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• ACORN Wins Rare Injunction Against Defunding Law

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 746
  In a highly unusual move, a federal court in New York issued a preliminary injunction late Friday afternoon to stop the government from enforcing a new law Congress passed that defunded the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN. The court found that the law likely violates the ...
  2 days ago

• House Ban on Acorn Grants Is Ruled Unconstitutional

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  The federal government must continue to provide grant money to the national community organizing group, a federal judge ruled Friday in Brooklyn.
  3 days ago

• McManus lauds Senate bill targeting ACORN

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 603
  Sen. Michelle McManus, who is a GOP candidate for Secretary of State, put out a “special alert” Wednesday afternoon declaring she was “taking on ACORN.” In the e-mail alert, McManus argues that her Senate Campaign and Election Oversight Committee will take up her legislation to “to clamp down on voter fraud ...
  5 days ago

• Connie Lee appointed Mission Viejo City Chair by OCGOP

  
  Orange Juice — Authority: 517
  Connie Lee, who was recognized as a “volunteer of the month” by the OCGOP, at which time she received certificates of appreciation from Congressman Gary Miller, State Senator Mimi Walters, Assemblyman Jeff Miller, OCBOS Chair Patricia Bates and OCGOP Chairman Scott Baugh, was recently appointed Mission Viejo City ...
  1 week ago

• Memo From Ottawa: Gun Control Issue Reveals a Changing Canada

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  Women in Ottawa observed the 20th anniversary on Sunday of a shooting spree that left 14 women dead at a college in Montreal. Parliaments response to the crime was a long-gun registry, which requires the registration of rifles and shotguns.
  1 week ago

• | South: Georgia: Lead Widens in Mayoral Race

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  Kasim Reed’s thin lead in the Atlanta mayor’s race increased slightly when the provisional ballots were counted.
  1 week ago

• 2 more convictions for Vote Fraud in Ohio

  
  Election Journal — Authority: 106
  Double voting, absentee ballots, impersonation. OH MY! Saying vote fraud is just a myth is getting trickier and trickier these days as convictions continue to mount. Two Franklin County residents were convicted and fined Tuesday in separate voter-fraud cases from the 2008 election.  Terry Belli, and Michele S. ...
  1 week ago

• Report Examines Civil Rights During Bush Years

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  A review finds a significant drop in the enforcement of antidiscrimination laws after the Clinton administration.
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• The Right to Vote: The Core of Our Representative Democracy

  
  The Wichita NAACP Blog — Authority: 414
  Report from John Payton; President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund  to the The United Nations Forum on Minority Issues The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund is the oldest – and has been described as the finest – human rights law firm in American history. We have been involved in ...
  1 week ago

• ACORN Lawsuit in OH a Victory for Democracy

  
  The BRAD BLOG — Authority: 134
  Guest blogged by Ernest A. Canning The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) has won a substantive victory on behalf of the voters of Ohio --- perhaps hundreds of thousands of them --- via a court case filed in 2006, challenging a number of voter suppression tactics employed by the states ...
  1 week ago

• Keeping the heat on ACORN

  
  The Contemporary Conservative — Authority: 445
  From the Boston Globe: The worlds attention on Tuesday will be on President Obamas speech on Afghanistan. ...But in a corner of Capitol Hill, Republicans will be doing their best to keep alive the controversy over ACORN, the community advocacy group.....Republicans on the House Judiciary and Oversight and Government ...
  2 weeks ago

• Vote Recount in Nassau Approaches Completion

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  Edward P. Mangano, the Republican challenger, has a slight lead over the incumbent Nassau County executive, Thomas R. Suozzi, a Democrat.
  2 weeks ago

• Bolivian Court Ruling Rejects 400,000 Voters

  
  "The Bolivia Transition Project" — Authority: 114
  (digitalwarriormedia) LA PAZ - Long lines snaked outside the Departmental Court of La Paz on Friday afternoon as hundreds of potential voters sought to verify their right to vote in the upcoming national elections on December 6.Local papers report similar scenes throughout the country as thousands rush to the ...
  2 weeks ago

• OBAMA ADMINISTRATION APPROVES OF ACORN FUNDING

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  ACORN is the largest radical leftist group in America today. This radical group worked closely with the Obama camp during the election. But, the community organizing group was not open about this. The photo below was scrubbed from the ACORN website before the election: One of Barack Obama’s first big “community ...
  2 weeks ago

• ACORN loses funding from many Bay Area backers

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  The troubles of the nations largest community organizing organization, ACORN, are being felt in the liberal Bay Area, where there is normally no shortage of supporters of the groups efforts to provide free tax help and other services to low-income residents and people of color. Amid allegations that employees of the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ex-ACORN official gets probation for voter registration scheme

  
  The Contemporary Conservative — Authority: 445
  From the Las Vegas Sun: A former field director for the political advocacy organization ACORN was sentenced today in district court to up to three years of probation....Christopher Edwards, who in August pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy to commit a crime of compensation for registration of voters, a gross ...
  2 weeks ago

• National Briefing | West: Nevada: Former Acorn Supervisor Gets Probation

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  A former supervisor for Acorn was sentenced to up to three years of probation for illegally paying canvassers to register Nevada voters during the 2008 campaign.
  3 weeks ago

• Glenn Beck Stakes Out a More Activist Role in Politics

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Glenn Beck [...] says he wants to go beyond broadcasting his opinions and start rallying his political base — formerly known as his audience — to take action. To do so, Mr. Beck is styling himself as a political organizer. In an interview, he said he would promote voter registration drives and sponsor a series of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Senator, Clout Rising, Cements Role at Heart of Debate

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  “Im thinking about the 450,000 Arkansans who have no health insurance,” Senator Blanche Lincoln said on Saturday.
  3 weeks ago

• Glenn Becks plan includes march on Washington

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  At the Villages in Florida, conservative media superstar Glenn Beck unveiled his hotly-anticipated "Plan" -- a new direction for his program, and for America that hed been hinting at on the air. On Saturday, Beck told the New York Times that from now on, along with hosting his popular tv and radio shows, he "would ...
  3 weeks ago

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