What To Watch For In MN ACORN Investigation

Now that Minnesota has launched an investigation into ACORN as well, it may be nothing, but there are a few facts of note in that regard.

Given that they are talking potential criminal prosecution in Minnesota, what could be a factor is whether or not 1,000 of 43,000 submitted registrations were Republican. We'll have to wait and see. Did ACORN submit Republican registrations after deadline because, as quoted below, they believe poor people don't vote Republican, so they might be fraudulent?

The Hennepin County Attorney's office said today it is investigating whether a voter registration processing lapse at the Minnesota ACORN office falls within guidelines for criminal prosecution.

ACORN submitted 43,000 registrations. But only 1,000 were late.

ACORN executive director Brandon Nesson estimated the batch as "less than 1,000," and the timing as "within a month."

In its voter registration drive, which began in January and ended Tuesday, Minnesota ACORN registered about 43,000 new voters, a figure it boasts is 75 percent of the state's new registrations.

ACORN's position, as per its chief national organizer:

We turn over all Republican registrations because everyone knows poor people don't vote Republican. We are very careful not to accept registrations we know are false." said Lewis.

I wonder if ACORN in MN handled Dem registrations differently than Republicans and if that will be the rationale?

Comments

[JustOneMan]

Das right da black man dont be botin no republickin!

[billhedrick]

Now this is kinda funky because in Minnesota you can register at the polls, so pre-registering is moot.

[Scrapiron]

This election has became more criminal than the phony elections ran by Chavez and Castro. If Hussein O is elected it will be fun watching the elitest democrats get what they ask for, a limit on their income and most of that taken as taxes. It'll be worth the pain to watch the stupid b******* squirm. I would guess that most of the food in this country is raised by hard working conservaties and they will reduce or cut it off when Hussein starts taking everything they earn. Free enterprise is working hard for the rewards, no reward no need to work hard. Let the welfare riding democrats try to feed themselves.

[seekeronos]

"--- I would guess that most of the food in this country is raised by hard working conservaties and they will reduce or cut it off when Hussein starts taking everything they earn. ---"

I'm not so sure that that route would be a good one to go: a heavily socialist government would not stop to think twice about nationalising and collectivising food production in a way that would make Stalin's mouldy corpse leap for joy.

On another note:

Tonight is election night in CANADA.

As of this posting, the Conservative Party appears likely to achieve a majority government, giving the Liberals a pasting in most districts, and leaving the Greens very much in the dust.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canadavotes/

(site seems to be very slow due to likely heavy traffic)

114 - Conservatives
68 - Liberals
35 - Bloc Quebecois
25 - NDP
2 - other parties incl. Greens

[seekeronos]

Wouldn't that be a real hoot... if Canada slides out of Socialism to the right as we proceed to mount our ACORN-powered rocketsled deep into Marxist hell?

[mary]

C-SPAN has it and it is really truly exciting!

[seekeronos]

Exciting indeed, or at the very least, a refreshing change from the mindless tedium that is our own first-past-the-post system that saddles us with a seemingly endless waltz of idiocy in Washington.

It looks like the Canadian election wraps up thusly:

=== Conservative Minority Government ===

Final Results - Canada Election

144 - Conservatives
74 - Liberals
50 - Bloc Quebecois
38 - New Democratic Party
2 - Independents

Mr. Harper will retain his leadership, albeit mot significantly different from the previous seating.

The Conservatives gained about 20 seats from the 124 seats it won in 2006, but missed a majority by 11 seats.

[LOL]

dude the "conservative" party in canada is basically like the Democratic party in USA. Did you know that even a majority of canadian conservatives support government health care? oppose the war in Iraq as well?

Wingnuts are so dumb, it's amazing.

[Lala]

'Most respondents (66 per cent) believe a Harper-led majority would expand private health care and cut arts funding (64 per cent). "

This doesn't sound like the Conservatives support government run health care to me.

[Lala]

Sounds like a Conservative to me.

"Since becoming prime minister in 2006, Harper extended Canada's military mission in Afghanistan and pulled Canada out of the Kyoto Protocol, which commits industrialized nations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Harper supported the U.S.-led war in Iraq when he was in the opposition in 2003."

[seekeronos]

And even if the Canadian political spectrum is skewed left of America -- which it is, since liberals and democratic socialist (pinkos or "diet socialists") have had a longer time to infect and infest themselves into Canadian mainstream politics as in Europe)... it is generally likely that Canadian conservatives still reside to the right of the most of the other parties operating in Canada.

Also, a wider variance in stances on issues within a party or a party coalition is not a very surprising occurrence given that in most constitutional republics or constitutional monarchies countries use a Parliamentary system, within which there is much more wiggle room for fringe parties to get their members elected or in coalitions with major parties)... the Canadian conservatives are still to the right of most Canadian liberals.

And aside from the Bloc Quebecois and their seemingly single-issue vote... they tend to lean more toward social conservatism alongside the Conservatives.

Also: being opposed to expansionist or interventionist wars is not a necessarily and solely a conservative/liberal or left/right issue.