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.