ELLISON ENDORSED BY GROUP IMPLICATED IN SEVERAL VOTER FRAUD CASES
"In what could be the only major organizational endorsement before the May convention in the 5th Congressional District race, the Minnesota ACORN PAC today endorsed state Rep. Keith Ellison to succeed U.S. Rep. Martin Sabo." Source: Ballot Box, April 5, 2006
ACORN has a long history of engaging in voter fraud across America. Back in 2004, a former ACORN employee was arrested with hundreds of voter registration cards in his trunk.
"A man who was arrested in late September with hundreds of filled-out voter registration cards in the trunk of his car pleaded guilty Monday in Hennepin County District Court to two felonies.
Joshua Reed, 19, of St. Louis Park admitted failing to promptly turn over the voter registration cards to the Secretary of State or to a county auditor, and admitted forging signatures on 18 other voter registration cards.Reed faces sentencing Jan. 20 before Hennepin County District Judge Joanne Graham, according to County Attorney Amy Klobuchar.
As part of a negotiated plea agreement, prosecutors promised they will recommend Graham sentence Reed to no more than 60 days in the county workhouse, plus 15 days of community service.
Klobuchar said Reed never intended to use the 18 forgeries to allow anyone to vote more than once. Instead, his motivation was to fraudulently increase his earnings from the fee he was paid to register new voters, she said.
'He did that to get money from ACORN ... He was trying to get some extra cash for registering voters,' Klobuchar said.
ACORN is a grassroots activist group known as Associated Community Organizations for Reform Now. It was one of several groups, on both sides of the political spectrum, that hired canvassers to register thousands of new voters in Minnesota this year." Source: Pioneer Press, December 7, 2004
ACORN has a long history of engaging in voter fraud across America. Back in 2004, a former ACORN employee was arrested with hundreds of voter registration cards in his trunk.
"A man who was arrested in late September with hundreds of filled-out voter registration cards in the trunk of his car pleaded guilty Monday in Hennepin County District Court to two felonies.
Joshua Reed, 19, of St. Louis Park admitted failing to promptly turn over the voter registration cards to the Secretary of State or to a county auditor, and admitted forging signatures on 18 other voter registration cards.Reed faces sentencing Jan. 20 before Hennepin County District Judge Joanne Graham, according to County Attorney Amy Klobuchar.
As part of a negotiated plea agreement, prosecutors promised they will recommend Graham sentence Reed to no more than 60 days in the county workhouse, plus 15 days of community service.
Klobuchar said Reed never intended to use the 18 forgeries to allow anyone to vote more than once. Instead, his motivation was to fraudulently increase his earnings from the fee he was paid to register new voters, she said.
'He did that to get money from ACORN ... He was trying to get some extra cash for registering voters,' Klobuchar said.
ACORN is a grassroots activist group known as Associated Community Organizations for Reform Now. It was one of several groups, on both sides of the political spectrum, that hired canvassers to register thousands of new voters in Minnesota this year." Source: Pioneer Press, December 7, 2004
4 Comments:
Why do I get the feeling that the deeper you look into Keith Ellison's closet the more skeletons you will find?
A staff member of ACORN. Staff Member.
One who was trying to rip off ACORN by getting more money with more registrations.
How it is you turn this into an inditment of ACORN is beyond me.
This is just silly...
An Acorn endorsement is a reason to oppose both Keith Ellison and Mike Hatch.
I'll agree it was an ACORN staffer - and I think any organization can have a bad egg employee. I live in Minneapolis, and I don't consider ACORN a group that helps with livability in the city - in fact, quite the opposite.
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