Comments on: Did Hatch divert money to allies and ACORN in 2006?

By: Zorro

Zorro — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:38:53 +0000

Democraps.

By: sabbott

sabbott — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:52:36 +0000

Has John McCain issued any orders yet that Republicans stop talking about ACORN? He probably will! He’s taken every other bullet out of his gun so why not this one?

By: highhopes

highhopes — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:23:55 +0000

It smells like a payoff for his own political ambitions, and it should bury any hope Hatch has of a future in Minnesota politics.

Should or will? Down here in NOLA, William Jefferson SHOULD be out of office and spending his time talking to his lawyers. He will be re-elected to Congress for the second time since the Feds nabbed him with 90K in his freezer.

By: highhopes

highhopes — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:20:55 +0000

ACORN is all over the place down here in the lower 9th ward of New Orleans. They are a vile, corrupt, racist group who never saw a successful white person who “deserved it” and never saw a poor ethnic person they don’t claim is being oppressed by the system.

By: hillbillyjim

hillbillyjim — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:00:08 +0000

Marxism is afoot, Holmes.

By: hillbillyjim

hillbillyjim — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:58:55 +0000

ACORN is an indirect beneficiary of the Woods Fund Thingy that Barack Obama and William Ayers helped steer, along with other ‘community organizing’ groups peddling ’social justice’.

By: MNDavenotPC

MNDavenotPC — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:53:45 +0000

As I’ve mention in other posts. I had a personal encounter with ACORN during the 2004 elections when I was an election judge supervisor. The are aggressive at fraudulent registering of voters and will stop at nothing to intimidate and push you around. I’m 6′2″ and 235…. it didn’t happen. The point is, they are avowed Marxists and Hatch kissed their asses big time.

By: rockmom

rockmom — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:39:24 +0000

Gov. Pawlenty recently vetoed an ACORN-sponsored bill that would have imposed a two-year moratorium on foreclosures in Minnesota, and pretty much guaranteed that no mortgage lenders would do any more business in the state. AG Lori Swanson enthusiastically endorsed this bill. A foreclosure moratorium would mean that lenders holding mortgages in default would be forced to negotiate with borrowers to modify the loans, and ACORN “counselors” would have been right in the middle of these negotiations. No doubt they would have shaken down every mortgage lender in the country for even more money in return for their “cooperation.”

ACORN is promoting similar moratorium bills around the country. They barely failed in New York last week, but the bill that passed is still very onerous for lenders.

By: kirkill

kirkill — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:35:37 +0000

Another Democrat with the morals of toenail fungus.

By: JamesLee

JamesLee — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:34:27 +0000

ACORN is nothing but trouble everywhere they are, including here in KC where they’ve been indicted on Fed Voter Fraud charges.

Yet despite all this, they are still cited as a non-partisan grass-roots organization, and many Democrats cozy right on up with them.

Be interesting to see what ties AG Jay Nixon, candidate for MO Governor, has with them as well.

By: rockmom

rockmom — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:31:47 +0000

ACORN is based in Chicago and has provided the shock troops for all of Barack Obama’s campaign. Stanley Kurtz has written extensively on the connection in National Review.

ACORN has been shaking down financial services companies for years, so it’s plausible that Capital One did choose it in this case as a self-preservation move. It’s on every Democrat’s list of “approved non-profits” and it maintains a thinly staffed network of finncial counseling agencies to give it the veneer of legitimacy in agreements such as this one. But its real purpose is left-wing, Alinsky-style organizing in low-income communities.

By: jeff_from_mpls

jeff_from_mpls — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:09:00 +0000

Tim Pawlenty (RINO) will demand that an investigation be launched against…

…against democrat Hatch’s accusers!

Can’t we all get along?

By: infidel

infidel — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:06:03 +0000

…it should bury any hope Hatch has of a future in Minnesota politics.

That is the biggest payoff.

By: Think_b4_speaking

Think_b4_speaking — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:03:15 +0000

Ed: You make him sound so….unethical.

By: Branch Rickey

Branch Rickey — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:02:12 +0000

"I think that most ~~political commentators~~ dyed in the wool Marxists will tell you the last organization that could be influenced with money is ACORN," Hatch wrote to Nobles.

I may not stop laughing over this statement for weeks. MONEY QUOTE! p.s. Hey Ed, are ya'll trying to become New Jersey of the Midwest?

By: GarandFan

GarandFan — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:00:46 +0000

I’m SHOCKED! SHOCKED I tell you! ACORN? Again? A Democrat involved, again? Is there a pattern here?

By: Static

Static — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:00:03 +0000

Move along, nothing to see here folks. Looks like someone got caught with their hand in the cookie jar.

By: William Amos

William Amos — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:58:11 +0000

Acorn is all over the country. Obama was with Ayers group which wasnt ACORN but similar.

But Obama has had some dealings with ACORN.

By: Mcguyver

Mcguyver — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:57:40 +0000

You forgot something Ed... political affiliation tag: Mike Hatch (born November 12, 1948) is an American politician, and was attorney general of Minnesota from 1999 - 2007. In 2006, he was the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party nominee for governor.

By: NeighborhoodCatLady

NeighborhoodCatLady — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:57:06 +0000

Is this any relation to the ACORN from which mighty Obamas grow?