[Vision2020] ACORN Responds to Senator McCain's Desperate Attack

[Tom Hansen]

>From MarketWatch at:

http://tinyurl.com/4en9dm

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ACORN Responds to Senator McCain's Desperate Attack

WASHINGTON, Oct 16, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Maude Hurd, 
ACORN's National President, issued the following statement in response to 
Senator McCain's attack: 

"We appreciate that Senator McCain's effort to stir up the Republican base 
by attacking a community organization working to increase public 
participation in our democratic process. However, these attacks reflect an 
increasingly panicked candidate; unfortunately the Senator McCain we saw 
tonight is very different than the Senator McCain who stood shoulder to 
shoulder with ACORN at a February 20, 2006 immigration reform event. 

It is clear for us to see that John McCain was for ACORN before he was 
against ACORN; he was for reform before he was against reform; and he was 
a maverick before he became erratic. What is really going here is that 
Senator McCain and his allies are part of a coordinated effort to engage 
in what appears to be an unprecedented effort to suppress voter turnout. 
Repeating a lie doesn't make it true, and the McCain campaign has resorted 
to the worst type of deceptions in regards to ACORN. 

The Facts: 

- ACORN has helped 1.3 million citizens from all parties and all walks of 
life apply for voter registration. 

- In most states, ACORN is required by law to turn in every voter 
registration card - even in cases where the cards are not valid. 

- It is ACORN that has reported almost all of the issues regarding voter 
registration cards. 

- Invalid voter registration cards do NOT constitute voter fraud. Even RNC 
General Counsel Sean Cairncross has recently acknowledged he is not aware 
of a single improper vote cast as a result of bad cards submitted in the 
course of an organized voter registration effort. 

- ACORN hired 13,000 field workers to register people to vote. In any 
endeavor of this size, some people will engaged in inappropriate conduct. 
ACORN has a zero tolerance policy and terminated any field workers caught 
engaging in questionable activity. At the end of the day, as ACORN is 
paying these people to register voters, it is ACORN that is defrauded. 

ACORN's Fight Back Thursday: 

Tomorrow, at 11:00 am EST, ACORN will be convening a conference call 
unveiling a pointed critique to Senator McCain's outlandish assertion that 
ACORN was responsible for the housing crisis: 

Thursday, October 16th : ACORN Call on ACORN Critique of McCain on 
Housing/Financial Crisis: 

Call in #: 800-247-5110, pass code 8388 

ACORN is the nation's largest community organization of low- and moderate-
income families, with over 400,000 member families organized into 
neighborhood chapters in 100 cities across the country. Since 1970 ACORN 
has taken action and won victories on issues of concern to our members. 
Our priorities include: better housing for first time homebuyers and 
tenants, living wages for low-wage workers, more investment in our 
communities from banks and governments, and better public schools. ACORN 
is an acronym, and each letter should be capitalized. ACORN stands for the 
Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. 

ACORN's website is at:

http://www.acorn.org
 
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Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho
 
"We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students. The college 
students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."

- Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)


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