to leave for the afternoon and go see Obama instead.

[Sugarcoated]

4. Apparently, according to FOX

it's an arm of ACORN that had to do with home mortgage lending or something, so that's why it's supposedly included in the bailout. I don't get how one connects to the other.

[madfloridian]

2. ACORN is always getting targeted by Republicans.

Because they are registering a huge number of voters, many of them minorities.

[Sugarcoated]

3. I can't figure out what exactly they're accusing ACORN

of doing. I get that Repub's are insinuating some law breaking, but I'm not hearing any specifics.

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

5. Acorn pays volunteers to register voters, by QUOTA

and some of their volunteers turn in dozens or maybe hundreds of registration forms,
many with the same voters names on them. Ofteh the names and data don't check out.

It happened in Durham County NC, and this isn't the first time.

The end result is to create alot of extra work for election officials, its not likely that
any registrations result from using the bogus info.

States now require ask for more identification when registering voters.

[Sugarcoated]

6. Okay

I remember that story from '04.

[struggle4progress]

9. Nobody here in Durham wants any voter fraud. But I don't know that the problems are due to ACORN.

In the run-up to any election, one finds various irregularities: I won't provide details on any anonymous because I don't want to give anybody bad ideas. Dems don't need fraud to win here in Durham -- and we're gonna keep it that way. If ACORN is really the problem, we'll learn about it and deal with that. But unless we know for sure that ACORN is the problem, I think it's inappropriate to blame them

[anigbrowl]

7. We'll hear a lot more about it during the campaign. The GOP sees ACORN as a weak spot

Fortunately, I don't think that many people know who/what ACORN is, and those who do are probably equally aware of their valuable community work. But for the GOP, they'll be painted as some kind of organized welfare freeloaders through the next 5 weeks :-/

[madfloridian]

8. Yes, they do very valuable work. The GOP can't tolerate that.

A lot of the stuff has been exaggerated.

[thecrow]

10. Here are the links he gave me (Repig alert on these)

http://texashillblog.wordpress.com/2008/09/26/the-dems-earmark-the-bailout-bill-for-acorn/

http://blogs4mccain.com/2008/09/25/major-earmark-in-democrat-bailout-agreement/


http://www.therealitycheck.org/2008/09/26/dems-bailout-proposal-redirects-paulsons-profits-to-left-wing-groups/



http://sharprightturn.wordpress.com/2008/09/26/dems-add-pork-to-bail-out-plan-to-acorn-national-urban-league-and-laraza/

As I said, these are REPUBLICAN BLOG SITES, not news and I don't endorse republican views.

[vanlassie]

11. My Republican relative practically accuses ACORN of being responsible

for the entire home mortgage meltdown. He claims that the banks were forced by regulatory agreements when they wanted to merge to give loans to poor people, and ACORN was the main perpetrator of getting these loans for poor people.

Edited to add: And it's all Clinton's fault!