ACORN Response to Senator McCain's Smear Ad

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Last update: 4:50 p.m. EDT Oct. 12, 2008
WASHINGTON, Oct 12, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ --

... "In his newest ad, John McCain's campaign bizarrely claims, "ACORN forced banks to issue risky home loans, the same types of loans that caused the financial crisis we're in today." Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, ACORN has worked successfully to help working class families get good home loans on fair terms from legitimate banks and has fought vigorously against predatory lenders who have ripped off families in our communities. These predatory loans caused the crisis."

"For more than a decade, ACORN members have held protests, released reports, and advocated for regulations to protect homeowners from predatory lenders. ACORN organizers and volunteers have been working day and night to help victims of the GOP economic meltdown to save their homes from foreclosure. In fact, ACORN has brought class action lawsuits against several predatory lenders, and has lobbied the Federal Reserve and Congress in support of regulations against predatory lending. ACORN has even been successful in convincing many lenders to treat homeowners more fairly and help families be able to make their mortgage payments and save their homes."

"Unfortunately, the Bush administration and Congressional Republicans like John McCain have blocked the sensible regulations that ACORN and others proposed that would have averted the mortgage meltdown. If John McCain thinks that community organizers caused the foreclosure crisis, he knows even less about the economy than previously thought."

"John McCain and the Republicans are desperately trying to shift the blame for the economic crisis they caused with a philosophy of deregulation and indifference to homeowners. All the grainy footage and creepy music in the world can't cancel out some simple, basic facts, and the facts about the economy are not on John McCain's side." ...

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/acorn-response-senator-mccains-smear/story.aspx?guid=%7B3359B4E7-C95F-4FB6-AA25-43850C78E4EC%7D&dist=hppr

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1. Now one of the repukes talking points

is that the Obama campaign paid ACORN to register people (all the phony ones,of course.) How on earth do we fight these awful lies they spew out on a daily basis? Repukes are the most hateful,dishonest despicable people on this planet.I wish they would all go back to hell where they came from.

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2. How do we fight the lies? By telling the TRUTH.

In the drama of "speaking truth to power", we often forget that the most lasting changes are made by the least visible changes. Creating an environment that is conducive to the truth -- and speaking it to each other -- is the best remedy for mass-manufactured lies.

In fact, the very process is at work now.

We will win.

--p!

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3. ACORN must turn in all registers even dupes but they flag the suspicious ones

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4. Acorn pays by the hr, not by the registraiton, and has no incentive to commit fraud.

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5. Those registered must still show up to vote and with such stiff penalties for minimal results

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6. Voter fraud just doesn't happen because it woudl have to happen on a massive scale to hane an effect

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7. If thousands registereillegally doesn't mean they get to vote

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8. Registration fraud does not translate into voter fraud...period

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9. About 1% national registration fraud and most usualy a mistake not criminal.

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10. Only 12 cases of voter fraud ever found and half were accidents.

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11. But every election the RNC screams voter fraud and ACORN is demonized

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12. But with everyone of those investigations...they find nothing, no illegal voting.