Union/Democrat “Shock Troops” Getting Investigated By The Justice Department
The Wall Street Journal:
So, less than a week before the midterm elections, four workers from Acorn, the liberal activist group that has registered millions of voters, have been indicted by a federal grand jury for submitting false voter registration forms to the Kansas City, Missouri, election board. But hey, who needs voter ID laws?
We wish this were an aberration, but allegations of fraud have tainted Acorn voter drives across the country. Acorn workers have been convicted in Wisconsin and Colorado, and investigations are still under way in Ohio, Tennessee and Pennsylvania.
The good news for anyone who cares about voter integrity is that the Justice Department finally seems poised to connect these dots instead of dismissing such revelations as the work of a few yahoos. After the federal indictments were handed up in Kansas City this week, the U.S. Attorney’s office said in a statement that “This national investigation is very much ongoing.”
Let’s hope so. Acorn officials bill themselves as nonpartisan community organizers merely interested in giving a voice to minorities and the poor. In reality, Acorn is a union-backed, multimillion-dollar outfit that uses intimidation and other tactics to push for higher minimum wage mandates and to trash Wal-Mart and other non-union companies.
Operating in at least 38 states (as well as Canada and Mexico), Acorn pushes a highly partisan agenda, and its organizers are best understood as shock troops for the AFL-CIO and even the Democratic Party.
I’m glad to see this finally getting some attention. I’ve been posting on ACORN’s connections to voter registration fraud, even as that group joins with Democrats to oppose voter ID laws, for the last couple of weeks. As I’ve said before, if this were a right-wing group engaging in voter registration fraud even as it joined with Republicans to oppose anti-vote fraud legislation the media would be in a frenzy. It would be the biggest story of the election.
As it is, this merits hardly an occasional mention by mainstream journalists.
