ACORN: Allegations are part of partisan effort to constrict electorate

Posted by Staff on October 10, 2008 |

Brian Kettenring, a spokesman for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, explains that the allegations against ACORN will melt away. (0:21)

 

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October 10, 2008

One Response to “ACORN: Allegations are part of partisan effort to constrict electorate”

1. Dori Smith Says:
   October 11th, 2008 at 1:37 am

   Talk Nation Radio, produced at WHUS in Connecticut and syndicated with Pacifica Network, interviewed Brad Friedman of Bradblog.com and state and local representatives of ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now as well as the ACORN Housing 501c3.

   http://talknationradio.com/?p=175

   We’re fact checking the conference call during which Missouri Governor Matt Blunt and McCain campaign manager Rick Davis lashed out at the grass roots organization ACORN, which operates on behalf of low and
   moderate income people nationally, doing voter registration and legislative advocacy. The press conference was only the latest in barrage of attacks launched by the McCain campaign and Republicans.

   That as more information comes out about abuses by the Palin administration in Alaska, McCain-Palin polls take another dive, and so does the stock market in the worst week in history for Wall Street.

   Brad Friedman responds to allegations of “Voter Fraud” derived from examples of alleged “voter registration fraud” and then ACORN responds: Austin King at the National ACORN Headquarters joined us by phone from New Orleans where he works to try to save families’ homes from foreclosure. Nicholas Graber-Grace of the Hartford and Bridgeport Connecticut offices of ACORN discusses allegations there, and Bruce Dorpalin of ACORN Housing Corporation, discusses other allegations being made that ACORN is ‘responsible for the economic crisis.’ (Hugh Hewitt, Larry King Live, 10-9-08) — His office has helped people obtain suitable 30 year mortgages, not the kind of fraudulent sub prime loans that helped provoke the disaster. In fact, the truth seems to be the opposite in lots of these allegations from the McCain-Palin campaign as well as Gov. Matt Blunt of MI.