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ACORN INSANITY CONTINUES.
ACORN baiting is the new red baiting. Michelle Malkin cries out, "An ACORN fund-raiser on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals? I’m kidding, right?" At The American Spectator, Matthew Vadum writes, "The Judicial Confirmation Network notes that Hamilton previously worked as a fundraiser for ACORN, the radical direct-action group that not only resurrects the dead and gets them to the polls every election but also shakes down banks and pressures them to make home loans to people who can't afford to pay them back." I challenge Vadum to name a single instance of someone registered by ACORN and impersonating a dead person actually casting a vote. Just one.
In the meantime, the judge just named to the 7th Circuit, David F. Hamilton, did work as an ACORN fundraiser, but Malkin and Vadum are leaving out a few important details. Like the fact that Hamilton did so 30 years ago, in 1979. For a month.
-- A. Serwer
COMMENTS (3)
Huh. Michelle Malkin distorting the record and making false accusations. Who would a thunk it? Her mother and I are both very disappointed in her.
Posted by: Dano | March 23, 2009 3:26 PM
The funny part is that people like that somehow seem to imagine that "voting by the dead" involves people actually showing up in the name of dead voters and casting a ballot. The reality is that this kind of fraud is actually corrupt election officials covering their tracks by checking voters who never appeared off their list. But people like Malkin seem somehow to imagine a network of covert, black ops casting agencies, recruiting and training ghost voters in order to subvert our democracy. Do they ever wonder how these vast conspiracies remain secret? Or where they manage to publicize their casting calls without any of Malkin's troglodyte friends getting wind of them?
Posted by: Tom | March 23, 2009 9:27 PM
Even if the fundraising had been more recent, so what? ACORN is not a radical orgnanization. It does useful and important work in underserved communities. If Hamilton had been involved in fundraising for ACORN more recently, there would be no harm.
Posted by: edna | March 24, 2009 8:28 AM