ACORN plot found, Oklahoma GOP says
BY MICHAEL MCNUTT
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Published: September 30, 2009
A Republican state legislator released documents Tuesday which he says show the community-organizing group ACORN focused on helping Democrats in three legislative races in the November 2008 election and had developed a game plan to "take power” in Oklahoma within five years.
The documents, which include legislative district maps and various forms, were recovered from computers abandoned by ACORN workers in
Oklahoma City, said Rep. Mike Reynolds, R-Oklahoma City. Also found was a script apparently used in
Houston to go door-to-door to encourage voters to vote for
Barack Obama in November 2008.
"They say they’re not political, but one of the subdirectories was called political action plans,” Reynolds said. "It was their political plans to take over key targeted races in Oklahoma City to show how powerful they are.”
One of the key legislative races mentioned in the documents was the Senate District 43 race involving Reynolds’ brother. State
Sen. Jim Reynolds, an Oklahoma City Republican who won by about 3,600 votes in 2004, won by 159 votes in 2008.
Mike Reynolds said he was contacted in late summer 2008 by people who had leased office space near SW 25 and Robinson Avenue to ACORN. He was told the group had stopped paying the lease. Reynolds said he bought two computers for which passwords were found in desks.
Oklahoma Republican Party Chairman
Gary Jones said ACORN, officially the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, had three Oklahoma City offices in 2008. The organization now does not list any Oklahoma City office on its Web site.
No one answered at an ACORN office Tuesday in
Tulsa. Messages left at an ACORN office in
Washington were not returned. A spokesman with The Advance Group, a
New York-based company which handles public relations for ACORN, said Tuesday he was unaware of the documents.
Todd Goodman, chairman of the
Oklahoma Democratic Party, said he was unaware ACORN had any volunteers working in Oklahoma City during the 2008 elections.
Goodman questioned the release of the documents a year after their alleged discovery.
Reynolds, who said he had been busy with legislative matters the past several months, said about 1,600 documents are on the computers. Some of them have nothing to do with Oklahoma and deal with other states.
He said he has converted nearly 60 into a document format that can be viewed by most computer users; he’s posted them on a Web site, which he said is not yet available to the public.
His intent "is to dispel the idea that ACORN wasn’t a political organization,” Reynolds said. "That’s all they were about was politics.”
Most of the documents on Reynolds’ Web site, made available to
The Oklahoman, are not on any letterhead.
Few have any dates or any indication who wrote them.
Reynolds said computer files show who composed them. Jones said several show the files were created on a computer at state
Democratic Party headquarters.
Goodman denied the allegation.
The released documents also include what appears to be a form letter on Oklahoma City ACORN stationery asking the
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to expedite the processing of immigrant citizen applications. State Sen. Andrew Rice’s name is on the bottom of the letter; his signature is not.
Rice, D-Oklahoma City, said Tuesday he didn’t write the letter and never worked with anyone from ACORN.
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I am sorry but as i watch this whole acorn mess unfold i see three things.
1. Acorns leadership is either in jail or is ripping of the us taxpayer for millions in government funds.
2. Acorns job was to get people to vote democrat by all means necessary
3. Acorn hasnt done any good as each time one of their so called projects is shown on TV i see a run down roach infested hell hole usually owned by a democrat liberal who doesnt care about the poor but is using acorn to buy property cheap then sell it back to the government for millions..
ALMOST all of these liberals are either Liers, traitors or worse using the poor
so dont hand me that BS about how good acorn is..
thats like calling pol pot an environmentalist..
Unless you consider his work KILLING millions as actually helping the environment..
Ya bunch of MORONS..
You wouldnt believe acorn or any liberal could possibly do any wrong
even if you had video of them doing it (oh wait you do) in three states..
www.veteranoutrage.com
Because all liberals are an outrage..
Enjoy your communist mecca you deserve your own destruction..
At that rate he will be catching up to the State's budget issues something around the Fall of 2010.
Let DOJ have the computers and see what they can make of them. Mr. reynolds considers himself an I.T. expert, but let the folks who are paid for a living to know what they are doing take a look at these machines and any data on them.
I don't feel strongly one way or another on the whole ACORN issue- at this point that is not my point of interest in this story- I do want to see if the data claimed to be here A)exist as presented, and B)is crediable to support claims being made, and C)can provide direction to the data's points of origin.
If the document prove viable and are enough to constitute actionable items legally, prosecute them.
IF the whole claim unravels under true analysis, prosecute the individual who is making the claims.
I am very skeptical of the point of origin and their motives.
A famous Democrat once said "Ask not what your country can do for you...".
This story still has no "upstream" into national media, which says something about the perception of merit in the story...
Do you think that the American tax payer owes the "poor people" anything?
All government handouts do is keep poor people poor. Welfare and government health care are a permanent ride on the poverty express. The party that keeps telling you they "care" and that everything should be free, is lying to you and likes you poor and uneducated because you are easier to manipulate. You tell me who hates poor people, the party that says you are responsible for your own life, or the party that lies and says the government will take care of you?
--The Limbeck party hates poor people.
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barbara, drayden - Oct 2, 2009 at 9:07 am"
What the heck does "unless you're republican" mean? I don't want to get it wrong, but it sounds like your saying that Acorn has done a lot of good for the democrats. Is that what your saying? If it is, you might be expecting a subpoena yourself barbara drayden.
New Students ??? New Jersey Residents ??? Nebraska Cornhuskers ???
Nation of Islam members ???
My point is that almost everyone is racists on both sides ...You automatically think and profess I am a racist when I could be any of the above...the truth is I personally am a member of the Cherokee Tribe and have a card in my pocket that proves it so that makes me....... NATIVE AMERICAN !!! When you brand me you Negate me....
(that was from Waynes World).
at every juncture. In fact, the word is arbitrarily defined. Kenneth's
not-cute little paradigm below fits the mold, but Jo's words do not.
Just becase someone notes the attributes, or lack of same, belonging
to a group of people does not make them a racist. Maybe the observa-
tions are oafish, but they are not racist. And....Oklahoma is cer-
tainly not worse than most other places. There are good people and
bad people everywhere you go. That doesn't stop at the Oklahoma state
line.
http://acorn.org/index.php?id=12234
And more worried about the Southern Baptists? My oh my, how
distorted the views some have, and how quick to judgement.
Let this play out and have the documents and files vetted.
THEN make some conclusions.
"Wow, Oklahoma Republicans have become a bunch of childish, whining, conspiracy-theorists. So freaking weird. Seriously. I'm a helluva lot more concerned about the Southern Baptists than I am about a small group of people helping poor people.
The Plainsman, Oklahoma - Oct 1, 2009 at 9:00 am"
He has in the past made a living by setting up small business networks and getting paid to support them.
He has been a long time Rush follower and more recently has been quoting Glenn Beck a bit.
He was one of the very few legislators publicly supporting Sally Kearns in all of her public proclamations-
All in all, neither Reynolds represents much in the way of mental horsepower.
I would agree the concept of having the computer this long and only now releasing any such information is well- suspect.
I would also note there has been zero pickup of this story nationally since the DOK generated this story, at least via any media I would check.
Reynolds sits on this stuff for a year and just now comes out with it? Your telling me that an Oklahoma Republican with the smoking gun on Acorn sits on it for a YEAR? I call BS.
We're talking 4 offices out of what you say is 15. That's darn near 1/3. If 1/3 of ACORN offices are willing to give advice to a pimp on how to traffic underage girls and cheat on his taxes, then you've got a serious problem.
So 2 bad employees make an entire organization's platform promoting child sex slavery? Funny how the "film makers" didn't release the footage of them getting thrown out of 11 ACORN offices before they struck gold.
And where do they get off stealing Johnny Knoxville's gag from Jackass anyway?
Either way, by your logic what ever company you work for must be 100% morons huh?
But wait, the supply of mind control drugs has been interrupted! My mind is now clearing and I am now free to think for myself. And....
guess what? ACORN really is a corrupt, tax exempt, political organization that is closely linked to Obama and is willing to promote child sex slavery.
Wow! It sure is good to be aware of reality again.
ACORN is the only organization in American History to be fraudulent with government funds!
Yes, every democrat in the state knew ACORN was here and our plot was foiled! We were going to stage a military coup using the national guard but now, thanks to super sleuth, we can't. Darn! What shall we do now? I suppose we should all become republicanbots, follow party orders to the letter and get back to the good old days of corporate theft and civil liberty rape of 2000-2006. Its probably best that way.
"Acorn's crimes pale in comparison?" Nice of you to admit that "crimes" have occured, yet you continue to defend it. That's deplorable on your part.
My main issue with Acorn, Debbie, is their unwillingness to admit that they ARE a partisan organization who advertises as a non-partisan orginization. They deviously use tax dollars to further a far far left agenda.
Besides all the ruckus stirred up by the prostituion video, there has been the issue of ACORN being investigated in many states for voter registration fraud. Those states are AR,CO,CT,FL,IN,MI,MO,MN,NC,NM,NV,OH,PA,TX,VA,WA,and WI.
That's not how I want my tax dollars spent.
BTW, it's also funny, as if on queue, that the yells of "Halliburton" and "Blackwater" come piping in.
The real crime here is that you claim to be able to think. If that were true you would have a much more informed opinion besides the one Fox News told you to have. Oh and BigDaddy is my wifes nickname for me......its valid.
And if you're so scandalized about federal funding for ACORN (chump change), where is your outrage at the billions funneled to corrupt contractors like Halliburton and Blackwater? ACORN's crimes pale in comparison. And what you didn't see was this obviously fake pimp and ho being shown the door at all of the other ACORN offices at which they tried this schtick. Do you have any other issues with ACORN other than the issues that Glen Beck has told you that you are supposed to have?
1: a liar
2: a thief (receiving stolen property)
3: just plain crazy
I understand why national Republicans are hollering about ACORN. They have no power and nothing better to do. But don't the Oklahoma Republicans have a state to govern?
Looks like you found items found at any campaign headquarters. Now tell me O sleuths of sleuths, Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?