COLUMBUS - The Buckeye Institute, a Columbus-based think tank, today filed a state RICO action against the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) on behalf of two Warren County voters. The action filed in Warren County Court of Common Pleas alleges ACORN has engaged in a pattern of corrupt activity that amounts to organized crime. It seeks ACORN's dissolution as a legal entity, the revocation of any licenses in Ohio, and an injunction against fraudulent voter registration and other illegal activities.
Plaintiffs Jennifer Miller of Mason, Ohio and Kimberly Grant of Loveland, allege that ACORN's actions deprive them of the right to participate in an honest and effective elections process. They allege fraudulent voter registrations submitted by ACORN dilute the votes of legally registered voters.
"The right to cast a vote that is not diluted by fraudulent votes is a fundamental individual right," Buckeye Institute President David Hansen said.
"ACORN appears to be recklessly disregarding Ohio laws and adding thousands of fraudulent voters to the state's roles in the process," Maurice Thompson, Director of the Buckeye Institute's 1851 Center for Constitutional Law said. "Such voter fraud erodes the value of legally cast votes," he added.
One of my readers notes that any reference to the Archdiocese of Cincinnati's financial support for ACORN has been removed from the diocesan website. If that means financial assistance is no longer forthcoming, Deo Gratias.
Update. From Tony Stieritz, Director of the Catholic Social Action office for the Archdiocese of Cincinnati: "CCHD funding has been currently suspended to all local ACORN chapters. We are currently updating the page that you referenced from our site, so you will see the addition of 7 projects that are receiving national CCHD funding shortly. However, none of them will be ACORN."
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3 comments:
you're not connected with this outfit, are you? ;)
CCHD is simply the catholic campaign to help democrats.
The National Pastoral Life Center is made up of left wing disciples of Joseph Bernardin.
Joseph Cardinal Bernardin was a big backer of ACORN but in 1994 he personaly gave $1,000000. to Chicago Metropolitan Sponsors specifically to hire Saul Alinsky's IAF to organize the radical leftist group United Power for Action and Justice. (When Bernardin faced complaints he made clear that it was not Church money he was giving.)
Rather than give money to CCHD next month consider an alternative that is not run by Bernardinistas.
Bridge to Rwanda, co-founded by Dayton pro-life stalwart George Riess will be my alternative. 100% of your donation will be used for the orphanage.
Tim Lang
Matt:
Are you accusing Rich of being involved with ACORN? ;-)
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