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

[No Weatherman]

Mr. Hansen:

Respectfully, I will not address the falsehoods in this press release
or comment on the gullibility of anyone who believes it.

I would rather ask you to explain why you believe that ACORN is
committing voter-registration fraud in every battleground state.



On 10/16/08, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:
> >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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