 Tell them to call Congress back into session immediately and demand that they pass emergency legislation that will require all voters to present valid state or federal IDs at the polling place or have their votes counted provisionally. Tell them that the cherished privilege to vote is pivotal to our way of life and MUST be protected from ALL illegitimate challenges whether they come from the political left or the political right! Demand they do it NOW! Threatening to cut off federal funds from ACORN AFTER the election is simply too little too late. ACORN's actions constitute a clear and present danger to our system of government. While such actions should and must be taken, cutting-off funding and issuing court challenges and indictments after the fact does not address the clear and present threat we now face and only destabilizes our government, sets a dangerous precedent and encourages future threats! http://www.grasstopsusa.com/acorn.html AOL Members May Use This Hyperlink As Well If the above hyperlink does not appear to function, you should copy and paste it into the address bar of your browser or go to our homepage at grasstopsusa.com. We MUST flood our legislative officials with high-impact faxes and calls. After you take action, please forward this urgent and time sensitive alert to at least 10 of your friends. Our system of government hangs in the balance! ACORN "Wiseguys" Laugh At Criminal Indictments. Some will say that criminal investigations are already in progress and since authorities already plan a nationwide sweep of ACORN offices that there is no need to panic. In other words, let the system will handle the problem. But the sad truth of the matter is that such Pollyanna pronouncements will do NOTHING to STOP ACORN. To be perfectly honest, such Pollyanna pronouncements could very well be a recipe for placing the election in the hands of five liberal Justices on the United States Supreme Court. Quite frankly, ACORN DOES NOT FEAR CRIMINAL INDICTMENTS OR LAWSUITS! ACORN WILL continue its quest to hi-jack our electoral process with IMPUNITY! In fact, ACORN actively recruits convicted felons. The Associated Press recently reported that the Milwaukee ACORN office hired at least seven felons who were convicted of crimes ranging from drug possession to robbery. According to the Washington Post: "Nevada Secretary of State and Attorney General who alleged in an application for a search warrant that ACORN had hired 59 felons through a work release program as canvassers..." [Emphasis Mine] ACORN's Wisconsin political director Carolyn Castore rather matter-of-factly told the Associated Press: “We have a lot of folks with felony records and, frankly, they need jobs.” You'll probably hear of many more felons working at ACORN offices very soon. Contrary to what Castore said, it stretches credulity to believe that ACORN's hiring of felons was motivated exclusively by good will. If an organization is going to engage in blatant criminal activity, hiring felons is a prerequisite. After all, felons not only have less qualms about engaging in illegal activity than most people... they also have a lower fear threshold when it comes to the prospect of going to prison. But moreover, since criminal indictments have not deterred ACORN in the past, why should the prospect of criminal indictments deter ACORN NOW? THEY WON'T! Michael Gaynor with Canada Free Press recounts an article published in the Wall Street Journal TWO YEARS AGO: “These are recent complaints, but ACORN’s history is riddled with criminal activity. During the last major election, the Wall Street Journal did a story about ACORN. Four ACORN workers had been indicted by a federal grand jury for submitting false voter registration forms to the Kansas City, Missouri, election board; other ACORN workers were convicted in Wisconsin and Colorado and investigations, at the time the article was written, were under way in Ohio, Tennessee and Pennsylvania." Gaynor also writes of more recent indictments and investigations: "Last year, The Seattle Times reported the biggest voter-registration fraud scheme in Washington history. Three ACORN employees pleaded guilty, and four more were charged for filling out and submitting more than 1,800 fictitious voter-registration cards during a 2006 registration drive in King and Pierce counties.’ (Keith Ervin, ‘Three plead guilty in fake voter scheme,’ 10-30-2007)" "This year, an ACORN employee in West Reading, PA, was sentenced for to up to 23 months in prison for identity theft and tampering with records. A second ACORN worker pleaded not guilty to the same charges and is free on $10,000 bail. "There are also examples of indictments this year, such as the four ACORN employees in Kansas City charged with identity theft and filing false registrations during the 2006 election and the Reynoldsburg fellow indicted on two felony counts of illegal voting and false registration, after being registered by ACORN to vote in two separate counties. And there are current investigations into ACORN for voter fraud all over the map..." [Emphasis Mine] Only law abiding people respect, fear and follow the law. Just as throwing members of organized crime in jail hasn't eradicated organized crime, indicting ACORN staff members will NOT STOP ACORN. Tell them to call Congress back into session immediately and demand that they pass emergency legislation that will require all voters to present valid state or federal IDs at the polling place or have their votes counted provisionally. Tell them that the cherished privilege to vote is pivotal to our way of life and MUST be protected from ALL illegitimate challenges whether they come from the political left or the political right! Demand they do it NOW! Threatening to cut off federal funds from ACORN AFTER the election is simply too little too late. ACORN's actions constitute a clear and present danger to our system of government. While such actions should and must be taken, cutting-off funding and issuing court challenges and indictments after the fact does not address the clear and present threat we now face and only destabilizes our government, sets a dangerous precedent and encourages future threats ! http://www.grasstopsusa.com/acorn.html AOL Members May Use This Hyperlink As Well If the above hyperlink does not appear to function, you should copy and paste it into the address bar of your browser or go to our homepage at grasstopsusa.com. We MUST flood our legislative officials with high-impact faxes and calls. After you take action, please forward this urgent and time sensitive alert to at least 10 of your friends. Our system of government hangs in the balance! Too Little Too Late... Investors' Business Daily (IBD) recently made the following suggestion: "McCain would be wise to start preparing a challenge to voter registration rolls should he lose the race in a close contest. He'd be crazy not to contest the results in light of these events." With all due respect to IBD, the only "craziness" would be to wait. This is NOT a Republican vs. Democrat or Liberals vs. Conservative issue. ACORN has already violated our system of government and apparently will continue to violate our system through election day with impunity. Closing the barn doors after the horses have gone is not a sound strategy. Some of our elected officials are starting to talk tough but again, talk is cheap. According to Politico.com, House Minority Leader John Boehner is already talking about cutting off federal funding to ACORN. But his proposed actions fall short of the mark. “Election cycle after election cycle, this organization has been at the forefront of breaking the law in order to promote their left-wing agenda. All the while, they have been the recipients of millions of dollars of federal funding through various federal programs and third-party groups. House Republicans took at stand recently to cut off funding to an ACORN slush fund created by their allies in the House Majority, but now more must be done." “All federal funding to ACORN must be stopped. The ACORN slush fund must be disbanded. Sources of federal funding through the Department of Housing and Urban Development or any other agency must be stopped. Contracting for services between candidates for federal office and ACORN, as Senator Obama has done, must end. Now that the taxpayers own Fannie Mae, any funding from Fannie Mae’s nonprofit foundation to ACORN must stop. “ACORN spent decades promoting the housing policies that brought America’s economy to the brink, and similarly over the years has committed fraud on our system of elections, making American voters question the fairness and accuracy of the exercise of their most fundamental right under the Constitution. Now it is time to cut off ACORN before it grows even more destructive.” No Congressman Boehner! Now is not the just the time to cut off funding (frankly, that should have happened years ago). NOW is the time to protect our electoral process! Boehner does however, bring up a valid point. Your tax dollars ARE STILL going to ACORN. You're actually paying them to undermine your government just as surely as if you wrote the check yourself! Yes, we should cut off ALL funding to ACORN NOW as Boehner states. Yes, we should have Congressional investigations. And yes, we shouldn't stop with ACORN... heads should roll in Congress as well! But that's not enough to STOP the clear and present danger we all face! In a day and age when we have to present valid identification to board an airplane, it's not a stretch to ask someone to simply prove their identity to vote (which technically was NOT even considered to be a "right" until the Voting Rights Act was passed some 40 years ago). Voting is actually a responsibility and a duty. It does not present a "constitutional crisis" or deny anyone access to a polling place to ask them to either present valid identification or vote provisionally. If their identity can be verified later, then their vote is counted. Free societies actually institute such requirements. Tyrannies and Banana Republics DO NOT! It's unfortunate that our conservative leaders often lack the imagination and the forethought to understand the gravity of the threats we face. We shouldn't have to ask that our liberties be protected. Our elected leaders should be calling upon us to take action... not visa-versa. But do it we must. If we don't send the message NOW, the message will not be sent... at least not until it is TOO LATE! Do it NOW! Tell them to call Congress back into session immediately and demand that they pass emergency legislation that will require all voters to present valid state or federal IDs at the polling place or have their votes counted provisionally. Tell them that the cherished privilege to vote is pivotal to our way of life and MUST be protected from ALL illegitimate challenges whether they come from the political left or the political right! Demand they do it NOW! Threatening to cut off federal funds from ACORN AFTER the election is simply too little too late. ACORN's actions constitute a clear and present danger to our system of government. While such actions should and must be taken, cutting-off funding and issuing court challenges and indictments after the fact does not address the clear and present threat we now face and only destabilizes our government, sets a dangerous precedent and encourages future threats ! http://www.grasstopsusa.com/acorn.html AOL Members May Use This Hyperlink As Well If the above hyperlink does not appear to function, you should copy and paste it into the address bar of your browser or go to our homepage at grasstopsusa.com. We MUST flood our legislative officials with high-impact faxes and calls. After you take action, please forward this urgent and time sensitive alert to at least 10 of your friends. Our system of government hangs in the balance!
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