Acorn

“In November of 2009 we found 52% of Republicans thought ACORN had stolen the election for Barack Obama in 2008. Now only 25% think the organization will steal the election for him again next year.”
 — What are you even supposed to make of this? Quick…

ACORN is dead! Thank God! Now the right will have to go after some other group that helps the disgusting poor and works to raise the minimum wage and registers BROWN PEOPLE to vote.

“EVEN the Democrats in Minnesota now realize their new US Sen. Al Franken was elected with the help of ACORN chicanery,” says the New York Post, repeating the latest right-wing smear and showing the tenacity with which…

Jason Linkins notes a happy byproduct of the “Defund Acorn” act: “In its zeal to quickly and unthinkingly get on the side of hammering ACORN for its recent transgressions, Congress passed the Defund ACORN Act, a measure written so broadly that it could apply to just…

Do you know how much federal funding ACORN gets? On average, $3.1 million a year. Over 15 years, that’s like the kind of pork money our fine government spent on that stupid volcano monitoring program! It’s also half as much as the money ACORN helped poor…