ACORN: The Bad Seed?

The editors at the Wall Street Journal write today about ACORN, the group that is among the most controversial activist groups in the country right now.  And for good reason.  It appears that the group has engaged in blatant, widespread voter registration fraud, which really shouldn’t be news to anyone since it was notorious for doing the same thing during the last two presidential election cycles.  

But did you know that ACORN is using your tax dollars to do it!!!  Read the whole WSJ Online thing here and below is an excerpt:

According to a 2006 report from the Employment Policies Institute (EPI), Acorn has been on the federal take since 1977. For instance, Acorn’s American Institute for Social Justice claimed $240,000 in tax money between fiscal years 2002 and 2003. Its American Environmental Justice Project received 100% of its revenue from government grants in the same years. EPI estimates the Acorn Housing Corporation alone received some $16 million in federal dollars from 1997-2007. Only recently, Democrats tried and failed to stuff an “affordable housing” provision into the $700 billion bank rescue package that would have let politicians give even more to Acorn…

The Michigan Secretary of State told the press in September that Acorn had submitted “a sizeable number of duplicate and fraudulent applications.” Earlier this month, Nevada’s Democratic Secretary of State Ross Miller requested a raid on Acorn’s offices, following complaints of false names and fictional addresses (including the starting lineup of the Dallas Cowboys). Nevada’s Clark County Registrar of Voters Larry Lomax said he saw rampant fraud in 2,000 to 3,000 applications Acorn submitted weekly.