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Wouldn't they have to have a car to put it on? Maybe we could do T-shirts instead

A crack ho could wear the bumper sticker as a shirt, cause they're all like emaciated and stuff...

eh, I got nothin'

Me either, cuz it was never funny to begin with....

What, didja sit on a gerbil (again) classic?

:lol:

State GOP Leaders Accuse ACORN of Vote Fraud

by GARRY LENTON, Of The Patriot-News Friday October 10, 2008

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State Republican leaders are accusing a community-based group it claims has links to Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, of deliberately filing fraudulent voter registration forms across the state.
Voter registration officials in Harrisburg, Philadelphia and Allegheny County have reported problems with registrations filed on behalf of voters by The Association of Community Organizations, or ACORN. ...
A York man employed by ACORN part-time was arrested Saturday and charged with submitting more than 100 bogus registrations during an eight-day period in June. ...

I think this is a case of a guy not working and filling out a bunch of paperwork to justify himself. It is not the first nor second...time this accusation has been levied against ACORN.

Interestingly enough - A spokesman from ACORN was on a cable news ow this am - not sure if it was CNN... I know it wasn't Fox or MSNBC..anyway she was very unapologetic about the fact that ACORN has endorsed Obama and is sharing that view with their newly found registrants.

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Originally Posted by Shawnee123 (Post 493043)

What, didja sit on a gerbil (again) classic?

:lol:

I thought so too - then I realized that $9,000,000 was missing from under my chair.

More claims about ACORN and "multiple thousands" of bogus registrations in PA alone - oh that and something about $800,000 to a subsidiary of theirs?? I don't care enough to look it all up anymore. This shit is so fucked up that I'm way past discouraged at this point. All I can tell is that they are all a bunch of liars thieves and cheats taking as much as thy can from people who actually work for a living. Doesn't matter what label they have on. Rep or Dem they're all the same. The two choices of their opposing ideology just assures an even split of the goods.

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Originally Posted by classicman (Post 493502)

All I can tell is that they are all a bunch of liars thieves and cheats taking as much as thy can from people who actually work for a living.

Who exactly are they stealing from here?

ME! And probably you.

We're talking about ACORN, right? How is ACORN stealing from me? By creating a little extra work for poll workers? And my taxes pay for the poll workers? Is that what you are trying to say? I honestly don't see any other way you could argue ACORN is stealing from me.

Obama's campaign paid Citizens Services Inc., a subsidiary of ACORN, to work in "get-out-the-vote" projects, in Ohio. Campaign contributions, not tax money, so I doubt it was classic's money.:headshake

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Originally Posted by glatt (Post 493539)

Sorry,no - there was some thread drift there. I was referring to my taxes paying for the promises of the candidates.

Re: ACORN ...

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Multiple registrants tell Cuyahoga County Elections Board ACORN workers begged for signatures
Pair signed multiple vote cards for ACORN

Johnson and another prolific registrant were subpoenaed to testify at a meeting Monday as the Elections Board continued its look at possible fraud by ACORN, a national organization that tries to get low- and moderate-income people to register. ACORN's methods have drawn interest in a number of states this presidential election year.

Johnson, 19, said he mostly was trying to help ACORN workers who begged him to sign up because they needed to keep their jobs.

"They'd come up with a sob story why they needed the signature," said Johnson, of Garfield Heights.

ACORN leaders have acknowledged that workers paid by the hour were given quotas to fill.

Board member Sandy McNair said ACORN did not do a competent job carrying out its business plan. Members, in fact, said little about ACORN. And they turned their investigation over to the county sheriff and prosecutor.

A second person to testify, Christopher Barkley, 33, said ACORN workers pestered him while they tried to gather signatures.

Barkley, of Cleveland, said he was homeless and reading a book on Public Square when he signed some of the 13 cards that contain his name. He filled out cards - with his mother's house or workplace as the address - to help workers stay employed.

Board member Rob Frost, also the county GOP chairman, said he is not convinced Barkley and Johnson would have tried to vote more than once. He said it's clear ACORN workers disregarded registration laws.

"I wouldn't want there to be widespread fear that what ACORN has caused will lead to widespread [voter] fraud," Frost said after the meeting.

Board workers said ACORN had turned in nearly 72,000 cards since January. Of those, more than 5,000 were missing information and so could not be used. The board could not verify the address on 3,500 others. Those people will have to vote provisionally if they turn out at the polls.

Seems like the system is working pretty well.