So What Was O'Keefe Looking For?

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SO WHAT WAS THE ARRESTED ACORN PIMP LOOKING FOR?

I can't tell what ACORN pimp James O'Keefe and his merrie band had in mind when they were arrested for trying to tap Mary Landrieu's office phones in New Orleans, but I'll toss out some links and you can try to connect the dots if you like.


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I wonder if what these guys were looking for concerns something along the lines of this, which I happened to notice in Ben McGrath's article on the Tea Party movement in this week's New Yorker (an article that's quite sympathetic -- as all mainstream write-ups of the movement seem to be lately):

One of the men at the meeting offered to drive me around the lot to speed up the search, taking the opportunity to show me a three-ring binder that he kept in the back seat of his van, full of homemade graphs showing the growth of the national debt, and Internet printouts that hinted at links between, for instance, ACORN and an Obama campaign office in Louisiana.

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The wingnuts didn't like a voter registration drive in Louisiana conducted by ACORN and Project Vote; The New York Times noted in June 2008 that

the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in Washington ... paid for the drive because Senator Mary Landrieu, a Democrat, is up for re-election....

Wingers think Landrieu won election to the Senate in 1996 via voter fraud. The charges were leveled by Neal Hogan of a group called the Voter Integrity Project. Google Neal Hogan and you find yourself off in Shadow Land: these guys say he was the head of the D.C. chapter of the Christian Coalition (and that he fraudulently claimed a Texas law license he didn't have); this LaRouchenik says he was a private investigator hired in the '90s by paranoid wingnut congressman Dan Burton to investigate the Clinton "Chinagate" story; and his name and bio appear on membership rolls of the Council for National Policy, which was described by The New York Times in 2004 as "a little-known club of a few hundred of the most powerful conservatives in the country" that "gathers in strictest privacy."

So my guess is that O'Keefe et al. thought they could find some sort of Landrieu-ACORN-Obama Octopus -- or not so much an Octopus as a White Whale long pursued by prominent wingnuts -- and make all of liberalism and the entire Democratic Party come crashing down.

Or something like that.

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[eleny]

1. Anything to hurt her chances of being reelected

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2. Hoffa?

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3. His ass. With both hands.

Couldn't find it.