The Human Question

The October surprise we've all been worried about has come in the form a coordinated attack by the Bush administration on the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), a powerful organization of and for lower income people in America. ACORN should be running a GOTV for Obama, but their efforts are being sabotaged by the Republicans at every turn. The GOP is running a smear campaign against ACORN, while misusing the power of law enforcement to investigate us for doing nothing wrong. The best thing you can do to help is to donate to ACORN now, so we can continue our work despite this illegitimate GOP attack. Since it’s an international nonprofit, you don’t have to be American to give.

The Republicans goals are simple:

• To suppress voter turnout for Obama
• To discredit and destroy a community organization that gives poor people too much power for the Republicans taste
• To smear Obama
• To hurt Obama's campaign without blatantly going after the campaign it's self
• To find an easier target than the campaign, but an equally important one.
• Ultimately, to elect McCain

I know it’s a national investigation because ACORN is suddenly being investigated in multiple states simultaneously, which would be practically impossible if it’s not being directed from a national level. So far the police have raided one of our offices in Nevada; there are also investigations in the other key swing states of Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. The Republican media wants to make it look like these are all independent investigations, but I know for a fact that the cards being investigated in at least two of these states are old, meaning they were ignored for months after being turn in to the board of elections, and are suddenly being investigated now, therefore someone ordered a national investigation. The only person who has the authority and the motive to order such an investigation is the Bush administration, so the Bush administration is unquestionably behind this.

We’re legally obligated to turn in all VR cards even if they’re incomplete or we suspect a problem with them, all we can do is flag card that are potently problematic. Voter Registration cards turned in if the person isn't ineligible won't get that person registered to vote. The investigations which are being conducted now use cards the Board of Elections have had for months, but they haven't begun to investigate until now. This is no coincidence; it’s a plot by the Bush administration to sabotage our organization and to disenfranchise Black and lower-income predominantly Democratic voters.

The easiest way for McCain to get elected now is through disenfranchising Obama voters, particularly those in the most vulnerable parts of society, such as lower-income African Americans, or if something was wrong with Obama’s GOTV (Get Out The Vote) effort. By sabotaging ACORN both of those objectives are achieved simultaneously. It’s a brilliant plot on the part of the Republicans; now help me stop it by donating to ACORN now.